Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.
Skype still… exists?
I mostly use it to make international calls cause sometimes the country my folks are living in shuts down the cellular internet for some reason when major exams/riots are happening and whatsapp stops working.
Imaging telling a whole nation of people they can’t use internet on their 500+ dollar phone. The fuck did they buy them for, playing temple run?
Riots I get, but…exams? You’re telling me that they’ll shutdown the entire countries cellular internet…to stop some students from… cheating?
Yup, they shut it off for a couple of hours during exams so students won’t cheat.
Or at least, won’t cheat using the internet.
South Korea? I heard they are insane when it comes to exams.
Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Jordan apparently. Source: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2024/05/31/exam-cheating-internet-blackout/
India. Small correction, they don’t shut it down for entire country, just the state ditricts the exams are happening in.
India still seems to be leading country doing shutdowns though.
Btw you can suggest them the Briar messenger app. It can send messages via nearby peoples phones if they also have Briar. So if enough people installed it, a city could have it’s own messaging network even when the official one is down
Nice, I don’t think I’ll be able to convince the whole city to install it though :-)
Maybe you could suggest it to people who organize protest
Good point.
Those “briar clients” still use the “same” internet…
It could work if clients/nodes would exchange data using other channel (lora/bluetooth/etc)
It could work if clients/nodes would exchange data using other channel
That’s exactly what it does
Exams???
It’s still one of the best options for video calling. Available on all the major platforms, no time limits, the quality is great. International call rates are some of the cheapest out there.
Big downside though: it’s not so great on the privacy side.
It is Microsoft Teams now, but older installs had it called Skype for Business
Uh it’s still skype for personal use
Yeah, likely they’re using the same backend to provide voip services (maybe skype’s backend just scaled up) . Teams must’ve borrowed something from skype given how haphazardly it was developed and released.
MS Teams actually makes use of WebRTC. That’s a standard for VoIP (and similar) via web browsers. Mozilla and Google standardized that a few years ago and implemented it in their browsers, so what Microsoft did, is that they basically shipped a whole Google Chrome to users.
I believe, they did rip some code from Skype for Business for the integration into Windows, though. In the early days, the OS would say that the Teams notifications came from Skype for Business.
yep and running teams would have skype services running…here is MS PR
Transitioning from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams To deliver smarter calling and meeting experiences with intelligent communications, we are bringing Skype for Business capabilities into Microsoft Teams
Skype for business barely had anything to do with Skype tho, other than the name.
If you write apps integrating with MS Teams you still sometimes get exceptions mentioning Skype. I’m pretty sure they reused a decent part of the code
Why the hell does everything have to have AI now??
To rip off investors. If they pretend to be on the same hype train as everyone else, and lie about what their product does, there’s a chance some idiot will give them more money.
Fuckin’ hell, investors don’t know shit about the shit they are investing in do they, if all you need to do is slap some bullshit buzzwords on it and they’ll suck your dick.
I can see an infinite number of meetings with management figures and/or investors asking:
“Everyone in tech is talking about AI and we are tech, hightech even so, are we not? So, what do we / what does your department do with AI?”
It’s like millions of voices silently crying out in pain.
It’s a buzz word.
ChatGPT came out and all the other tech companies like Google freaked the fuck out because they weren’t first to the market.
In response they started adding AI to Google search.
Well, Microsoft can’t let that stand either so now they’re both in a mad dash to put it in fucking everything before the other guy does.
Bloated UI, now with brand new AI bloat 👌
Admit it. You did want a new cocktail though didn’t you.
Yeah, that cocktail suggestion improved my mood a bit.
So 50% success rate! I can pull 10 pp slides from that, asking for more resources to do more AI!
Now, where’s MY COKE!?
You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.
If you’re unfamiliar with the abomination, it’s a dumber version of Copilot.
a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.
And somehow infinitely less charming
If they make it look like a paperclip and almost as useful I’d consider it
Oh, I’m somewhat familiar. Our school computer lab when setup had all windows 95 machines and I later got a xp at home so I got to play with office 2000 and such.
Iirc it never was able to help me with something. I thought they put in a interactive mascot or something. Like a mini-game you can play with while typing a letter to your principal.
