Image for the lazy (and yes, of course, Apple’s breaking their own accessibility guideline of having text at least 3:1 contrast ratio for text to be readable and instead making it 2:1 by picking the lightest shade of green possible).
Image for the lazy (and yes, of course, Apple’s breaking their own accessibility guideline of having text at least 3:1 contrast ratio for text to be readable and instead making it 2:1 by picking the lightest shade of green possible).
It’s a terrible move, especially to make it default.
Subjective, but lets see what you bring to the table.
It’s just as bad a protocol as SMS in its own way: It’s still tied to a phone number/sim, so you can’t just login to the service via a browser or an app.
That’s how text (SMS/RCS) messaging works. Did you expect something different? Did you expect the SMS replacement to not require a phone number?
It has lots of failures, worst of all, SILENT FAILURES, where you don’t even know your messages aren’t being sent - just look at the communities around here discussing it.
I’ve been using it without issue for quite a while now, but that’s just one data point. If you have stats to back up your claim, I would love to see that.
There’s no common protocol here really, …
“The GSMA’s Universal Profile is a single, industry-agreed set of features and technical enablers developed to simplify the product development and global operator deployment of RCS” Source: https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/networks/rcs/universal-profile/
lots of parts work only by decree of each host (e.g. iOS won’t have E2EE with anyone not on iOS, because that requires every cell provider to agree to the config they’re going to use.
This is how distributed/federated systems work and this is one of their cons. They won’t always be 100% compatible as each component is independent but the goal is to eventually reach feature parity. See Matrix chat clients that didn’t all have encryption (or other features) on day 1 or XMPP which has lots of clients, none of which support all features.
This is the 21st century, and this is the best they can do - a protocol that fails with no notice? Without standardized encryption? That’s tied to hardware?
Please post evidence of this. Again, I’ve had zero issues and every Android user is using RCS by default now - have heard zero complaints.
I had a better experience in 2009 running Pidgin on my phone and my laptop using XMPP. That didn’t require a phone number - I could login and see my messages in both places simultaneously… 15 years ago.
Correct! XMPP is not an SMS replacement and thus it doesn’t need a phone number. In fact, you can’t “text” an XMPP user, so I’m not sure what you’re complaining about here?
No, RCS is a way to make the plebes think they’ve got a new and better system while still delivering garbage.
RCS vastly improves over SMS with the following features:
But keep spreading FUD and hating on something that actually moves the needle forward.
Love you downvoters that don’t know enough to argue, just drive by and downvote.
I think they’re downvoting you because you’re wrong - plainly wrong - and in this day and age its much easier to bury (downvote) blatantly wrong information than to reply to it. So I’m replying for everyone else but I will not be downvoting you. FUD should be fought back with evidence, but MAAN is it tiring.
ONE person had the guts to say why he disagreed with me.
It’s not about guts, its about wasting time, effort, not giving a shit. I slightly give a shit and want people who are less educated on the subject to see the other side of it.
Nevermind that BorgDrone explained what’s wrong with RCS better than I care to. You drive-by downvoters can’t even be bothered to learn about RCS.
Nothing to comment on here.
RCS is garbage. Plain and simple. I will never allow it on my devices, …
At the end of the day RCS is objectively better than what exists today in the world of carrier messenger services (SMS/MMS). Is it better than iMessage? I don’t think anyone would agree, especially not if you only message other iPhone users. Is it a better out-of-the-box experience for interoperability? Absolutely! And you’re being disingenuous if you disagree, but I’m happy to hear you out.
just like with Whatsapp, Facecrap, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
We can agree to these being garbage ✊
All that said, am I actively going to ask people to use RCS? Never! The same way I wouldn’t ask someone to use iMessage if I had an iPhone. They’re both products developed ultimately to push users into their respective ecosystem to the benefit of Google/Apple/Carriers.
I’ll stick to Signal and Matrix until something better comes along.
As well as losing the ability to send money from person to person. People will have to find another solution for that - Zelle, PayPal, Cashapp, etc.
Link to source on the fediverse/mastodon: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/112513905401989149
You can limit how much RAM is available to each one, so one app doesn’t eat all of your RAM. Same with CPU.
