Google just announced that all RCS conversations in Messages are now fully end-to-end encrypted, even in group chats. RCS stands for Rich Communication Services and is replacing traditional text and picture messaging, providing you with more dynamic and secure features. With RCS enabled, you can share high-res photos and videos,...
RCS is an open standard, anyone can implement it. Google just implements one such app. (Google also implements, uh... android... so bad news if you're trying to avoid Google and use an android)
If you're still using SMS or MMS, it's all unencrypted, always.
RCS is supported by /carriers/, and many do support it. It is open in that sense.
I don't think Google is "disallowing" others from implementing RCS, it's just others choose not to? Like, RCS/SMS is a core feature of the phone/os, so it doesn't really make sense for anyone other than the OEM (or Android) to care about it. Samsung is an OEM, and Google is Android.
Telegram e.g. isn't going to implement RCS becuase why would they? Just use telegram's protocol. Etc.
And carriers don't implement any apps today? When was the last time you had to install a carrier specific SMS app? It's always down to the OEM.
Kbin (and Lemmy) needs something to combine several magazines into one. Currently, there are many magazines spread over several instances. There's no way to just view or subscribe to them at once. You need to check them separately. If there were multi-magazines, new user could just search for someone's multi- and don't get...
Yeah, it'd be pretty nice for similar communities to opt in to co-federating (I imagine on the backend a submission to one mag would submit to all mags, and the UI just has to be smart enough to dedup)
kbin.social seems to keep asking if I want to download a file when opening the page? Is this an xss? bug? what is this (kbin.social)
the filename usually has 6-9 characters of random letters
Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats (chromeunboxed.com)
Google just announced that all RCS conversations in Messages are now fully end-to-end encrypted, even in group chats. RCS stands for Rich Communication Services and is replacing traditional text and picture messaging, providing you with more dynamic and secure features. With RCS enabled, you can share high-res photos and videos,...
Multi-magazines on kbin? (kbin.social)
Kbin (and Lemmy) needs something to combine several magazines into one. Currently, there are many magazines spread over several instances. There's no way to just view or subscribe to them at once. You need to check them separately. If there were multi-magazines, new user could just search for someone's multi- and don't get...