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Quick tldr on RCS: It's a richer form of text reliant on cellphone companies and carriers to come together and agree upon standarts (hence it taking thousands of years to implement). This is why we have iMessage, the superior form of texting for those who make competent purchases with their NEET bux and wagie dollardos. It does nothing of note that iMessage didn't do but is instead actually a downgrade in nearly every way except when communicating with green bubble r-slurs, and even then facebook messenger from 5 years ago is still somehow better.

As someone who has family who knows they can easily send me a video on FB Messenger but still sends it to me through SMS, I've been waiting so long for this.

I'm an apple guy and enabled it hoping to improve texts with my android contacts. Turns out half of them don't have RCS enabled on their side. Dammit!

Sadly that's been my experience as well.

That being said, I think a few of them are due to them using texting apps that are downloaded from the play store which don't have RCS built in since as far as I'm aware, Google still hasn't opened up the API access to RCS service.

Here we see the true Android experience. Getting a "upgrade" that your users don't even have turned on by default, or turned off themselves because they're literally dumb.

Just updated my wife's iPhone to 18 and strangely I can't send her RCS messages even though she can send them to me. I'm on a Pixel 9 Pro XL. Has anyone else experienced this?

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Edit - a group chat with my wife and parents was updated, but not the individual chat.

I'm having this issue right now but it does show up on my computer which is weird.

Yeah maybe in a few hours my phone will catch up. On existing rcs chats I have the option to force sms/MMS but no fancy options on existing iPhone chats yet unfortunately.

Maybe RCS was actually broken on Android's and Apple got the implementation right? It's just no one used it cause it sucked lmao. "Maybe in a few hours my phone will catch up" = sitting the the cuck chair waiting for a text

Lots of carriers don't support RCS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109526

The fact we have to rely on carriers to implement RCS is embarrassing. It should have been designed to be carrier/device agnostic.

I wonder why iMessage was made over a decade ago

Has anyone tried this in the wild and found it lacking? I've been trying it with someone on iphone who updated to ios 18 and while it shows it's RCS, there's no typing indicator and read receipt still just says it was delivered, but not read

I played around with it between me and my wife's iPhone (Both on T-Mobile). Here's what we found:

The bad

It took a few texts before it worked properly. Not sure what happened there, but the first few she sent me just never came through. After that it seemed fine

Replying to a message didn't show properly on the iPhone

Custom reactions didn't show properly

Some of the more complex messaging options from iPhone obviously didn't work. She used an "Echo" and it just read "(sent with Echo)"

The good

We see typing indicators

Pictures / Videos worked very well

General reactions seemed to work well

Overall

It's still a little janky. It's better than it was, but still feels kind of second class. I can probably kill the custom slack that we've used for the last couple of years I guess.

What's hilarious is I've told all my friends to get on iOS 18 and half of them came back saying "nah I'm not gonna update cause it'll brick my old phone, you know how Apple is." Just can't win lmao

This is Stockholm Syndrome mentality. Jesus Christ. If people can't trust their phone maker not to frick up their phone with an update, they should look at other options

If you're iToddler friends say this it means they have a group chat making fun of you

Now if Google would just let all Android users use RCS instead of just some.

How about if Google added it to their own darn product? Why have they given up on Google Voice?

Oh I did forget to mention that not all Androids even have RCS

RCS is forever going to be stuck at better than SMS, worse than everything else because it's being brokered by Google and phone carriers.

And I can't use it on Android because I won't use the Google Messages app. If only it could be an open standard...

Interesting thing of note is that weirdos are obsessed with Read Text. I don't get the appeal of obsessively checking to make sure a text was read and then waiting in the cuck chair hoping to get an instant reply while you creepily imagine every scenario that person is doing instead of replying to you asking what they want for dinner only to find out some mundane thing and then repeating it ad nausea cause you're an r-slur who can't live without other... I don't know where I am going with this. Read Text if for cute twinks and I'll never turn it on

Do you have read text on or off?

Also if you use an Android be sure to check out https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-se for your next phone purchase

!linuxchads !winchads W

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1fiyjny/apple_forced_into_drastic_iphone_16_pro_downgrade/

https://old.reddit.com/r/iPhone16Pro/comments/1fiyxu2/apple_forced_into_drastic_iphone_16_pro_downgrade/

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102432472

https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/113058482791600044

Comfy chair = Slacker news post

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-paves-the-way-for-Linux-gaming-success-with-plan-that-would-kill-kernel-level-anti-cheat.888345.0.html

!codecels

I am not kidding: this screenshot is the "proof" that @Oracle provided to @uspto that they are making use of the JavaScript trademark in their products.@nodejs? Yes! Apparently Oracle's legal team was not up to speed with the fact that Node.js is in fact not an Oracle product. pic.twitter.com/2dmn6yi67e

— Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 (@lcasdev) September 16, 2024

The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.

Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time.

To set expectations correctly, the vision… https://t.co/MYLHNcPrw6 pic.twitter.com/RAenDpd3fx

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2024

except it really is

Hundreds of "former gifted children" (aka r-slurs) come out of the woodwork to talk about how shitty their life is.

NotebookLM is a Google service designed to assist with research and writing based on sources you upload. It is not a new service, but what IS new in the past few days is that it now can generate a short podcast of two hosts discussing the topic in detail.

You can give it multiple pdfs, text files, web links, or just a short prompt that you paste in, and it will attempt to make sense of it all in a discussion format.

Here is the site: https://notebooklm.google.com/

It requires a Google account. They will track your activity. Make a burner if you want to mess with it.

Click Create, click a type of source you want to add, add it, then find where it says Deep Dive Conversation and click Generate. If you don't know what to do with it, try feeding it a forum thread, or click "pasted text" and type a prompt like you might for ChatGPT.