This can be done with containers and you don’t get the overhead of virtualizing a whole operating system for every service/app you might be hosting.
Virtual Machines can be backed up, uploaded to remote storage, and restored.
This can also be done with containers in a more elegant way as there’s no need to back up any VM/OS data.
E.g. I have a docker compose file that can nearly immediately stand up a container with the right settings/image, point it to my restored data and be up and running in no time. The best part is i don’t need to back up the container/OS because that data is irrelevant.
When it’s time to do a big update on your main machine (either changing OS or getting new hardware), restoring VM’s is super simple compared to the alternative.
With the alternative you just restore your data and run docker-compose up -d
. Docker will handle the process of building, starting and managing the service.
Simple example: Your minecraft server died but you have backups. You just restore the data to /docker/minecraft
. Then (to keep things really simple) you just run:
docker run -d -p 25565:25565 --name minecraft -e EULA=TRUE -v /docker/minecraft:/data itzg/minecraft-server
and in a few minutes your server is ready to go.
Jack doesn’t own bluesky but he is on the board [0] and even working for a public benefit company, is supposed to [1]:
… operate the business with the same authority and behavior as in a traditional corporation
It does go on to state they’re required to consider the impact of their decisions not only for shareholders but also employees, customers, community, etc, but there’s no mechanism that forces them to do “the right thing”. A public benefit company is basically a way to protect decisions made if they were to not align with the concept of “shareholder primacy” [2]. On the other hand, if Bluesky had registered as a certified B Corp [3], that would have more weight to it as they not only have to state their intentions but also provide evidence.
In regards to being federated - are they actually federating with anyone yet? Genuine question, I haven’t kept up.
In regards to being open source, it’s a good start, but like the Chromium project, the company’s needs will drive it forward and the interest of the company will come first, good or bad.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(social_network)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification)
Going from one billionaire’s platform to another (Twitter/Musk > Bluesky/Dorsey) is not a smart move. There’s a vast segment of the population that learns nothing and keeps making the same mistakes.
what Ubuntu and Firefox are up to together is kinda what Microsoft went to court over Internet Explorer for in the 90s.
Can you elaborate on the statement? I’m not connecting the dots.
Yeah, its available to close family. There’s a few guides out there on how to set up external access. Might be a bit difficult if you’re not familiar with the technical stuff, but you should give it a go anyways if you’ve got some time to spend.
I’d recommend the Chromecast.
You can install the Jellyfin app for Android TV and it works really well. Additionally, if you use YouTube, you can sideload SmartTube, which removes ads and auto-skips sponsored segments on some videos.
I have this setup for my parents, if that gives you an idea of how well it works for “non-technical” people. At home I have a similar setup except I’m using the Nvidia shield, which is pricier, but I would recommend it if you have a 4k TV - it uses “AI” (ML, really) to upscale content to 4k and it works really well.
you could set it up on a non standard port like 99. you have to manually add “:99” at the end of your domain name, but it works.
You’re right, Signal is not P2P. The way Signals messaging pipeline works is like this - note I’m oversimplifying it for accessibility.
Bob
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- this means Signal’s server can see its a unique user, but not what their name is.you can’t really do user lookups without some sort of middleware in the cloud.
See their blog post about Private Contact Discovery, they’ve spent a long time figuring out how to engineer a method to know as little as possible about you.
I’d say that’s good news, everyone!
any benefits over using newpipe?
No hate on FF mobile from me, but I can objectively say Chrome, at least visually and subjectively, performs noticably faster than FF. That said, I still prefer FF over Chrome.
It’s based on the “Mozilla application framework” [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_application_framework
I believe they’ve inherited the K-9 Mail app project but haven’t yet renamed it. At least it’s still showing up as K-9 Mail for me on an Android device.
Revolt is a great alternative to Discord, although I personally am still rooting for Matrix/Element in the long run.
Restart jellyfin and take a look at the logs? There may be some useful info there pointing to the issue. Go to your ‘dashboard’ then click ‘Logs’ - look through that see if anything stands out. If that doesn’t work you may need to enable debug logging: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/troubleshooting/