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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlRCS vs SMS/MMS?
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    4 hours ago

    I’m fairly sure the only reason for which Apple is using RCS is to circumvent the EU DSA, which requires them to make iMessage interoperable with other chat systems. So instead of opening access to iMessage they’re using a completely different system as a distraction.

    I mean, they could’ve said that iMessage is already interoperable via SMS but the feature disparity is too large. RCS will serve nicely to confuse the issue.

    There’s otherwise nothing to gain for Apple by adopting RCS. iMessage already does everything RCS does and more.

    They could also kill RCS tomorrow if they wanted to, by simply releasing iMessage for Android. But then they wouldn’t have a red herring to show the EU — if anything they’d be in an even worse position as per DSA. It would also antagonize Google although I’m not sure how much they care about that.









  • If you were 100% specific you would be effectively writing the code yourself. But you don’t want that, so you’re not 100% specific, so it makes up the difference. The result will include an unspecified percentage of code that does not fit what you wanted.

    It’s like code Yahtzee, you keep re-rolling this dice and that dice but never quite manage to get the exact combination you need.

    There’s an old saying about computers, they don’t do what you want them to do, they do what you tell them to do. They can’t do what you don’t tell them to do.






  • If you did a full memtest and it came out good then OK.

    I’m just saying don’t discount hardware issues. Bad RAM blocks are notoriously hard to diagnose by use alone because there’s not just one symptom you can point at, and they can manifest themselves wildly differently on different apps and different OS depending how large the blocks are and how they are spread.

    Luckily there’s a very simple and straightforward test you can make to put it out of your mind.