Copilot has been little helpful sometimes though when I want to generate images of things made out of jeans.
Wait, clippy was supposed to be helpful?
Yeah, “Microsoft helpful”, not actually helpful.
I hate it so much. I want to do one simple search. Instead I get bullshit ad google links that are irrelevant, then MS MS Edge pushes me into Copilot for more garbage, which I have to mouse out of. Stract has become by search engine to get back the nostalgia of when the web wasn’t all shit
Thanks for the suggestion. What differences have you noticed compared to Google. Do you always find what you’re looking for. Have you tried searching niche stuff like some really old painting or an obscure compiler error etc.
Weird that it gave me a link to franchise a taco joint when I searched for tacos near me.
You want tacos? Open a taco shop.
I wouldn’t consider “tacos near me” a representative search; google specifically optimizes searching for products and especially local food.
I just searched for “first speedrun” and the first few results are decent but wrong, and the videos, shorts, and related searches after the first 2 entries are complete garbage.
Being served 70% links to products sucks when searching anything related to a product isn’t fun either.
Fair point. I don’t think it’s ready to become a default search engine as of now.
Oh, whoops, I wasn’t comparing Stract, I was comparing Google. Those are the reasons I don’t use Google search, I hadn’t tried Stract yet.
After trying it, it seems cool. Not the best at broad meanings though. “Ram” returns an Indian politician as the “answer”, a site in Japanese for the first link, and then mostly results for Random Access Memory after. No reference to the Dodge Ram (thank Odin), but also no reference to male sheep.
It also feels very anti-store, which is a nice change, but might ve an artifact of the seemingly anti-SEO stance, with random results from anywhere. Maybe that’s just the European focus?
It also has issues with getting context from multiple keywords, and doesn’t prioritize say “street car” over pages that happen to contain both “street” and “car”. Excluding keywords with “-” works though, very nice. Quotes can help with phrases to, so " “street car” " finds exactly things called “street car” with the space. Both still miss streetcars though. Misspelling corrections are offered but not assumed, which is very nice.
Definitely the biggest issue is the seemingly random results. This might be good if you’re searching for an exact string that is only present in a few places, but anything common and it’s a crapshoot. It’s nearly unable to find anything to do with shamrocks, prefering to find business’ named Shamrock.
Ah, gotcha.
That’s like 50% ads on your screen
How is this a meme?
Sorry, I couldn’t think of the exact sublemmy this should go into. Suggestions would be appreciated.
lemmyshitpost
mildlyinfuriating?
In my defense it was very infuriating.
Skype is a meme.
AI is how we’ll extract money and knowledge from people and give it to corporations…or so the people behind the corporations think.
Another tool to exploit the commons
wasnt skype shut down or am i tweaking
I suggest you to UBL (Unlock Bootloader) your phone & use AdAway
Or just use Adguard if you don’t wanna UBL/Root your phoneah right, unlock bootloader and break every banking app and break widevine HD playback on streaming apps
excellent suggestion!
Well part that break any banking apps, i can’t deny that
But there’s fix for that things, i just followed some guy instructions from XDA Forum & all my banking/paying apps work flawlessly
Of course it’s not easy work at first tbh, but always remember it’s hard but you only do that hard working onceI remembered 10 years ago have same thinking like you, but after internet has became shitty i must do that. At first yes… everything seems like hard things to do since it’s first time for me do something to my smartphone way beyond it’s recommend, but after that it’s just like walking in the park
Ad blockers aren’t going to help with this.
Depends…
Adguard has little secret that can strip any protocol request, basically it’s has monitor that can detect any weird behavior apps that has access to internetFrom my experience it’s work flawlessly, but you need a little bit of work to enabled it & of course you need the right filters
In my device i used AdAway for host blocking (a.k.a non regex filtering) & Adguard for blocking ads that has weird behavior. Both of them works flawlessly & since then my device has no ads/tracking or whatsoever wherever i go
Will adaway remove the Copilot section? I think this a app feature/ native component. Ad blocking might not do much here.
AdAway alone can’t remove that thing unless you used HAGEZI filters & 1Host pro filter
For apps i just used Adguard bc it can strip any protocol & block ads even if that app has encrypted ads
