Oh, hang on, they're only changing the corporate name. So it's a bit like how Alphabet isn't Google.
That^^^. How about inciting as many folk as possible to extend the concept of Dry January to Facebook?Thats what I did and I haven’t been back since :)
That^^^. How about inciting as many folk as possible to extend the concept of Dry January to Facebook?Fuck Off Facebook Fridays?
I confess I still use WhatsApp, but I stopped FB some years ago and don't miss it.We went through the arduous and not entirely successful process of getting Mrs Barakta's-Mum to install Zoom last night (which was a Mega-Global Fruit Co clusterfuck, but that's another story). As she failed to get it working on the MacBook or the iPad, she ended up on the same crappy iPhone she uses for WhatsApp. Shockingly, the AV sync was nevertheless perfect, with only one instance of Max Headroom audio, and no potatovision, which were both frequent problems with WhatsApp.
I don't really know what the solution is to social media, but it all devolves into a cesspit of weoponized misinformation.
To be honest, people can complain about them all they like, but they need to stop using their services. Which isn't happening, so whatever they're called, they'll continue to do what they want (given the reluctance of regulators to, erm, regulate).
In their rebrand, the people at Facepalm chose a name which means 'self-referential'. No doubt they imagine their new name is clever, that it has a kind of hipster-geek cool. But it reveals their isolation from society.
To be honest, people can complain about them all they like, but they need to stop using their services. Which isn't happening, so whatever they're called, they'll continue to do what they want (given the reluctance of regulators to, erm, regulate).
Anyone got any experience with Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/)?
To be honest, people can complain about them all they like, but they need to stop using their services. Which isn't happening, so whatever they're called, they'll continue to do what they want (given the reluctance of regulators to, erm, regulate).
Anyone got any experience with Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/)?
I know a few people who use Mastodon, but it has the same TechBro libertarian problem and non-dealing with genuinely problematic content not being removed that other social medias have.
Afasoas: What you describe about your perception of Mastodon is lived experience for women, BME, trans and disabled people on literally every other social media platform.
Are you sure it was hatred, or people 'venting' or discussing their lived experiences where cis white men have a lot of the power out there and abuse it.
I know it can be hard when a marginalised group you are not part of says quite blunt things like "bloody white people" or "fucking cis people". It can feel hard not to reply with the equivalent of #NotAllMen (#NotAllWhites or #NotAllCis)... Cos there's often general truths in there somewhere... Cos we KNOW #NotAllWhatevers but MinorityGroupTM often has to assume #YesAllWhatevers cos anything else simply isn't safe.
Social media has been turned into British rivers: a vile cesspool of toxic crap and pollution.
It's far better for a person's mental health to not bother with such shit.
WhatsApp is shit at video calls (sync issues etc. described above), and doesn't work properly on a desktop computer.I haven't had problems (maybe I've ignored them) using the web based interface for WhatsApp on my desktop. What issues are you having ?
WhatsApp is shit at video calls (sync issues etc. described above), and doesn't work properly on a desktop computer.I haven't had problems (maybe I've ignored them) using the web based interface for WhatsApp on my desktop. What issues are you having ?
Re using it on a PC, I've no idea how to do that. When I set it up initially, it seemed to be tied to a mobile device and phone number. I suppose that's changed?
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I have noticed that a lot of news stories in the traditional media start their lives a day or two earlier on twitter.
Social media has been turned into British rivers: a vile cesspool of toxic crap and pollution.
It's far better for a person's mental health to not bother with such shit.
I live in two worlds: as a middle aged white man I am laden down with white privilege and all the fortune of being a man. On the other hand I am a scrounging, lazy, workshy bastard for being disabled. It's a truly confusing state of affairs.
<mode=egg sucking, user=$grandmother> I think the W10 desktop app now allows video calling. https://www.alphr.com/whatsapp-video-call-windows/ (https://www.alphr.com/whatsapp-video-call-windows/). There's an unofficial *nix app too that claims video calling is possible too. </mode>WhatsApp is shit at video calls (sync issues etc. described above), and doesn't work properly on a desktop computer.I haven't had problems (maybe I've ignored them) using the web based interface for WhatsApp on my desktop. What issues are you having ?
You don't seem to be able to make video (or presumably audio) calls from the desktop application.
Unfortunately, we're using this with Natalya's Mum, who is a bogon source, and dyslexic. FaceTime would presumably solve the problem reasonably well, but would require Fruity hardware that we don't have. Getting her to install something that works acceptibly well for lip-reading (eg. Zoom or Signal) is a work in progress (I eventually talked her through installing Zoom on her MacBook, but was defeated from actually getting her to join a meeting by the MacBook being unable to receive email).
I miss the days when you could use a third party app like tweetdeck to get all your social media feeds in on place and ad free into the bargain.
WhatsApp is shit at video calls (sync issues etc. described above), and doesn't work properly on a desktop computer.I haven't had problems (maybe I've ignored them) using the web based interface for WhatsApp on my desktop. What issues are you having ?
You don't seem to be able to make video (or presumably audio) calls from the desktop application.
