Beeper tweets partial outage
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Beeper (@onbeeper)
https://nitter.1d4.us/onbeeper/status/1735127340357918874
Apple appears to be deliberately blocking iMessages from being delivered to ~5% of Beeper Mini users. Uninstalling and reinstalling Beeper Mini fixes the issue. We won't have a fix tonight, but we're working on it.
Telegram group for Beeper news
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Beeper App
https://t.me/beeperapp
For the official beeper chat room please see: t.me/beeperapp/210 Matrix client for watchOS: t.me/NanogramChat/16/1325 Telegram for watchOS: @pigeonwatchtalk
Beeper Mini is back
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Beeper Mini Is Back
https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back
Bug fixes and other improvements We've created an updated version of Beeper Mini that fixes an issue that caused messages not to be sent or received. You can get the update directly from beeper.com/update on your phone. We are still doing some final testing before submitting the update to the Google Play Store for distribution to all users. If you encounter any issues, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the app.
Cory Doctorow on "Adversarial interoperability"
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Pluralistic: An adversarial iMessage client for Android (07 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/07/blue-bubbles-for-all/#never-underestimate-the-determination-of-a-kid-who-is-time-rich-and-cash-poor
Apple releases statement on iMessage
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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/9/23995150/beeper-imessage-android-apple-statement
Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.
Beeper Cloud fix rolling out now
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https://twitter.com/onbeeper/status/1733537832520855925
Beeper Mini fix incoming
Beeper Mini fix incoming
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Beeper Mini is down, Apple allegedly broke it server-side
There are reports on the pypush discord server that it is all but confirmed that Apple has changed something on the iMessage servers to block Beeper Mini users
Beeper Mini not able to register phone with any UK SIM
Can anyone suggest a solution to this. I contacted beeper on the email address given in the App Store listing but have had no response or even acknowledgement.
I can log in using my Google Account, have subscribed and have given permissions but when it comes to the phone registration stage I always get the error “Something went wrong please check your network settings or try again later”
What I’ve done to troubleshoot.
Checked network settings Checked for update Cleared cache and storage Uninstalled and re-installed Tried a different phone Tried SIMs from different providers (Vodafone, O2, Lebara)
I’m seeing other reports of this in the UK and Ireland , so suspect it’s just poor code. But does anyone have any more ideas?
Meet the Teen Whose Code Led to Beeper Mini
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Meet the 16-Year-Old Whose Code Is Jailbreaking iMessage
https://www.wired.com/story/beeper-android-iphone-texting-blue-bubbles/
The new app Beeper Mini lets Android users send texts that show up as blue bubbles on iPhones. We talked to the 16-year-old high school student who wrote the code to make it possible.