better text link

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vgy8d8256go

Yes - this is a very important story, but the "Reuters Connect" page is completely awful.

Hey, let's present our story as a series of soundbites over emotive imagery and ominous music, that definitely evokes serious journalism.

What's the point in linking unreadable website? I just opened it, saisd "Jesus!" and immediately closed it, I like my eyes. People should just flag unereable mess like this.

Just use reader view in your browser.

It's a good tip, but if author can't be bothered to provide normally readable website, I am not interested in reading whatever he writes.

Random blogs are the magazine racks of today. Walk on.

In this particular case the content is arguably related I mean I think it's essentially a performance art piece

I would rather prefer browser app like Whatsapp/Telegram, I am not going to install extra app and switching windows to see chat when I spend most of the day in browser on desktop

implement SMS into your whatever Android app

I am using Whatsapp and I MUST have some SMS app in phone, if your app will support SMS and on top of that will provide Jabber/XMPP messages over data I will be more than happy to replace my SMS app with your app.

Sadly seems there is pretty much NONE apps where dev would bother to implement support for simple SMS. And if your app doesn't support SMS I am not going to install any other obscure app since I need SMS to receive 2FA codes/delivery notifications/doctor appointments, etc.

Signal used to be liek this until 2022, not many people used it, but at least you could use it for SMS and if there was Signal contact you could use their network, in their wisdom they removed SMS feature, so Signal was removed from phones of my whole extended family since we need SMS and not going to have extra Signal without SMS, if anyway majority use Whatsapp.

seems you compare apples and oranges, I very much doubt your stated consumption is under same conditions you describe for their consumption

ordinary cars can get to 13kWh/100km which ain't that far from 7.5 you mention

I mean I never drove Wolfsburg -> Poznań -> Vienna, and I would probably get a bit better milage if I drove an average of 70. However, even when my usage gets close to that, I still don't get down to the optimistic 17kWh/100km i put down.

> ordinary cars can get to 13kWh/100km

Unfortunately I don't have such a car. :)

> which ain't that far from 7.5 you mention

I'd say that needing a 30kWh battery for 400km range vs 52kWh is a significant difference, but that'd be opinionated hair-splitting. 13 is much better and much closer to 7.5 than what my car can do.

I think you mean https://twitterwebviewer.com/en which was also taken down anyway

I ditched xcancel for redirectors like https://twit.0r.cx/

or

https://xxcancel.com

Adidas and Puma are German companies and they are pretty famous, Joma is Spanish, Decathlon is French, seems plenty of the options, if you don't wanna support Trumpistan.

We swear by Adidas on the football pitch, the best boots available in my opinion. I've not tried their serious running shoes but their 'fashion' shoes are middling at best. Next pair will likely be Asics.

I just wished there was some IM app supporting ordinary SMS, so I can have extra communicator where I could also receive all notifications from courier, 2FA codes, etc. Such a shame Signal removed it, it was one of the reasons why we ditched it completely with family (other would be unreliable delivery, fixing errors when US dev wakes up, half screen nag prompts about PIN, etc.).

So now I must have extra dedicated app just for SMS, which could be replaced easily with another alternative messenger if ANYONE bothered to implement simple SMS support, but seems nobody is interesting in this, so I am not interesting in your messengers if you cant be bothered to support at least SMS and use Whatsapp (and have Telegram as backup if WA would block me again, appeal took ~5 hours to resolve).

We've announced our plan to add RCS with Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for E2EE compatible with Google Messages and iOS. SMS/MMS will only be a fallback once that's implemented.

unless it will work without Google account/Google play services, this will be just another Google messages app clone (why not use directly Google messages then?) or dumb SMS app without IM (if I'm not willing to use play services/Google account) and I have already plenty of those to choose from

RCS requires Google account and Google Play services, completely useless, I'm better off with Whatsapp not requiring any of these to function, heck I xan even download APK directly from whatsapp website without play store or aurora

Absolutely no effect on Firefox on Android 16, same with Vivaldi on W10. Everything works normal, not even higher CPU load, just shows some blank page.