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  • Mountaineer@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android usersEnglish
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    1 year ago

    it’ll work just like SMS does now

    I agree with this part of your statement 100%.
    It will work POORLY.

    Whether it’s in the same app or simply a different colour like SMS is currently, it’ll be a half assed implementation, designed to segregate your iphone and android friends.

    Got an existing iphone group chat? Bet you can’t add an RCS participant to it.
    Create a new RCS group chat so you can include everyone? Bet it’s missing features that you’d get in imessage.
    Receive a high resolution video from a friend via imessage? Forward that to another friend via RCS and they’ll receive 5 blurry pixels.

    And throughout all of this, apple will blame the RCS protocol and say “We’re actively working with GSMA to improve RCS”.

    No one trusts apple for the very simple reason that they have a habit of saying the quiet part out loud: Tim Cook Says ‘Buy Your Mom An iPhone’

  • Mountaineer@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android usersEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s some gotchas in Apples statement:

    They have promised to implement “RCS Universal Profile”
    This means the bare minimum, not the advanced features implemented by Google and Samsung etc.
    An example of a missing feature from Universal Profile is end to end encryption.

    They also said: “This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users.”
    The implication of this is that it won’t be in the iMessage app, it will be in a separate but official app, siloing your Android friends from your iPhone friends.

    When this comes out, every European is going to shrug and keep using Whatsapp.

  • Mountaineer@aussie.zonetoUnixporn@lemmy.ml•Im going to get banned for thisEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s strictly compliant, although they claim to have based it’s syntax on Korn shell, which is the strictest definition of POSIX shells.

    You can do pretty much everything in powershell that you can do in something like bash BUT, it will be done slightly differently, so trying to make a script cross compatible is pointless (you might as well just write it natively in powershell etc).

    Powershell isn’t inherently bad, unlike bash for instance which just allows piping out text output, Powershell can pass around true .net objects.
    But if what you’re looking for is cross OS compatability, you’re pushing shit uphill.

    99.9% of the time, I open powershell and just ssh into a “real” linux box.

  • Mountaineer@aussie.zonetoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What was your gateway product to open source?English
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    1 year ago

    FOSS is enshitification-hardened, not proof.

    VLC remains awesome because the guy (maybe Jean-Baptiste Kempf?) that controls the project has refused to be bought, has in fact refused HUGE sums of money.

    The original author of any project has to right to sell it with the corresponding licence changes at any time.
    There’s some legal grey area on something like Linux or VLC which have MANY MANY developer hands in the pie, and existing users could certainly fork off the existing releases, but VLC could pivot tomorrow to a for profit company and make future releases of the official VLC a paid product, if they choose too.