Brad Murray has confirmed that all bridges will migrate away from being Matrix Appservices (“cloud bridges”), although the option to self-host your own version of beeper’s Appservices will remain an option
> Brad Murray The current plan is for each client to send and receive with their own locally running connections, as opposed to letting one client use another client's connections to send in real time. We've had some pretty bad experiences with the old androidsms bridge with that architecture (since only your Android phone could send or receive a SMS).
> Brad Murray We're still going to keep all our bridges open source and usable as Matrix Appservices, so if you want to use any Matrix client it's probably best to self-host against Beeper's homeserver (which we'll still support) or just run your own homeserver with our open source bridges
The bridges have always been open source. The clients were forked from element (which is open source) until recently when the Android app was rebuilt; the clients are not planned to be open source.
> we are proud to share that Beeper is out of beta!
Feb 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20230401112602mp_/https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-update-4-out-of-beta
> Beeper is (finally) out of beta
today, https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-now-available/
Just go to archive.today and put in a link and it will bypass the paywall
Telegram has 900mn users and is nearing profitability, according to the owner of the secretive messaging app, as the company moves closer to a potential blockbuster stock market listing. Pavel Durov told the Financial Times that Dubai-based Telegram had grown to become one of the world’s most popul...
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THE MOST CUSTOMIZABLE BROWSER Create your perfect browsing experience, from feature-packed toolbars to minimalist designs that maximize webpage space. • Personalize the toolbar by selecting the buttons you use most frequently. Optimize button placement and order for easy one-handed navigation, or ...
I’ve been using this on my iPhone for a bit (it’s free)
I really like being able to completely customize the address bar and items on it, as well as the main menu items, and the URL menu/contextual menu (the thing that appears when you hold down on a link)
there’s an iPad version available too via TestFlight
His product homepage: https://quiche.works/browser
https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1763694753848479844
> Built for speed and performance, with a complete redesign of the look and feel. You'll be able to try it for yourself soon…
> A small sample of the many new features: > - OLED black theme > - Local message cache (all chats open instantly) > - Add/modify chat networks (no need to set up on desktop) > - Chat bubbling > - Tablet (multi-pane) mode > - Full message search (across all your chat networks)
He added, on Matrix, “Plan is to offer local bridges for all encrypted networks”
Although confirming this would be the case at launch, it was unclear specifically which networks are counted as encrypted.
CEO Eric Migicovsky reports that there are more than 100,000 Beeper Cloud users
Josh is an employee of Beeper; screenshot is from Beeper’s official chat room on matrix.
The Digital Markets Act comes into effect Wednesday, March 7, 2024
Beeper Mini customers were using their Mac computers to connect to iPhone messaging on their Android phones. Now, they say Apple has blocked the messaging service on their Macs.
They’ve been preparing for a while: https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/25/ios-16-restrict-features-based-on-location/
multiple reports on Discord, Matrix, and Telegram, seem to suggest that, without any notice, Apple is lifting the hardware bans which had been applied to Apple users who had used their Macs and Apple IDs with Beeper
Bloomberg reports that the three additional potential gatekeepers, namely: iMessage, Bing, Edge, have all been excluded
The above graphic thereby shows all those that will be targeted on March 7
via The Verge
Apple Inc. is poised to face a US antitrust lawsuit as soon as March as the Justice Department prepares to take on one of the world’s most valuable companies, according to people familiar with the case. Antitrust enforcers allege that Apple has imposed software and hardware limitation...
Beeper mini users who used their hardware to register their app with Apple's iMessage network may find their Mac blocked from the service instead, in what could be retaliation against the use of the controversial messaging app.
Beeper is said to be focusing on adding other chat networks to their “Mini” app, and preparing for a relaunch.
original date: Dec 6, 2023 Apple Inc.’s iMessage service looks set to win a carve out from new European Union antitrust rules to rein in Big Tech platforms after watchdogs tentatively concluded that it isn’t popular enough with business users to warrant being hit by the regulation. Europea...
Bloomberg says no, according to “people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.”
The decision is to be officially released by the EU in February 2024
Beeper previously asked their first officially appointed Reddit mod to join the telegram group, where he spammed NSFW content
Announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/beeper/s/LBncfZnIsb
Beeper’s official discord invite, provided by Daniel “captain booty clap” Ramirez: https://discord.gg/zf6hf6UY4G
update: Beeper is also permanently banning from their subreddit anyone who mentions “Telegram” or “Lemmy”
update 2: Eric Migicovsky added a comment that the discord was made at his request; therefore it is official
Apple claims it “does not monetise iMessage via the sale of hardware devices”
it further claims it runs 5 completely separate App Stores
Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used its other products and services to defend against threats to its core business.
> investigators have examined how the Apple Watch works better with the iPhone than with other brands, as well as how Apple locks competitors out of its iMessage service
By default, iCloud backups are (1) enabled and (2) unencrypted
You would have to get not only yourself and every person you’re chatting with to manually enable encryption for their iCloud backups on their iPhones, but also every device they have that is using iMessage
it’s ok because you can edit your comments
It would definitely be interesting to see this go to a major court. I imagine Apple will argue you’re free to do whatever you want on your device but that that does not extend to iMessage servers because those requires accepting pretty strict terms of service and will argue the users are breaking the EULA which they agreed to. Apple will argue they have the right to run their servers as they see fit.
We need new regulations around corporations that run these pseudo-commons platforms as “legit capitalist platforms.”
*ceases
It’s not vanished, they just want ppl to sideload it from here now: https://www.beeper.com/download
I’m not saying you don’t know how, I’m saying that you’re lazy and dismissive
don’t be an ass; join the group chat and ask there
did you only try your support room on matrix, or did you also try in the general chat room? There’s a lot of smart ppl there
Have you tried reaching out to them on matrix?
It’s actually based on open source project pypush
Three new articles on https://blog.beeper.com/ one of them mentioned it, I forget which
get ‘em girl
the same universal profile as Android
Actually Google Messages extends beyond the universal profile. If you check the current spec, there is no encryption nor reactions, yet Google messages has them. Apple Messages won’t for RCS.