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smileyhead ,

I don’t think Matrix is making this well… We with friends have selfhosted instance and the database bloat is scary.

If Matrix would be as popular as Signal it would blow up untill they fix performance with their server.

smileyhead ,

Matrix is the closest, as it is a protocol to build compatible servers and apps onto it.

smileyhead ,

If Apple has to work with Google to implementat a protocol existing since ~2008 we know there is something off.

smileyhead ,

Also Signal cannot add RCS support, because Google Jibe servers won’t allow other app than Google Messages… And you must use them because native RCS support for Android is halted for years… And you cannot install some module with RCS support yourself because of anti-Unix monolitic Android userspace architecture…

Man, there are so many things done wrong.

smileyhead ,

Which messenger?

smileyhead ,

For carriers it is a way to extend the (in my opinion outdated) idea of carrier-based chat system.

For Google it is a way to switch messaging on Android to their proprietary app, at least for some time, as other of their projects falied.

For users it is a way for people using Android certified by Google to normally message people using iPhone and it’s preinstalled chat app.

smileyhead ,

RCS is open protocol, but has no open implementation and Android has no native support (only by Google Messages app that act as a bridge to Google Jibe RCS servers).

smileyhead ,

+1 And why XMPP was always a better answer.

smileyhead ,

Now we wait another 10 years for Apple to support third-party RCS apps I guess?

smileyhead ,

Telegram has the best client and there is no arguing about that. But it is specific to particular provider, which in my opinion is not a great one…

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....

smileyhead ,

Still features like that would be kinda neat for all the devices that RCS don’t support, like Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, ChromeOS, HarmonyOS, Android Open Source Project, Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS…

smileyhead ,

Wonder how it is that smaller community-based chat protocols with many more features can have so many client options: matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

While basic text messaging was for years only implemented by Google app.

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....

smileyhead ,

It’s really bad that we sill would live in a ancient model when in order to use the protocol app need some specialized system API to the baseband modem. I thought it was all fixed with just the IP (Internet)?

smileyhead ,

Also RCS is build that way. It has more features than SMS, but underneath is even worse than it. Why in the 2023 people massively want to go back tying their chat app with mobile carrier? Like, giving what Internet standards we now have RCS should really be considered deprecated, hope we won’t be stuck with it for next 30 years.

smileyhead ,

There is also XMPP which is much more developed than RCS and surpasses it on every front.

smileyhead ,

Ugh, yet another chat network to use…

I guess now we wait for Android to add support too.

smileyhead ,

Some time ago Signal was falling back to SMS too.

How is this propietary aspect of iMessage non existing on Android with RCS? Years goes by and still the only Android app that can support this protocol seems to be Google Messages.

Third-party RCS clients like Beeper use Android virtual machine with Google Messages running… Seriously, even Facebook Messenger seems to be less locked down.

smileyhead , (edited )

Google Messages is a proprietary chat app that connects to proprietary Google Jire servers on phone carrier’s site. It does not use barebone RCS protocol, this is why only Google is now able to make such app even if the app does not use any permission that other apps don’t have.

Native support for Android was planned for Android 11, soon we’ll get Android 14 and still no support in sight.

smileyhead ,

When your grandparent got a cheap Xiaomi and next weeks you would spend teaching where are the buttons to close ads, notifications about Xiaomi products, promotions, suggested content, very useful tips, manual system cleanup reminders, sign in to Google dialogs, sign in to Xiaomi Cloud dialogs, sponsored content on lockscreen, daily lockscreen wallpaper suggestions, system update reminders, weather forecasts and daily step count.

smileyhead ,

Then they should gives us options to give them money. I’ll happly pay for all the songs I want to have, but this is not real now. The only way to legally buy music in my country are CDs. For best bands I buy them and rip, but what about a radio song stuck in the head for a week? I don’t want to order a whole album in CD box, carry it home and rip just to delete month after. So I record internet radio stations, download from YouTube, etc. which is not much illegal like torrenting, but I would much rather have an app with search bar and “buy” button on songs for buck or two than play in gray areas.

smileyhead ,

And how much of a pain in the ass is it to buy DVD box sets and rip them? Presumably that’s legal for personal use? Is that the only way? :(

It can be a pain at first when you figure out a schema, look for software etc., then just a matter of inserting a disc and pressing a button. DVDs are easy to rip, there are fully open source programs to do it, for example libcss from VLC team. And DVDs don’t require using leaked decryption keys like BluRays.

It is legal depending on the country. In US it’s in gray area as you strip down DRM. In country I live in (Poland) from my research there are no such measures and copyright works differently. In Poland the movie/music is untied from medium you bought it on, so copying is legal but selling or giving those copies without destroying other copies you have is illegal.

My advice is that for first dozens of movies don’t play with Jellyfin and storing them. DVD player on USB is the best and rip just to have movies for a trip or on a phone. Just out of simplicity, why spend time managing backups, storage shares and additional machines when there is only a few titles to manage.

