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  • Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

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  • RCS was meant to be a SMS replacement spec for carriers to implement but it never reached ubiquity like SMS did.

    And of the carriers that rolled it out, not all of them rolled it out to the same spec either so they’re not even completely interoperable.

    Then there’s the fact that many of the Google Messages features such as E2E encryption aren’t a part of the RCS Spec. They were built on top of it by Google.

    And unless you’re Samsung, good luck on building a messaging app that’s interoperable with the Google version of RCS they use in messages.

    In short, Google RCS runs through Google’s servers, not the carriers like it was designed for. As far as I see it, it’s just the Google version of iMessage.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-enables-end-to-end-encryption-for-androids-default-sms-rcs-app/

    If you want to download the actual RCS universal profile spec as defined by GSMA you can find it here, missing quite a few things from the Google version you see in Messages:

    https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/

  • Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

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  • I’d love to see an open, secure, universal rich messaging standard adopted by everyone but we know that’s not gonna happen.

    Carriers have literally no incentive to improve on SMS, I doubt they’ll lose any customers because of a lack of RCS adoption.

    Do I like the locked in nature of iMessage? Not really, but it’s honestly not that big of a deal here (UK).

    I just don’t like how Google talks about their proprietary messaging service as though it’s an industry standard. It’s not. Google RCS is not RCS.

  • Biden may seek $100 billion aid package for Ukraine

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  • Idk about that. A healthy population seems like it would be great for the economy to me.

    People can work at a higher standard for more of their lives. If we take into mental health, those hours worked will probably be a lot more productive too.

  • Biden may seek $100 billion aid package for Ukraine

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  • It’s time Europe reduced its defense reliance on the US, Czech president says

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  • It may have been different if there were boots on the ground, sure. But I think their willingness to invade would have been severely diminished if they thought Europe could easily defend Ukraine without the assistance of the US.

  • It’s time Europe reduced its defense reliance on the US, Czech president says

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  • As a Brit, I agree too. Europe is incapable of defending an allied nation within our own continent from invasion. We need to do better.

    The military capability of European nations have to improve so we can guarantee our own security and be a more equal partner in NATO rather than a junior partner to the US.

  • Tory Illegal Migration Act Will Ramp Up Asylum Hellscape in the UK, According to New Research

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  • “Hostile environment”

    Tories gonna Tory

  • Chris Kaba: MoD offers military support after armed Met officers turn in weapons

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  • Would definitely go some way to explaining why morale in the police (the Met at least) has been terrible for years and experienced officers are leaving faster than new ones are joining.

    Why do such a stressful job if you don’t even believe you’re ultimately making a difference?

  • Electric car rules could cost carmakers billions

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  • I agree with your point on reducing our exploitation of the developing world, but do you think the current measures will actually achieve that? I think it'll only leave a gap there for other global manufacturers to fill and ultimately net exploitation of the developing world won't be impacted by this.

    Now I don't want to argue that since there'll be exploitation regardless so it's better that "we" do it, but I think it would be better (from both a UK and EU perspective) to have European manufacturers to rely on those supply chains as they are at the moment, capture market share and exert influence on them to make them more ethical and sustainable, rather than let other global manufactures take that market where we're able to exert less influence on them to clean up their act.

    Would it not be better to be slightly more pragmatic about this and positively incentivise the development of local supply chains rather than wash our hands of the exploitation (that will continue to go on) as long as it's someone else doing it?

  • Chris Kaba: MoD offers military support after armed Met officers turn in weapons

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  • I'm not sure if being able to shoot with impunity is what these armed officers are asking for. It seems that they've lost confidence that the justice systems will treat them or their colleagues fairly after being asked to make split second decisions that could result in someone losing their life in extremely dangerous situations.

    The police should be accountable, but I don't think it's good for either the police or the public that these armed officers hesitate to act in situations that call for their intervention because they're worried about being prosecuted if it all goes wrong.

    Officers who were acting by the book shouldn't be afraid of doing their job just because there was an unfortunate outcome.

  • Suella Braverman backs armed police after firearms officer charged with murder

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  • Braverman can do one. She and the Tories have shown nothing but utter contempt for the police ever since they’ve been in government.

    Should there be a review of every fatal police incident? Absolutely. Do I trust Braverman to do right by the police or the public? Definitely not.

  • Chris Kaba: MoD offers military support after armed Met officers turn in weapons

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  • I’ve got quite a few police officers in my circle of friends and tbh, I’ve rarely heard anything good about the justice system from them.

    Normally they tell me of cases where CPS will refuse to charge for what should be easy cases with a ton of evidence and when all the procedures were followed.

    My suspicion is that this charge is political grandstanding.

  • Chris Kaba: MoD offers military support after armed Met officers turn in weapons

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  • Due you think the current lot in Westminster will ever acknowledge the path they’ve led us down?

  • Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog

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  • This is great news. Been using Kagi for just over a month now, and it’s made my browsing experience a lot better.

    Had recently upgraded to the pro package but glad to see much better value offered to Kagi customers across the board.

  • US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins

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  • Really love Kagi. Given how good the search results have been for me, I’m happy to continue paying.

  • When the BBC's disinformation correspondent lied on her CV

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  • Companies lies on their job specs all the time, so it’s fine to lie on your CV. Just don’t put in anything that could be easily disproven.

  • Linux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August

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  • Prefer mint for sure. What I like most about it is how reliable and unobtrusive it is.

    I’ve had zero issues with getting any hardware or software up and running with it, and it just gets out of the way and lets me use my PC how I want.

  • Linux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August

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  • After being a lifelong Windows user, I switched to Pop!_OS for around a year before going back to Windows 10 a few months ago.

    I went back to Windows, just because a few things weren’t as plug and play as I’d hoped but started to get really annoyed with how intrusive Windows was.

    After using Mint for about a month now, I don’t think I’ll go back to Windows. It just does what I want.

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    2023 Dutch Grand Prix - Final Starting Grid

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  • Seeing the McLarens start so high up is thawing it my frozen, dead heart.