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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS

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  • Nah, if it gets big enough, Apple will care. They literally said (based on court document) that iMessage on Android is a horrible idea because it'll make it easier for people to switch platform.

    • Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach

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  • I just strongly disagree that people don't have a choice.

    It also kind of depends on your environment, especially where you live.

    If you live in places like US where most messaging is done through SMS or iMessage and calls are done using standard phone call or FaceTime, it's probably just "not easy" to move away from Meta services.

    But when you live in places where Meta services (especially WhatsApp, where it's the most used messaging service outside the US) are the only way to contact anyone, well, it's virtually impossible to move away from Meta services.

    If I stopped using WhatsApp at this moment, it literally means I won't have any way to contact anyone. Very close friends and close family, maybe I can force them to install Signal, but anyone else? Probably not.

    Phone call, maybe, but it's expensive and most people don't pick up phone anymore. SMS? Well, not only it's expensive, even if I'm fine with paying for SMS, most people probably don't so they won't reply. It's not "harder to contact anyone", it's literally "can't contact anyone".

    That reminds me, though I understand the controversy of EU's "standardized messaging protocol" regulation, I kind of wish it can work out somehow, so I can get the heck out of WhatsApp and still able to contact people.

    • New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times

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  • IIRC it doesn't pull up to the side, but it does slow down slowly and safely until a full-stop.

    Then the autopilot disengage.

    • The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.

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  • Don't know about this keyboard or Chinese, but a language specific feature might be one of the reason.

    I use SwiftKey and I love how it supports multilingual autocorrect and prediction for Indonesian and English without needing to switch between keyboard language.

    iOS built in keyboard supports multilingual typing for some languages, but not Indonesian.

    I assume people love it also because some specific feature that doesn't exist in the stock keyboard.

    • oh fuck we're in a recursion meme

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    • In the future, the artists of retro-looking videos will artificially add compression artifacts instead of film grain.

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  • that video is technically is film grain. Compression artefact would look more like like this.

    • why can't we have federated identity ?

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  • For identity verification, you can just do a simple key signing, just like how Nostr does it.

    Each user will generate a public-private key pair on their own device and has all their posts (and edit/delete requests) signed using their key.

    If someone wants to delete or edit their post, the site can just verify that the request is signed with the same key.

    There's still issue of who's going to store the user's follows, etc. but I think we can find a way to workaround it.

    • YSK how to pick a ripe, sweet watermelon

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  • Nah, I'm just going to continue doing what I've always done: tapping the watermelon to hear the sound and pretend that I know what I'm doing.