I wasn’t. Like a WhatsApp integration, I think using SMS defeats the purpose of Signal. My phone can handle SMS just fine, I don’t need that feature. But when you take a feature away, you only hear about people who used and liked it to there’s a clear bias to think there was a huge backlash.
I haven’t seen numbers to support the alleged “mass exodus” that happened when they removed it.
People that do use signal value privacy or just want to get away from predatory companies
Once interoperability breaks this, what’s going to be the reason for people to use it?
There’s a good chance Signal will have even less users than it does today if that happens, because the few users who care will leave.
Everybody uses WhatsApp.
and there needs to be a reason for people to switch; what’s that then?
I know! When they ask why don’t I just fly everywhere I ask them “if you can run, why do you take a car?”
She thought it was suspicious because you’re a flying squid riding an airplane. I have a similar problem.
hmm this gives me all colors (from ls and grep)
/usr/bin/ls -l --color=always | /usr/bin/grep --color=always a
(I’m using their full paths because I usually alias ls and grep to eza and rg respectively)
There’s a export CLICOLOR_FORCE=1 you can try to avoid repeating --color=always, but that didn’t work for me with ls and grep specifically.
Edit: there’s also a FORCE_COLOR=1 that is popular, but again, neither ls nor grep seem to care.
telegram doesn’t even do e2ee by default
why would anybody move to Signal if they can’t talk to anybody?
why would anybody move to Signal if it’s no different in terms of privacy anymore? That’d be the consequence of interoperability.
I doubt it would lead to more signal-to-signal chats. With interoperability, they would be handing off their data to Meta, at which point users will just keep using WhatsApp as most are today.
If getting away from Meta and other for-profit companies is no more, what will be the selling point of Signal?
Federating would mean handing off chat metadata to Meta and other for-profit companies in the future.
I don’t see how anyone excited to use Signal would like that. It very much defeats the purpose of using Signal.
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yes, and developers are civilians.
yes, very much
if your only argument is the nationality of the people involved, it’s a bad one.
Sure, now why would that be a factor for choosing a software or not.
You didn’t choose the country you were born in anymore than they did.
Who’s setting up the system is not necessarily the same person using it.
Panorama is only horizontal and often has angle limits like 180 degrees. Photosphere gets everything around, up, and down.
besides just downloading and running a binary, there are plenty of package managers that work in the user space and don’t need root access.
To explain the clickbaity title: it means their product won’t target professional coders, not that they won’t hire them.
Honestly, that makes sense, since anyone who knows a bit about Software development can see that handing off control of your app to a large language model in a way you have no clue of what’s going on in the back is not sustainable at all.
Customers could, in theory, use Claude directly to create software, but then they’d have to handle everything else that goes along with it. “What you’d have to do is pay for Claude, go to AWS to start an EC2 machine, go into that, install Git and Python. Already, most people are just gone at this point,” he said.
so their competitive advantage is not having to start an ec2 instance lol
tbh that’s probably going to be cheaper
the technical breakthrough of increasing shareholder value
same rotten practices as John Deere and other manufactures, now disguised as “the risk to patient safety is too high.”
you know what else is high risk? Not repairing machines because it’s unaffordable.