unknowing8343 @ unknowing8343 @discuss.tchncs.de

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RCS is supposed to be a distributed protocol, just like SMS, but using data. It is not the same as Signal. Tho, currently, Google is the main provider for almost all phone companies.

In my experience (not in Android apps but in Arch Linux updates) parallel downloads are almost always waaay faster. Magnitudes faster. Using multiple cores? Is it the bottleneck actually enforced by the server? I don't know, I just know it works.

And if they did it, it's because it works on Android too.

RCS is not another chat app.

It's the NEW SMS. That is why it is so important, and that is why it works ONLY IF YOU HAVE A PHONE. Because that's literally the point.

Having your mom, grandpa, and everyone automatically use encrypted, modern comnunication just because they have a phone is extremely important.

Realise that in places where SMS has been historically free, SMS is the standard.

XMPP, Matrix or whatever will obviously still have its place for more "incognito" conversations. But having a phone number should also give you access to a better alternative than SMS.

Pedantic, but Google Messages' RCS. And it's all Google's fault because they are holding the API hostage, probably because they want to create familiarity with the app so that people don't switch once they finally open up.

They are remaking all apps as native apps so maybe this problem gets addressed too.

Federation has nothing to do with the problem you are talking about. Moderation is. That's it. You're picking the wrong enemy. When any platform gets big, more moderation is needed, more stupid comments will appear. Has nothing to do with federation.

¿Por qué solo tres?

3 years only

Custom third-party clients. It's a mess.

Where's that tool then?

Or you can preinstall micro like you preinstall everything else 😅

But an AI can "realise" the code might be downloading something it doesn't need to. That's the point.

AI is "smart" and understands that you told it that the library was supposed to do something specific, and it can understand that and look for things that seem not correlated to the purpose of the repo.

And all the shortcuts are SANE, not the weird thing of nano

In every post of this kind I am amazed at so many people using nano instead of micro which is SO MUCH BETTER while being the same thing at the same time.

AI doesn't do feelings

How can I have a serious conversation with these annoying answers? Come on, you know what I am talking about. Even an AI chatbot would know what I mean.

Any AI chatbot, even "general purpose" ones will read your code and will return a description of what it does if you ask it.

And particularly AI would be great at catching "useless", "weird" or unexplainable code in a repository. Maybe not with the current levels of context. But that's what I want to know, if these tools (or anything similar) exist yet.

Thank you.

Of course, 100% reliability is impossible even with human reviewers. I just want a tool that gives me at least something, cause I don't have the time or knowledge to review a full repo before executing it on my machine.

I just want a report that says "we detected in line 27 or file X, a particular behavior that feels weird as it tries to upload your environment variables into some unexpected URL".

I'm afraid to tell you that your e-book deDRMing is very much considered piracy. 😅

Piracy is easier than ever IMO. 20 years ago it was messy, and full of viruses and fake content. Nowadays there's plug&play pirate services with refined content.

There's so much people in the world today convinced that their subscriptions are worth it that I think they'll let pirates coexist in peace, because they know pirates wouldn't pay for it anyways.

Yes, of course, the idea would be something like passing the AI a repo link and a prompt like "this repo is supposed to be used for X, tell me if you find anything weird that doesn't fit that purpose".