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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • The image implies that Tails (on the right) met an adult (an adult “Tails”) who is pretty. Problem is, that adult is female, so she is not the same character or person.

    I know some people actually think Tails is a female, probably due to his voice in the anime, and that’s canonically wrong. And whoever wants to bring up gender transition - feel free as long as it’s a fan made material. “What does this even trying to say” is a proper reaction to the OP image.











  • Yes the availability will remain an issue but at least I imagine that solving other issues could make it less serious.

    More specifically, the issue (a feature too but still) with torrents is how spread they are. It’s difficult to know what is available and in what condition. There are dozens if not hundreds private trackers etc. This all makes it more likely for new torrents for the same content to be created multiple times, and overall seeding resources to be spread out across multiple versions of the same things. Some centralized public index might have helped everyone find things faster and prolong those things’ availability as the result. What such an index might need to stay damage-proof and useful is unrelated to this discussion, but I imagine it might work as some blockchain and thus may not require much in terms of resources.

    I didn’t mean syncthing itself but some theoretical derivative that would have relevant features.

    It would help to involve a kind of software infrastructure where users would choose how much resources (mostly disk space) they are willing to give in order to contribute to the overall availability of stuff.





  • but we didn’t!

    Well maybe that was a mistake.

    Knowing the messages can only originate from a sealed application on a first party device eliminates a whole class of spam and security problems.

    It conveniently appears to also eliminate some amount of responsibility. Seriously? Was it not known that it’s possible to debug even 1st party apps? Was it not already obvious that walled gardens are only good before they got cracked?

    A huge security risk for Apple users

    I wish engineers would stop using the word security just because they like it. Apple should try to prevent threats like pegasus instead of telling everyone that blue bubbles are a security risk.

    and to zero benefit for Android users

    Yeah, it’s more useful for apple users so they wouldn’t need to resort to unencrypted messages when talking to Android users.

    Let Apple implement RCS as they promised and move on. Isn’t everyone on Telegram or WhatsApp anyway…?

    Heh. I wish to see apple say the same in their statement of decision to shut down iMessage.

    It’s just pointless.

    Yeah. Apple doesn’t understand the community concerns, it only understands court decisions. Though sometimes these two have some connection.