GigglyBobble

BwMessenger was launched in 2020 and Android Playstore shows 50k downloads. That doesn’t seem like mass-adoption. I don’t see anything replacing WhatsApp in Germany, unfortunately.

Why doesn’t the screenshot show the prompt but only its title? Unnecessarirly suspicious since it wouldn’t even be hard to fake it.

Applicable and economic solutions are needed now though. The tech isn’t there and yet the moron of a Minister tries to force it, no matter the cost.

Damn right he will! Wait, who again?

You’re right, scratch that.

I’ve just never downloaded apks directly from Github and probably shouldn’t recommend it for the reasons OP gave wrt keyboard apps.

I got confused by that issue about naming conflicts with the original OpenBoard. If you have installed that one, you need make your own debug build to run them in parallel.

Unfortunately, it’s an abandoned project that hasn’t gotten updates for 2 years.

There’s an active fork but no release yet, you can only install by building it yourself: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

No, they can’t since I don’t have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they’d have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.

That’s the superior approach and Firefox introduced it far earlier than Google addressed the problem.

Why OP is blindly arguing in that corp’s favor and ignoring all the reasoning provided here, is beyond me. Shilling?

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What a stupid thing to say.

Whatever your favorite (and probably shitty) proprietary or open source messaging service - not everybody uses it. But hey, everyone has email, so let’s kill that.

BTW since you said encryption is important to you: your walled-garden messaging service has a much easier time profiling you and your friends than they would in a heterogenous environment like email. They don’t need the content anyway, just metadata.

I don’t think it’ll be as easy as calculating SHA256 hashes, so ASICs as small as this might never be a thing.

On the other hand, brains do use orders of magnitude less power, so who knows.

Proprietary messaging is worse though. Email is interoperable and relevant as ever. Just nobody bothered to seamlessly apply PGP for encryption (probably spy agencies actively worked against that too).

TIL IT is volunteer work.

Interesting. I see it the other way around and believe it’s only AR that’ll be a real benefit (once it lasts indefinitely and is tiny or even implanted some time in the future). Pulling out your phone to navigate somewhere is cumbersome, for example.

I happily shelled out $600 for the first iPhone. But $3,500? For a V1 product that will get way better (and cheaper) in the next few years?

Cheaper? When has the next gen Apple product ever become cheaper?

According to the article, WhatsApp requires the Signal Protocol for message encryption.

Signal is the single third party that shouldn’t have a problem with that since it’s been using that protocol before WhatsApp adopted it, too (they hired Moxi himself to help them do it, remember?)

Since Signal also uses phone numbers as account ID, you’ll give that to WhatsApp at least. Then they continue to track metadata of the messages sent between you and your WhatsApp contacts and will be profiling you.

I don’t see how communicating with any Meta service isn’t compromising privacy. I’m a Signal user and won’t connect to WhatsApp.

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It’s not immoral to sell a business but anybody who actually has or even founded one and has an intact moral compass would not sell in a way you described.

You have a responsibility for your customers and employees and you don’t just throw it into the dumpster like that because money isn’t everything.

they get lazy about using/doing non device things.

That’s the key. Over the generations media (from books to smartphones) got more sophisticated in grabbing our attention to the point that addiction really has become a problem. While everything fun can be somewhat addictive we now have corporations optimizing their products in that way.

I’m sure kids can develop healthy habits with phone and internet consumption but I also believe they need help by restricting exposure in order to play “conventionally”. It’s similar to sweets - if you leave kids to just eat whatever whenever they want, they’ll stuff themselves with candy until they vomit repeatedly.