Interesting. Which country?
previously it used a custom in-app PiP which meant you couldn’t switch apps without your video pausing
And what is dumb phone?
It’s the same account though. You can have both clients or just element
Matrix. You can use your beeper account on one of the more fully featured matrix clients such as Element X
true. Also: not commenting is easier than commenting
Many people have had easy success with Firefox by spoofing a “Chrome on Windows” user agent; you can use an extension like this one to do so.
The bridges have always been open source. The clients were forked from element (which is open source) until recently when the Android app was rebuilt; the clients are not planned to be open source.
https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1763694753848479844
Built for speed and performance, with a complete redesign of the look and feel. You'll be able to try it for yourself soon…
A small sample of the many new features:
- OLED black theme
- Local message cache (all chats open instantly)
- Add/modify chat networks (no need to set up on desktop)
- Chat bubbling
- Tablet (multi-pane) mode
- Full message search (across all your chat networks)
He added, on Matrix, “Plan is to offer local bridges for all encrypted networks”
Although confirming this would be the case at launch, it was unclear specifically which networks are counted as encrypted.
Josh is an employee of Beeper; screenshot is from Beeper’s official chat room on matrix.
The Digital Markets Act comes into effect Wednesday, March 7, 2024
They’ve been preparing for a while: https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/25/ios-16-restrict-features-based-on-location/
Bloomberg reports that the three additional potential gatekeepers, namely: iMessage, Bing, Edge, have all been excluded
The above graphic thereby shows all those that will be targeted on March 7
via The Verge
Why is he so gross