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- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 9 months ago:
When you press a button on this revolutionary machine, it will automatically left click for you!
- Comment on Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. 9 months ago:
A combination of heaters and being mostly deployed in warmer environments, I’d assume.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
They have an “Office Key” on some official keyboards. Pressing Office+L opens LinkedIn. The Office key is actually mapped to that long modifier shortcut.
- Comment on What happens to my instance if my domain expires? 10 months ago:
.ovh domains are like $2/year, if that helps.
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 10 months ago:
What do you think an API is? They have reverse engineered the iMessage API and are using that to connect to the iMessage servers. It is literally impossible to do as you suggest (use entirely their own resources) because iMessage is centralized and cannot federate with any other server, even if one did exist.
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 10 months ago:
And that’s what they’re doing.
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 10 months ago:
How? It’s not a MitM or anything like that, it’s connecting exactly how an Apple device would connect. Everything is still E2EE, just one of the ends can now be an Android device.
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
From what I understand, their guess is that Apple is now checking if the device also has support for other services, such as FaceTime. Beeper Mini and pypush don’t pretend to support FaceTime, so it breaks.
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
Their hope was that they got close enough to an actual Apple device that breaking it would break Apple devices. It turns out they weren’t close enough, but they could be with a few improvements.
- Comment on Beeper Mini’s iMessage app for Android is broken, possibly by Apple 11 months ago:
Because they can’t break that. It’s using real Macs, so if they break iMessage for Beeper Cloud, they break it for their customers.
- Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works 11 months ago:
Kind of, but it’s more complicated. I’m not sure if the app itself will be open source, but currently, the method they use is. Either way, the hardest part is already done, but you still need a client (maybe; they might open-source it) and a notification server. I’m planning to attempt to build a Matrix bridge if I have enough time and it’s not beyond my skills, but if you don’t want the messages to be decrypted by the server, making the notification server and maybe client would be really difficult.
- Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works 11 months ago:
Intentional ineptitude resulting from malice is still malice.
- Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users 11 months ago:
That’s to prevent multiple entries by one person. Their security is very good, with audits and their products being largely open source (for this, PyPush. For Beeper Cloud, their Synapse fork and their bridges.). Only the parts that don’t matter to security (the clients, mostly) are closed source.
- Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users 11 months ago:
No, they know that a message has been received, but the phone is what decrypts the message. Beeper can’t see it.
- Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users 11 months ago:
No. This is much more impressive, useful, secure, and sustainable because it’s totally different internally.
- Comment on Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better 11 months ago:
That’s a good point.
- Comment on Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better 11 months ago:
First, they do have senses. For example, many LLMs can “see” images. Second, they’re actually pretty good at describing things. What they’re really bad at is analysis and logic, which is not related to senses at all.
- Comment on Matrix 1.9 just came out! 11 months ago:
Think of it like email. You need a client (like Gmail or Outlook), which for Matrix is usually Element, Schildichat (a fork of Element), or Fluffychat. You also need a server (like gmail.com). The most popular one is matrix.org, though it doesn’t have any bridges. To get bridges, you either need to run your own server (much easier than it sounds with this) or use a server with bridges built in. Bridges are tied to the server. You also get an address, of the form @name:example.com, where example.com is the homeserver.
If you want to do it the easy (but slightly proprietary) way, Beeper is basically commercialized Matrix with preinstalled bridges and a slightly better UI.
- Comment on Can't upload images? 11 months ago:
People try to upload CP and get the admin arrested for hosting it.
- Comment on Sunbird is shutting down its iMessage app for Android 11 months ago:
Yeah, but at least they’ve proven to be worthy of trust (contribute a lot to FOSS, offer ways to host your own iMessage server, warn about the insecurity). Sunbird has done the opposite.
- Comment on Would anything get you to use Google Chat with friends? 11 months ago:
If it becomes an open-source, decentralized service with bridges and more users than Matrix, I’d consider it.
- Comment on Nothing's iMessage solution might not be as secure as we thought 11 months ago:
Beeper is pretty good with it, as they make it clear that it’s insecure and use an encrypted protocol to get the messages to the server. Still, it’s better to host your own (which Beeper lets you do, as it’s just Matrix) or not use it.
- Comment on Nothing's iMessage solution might not be as secure as we thought 11 months ago:
No, it’s even less secure than expected. We expected that Sunbird would have access to your Apple ID and messages. Instead, everyone in the world has access to your Apple ID and messages.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Chrome OS makes installing Linux applications way more difficult than it is on most other Linux distros.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Chrome OS makes installing Linux applications way more difficult than it is on most other Linux distros.
- Comment on Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage until Mexican government stepped in - YouTube 11 months ago:
Probably a Pixel. They’re pretty good, especially if you install something like GrapheneOS.
- Comment on JavaScript's days are numbered 1 year ago:
I thought it was last Thursday.
- Comment on Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites 1 year ago:
Ariane 5 is retired. Ariane 6 isn’t ready yet. Vega is small. What medium-lift launch capacity do they have?
- Comment on When someone corrects your code 1 year ago:
It’s totally valid in most cases. It’s technically only supposed to be used for a question, but language is based on how it’s most commonly used, with those “rules” only applying in extremely formal situations. With the prevalence of informal text-based communication, many people use it to indicate being unsure, like how you used it. I just wanted to continue the chain of grammar corrections (which is why I used the wrong “its”/“it’s” at one point). Also, you were right about the quotes.
- Comment on When someone corrects your code 1 year ago:
A question mark does not fit the sentence. While it is commonly used to demonstrate a rising tone at the end of a sentence, its not considered correct for formal writing.