drislands @ drislands @lemmy.world

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True, though the US is one of the biggest suppliers, if not the biggest, for Israel's military.

Not the time.

Christ, you aren't kidding. The article is clear that he is saying it's too easy for higher ups to forget that employees don't have an investment in the success of the company overall, and that they need to try to empathize with their employees more.

Except it dances around it and has this idiotic title. Fucking trash website.

I actually just finished playing Dredge. It was a lot of fun, though not as horrifying as I had hoped.

Subnautica!

Graveyard Keeper is great.

And with this game, you still can't!

Honestly a great response. That question he asks himself, "how did I miss this?" really strikes me as genuine. I can't imagine working with someone professionally and being let down so hard. You don't want to have to doubt your colleagues or your friends.

I agree with the other commenter in general but I'll give you the bullet points.

Old news:

• iMessage is a proprietary chat protocol that only works on Apple devices. Apple has indicated multiple times they have zero intention of porting this to other platforms
• Apple users texting each other default to iMessage
• iMessage has a lot of useful features over SMS texting that are highly desirable and convenient
• On iPhones, when iMessages are being successfully sent in a text, the chat bubbles are blue. If they are SMS, they are green
• The US additionally has a weird culture of some iPhone users shaming Android users because of the inability to communicate via iMessage, often referred to by the green/blue bubble appearance
• There have been a few attempts to circumvent this, mostly by having a Mac somewhere with software installed to it that forwards iMessages to your Android device, though this is extremely cumbersome as it requires having an entire computer on 24/7 to make sure you receive these messages

New news:

• Beeper Mini was released earlier this week, which actually runs a reverse-engineered iMessage client that tricks Apple servers into treating it like an Apple device
• It was fully functional for about one day with almost all iMessage features working
• Apple made some variety of change on their end that broke Beeper Mini functionality

And that's about it. For those of us that would like to have easy communication with our iPhone-using friends and family, yet don't want to change phone ecosystems to do so, this is a problem that would be awesome to see solved.

There are folks that, either because of ignorance or pigheadedness, like to chime in on these threads that they don't care about having blue bubbles. That is the least important aspect of this to most people following this, for the reasons I mentioned above.

They're saying that from the perspective of non-US countries, this is a failing on our country's part. Not that that is factually the case. Obviously for those of us on the inside, it's clear that one party is holding the country hostage, but on the outside that's not always clear -- and it doesn't necessarily even matter because at the end of the day, the US is failing them.

That's a fair statement. It's still a bad idea to take a vague center approach when the topic of genocide comes up, IMO. This, of all times, was the time to take a stand.

I think I'm confused. Who are you suggesting be sued?

They charged a subscription with a 7 day free trial for everyone that signed up. It's been less than 7 days, ergo no one has been charged any money.

I understand that. But that doesn't have anything to do with my point, which is that if someone doesn't care about this issue, they don't need to show how much they don't care.

In fact, I would argue that your general sentiment -- that of considering others in different situations than oneself -- applies more to the people acting like this topic doesn't matter because it doesn't affect them personally.

Care to elaborate?

I'm really curious about how it was detected, how it was different from Apple devices. If nothing else I'm looking forward to reading about how that all worked.

Can all the folks saying "I don't care" on this just stop? If this doesn't affect you, why are you commenting at all?

Some smart folks managed to reverse engineer Apple's secretive tech that they refuse to put on any platform they don't own, which is fucking awesome. Even if you don't give a shit about using iMessage, it's awesome they were able to stick it to Apple at all, and make the gap between iPhone and Android that much smaller.

And of course Apple comes in and breaks it. Do you not wonder why? Does this mean there was a minor security hole that was exploited or was it something else that changed? This arms race is fascinating, regardless of your preferred mobile OS.

I'd rather be told to go fuck myself in response to me saying something rude, because I'd deserve it.

It sounds like Magill said some really stupid shit.

In their testimony, the presidents evaded questions on whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated their institutions' codes of conduct.

Penn President Elizabeth Magill said: "If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment."

Calling for genocide isn't harassment, according to her. Guess I can go to U Penn and start loudly telling everyone we should exterminate the lesser races and it's fine.

She was asked point blank if calling for genocide was against their rules, and she said "it depends on the context". How is that not the easiest, most softball question? How hard is it to say "absolutely it's against the rules, but I will clarify that I don't believe supporting the Palestinian people is the same as calling for genocide"?

I don't know if it was that group in general, but Stefan Molyneux in particular certainly was.