Anyone following anyone interesting on Nostr? Tried it for a while and while the tech is cool I felt it was missing a good collection of people. All I ever saw was crypto scams and self referential memes/discussions about how cool Nostr is - which I agree - but that's not what I'm interested in.

60Hz refresh rate in 2024? This might be a phone you buy for your parents but with other options available out there, it's going to come down to whatever specific niche this phone fills and whether that's enough compared to the competition.

For women in Texas, a new study says you're getting the short end of the stick. WalletHub ranked Texas among the five worst states for women to live in, with its study released Monday, February 26.

Source: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/worst-state-for-women-texas-18690990.php

Texas is the worst state to live and work ... Factors like Texas having the highest number of uninsured residents in the nation, higher violent crime rates, a low number of primary care physicians per capita, a strict abortion ban and laws targeting LGBTQ+ people were what made Texas’ score so low

Source: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-is-the-worst-state-to-live-and-work-according-to-cnbc-analysis/

Relevant song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJFZodY9jp0

Alt: https://piped.video/watch?v=VJFZodY9jp0

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... or having episodes missing or original music removed/changed.

Going from one billionaire's platform to another (Twitter/Musk > Bluesky/Dorsey) is not a smart move. There's a vast segment of the population that learns nothing and keeps making the same mistakes.

If you're using Firefox on the desktop, try magnolia1234's Bypass Paywalls [0]. Works really well.

[0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

Although completely believable and in-line knowing Meta/Facebook's history, is there any evidence to support this claim? I'm sure it's, unfortunately, just as easily deployed to specific targets so it may be hard to replicate, but this is pretty huge.

Anyone have any links/sources?

I have 3 Google home products ( varying sizes) that sync music across the kitchen/living room, bathroom and bedroom. it makes fora. great listening experience.

I upload any suspicious files to virustotal.com.

oooo cool, thanks!

For the lazy, could you post a pic of what this looks like? Please and thanks either way.

Samsung alone is ~25% of the global Android smartphone market share [0]. This means 1 in 4 Android users will send "SMS" messages via RCS. You're right, it's not actually default, but it may as well be considering the app has over 5 billion downloads [1] and over 800 million monthly active users (MAU) [2]. This makes Google's Messages app slightly more popular than Telegram with 700 million MAU [3]. It may be a recent change, but its already taking over some of the more popular apps in terms of usage and general availability.

RCS is is late to the game but it's caught up and only getting better.

[0] You'll need to subtract Apple from the market share total to calculate the 25% as they include Apple in these numbers and I'm only talking about Android devices. Source: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartphone-share/

[1] Source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging

[2] Source: https://www.androidauthority.com/rcs-800-million-users-3323216/

[3] Telegram MAU. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234038/telegram-messenger-mau-users/

Is Beeper open source? If not, I'm unfortunately unable to extend my trust to yet another 3rd party with unverifiable code.

Appreciate the comment. I would like to do that but RCS is basically the default "SMS" option on Android making it broadly available to nearly half my contacts, the onboarding is basically "text me", whereas I'd have to provide some sort of instruction if I wanted to onboard anyone onto XMPP, in addition to recommending a good client depending on what OS they're running.

there are exactly three messaging apps: Signal, Matrix/Element/SMS or RCS. anyone that wants to reach out has those options. I've had a lot of Signal converts.

Boo!

https://piped.video/watch?v=wLlBuqmqHTY

don't leave us hanging, what's your top 3?

I figured this was the case from th start. basically as useful as a polygraph.

question to anyone who may know - aren't termites like ants where they identify via scent and not sight? If so, from an evolutionary view, what might lead to this morphology?