Unfortunately, we're using this with Natalya's Mum, who is a bogon source, and dyslexic. FaceTime would presumably solve the problem reasonably well, but would require Fruity hardware that we don't have. Getting her to install something that works acceptibly well for lip-reading (eg. Zoom or Signal) is a work in progress (I eventually talked her through installing Zoom on her MacBook, but was defeated from actually getting her to join a meeting by the MacBook being unable to receive email).
WhatsApp is shit at video calls (sync issues etc. described above), and doesn't work properly on a desktop computer.I haven't had problems (maybe I've ignored them) using the web based interface for WhatsApp on my desktop. What issues are you having ?
You don't seem to be able to make video (or presumably audio) calls from the desktop application.
Unfortunately, we're using this with Natalya's Mum, who is a bogon source, and dyslexic. FaceTime would presumably solve the problem reasonably well, but would require Fruity hardware that we don't have. Getting her to install something that works acceptibly well for lip-reading (eg. Zoom or Signal) is a work in progress (I eventually talked her through installing Zoom on her MacBook, but was defeated from actually getting her to join a meeting by the MacBook being unable to receive email).
Google meet only requires a browser (plus access to the camera/mike). You can create a meeting and then send her a link. The meetings can be perpetual so that the link can be bookmarked (we've been using the same one for a work meeting for 18 months, easier than slack / teams / whatever)
Mrs Nutty also uses google with same link. She never signs out. This meant that when she entered the study (laptop with screenlock on) everybody said "good morning" and it made her jump.
Her confusion was later heightened later in the day when I asked if she'd been walking past her study door wearing only a towel whilst trying to get the children up.
Remember folks:-
1) always leave the meeting
2) always put a post-it note over the camera
3) turn the laptop off if not in use
QuoteMrs Nutty also uses google with same link. She never signs out. This meant that when she entered the study (laptop with screenlock on) everybody said "good morning" and it made her jump.
Her confusion was later heightened later in the day when I asked if she'd been walking past her study door wearing only a towel whilst trying to get the children up.
Remember folks:-
1) always leave the meeting
2) always put a post-it note over the camera
3) turn the laptop off if not in use
I always close the meeting tab, the shortcut will work later....
then unplug the camera & mic.
<mode=egg sucking, user=$grandmother> I think the W10 desktop app now allows video calling. https://www.alphr.com/whatsapp-video-call-windows/ (https://www.alphr.com/whatsapp-video-call-windows/). There's an unofficial *nix app too that claims video calling is possible too. </mode>WhatsApp is shit at video calls (sync issues etc. described above), and doesn't work properly on a desktop computer.I haven't had problems (maybe I've ignored them) using the web based interface for WhatsApp on my desktop. What issues are you having ?
You don't seem to be able to make video (or presumably audio) calls from the desktop application.
Unfortunately, we're using this with Natalya's Mum, who is a bogon source, and dyslexic. FaceTime would presumably solve the problem reasonably well, but would require Fruity hardware that we don't have. Getting her to install something that works acceptibly well for lip-reading (eg. Zoom or Signal) is a work in progress (I eventually talked her through installing Zoom on her MacBook, but was defeated from actually getting her to join a meeting by the MacBook being unable to receive email).
<mode=egg sucking, user=$grandmother> I think the W10 desktop app now allows video calling. https://www.alphr.com/whatsapp-video-call-windows/ (https://www.alphr.com/whatsapp-video-call-windows/). There's an unofficial *nix app too that claims video calling is possible too. </mode>WhatsApp is shit at video calls (sync issues etc. described above), and doesn't work properly on a desktop computer.I haven't had problems (maybe I've ignored them) using the web based interface for WhatsApp on my desktop. What issues are you having ?
You don't seem to be able to make video (or presumably audio) calls from the desktop application.
Unfortunately, we're using this with Natalya's Mum, who is a bogon source, and dyslexic. FaceTime would presumably solve the problem reasonably well, but would require Fruity hardware that we don't have. Getting her to install something that works acceptibly well for lip-reading (eg. Zoom or Signal) is a work in progress (I eventually talked her through installing Zoom on her MacBook, but was defeated from actually getting her to join a meeting by the MacBook being unable to receive email).
Zoom4linux (I think that's what it's called although it is only listed in the applications on my Ubuntu as Zoom) works very well where I have only had audio config problems trying to use Messenger both on Ubuntu and on W10 (although the W10 box is a particularly rubbishy HP laptop)
Facebook is now blocked in Russia. At last, some positive news from the Ukrainian war.
Meta's new prototype chatbot has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money.
Meta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on "nearly any topic".
Asked what the chatbot thought of the company's CEO and founder, it replied "our country is divided and he didn't help that at all".
Meta said the chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers.
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BlenderBot 3's algorithm searches the internet to inform its answers. It is likely its views on Mr Zuckerberg have been "learnt' from other people's opinions that the algorithm has analysed.
The Wall Street Journal has reported BlenderBot 3 told one of its journalists that Donald Trump was, and will always be, the US president.
A business Insider journalist said the chatbot called Mr Zuckerberg "creepy".
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In 2016 Microsoft apologised after Twitter users taught its chatbot to be racist.