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Most people overestimate the prevalence of malice, und underestimate the prevalence of incompetence

He's being a salesman, he wants to convince enterprises they need Box AI

"Everyone" as in financial companies and governments

Nothing aspires to be Apple. They're all about design. I can't see them getting invested in a nerdy philosophical cause like this

It's called pooled hiring, and it makes sense when a company is hiring lots of people for lots of teams. Most large companies do this when hiring rates are high. You end up with be…

My library has one, but it's only open for 1 hour a week, which is a shame because most 3d prints take longer than that

> Tiktok is actively suppressing the stories. Is there any evidence of this? FWIW, I saw plenty of tiktoks talking about the China hack

San Francisco seems to be missing from the cities list

I'm most impressed by the domain name. How much does time.fyi cost you?

If they kept coming back, that means you never really exterminated the population, just got their numbers low. You need to make the population go extinct

> It's not like apple only allows iphone to iphone texting. Because of the limitations of SMS (not supporting high res pictures, no groupchats over 10 people, etc) it effectively i…

The /r/beeper subreddit is full of people coming in to complain about beeper. Even if people don't think what beeper is trying to do is worthwhile, I don't understand what makes pe…

They are a for-profit company, but they want to make their profit by filling a demand people are willing to pay for

Among non-technical lay people, the perception is Android can't interoperate with iPhones due to inferior technology. (For example, people call low resolution photos android photos…

Can you sue someone for violating TOS? It's not illegal, and Apple doesn't have any damages. Terms of Service are just... the terms you need to follow in exchange for service. If y…

Interestingly, in the groupchat I'm in (N=67, mostly software engineers in the Bay Area), I've noticed a high correlation between people taking Pro-Beeper and Pro-Palestine stances…

iMessage isn't dominant because it's "better". It's dominant because it's the default. Doesn't matter how good a chat app is, iMessage users aren't going to switch

Considering beeper is coming after Google's closed chat networks too, I doubt it.

What grounds can they sue them on?

Beeper's ultimate goal is to promote the Matrix protocol, and bridge proprietary networks to the open protocol

Do you get 2FA codes when logging in from am actual Apple device? Because it might be an issue with how your apple account is set up to do 2FA that has nothing to do with beeper

Sue them on what grounds?

SMS doesn't support emoji reactions, read receipts, typing indicators, high quality pictures/video, or groupchats over 10 people. These are deal-breaker for anyone that texts regul…

> it uses the exact same authorization mechanism as a real iOS device and grants the user access to no more than a real device would. And a hacker that social engineers someone's b…