China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second (www.firstpost.com)

China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second::China is claiming that they now have the world’s fastest internet. Their new network transmits 1.2 terabits per second. That’s over 1200 gigabits, per second. At this speed, the network will be able to send 150 4K...

smileyhead ,

But I guess no externally routable Internet address?

smileyhead ,

Remember Open Handset Alliance (www.openhandsetalliance.com)?

Or when it was actually possible to make an app for Android using open source tools?

smileyhead ,

Android SDK source code is available, in theory and in theory you can build yourself. In practice binaries provided by Google come with restricting licence how you can use them while source is so scattered around weird control systems that noone knows if it’s actually complete source and possible to use.

There was a project to provide FOSS builds of the SDK, but is unmaintained. gitlab.com/android-rebuilds/autoDebian also has android-sdk in it’s repos, but 23 is the max API level now.

I don’t know how F-Droid build apps today, it seems like a big problem.

smileyhead ,

If we could fight over legislations to force swappable batteries and operating systems, most people would just buy used. Like how now laptops, desktops, Raspberry Pi’s you can buy used cheap, slap a light fresh OS and go.

smileyhead ,

More than decade ago when phones started to be capable to use Internet-based messaging standards, those that exists for computers for 30+ years.

smileyhead ,

Internet has standardized instant messaging 34 years ago.

smileyhead , (edited )

But can’t run my own server.

smileyhead ,

Can’t you just change the color in the settings?

smileyhead ,

End2End encrypted by program that Apple controls and user cannot see or touch. Yes, it’s then not readable on their servers, but what stops them from breaking encryption for you is how much they care about your messages.

smileyhead ,

XMPP was never Google only, it always had free implementations of both client and server while having community using it outside of Google. While RCS is really not possible to use now without Google.

smileyhead ,

In other words: “Some of the messaging community believes that software that can be controled by the user and is clear how it works is doing what the user wants it to. It is our view that it is not.”

They are just like the rest of big companies. Remember when Facebook was a privacy respecting and friendly alternative for MySpace? Or Apple for IBM? Or Google for other search engines?

smileyhead ,

Doesn’t help much in terms of privacy. But still is very important. gnu.org/…/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

For a bank or any system you would not have control over anyway, it does not have to be open, only the client software you run on your computer should be. But messaging, document editing (like Google Docs), etc. are personal tasks that could be done via a local program, so a remote program should be give you freedom from it’s provider.

smileyhead ,

The ElementX developemnt is looking really really good!

smileyhead ,

This really was a trick and was mostly exploited.

An app that actually needs being in the background would just show a persistant notification.

smileyhead , (edited )

From command line it’s “sudo dnf update” for example and if you use flatpak, “flatpak update”, updates everything. Or just click update in software manager.

There are programs that are not compiled/packaged by their developers and you have to do it yourself, but so are on Windows. But for OS from Microsoft noone would mention such program, because compiling on Windows is nightmare in comparason. C for example was designed for Unix-like systems. More high-level languages have less dependency installing, but still.

Nowadays people run WSL to compile programs for Windows and that says something…

EDIT: To people in responses below, don’t get too engaged to something that can be trolling.

New Fedora Slimbook 14" joins the Fedora Slimbook 16" - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

We heard your feedback during the launch of the Fedora Slimbook 16 and, along with the folks from Slimbook, bring you the new Fedora Slimbook 14, a smaller, lighter, cheaper with even better battery life, version of the Fedora Slimbook, powered by an Intel CPU and GPU (unfortunetely no AMD version soon).

smileyhead ,

I just have new Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 gen 8, same display but i7-13700H and 99Wh batt. The battery is like 8+ hours normal office work.

Just as I bought it they announced new Pulse 14 with 60Wh battery, but that seems more energy efficient components, I wonder how good it would perform.

smileyhead ,

It does support any calendar using CalDav?

smileyhead ,

Another not-Linux Linux based operating system. Can’t wait to argue same as with Android and ChromeOS that this is not like “real” desktop Linux looks.

We really should stick to calling it GNU or something.

smileyhead ,

I am thankfuk for Ubuntu for what they done to popularize Linux in the past. How thanks to them we have many programs otherwise not interested in porting. It really was a friendly and just-works distro.

But now they focus on servers and desktop version is just an extention. Ubuntu lacks many nooby improvements from recent years while still being the most popular, leaving a bad taste for newcommers.

smileyhead ,

“His one leg is still more capable than regular person’s two legs”

smileyhead ,

In short: Android is open source, but the actual software you get with the phone is not.

smileyhead ,

Hardware continuity, what do you mean?

smileyhead ,

I liked old look more. Would prefer to add even more preinstalled icons instead.

smileyhead ,

It’s a monopsony - a monopoly from the other side.

Google Play Store is not the single seller of apps to users but a single sensible buyer from developers. Of course with most apps being free of change, “buyer” and “seller” are loose terms to satisfy the definition.

smileyhead ,
  1. This was not about cookies, but processing of personal data and new definitions of such data. Cookies was just an example.
  2. By those laws, forcing user to consent with denying access to the service is declared illegal.
smileyhead ,

What the dev can do if user decline processing of personal data is not store such personal data in cookies or anywhere.

Or even better, do not track the user so the consent would only be needed in for example registration form.

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