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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you’re not using iMessage anyway then because Apple’s Messages stack isn’t open source. If you’re not using iMessage anyway, it shouldn’t matter to you what Beeper Mini is doing. This app isn’t for the ultra paranoid. Neither is Google’s RCS in Google Messages. This is where Signal and Matrix would be better choices. If you are using iMessage on an Apple device, you’re choosing to trust Apple despite their app being closed source and you’re not choosing to trust Beeper, which is fine and I don’t judge you at all for that stance. But at that point, your qualms aren’t simply about Beeper Mini being closed source, the implication is that you don’t trust Beeper as a company and/or its developers which, again, is a valid stance even if it’s one I don’t share.

  But I am personally pretty sure I can trust Beeper and Apple enough with my relatively meaningless conversations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By that logic, there’s nothing guaranteeing iMessage on iPhones is secure or private either because it’s closed source. If you don’t want to trust Beeper mini, you’ll be free to run their iMessage bridge on your own Matrix stack when they open source it at some point, which they’re promising to do (and you still won’t know that Apple isn’t scraping your messages on the iOS side). When I decide to trust a company, it’s because I look at what they’re transparently communicating to their end users. Every indication is that they are trying to get out of the middle of handling encrypted messages. Their first move to make this happen was allowing people to self host their own Beeper bridges (which you can still do with Beeper Cloud if you prefer and you will know that your messages are always encrypted within the Beeper infrastructure). They aren’t going to release the source for their client ever because that’s the only way they make any money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m holding on to the lifetime grandfathered premium and don’t foresee myself using anything else until they end it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to open some configuration files in WordPad because Notepad only supported Windows style line endings, but then I discovered Notepad++

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This lawsuit is not going anywhere because of Section 230.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls | What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company t...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with everything you’ve said, it’s also fair to acknowledge that losing one’s job unexpectedly is a disruptive life change that not everyone is adequately prepared for financially or emotionally and we can empathize with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I the only one who thinks it’s crazy that the only grounds they have are that HP didn’t disclose that their All-In-Ones won’t let you scan or fax without ink and not, you know, the fact that they do that in the first place? It should be illegal to disable critical functions of a device simply because an unrelated function is temporarily unavailable. There’s no technical reason HP is doing this other than, “fuck you, buy more ink.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Feature Action Button, USB-C, Face ID, and More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, well I’ll gladly keep my fingerprint sensor over that unnecessary mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Feature Action Button, USB-C, Face ID, and More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand how Apple still has such massive foreheads and cutouts on the top of their screen. How do people know at a glance which apps have unread notifications?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If ChatGPT only costs $700k to run per day and they have a $10b war-chest, assuming there were no other overhead/development costs, OpenAI could run ChatGPT for 39 years. I’m not saying the premise of the article is flawed, but seeing as those are the only 2 relevant data points that they presented in this (honestly poorly written) article, I’m more than a little dubious.

  But, as a thought experiment, let’s say there’s some truth to the claim that they’re burning through their stack of money in just one year. If things get too dire, Microsoft will just buy 51% or more of OpenAI (they’re going to be at 49% anyway after the $10b deal), take controlling interest, and figure out a way to make it profitable.

  What’s most likely going to happen is OpenAI is going to continue finding ways to cut costs like caching common query responses for free users (and possibly even entire conversations, assuming they get some common follow-up responses). They’ll likely iterate on their infrastructure and cut costs for running new queries. Then they’ll charge enough for their APIs to start making a lot of money. Needless to say, I do not see OpenAI going bankrupt next year. I think they’re going to be profitable within 5-10 years. Microsoft is not dumb and they will not let OpenAI fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable at picking people out of a lineup as well. But I can kind of understand how if two unreliable systems point to the same person, that could be seen as enough for an arrest. It shouldn’t have taken nearly as long for her to be cleared of any charges, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally almost never pay fees when moving Bitcoin between wallets on the Blockchain. Fees aren’t required unless you want your transaction expedited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll admit you bring up good points about it being potentially useful for facilitating the movement of money across borders (and potentially doing so more anonymously now) within the PayPal ecosystem with fewer fees, but it’s an unnecessary step for pretty much anything else within PayPal as far as I’m concerned. It’s also definitely a bad place to park money long term unless you like inflation eating away at your buying power.

  I’m not sure what you mean about high fees with Bitcoin, though, are you talking about exchange fees from fiat to Bitcoin and vice versa? I rarely pay any fees simply moving Bitcoin around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh good, another bullshit Ethereum backed token…just what the world needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if that’s as big a problem as you think. Assuming they have not previously allowed special characters at the beginning of Twitter handles (I don’t know whether they had the foresight to do this), they could use a character that was disallowed previously and is a legal character in URLs and then include that special character in the URL path so that it would be twitter.com/~user/ or whatever. This would only be applicable to new official accounts and would not break URLs for existing users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From a networking perspective, does the Fediverse strike anyone else as "optimistic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, well I guess the real question is whether it can be improved at the server/protocol level and my answer is I don’t know. There’s some handshaking that clearly has to occur between your instance and the other instance to load the initial community state and I don’t know where that process can be optimized. I think I’ve seen people mention tools that have been created to automatically subscribe a dummy account on your instance to all the communities on the largest instances to kind of bootstrap the process for other users, but I don’t have a link to such a tool handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From a networking perspective, does the Fediverse strike anyone else as "optimistic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’ve described is exactly how it’s supposed to work. Once a user has subscribed to an external community from your instance, it should load immediately for any users afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That would require Musk to either be intelligent or willing to listen to people who are and I’m unconvinced he’s either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When is 0.18.3 dropping, the current weighted sorting algorithm is nefarious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by nefarious exactly? I don’t get the impression that it’s evil…