stevehobbes

@stevehobbes@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs Fleeing to Non-Extradition Countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure so much as fled as that’s where FTX was HQd and he owned a ton of shit there that he bought with customer money.

  He didn’t even have the balls to flee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is killing blockchain-based Community Points⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re both fucking awful. The everything-is-hustle angle is garbage.

  I don’t want people trying to figure out the optimal ratio of low but not too low effort posts to get paid turning everyone into a shill. Chasing karma was bad enough. People chasing money will be worse and less valuable.

  Just like Twitter, when everyone is monetizing their posts everything will go to shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or SMS should just die….

  And how does RCS work without internet? It doesn’t work without connectivity to the cellular IMS. RCS only works on 4G and 5G. It doesn’t work on 2G/3G service which in the US is being phased out, but still exists in lots of places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Works over any internet eg wifi. You don’t need to have a carrier subscription at all to use iMessage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because RCS is provisioned by the telcos and the telcos won’t let them.

  Want end to end encryption, have to use Google Messages, not Samsung Messages, both RCS. How’s that for interop?

  RCS is a mess and not the savior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It requires provisioning by your mobile carrier. iMessage doesn’t.

  Anyone advocating for something that isn’t OTT has been living under a rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is controlled and monetizable by the telcos. It isn’t better. And it’s barely standardized. Google sells a service to telcos to implement RCS that doesn’t really work well with anyone else’s RCS, or didn’t.

  Go look at the amount of threads with people saying “my RCS message from my Samsung didn’t get to my friend on T-Mobile with a pixel”.

  This is not the future anyone deserves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That was from 2013.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Get some anger management help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ohmyz.sh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  lol. This thread is about people mad that google is doing it, and you’re saying so what if a nation state does it?

  The answer is the same either way - to either sell the data who want to manipulate you into doing or thinking what they want or by directly manipulating you into doing or thinking what you want.

  Same with Reddit and lemmy. It doesn’t take a whole lot of investment (on a state level actor basis) to manipulate small and large communities or individuals into thinking something is normal or mainstream. Or convincing them that everyone loves this product or it’s so popular or whatever.

  The CCP sensors their entire internet for their people and collects all sorts of information to root out dissidents. What good thing do you think is going to come from them having that data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is it. The weakest part of most doors is the door. A sledge hammer will go through a door or window regardless of the lock.

  Smart locks are way more convenient and the ability to grant timed access and unique access controls probably makes them more secure.