InnerScientist

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Because no person in my life uses it I made the generalization that it isn't used much, leading to my top comment.

The point is to take the base communication technology (texting) and bring it to the 21st century without being beholden to some American company.

Is this satirical? RCS is beholden to some American company as far as I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They still need an RCS client on PC, etc.
All the apple users I know use WhatsApp, Signal, telegram and not one uses IMessage, not even the company I work at, which uses iPhones mainly, uses IMessage for communication, private or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I guess so? I haven't met anyone who's using sms for that but apparently that's just regional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's going live in a few months iirc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah you need a TrickyStore and a valid key, though my point is that they can pick and choose who can be an RCS client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Did you expect it to ever get better? Best google can do is kill background apps without your permission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

So we're back to square one, five messengers and one which "can do anything"©®™ led by google. No thanks I'd rather let SMS be as it is.

As far as I can see you can't join the network without some kind of authorization (see rooted phones being unable to).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

No, I'm saying that there isn't. You can use all those things on every platform, RCS would be the 6th program you need to install besides the other 5 you already have and it seems useless compared to the rest.

Edit: platform as in android, windows, iOS etc

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rust/linux^Rust^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As far as I can see you don't define any way to start Tor in nix but that is how nix normally passes along the tor config.
ExecStart=/nix/store/<hash1>-tor-0.4.8.14/bin/tor -f /nix/store/<hash2>-torrc
ExecStart=${pkgs.tor}/bin/tor -f ${localTorrcDefinition}

You could define a file in etc that is your torrc, then point your service manager to use that as the -f argument for Tor.

Another way would be to create a small derivation that copies the default tor derivation, overwrites the etc folder and then use that as your system Tor. (See runCommand)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Straight to jail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

SMS can literally be read by anyone spinning up a fake mobile tower, there is no e2e encryption and probably a few other security concerns I don't even know, I'll use WhatsApp before I use SMS as secure communication.

Edit: RCS fixes (some of?) this but at this point why not use something even better?

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