“Smart Features” in the Messages app have always been explicitly processed only on-device. This is a big change if it is different than that.
I’m betting they’ll make this opt-out, which is fucking shady as hell. And worse, I bet opting out your own messages doesn’t stop someone else that is opted in from unknowingly/unintentionally transmitting all your messages that they received. Ugh.
I bet opting out your own messages doesn’t stop someone else that is opted in from unknowingly/unintentionally transmitting all your messages
On a somewhat related note, this is my main gripe with Beeper, or Matrix bridges in general. Someone could be using it, giving encryption keys to a third party, letting them handle your chats with them, and all of this without you ever even knowing.
End to end encryption if both parties are using google’s implementation, delivered/read indicators, far better data limits for media, works without phone signal over data, message limits increased, free and international, fallback to sms if recipient doesn’t support it
So I’ve dealt with many people like you. Sometimes the point of talking on the Internet is for the other people who come along later to have easy access to information.
Sort of like I hope this will help you help others now or at least the other people who read this will have seen it and it will have had an impact on them.
Knowledge should never be hoarded. It should be friendly given to all.
It also has a neat kind of crowd-sourced verification attached to it.
If someone asks a question, and someone else gives an incorrect answer, chances are good that someone will see that and correct them. If, on the other hand, everyone goes and looks up the answer, some people might get an incorrect answer and have no one to correct it, further disseminating false information.
Obviously this isn’t perfect, and requires that the information is fact-based in the first place, but it’s interesting to think about any time you see someone correct someone else on the internet.
RCS stands for Rich Communications Suite. Its a standard developed by google to make texting more feature rich like dedicated messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Pretty much any stock android app uses it these days. If you want to know more here’s a pretty good explanation of it. https://www.androidcentral.com/what-rcs-and-why-it-important-android
“Smart Features” in the Messages app have always been explicitly processed only on-device. This is a big change if it is different than that.
I’m betting they’ll make this opt-out, which is fucking shady as hell. And worse, I bet opting out your own messages doesn’t stop someone else that is opted in from unknowingly/unintentionally transmitting all your messages that they received. Ugh.
On a somewhat related note, this is my main gripe with Beeper, or Matrix bridges in general. Someone could be using it, giving encryption keys to a third party, letting them handle your chats with them, and all of this without you ever even knowing.
Or use a third party sms app. I use fossify sms from F-droid.
Then you lose RCS?
What was the benifit again?
End to end encryption if both parties are using google’s implementation, delivered/read indicators, far better data limits for media, works without phone signal over data, message limits increased, free and international, fallback to sms if recipient doesn’t support it
Yes
What is RCS?
You could have had the answer yourself in the same time it took you to write that comment by just looking it up.
Just… why? It’s like you want to be dumb.
You could have answered them in the time it took you to write that comment.
Just… why? It’s like you want to be an asshole.
So I’ve dealt with many people like you. Sometimes the point of talking on the Internet is for the other people who come along later to have easy access to information.
Sort of like I hope this will help you help others now or at least the other people who read this will have seen it and it will have had an impact on them.
Knowledge should never be hoarded. It should be friendly given to all.
It also has a neat kind of crowd-sourced verification attached to it.
If someone asks a question, and someone else gives an incorrect answer, chances are good that someone will see that and correct them. If, on the other hand, everyone goes and looks up the answer, some people might get an incorrect answer and have no one to correct it, further disseminating false information.
Obviously this isn’t perfect, and requires that the information is fact-based in the first place, but it’s interesting to think about any time you see someone correct someone else on the internet.
tool.
Would you answer the same way if somebody asked you a question during a real-world conversation? If not, why?
“just google it, dumbass”
RCS is Google’s attempt to replace SMS with a protocol they can control.
Long overdue replacement to sms but unfortunately everyone has pretty much given up being a provider except Google and soon to be Apple
RCS stands for Rich Communications Suite. Its a standard developed by google to make texting more feature rich like dedicated messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Pretty much any stock android app uses it these days. If you want to know more here’s a pretty good explanation of it. https://www.androidcentral.com/what-rcs-and-why-it-important-android
Thank you for being kind! And sorry I should have attempted to Google first
You’re totally fine, forums and social media are made for the discussion and dissemination of information. Keep asking questions and keep on learning.
There is no open source implementation of RCS.
Oh well. I don’t care enough about it to let Google suck up my messages. Back to sms for anyone on my contact list who doesn’t want to use Signal.