ikr? these news come out every month.
I hope they did and start driving down costs but if it isn't mass produced and easily accessible, the news means fuck all for everyone but the CCP.
tldr;
They found a tweet who claims they talked to the leaker, but they can't confirm it? ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ
The closest confirmation of it occurring is reports from vx-underground on X (Twitter), with the account claiming to have spoken to a person who allegedly leaked the code.
Adding to the mystery claims is that aside from allegedly talking to the person who leaked the code, the vx-undergound account also writes that it hasn’t confirmed the leak. The “source” also isn’t sure
yes, they did, but the actual pruning starts from december.
the article is from 2018. is it still relevant?
Beeper sets a good premise. Talk to your friends without ever bugging them about hopping over to a completely new app. You might convert some, but not most.
There's a downside to E2EE on bridged chats but if that's not acceptable within your threat model then you wouldn't be using it in the first place.
At least he left the basement once in a while.
I have a chinese friend and when I asked them to look for signal, whatsapp, or telegram, the apple app store had them all but they didn't work after they installed it. They just got a loading screen or couldn't sign up.
Android custom ROM scene was big back when I was rooting and playing with ROMs, as people found how to root their obscure phones by translating chinese forum posts. You don't have to access apk sites, there are other ways to share apks. Last I heard fdroid was accessible from China as far back as 2014 until recently.
Here's a quote from fdroid themselves.
In the Chinese app store market five to ten commonly used app stores, and yet even the largest has less than a majority market share. Most Chinese people have more than one app store on their phone, so there is no monolith there, whereas “outside of China, Apple and Google control more than 95 percent of the app store market share”.
Do some research before you perpetuate misinformation that confirms your bias.
But fuck the CCP for authoritarianism.
you can't follow it but you can save it with the star icon and come back to it later.
Still have the OG Pixel XL for unlimited image/video backup. Released in 2016. battery doesn't last long, a little burn in but still works well with Android 10.
"I'm not antisemitic, Kanye is one of my best friend"
Since inclusion of ChatGPT in Bing Chat, I speculated that Microsoft was going to buy OpenAI at some point.
They're probably going to degrade performance, focus on Microsoft partnership (Bing already has a well established web index), and then Microsoft outright buys it and locks it behind a subscription.
My dreams sometimes seem like a well choreographed movie. happens both in 1st person and 3rd person at times and often I'm also aware it's a dream.