Maybe the goal is to train better NPCs, and they’re hoping it’s enough of a novelty that real players will do that training for them?

For the prototypes and demonstrations in this article, our testbed is Luanti, an open-source voxel game platform.

So Microsoft, who own Minecraft, are using the open source clone instead of their own product?

With things like FEX and GameNative letting you play full x64 Windows games on Android though

Does MMS support all that? From my brief research it basically just sends an SMS with a link to the media to be downloaded by your WAP browser, so while a client could implement group chats etc I’m not aware that it’s actually built in. Not that I can check, my network doesn’t even seem to support MMS anymore!

Hmm, according to Wikipedia it seems like the sender uploads their picture (or whatever the MMS is) to a server, then the receiver gets a SMS with a link to the URL which is opened to download the content in their WAP browser. Seems you can also send an email to that secret email address but that’s a separate path.

I did a quick check and my network doesn’t even seem to support MMS anymore!

who downvotes cats?

Dogs

Wow, I’ve heard about “green bubbles” but I assumed that was something teenagers grew out of. Hearing that Snapchat is still around is crazy, I used it back when smartphones were still a cool toy and haven’t thought about it since!

In the UK we’ve all got unlimited calls and texts (i.e. SMS) but MMS never became free. Or maybe it did (though I’ve not seen an operator mention it for over a decade) but by then everyone was already using internet-based IMs. WhatsApp had already become the main one before Facebook bought it, and you already know how resistant people are to change.

Yeah I’ve got about half of my friends and family using Signal, but when even a single one refuses then the whole group chat ends up staying in WhatsApp. WhatsApp does at least seem better than Facebook messenger though, as it allegedly implements the Signal protocol so should still be E2E encrypted. “Allegedly”, because it’s closed source and run by the trustworthy philanthropists as Facebook who I’m sure are data mining as much as they can from it, but I think people would have found out if it was a total lie. Still better than SMS though which may as well be public.

Where in the world are you? I speak for the UK when I talk about WhatsApp being the de-facto messenger. How do people do group chats or send files if they’re still using SMS?

Look, I’m not trying to be a smartarse here, I’m genuinely interested in different ways people use technology. I am telling you that every person I know, regardless of age, defaults to using WhatsApp for communications; even my elderly relatives.

Yeah it would be nice if anything does come out of it but I’m not expecting much

Google will additionally have to carry third-party app stores on Google Play and permit those competing app stores to have access to Google Play’s catalog of apps unless they opt out.

The court-ordered changes are limited to the U.S. and run for three years, through 2029.

Looks like it’s part of the same legal case, USA only though so I doubt much will come of it

It is annoying that my package manager has ads in when almost every other part of my phone doesn’t. Wasn’t there some recent legal ruling forcing Google to allow third party app stores the right to distribute Play Store apps or something like that? I know we’ve got Aurora but I feel they’re always one step away from being banned by Google.

I’m quite surprised by the reaction this comment has received, are Americans genuinely still using SMS? Don’t they need to have group chats, send pictures, transfer files, make audio and video calls, or make use of encryption?

Genuinely nobody I know has sent an SMS message for at least a decade, who are you still sending SMS to in this day and age when internet-based messengers exist?

I think it’s texts for people who don’t use Signal or WhatsApp, so… nobody I have ever met, I guess

Hence my Father Ted post. If anyone gives it a go they can tell us whether they make it weird or not.

Geordie is Newcastle (Tyne and Wear), not Yorkshire!

Absolutely, a singular “British accent” is something that only Americans seem to think exists, and they usually mean RP (the posh accent found mostly in the south east of England).

Scotland, England, Wales, all part of Britain, and all have plenty of wildly different accents within them. Compare Geordie, West Country, Cockney, Scouse, and Brummie. Even the accents between Scotland’s two main cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, are completely different.

So yeah, if someone says they love a “British accent” just respond in Glaswegian and see how they like it!