MDZA

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[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And yet, no developer other than Samsung has been granted access to Google’s version of RCS.

I’d love to see a truly standard, rich, secure messaging service, but I’m not convinced what Google is doing here is any better than Apple.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So what’s the idea here? Apple rolls out another extended version of RCS that’s proprietary as well?

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

The lot of them are fucking idiots. Sunak’s Conservatives don’t have a single redeeming quality.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What did we expect from the nasty party? Of course they support Israel’s right to bomb civilians and starve children.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When you add an individual song or a playlist to your library it will not add the whole album to your library.

If you’d like to add an entire album to your library then you have to manually add the album to your library.

The quickest way to do that if you’ve got a song selected is to select the song in the player view, open up the menu and go to album. Once on the album page you can add it to your library.

Or if you search for the song in the search page, you can long press an individual song or open the submenu and go to album where you can then add the whole album to your library.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 36 points 1 year ago

Bad candidate experiences suck and Workday is the absolute worst.

In my most recent round of job hunting about six months ago, I had a pretty decent rate of getting a screening call with a recruiter at the company. Maybe around a quarter of applications got me there.

Despite my pretty decent odds of getting a call, it was never worth applying to a company with Workday.

I don’t want to sign up to their shitty candidate portal with another set of login credentials I have to manage.

I don’t want to repeat what I wrote on my CV, because their parsing is abysmal.

I don’t want to have to use a desktop because it doesn’t because feel like working on mobile that day.

I’ve had friends refer me for positions at the companies they work at. I’ve had talent acquisition reach out on LinkedIn, who’ve been professional, friendly and knowledgeable about the role and their company. But in both cases, if they ultimately needed me to create a profile in Workday I’ve told them I’m not interested.

Given how good ATS’ have become about highlighting potential good fit candidates to recruiters - there is no reason candidates should have to input anything other than their CV, basic contact info / screening questions and a cover letter (depending on role). And it should all work smoothly using a mobile device.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sure this is entirely out of Meta’s concern for user privacy and not the looming EU regulations on tracking required to be opt in rather than opt out.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a good point about the weight of EVs. I suppose it’s a question of whether the benefit of EVs are worth the extra wear on the roads.

When comparing ICE cars though, it’s a pretty clear cut argument that SUVs are worse for everyone except the occupants.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

And because they’re heavier, there’ll be more wear and tear on the roads too.

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

RCS was meant to be a SMS replacement spec for carriers to implement but it never reached ubiquity like SMS did.

And of the carriers that rolled it out, not all of them rolled it out to the same spec either so they’re not even completely interoperable.

Then there’s the fact that many of the Google Messages features such as E2E encryption aren’t a part of the RCS Spec. They were built on top of it by Google.

And unless you’re Samsung, good luck on building a messaging app that’s interoperable with the Google version of RCS they use in messages.

In short, Google RCS runs through Google’s servers, not the carriers like it was designed for. As far as I see it, it’s just the Google version of iMessage.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-enables-end-to-end-encryption-for-androids-default-sms-rcs-app/

If you want to download the actual RCS universal profile spec as defined by GSMA you can find it here, missing quite a few things from the Google version you see in Messages:

https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/

[–] MDZA@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d love to see an open, secure, universal rich messaging standard adopted by everyone but we know that’s not gonna happen.

Carriers have literally no incentive to improve on SMS, I doubt they’ll lose any customers because of a lack of RCS adoption.

Do I like the locked in nature of iMessage? Not really, but it’s honestly not that big of a deal here (UK).

I just don’t like how Google talks about their proprietary messaging service as though it’s an industry standard. It’s not. Google RCS is not RCS.

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