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lemmyvore

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  • RCS vs SMS/MMS?

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  • I'm fairly sure the only reason for which Apple is using RCS is to circumvent the EU DSA, which requires them to make iMessage interoperable with other chat systems. So instead of opening access to iMessage they're using a completely different system as a distraction.

    I mean, they could've said that iMessage is already interoperable via SMS but the feature disparity is too large. RCS will serve nicely to confuse the issue.

    There's otherwise nothing to gain for Apple by adopting RCS. iMessage already does everything RCS does and more.

    They could also kill RCS tomorrow if they wanted to, by simply releasing iMessage for Android. But then they wouldn't have a red herring to show the EU — if anything they'd be in an even worse position as per DSA. It would also antagonize Google although I'm not sure how much they care about that.

  • Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

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  • optical media doesn't last that long (5-10 years) and is easily damaged

    I beg to differ. I've been backing things up to optical for 25 years now with minimal issues. CDs could be easily scratched but it hasn't been the case for DVD and BR.

    M-DISK uses in-organic substances that make the discs mostly immune to exposure but it's a more recent invention. Proper storage and handling still goes a long way towards protecting discs even if they're not in-organic.

  • We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop

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  • I really don't see the issue. If the work account uses Google or Microsoft I use their respective web apps and export an ICS link to see the blocked slots in my own personal calendar.

    For my own personal calendar I use CalDAV, which is widely supported, and an app that can import ICS links. (Self-hosted Radicale server and the Calengoo app for mobile and desktop, for the curious.)

  • T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents

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  • Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

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  • They're a very common form of personal backup. A few discs and an USB writer and you get a very long lasting medium for passwords, personal files, family photos etc.

    Can also archive multimedia of course, the smallest discs are 25 GB and can pack a few films, a season of a series, or a lot of music.

  • Encrypted P2P Chat

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    • What does "authentication" mean if there's no server?
    • How do browsers behind NAT connect to each other?
    • How does it verify that the other chat partner is who they say they are?
    • Why use this and not Simplex?

  • Bat skulls have potential

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  • Is pixel 4a too old for a new phone?

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  • Hence the controversy! 🙂

    Also, Graphene tend to act superior about it and it pisses people off.

  • Is pixel 4a too old for a new phone?

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  • They claim their security measures are better then other custom ROMs.

  • I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu

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  • Just a note, the US military completed the phase-out of floppy disks in 2019.

  • I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu

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  • Bold of you to assume Ubuntu was a recent version.

  • I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu

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  • Don't worry, Ubuntu was probably Lucid. 🤭

    Medical environments are notorious for inept tech skills and slow technology adoption.

  • Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box

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  • But nobody uses /dev/sdX anymore (not after they wipe the wrong disk once anyway). They either use logical UUIDs or hardware WWN/serial.

  • "Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon

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  • If you were 100% specific you would be effectively writing the code yourself. But you don't want that, so you're not 100% specific, so it makes up the difference. The result will include an unspecified percentage of code that does not fit what you wanted.

    It's like code Yahtzee, you keep re-rolling this dice and that dice but never quite manage to get the exact combination you need.

    There's an old saying about computers, they don't do what you want them to do, they do what you tell them to do. They can't do what you don't tell them to do.

  • "Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon

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  • Oh, God, he's trying to use pointers again. He can never get them right. And they say I'm supposed to chase my tail...

  • "Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon

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  • SO gives you very specific, small examples. GenAI will happily generate entire projects, test suites etc. It's much easier to get caught into the fantasy that the latter creates.

  • What's the best open source GUI to compress videos on linux?

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  • There are muxing apps that can do that.

  • Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.

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  • Contact support and tell them how many you need and they'll try to accommodate you. There were a lot of people abusing the service and hosting hundreds of domains so now they're making everybody request them explicitly unfortunately. They've also had to suspend their .dedyn.io DDNS service indefinitely because of the abuse.

    That's why we can't have nice things.

    Please read up on DNSSEC because you will be required to turn it on for every domain you host with them.

  • Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.

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