Sort of? It looks like this is unique to SMS over VOIP. Which don’t get me wrong, it’s still fucking stupid. But maybe, just maybe there’s a middle ground between getting inundated in robocallers trying to reach us about our cars extended warranty and not being able to send the word Scunthorpe over SMS.
Yes and all that technical debt, complexity and loss in decentralization could be avoided by simply increasing the block size. BCH for example has zero-conf transactions and the average fee is also <$0.01.
But that would mean that you’d be able to use it as an actual means of exchange instead of this crippled “Internet gold” bastardization that BTC has become.
Let’s not forget that one of the of the core developers is a fascist and Jack gave them 14BTC:
That anonymous Brazilian is Giovanni Torres Parra, a developer who has also built at least two webpages devoted to disseminating the work of the far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho. Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil’s military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was “incompatible” with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.
Delta Chat is quite good, it’s an email client thats built like a messenger app. It’s E2EE with Autocrypt lvl 1, you can use it with most email services, and they have a self hostable/hosted “chatmail” service that you can also use if regular email services are slowing down the messages (gmail isn’t the best for this). It also supports apps and games in chat using the webXDC standard.
- Terminal: termux is the best, just don’t use the google play version, it’s outdated. Just use the fdroid version.
- EBook Reader: I’ve used most of them, I really like KOReader for it’s built in calibre functionality.
- file sync: syncthing full stop.
- file sharing: Warpinator if its your own machines, otherwise go to pairdrop.net
- IDE: Acode on fdroid is probably the best mobile-optimized one I’ve tried.
- Backup: Titanium Backup is probably still the best option for backing up appdata.
Hope this helps!
Honestly I’ve been thinking about this and I think I might try to mix the two. I really like silverbullet’s built in query feature and being able to bake the results into the note with a command. That seems better than how dataview does it and might work well for automating my day-to-day file handling.
Don’t even need proton for that, just use delta chat.
There used to be an app called aegis that did something like this, it used texts to your phone to trigger stuff. It was made by one of the CyanogenMod devs, I’m not sure if it’s still around… EDIT: the github is here, but it hasn’t been touched in a while lol
I can too, which is what gets me. Honestly after I think it might boil down to how far removed your provider is from directly getting the number from the FCC(or how trigger happy the entity they’re getting the number from). Also possibly if it’s considered a landline or mobile number, it looks like those are distributed differently.