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there’s no end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support between the two platforms

Called it. Malicious compliance, as expected.

They're adhering to the bare minimum specifications of RCS.

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E2EE is not part of the standard and only exists as a proprietary Google extension

Yes, that is the point I was making, thank you for elaborating.

Implying that implementing RCS would get everyone cross-platform E2EE is misinformation.

Correct again, thanks.

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And why should apple (or anyone for that matter) be forced to use googles proprietary code for an “open standard”?

They shouldn't.

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Because there are 5000 different open protocols they could have chosen from.

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To support E2EE

Correct

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The problem is Mastodon's shittiness will be spread across the Fediverse regardless of what other forks you make.

If I were to make a new platform, I would not federate with any Mastodon servers.

It's bad enough when they come around here.

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Because Mastodon comprises like 90% of the fedi

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Yes that is what I said.

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Oh good , an alternative to AlternativeTo

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I hate Nextcloud and will recommend OwnCloud. NC is such a clusterfuck of a UI and full of abandoned third party software.

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There's a funny vid by DerBauer exposing the completely useless AI branding at Computex. There were PC cases with AI branding. Their explanation was something along the lines of 'you can put a PC in here that runs AI processing".

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Because Apple has never lied or misled before

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I watched an abbreviated video. Pretty much everything they announced was available on other platforms 5+years ago

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I mean don't get me wrong, these things are a huge QoL improvement. It's just that they should be embarrassed to be lacking such basic functionality on such insanely expensive devices. And people should be embarrassed to carry them around. There are still tons of basic features missing.

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Honestly it was super effective. They're more of a lifestyle brand than anything.

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I took mine apart and just cut out the rumble motors. Bonus is it makes the controllers lighter.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices ( www.theverge.com )

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

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Honestly that will be the least of your concerns. I will be very surprised if it's anything more than basic interoperability. Photos and videos and such. Probably not even group text. Apple will comply maliciously just like they are with app stores. You'll have to drag them kicking and screaming.

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This doesn't work with XReal Air does it? I don't think it has sensors in it.

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You use a reverse proxy. Configure your DNS (GoDaddy in this case) to forward requests to your domain to your WAN IP. Set up port forwarding on your router to send HTTPS requests to your server, then the reverse proxy processes the request and directs it to the proper container.

This is honestly the most confusing and complicated part of self-hosting.

It's also all made very simple using Yunohost.

Also please move away from GoDaddy as soon as possible. Popular alternatives would be NameCheap or Porkbun.

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Yep. I bet good money federation remains unidirectional and opt-in. All to pretend to comply with DMA, just like they are with WhatsApp.

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If Pixelfed actually siloed itself into its own network it would make a lot of sense. As is, it's chock full of pictures and text from Mastodon and other federated platforms that are not remotely artistic in nature.

The whole idea of IG, in it's infancy, before being taken blatantly and completely off the rails by Meta, was to have photographers and artists and beautiful content.

On top of that, it's just a copy-paste of IG, including all the dumb shit.

And on top of all of that, it lacks any of the copyright and AI protections that Cara is squarely aimed at.

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tl;dr? Article is too long.

Apple network is not super reliable either. I've seen videos of people using them in crowded cities and you'll only ever get a ping every couple of hours.

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Revive a Nexus 5X long enough to patch it and transfer the data off of it

My man! Backups, please! LOL

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Or you can buy the XReal Air and plug it into any existing PC?

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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Twitter definitely lost a ton of users and tons continue to leave.

Define "tons"? As a percentage, it is miniscule, and it remains the place where politicians, companies and other entities make public announcements. It's also, for some reason, the only platform supported for customer support from various companies.

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I'll never NOT call it Twitter, and you can't make me.

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You're assuming my source is Musk.

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Meta:

"Ok everyone has forgotten about this, now let's get that election money!"

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I find the cheap phones are often the "premium" ones.

Those are the ones with plastic backs, headphone jacks, multiple SIMs, smaller size, lighter weight, good physical fingerprint readers, etc.

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Metal back is bound to get dented and scratched. Plastic is the way to go.

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That is one clumsy hiker.

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Nobody wants new features. If they wanted new features they would have gone to W11 already. They just want less bullshit.

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to the title’s implication that such trust can be earned: it kinda can’t. That’s basically the point of really good passwords and secrets

Most people use and recommend encrypted password managers on remote servers. Which is fine, so long as the encryption is open source and audited and the company has a good and long positive reputation.

MS has none of these things.

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I mean that can be super useful. Doesn't mean it's worth the risk.

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Not a lawyer but you agree to ToS saying you won't do this and that you understand what will happen if you do.

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that has never even been enforced.

Source?

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rubs nipples

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LOL put the debate textbooks down and use your noggin. I'm asking you to back up your statements. In this case it would be fairly easy to prove a negative if you actually had any. If you don't have any evidence then don't say it.

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Yeah I didn't think so.

EU approval for chat control ( www.patrick-breyer.de )

We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...

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This is beyond stupid. Criminals will continue using encryption. Citizens are mandated to forfeit any semblance of privacy. This is tyranny in it's plainest form.

Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users ( www.techspot.com )

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

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And zero fucks were given about said outrage because none of them stopped using the platform or watching ads. Same story as ever.

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Does Immich have shared albums? I've not seen it and I looked.

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Ah. Well. I'll have to check that out after it unfucks itself.

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