vanderbilt

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

My Jamaican friend once said: "How many times do I have to tell you people flour is not a spice".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At its current level of capability, an unaligned GPT-4/5 could cause harm to humanity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bingo, they want to hoover up all that data. Between subscriptions for hardware functionality and data mining, they want to turn cars into recurring revenue streams.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s true, but there would be additional challenges. Outside of the US, Android dominates the markets to the tune of +80%. In order for such an effort to have teeth, there has to be incentive for them to comply. They could pull iOS out of the EU market and remove iMessage from macOS if it came down to it. They are already such a small percentage they might just eat the loss as the cost of protecting their walled garden. Unlikely, but a possibility nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately I’d be running from Italy and well, we are a bit boneheaded at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When people make a big stink about Apple not implementing RCS I always bring this up. RCS has an open core sure - but it’s lacking plenty of features that people refer to when talking about RCS. Furthermore, the gateways used for Google’s RCS implementation are made by a company Google acquired. Would we be happy with Apple charging cell providers money to install iMessage gateways at whatever cost they wanted, because they hold the patents? No, so why would we give Google a pass?

If we want to fix this issue, force Google to relinquish their control of RCS and open the standard unencumbered with patents. Require telecoms to implement the standard in full and without deviation or be fined. Give phone manufacturers a few more years to comply and then it’s done.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When people make a big stink about Apple not implementing RCS I always bring this up. RCS has an open core sure - but it’s lacking plenty of features that people refer to when talking about RCS. Furthermore, the gateways used for Google’s RCS implementation are made by a company Google acquired. Would we be happy with Apple charging cell providers money to install iMessage gateways at whatever cost they wanted, because they hold the patents? No, so why would we give Google a pass?

If we want to fix this issue, force Google to relinquish their control of RCS and open the standard unencumbered with patents. Require telecoms to implement the standard in full and without deviation or be fined. Give phone manufacturers a few more years to comply and then it’s done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By popping every bag of popcorn.