If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.
If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.
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What do all the people downvoting it based on the title assume it means?
Any time a company is pushing a change this hard I know it’s not something I want.
So trashy
Yeah I think it’s pretty much just in NYC for now, with a big launch in Minneapolis in progress. Hopefully they get to Denver soon!
How is that different from the usual way of having a password as your way of accessing your phone?
This is one of many reasons you should use a password of some kind that you keep inside of your head to unlock your phone rather than a biometric that people can use to unlock it against your will.
If I were the Iranian leadership I’d want to develop a nuclear arsenal yesterday. It’s the only way to really deter Israeli or American aggression. As an American myself I’d appreciate the resulting reduction in the likelihood of our going to war against Iran.
It has already been done, that’s what the article is about: https://drivers.coop/
Currently based in NYC, but getting ready for a big launch in Minneapolis in response to the incumbent rideshare companies pulling out of the city in protest of increased rideshare regulation. Big opportunity to seize some marketshare without needing that much startup capital if your better financed competitors are removing themselves from that part of the market.
Yeah exactly - the proposal here is to have a driver-owned worker cooperative run the app.
The offshoot running Android would hopefully just be called “Android”
The breakup this is referring to is splitting off the Android operating system from the rest of Google.
Sure people talking on the phone can be annoying, but that’s not the main thing people use their phones for - scrolling and texting are the ultimate tools for getting people to sit silently for long periods.
Airlines must be pretty crazy to think not letting people use their phones is going to decrease air rage
But it’s not the same - there’s a community of people doing the same thing, and with those contacts you’ll be using Signal.
The trouble is we end up having to install both when we could be only using Signal
I believe the idea is that they’re not federating with any other existing site, they’re creating a new variety of federation with themselves as the first member, with people being able to set themselves up as additional independent nodes in that federation.
In my opinion, relying on upgrading users automagically to an encrypted and secure protocol isn’t good practice. If someone wants to use an encrypted chat, they should do so consciously. It will only cause confusion otherwise.
This is my theory for why they ditched this feature - the ultra-concerned about privacy superusers don’t approve of its messiness, even though in practice it’s the main engine for user growth.
Do people still use SMS these days though anyway?
I would have thought iMessage, RCS and separate chat apps like Whatsapp, Signal and WeChat would have largely replaced SMS by now.
SMS, MMS, iMessage and RCS are all compatible with each other and mostly used interchangeably and are the main way people text each other (in the US anyway). You just have a phone number, and when people text it with any of those formats you receive the message and respond the same way.
Haha probably better to keep the tube closer to the surface of the Earth but otherwise yes.