Madis

It’s still exciting if you’re looking for a specific upgrade.

Any plans for ActivityPub support?

IIRC their point was that SMS is insecure, so they don’t want people using SMS in Signal to think that this is Signal. With RCS, they could do what Apple will - be interoperable while providing extras with own platform (iMessage).

Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like enough reason to reimplement SMS and RCS alone would still be kind of inconvenient.

You probably just have to change your region to any EEA country, such as Ireland.

Okay, that is a very good point that I did not realize.

Because that way people thought they were directly paying for the service they were using, instead of being the product of said platform, having their personal data harvested and sold to the highest bidder?

Are you saying that people perceived WhatsApp as better than SMS or better than Facebook?

The red flag is to look at a free meal and not wonder what the catch might be. Especially to this day, with all we learned about what the tech majors do with all the data.

That’s not my point. My point is why would the majority of the world do this when they knew it was going to be paid.

I can’t think of other product examples where people would so gladly accept trial versions of otherwise free feature-equivalent services. Maybe WinRAR, but that could be replaced with any other product instantly anyway (no network effect), should it ever get enforce its trial.

Well, it would be nice if it could search too, as that’s Microsoft’s selling point at least. But the results the AI suggests are worse than using Bing search itself.

Ironically, it got popular when it still tried to get users to subscribe to a monthly payment. And as it was one of the few messaging platforms to be (in the future) paid at all, I cannot understand why it ever got popular…

Well, sure, Meta cancelled the subscription plans later but to me it sounded a red flag in the first place.

Maybe because shorts are short and un-seekable, so more “engagement”.

But… they could’ve already done that with current tools? Not like these change the package ID often.

Wait… YouTube Kids has ads without Premium?! I would’ve hoped they’d keep the ads away from kids at least.

Is it durable just because it’s thick, or can we use this tech in mobile screens too?

Draw a straight line with GIMP.

Pencil tool, point 1, hold shift, point 2. Is it any easier in Photoshop?

Edit: yes, apparently there is a line tool in Photoshop.

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You still have ways to emulate it with software… Especially apps or Android 14 that make your flashlight act as one.

Menu -> Settings -> Tracker and Ad Blocking -> Block Trackers and Ads

YouTube clients like NewPipe.

You can see the shape here at least:

From Unbox Therapy at 2:17

But is the QR reusable? If not, you’ll have to somehow prove your identity or existing number ownership to get a new one.

I can understand that part, but not why providing such update timeline would be “excessive” or “crazy”, if there are ways to achieve it.