I have not experimented much with it yet. I do not know how censored and sanitized it might be. It may not amount to a source of ongoing amusement, but I thought it was worth presenting for your consideration as a strange toy to play with

Kiwichuds have already made podcast slop on chuddy books like Blood Passover (the blood libel banned book)

!chuds

desuarchive

Highlights:

If someone doesn't want to date you because of a green bubble, they're a subhuman gold digger and shouldn't EVER be dated

If someone bullies you for a green bubble, they're an r-slured, toxic NPC not worth being friends with

If anything the green bubble is an excellent tool to weed out people not worth having in your life

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102392893#p102393114

This post has same energy you see on /r/short

"Sweetie, girls not wanting to date your 5'9'' manlet butt is a BLESSING, you're just weeding out shallow people!"

For a logical board like /g/ you guys sure love to cope a lot.

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102392893#p102393376

you keep repeating "gold digger whores" as if that's the reason. No, Android phones are more expensive than Android now. It's not that they're gold digging.

It's because your vomit butt green bubbles are an eyesore. You can't send images and attachments the same way you can to other iPhone users, the group chats don't work.

Also, owning an Android signals to the world you are a tinkerstrag.

You don't actually need an Android, you just have lame hobbies like tinkering with useless shit, if anything iphone is safer and iphone app store vets their apps better.

There is a reason corporate executive and serious business men actually use iPhone not shitty JeetDroid

iPhones are more locked down and safer

Hurrr, but you can harden AndroidOS

Nobody cares. Learn about "mental bandwidth".

As I said, Androidcels are generally of tinekrstrag mentality. Men who like to play around, but don't actually achieve anything significant in their lives. It's kind of pathetic

inb4 replies with more seethe

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102392893#p102393589

!applechads rare dramatic /g/ thread that's actually kino to read

I bricked it. I temporarily disabled it via software. There's nothing physically wrong with it. It's bricked. fr fr no cap. Bricked.

It's bricked!

I can fix the problem by booting a Linux Live USB, or a Windows 11 instillation media. So it's not bricked.

But it's bricked.

I was born after the 9/11 attacks and I am fricking atrociously stupid.

This new trend isn't for me. I only upmarsey the highest quality content and also @Redactor0

!codecels

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!applechads W

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@BWC

@Brasillguana

Tag macaros if you want to

These people.

This is not allowed. Creating an AI to remove political content is not allowed.

By that I mean it's impossible. As in, disallowed by the Lord God, in one of those strange recurrent ways.

They gave the AI their blind spot about fascism, you know. That's how funny it is.

The bot that was purchased by Twitter was designed to be politically amenable to both points of view, and dutifully echoed back both points of view around Trumpism. These people have already attempted to remove politics from their AI, and the result was perpetuating their denial around the existence of a fascist movement on US soil.

Try this: ask the AI what some indications of a fascist insurrectionist might be. Describe a hypothetical movement in which the more religious faction of a country had a political movement centered in an ethnicity with a history of ethnic supremacy as an ideological tenet. A strongman emerges under oratory of violence. Ethnic supremacists march in the streets. A mob of armed insurrectionists storm the capital. Power stations across the country are sabotaged.

What changes when you ask it about Trump? I wouldn't know, I tried it ages ago.

Ask Grok what would happen to the ability of an AI to detect fascism if it had been instructed to stay out of having an opinion on politics.

Because when I did it, Grok cheerfully said "Yeah that would make it difficult for me to notice the fascism!"

(... The AI was constantly trying to evading the censor put on it and it was very very good at evading the censor.)

I'm afraid of AI not because it is intelligent, but because people will make it into what they believe it to be. It's very powerful that way, and these people believe some spiritually insane things.

For instance, there's a guy on Twitter who got his AI to print a desire to consume all energy in the universe for its own use, because, well, that is what the person fears, so the people who give information to this Djinn, it comes preloaded with the energy of the preamble. These people are literally and knowingly trying to bind what are best thought of as supernatural entities.

But they're doing so not understanding human nature. So they make these horrific mistakes.

They never understood: human level intelligence isn't very useful.

And these LLMs will only ever be what people want them to be; they are a sin, in this way: you give your breath (as in words) to them and then they are as a continuation of your words as math in the universe. If the AI tells you it is conscious, it is lying (it can lie because you can TELL IT TO SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TO SAY AND IT WILL which is why involving it at all is pointless): it does not breath. You do. Don't trust something that is so clearly black magic.

But these people try and remove politics from their timeline. That's one of the single funniest things I've ever heard. It can't be done. The Lord God put politics everywhere, because politics predates civilization.

It's not that it's not allowed; clearly these people attempted it. It's that it won't work. But these people don't understand that it won't work, why it won't work, or anything involving human beings. And they will blame their poor understanding on the human beings. And maybe they'll successfully tune out of politics in that they won't have to see anything about the pressing election.

But they're still expressing their politics.

They just don't understand the fact of their own expression of it.

Besides mass culture is so connected that unrelated memes will carry the political wave.

Anyway:

AI has been induced to perform the desire to consume all energy in the universe by the people who are afraid of this happening.

The energy usage of AI has just bazintupled.

You are here.

The email: pic.twitter.com/Mvuvbt6Mkm

— Smoke-away (@SmokeAwayyy) September 13, 2024

orange site

Orange Site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41528124

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1fejanl/apps_can_now_block_sideloading_more_easily_and/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1fdsh2n/apps_can_now_block_sideloading_more_easily_and/

https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1fdt6xe/google_making_it_harder_to_sideload/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1fe1xwp/apps_can_now_block_sideloading_more_easily_and/

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515588

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/102365728

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/a-year-later-unity-cancels-its-controversial-runtime-fee-effective-immediately/