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mystes posted:Do most people in the US really use messaging apps like Facebook Messenger on a daily basis?
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The British government, or maybe just the Tories specifically, use WhatsApp. And they also want the encryption on it to be decryptable, by them, to stop terrors.
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Jun 10, 2018 16:54
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People actually use messaging programs? I am a hermit and I live in a cave, so it seems weird that people talk to other people. I assume my situation is the norm.
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Jun 10, 2018 17:16
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Cojawfee posted:People actually use messaging programs? I am a hermit and I live in a cave, so it seems weird that people talk to other people. I assume my situation is the norm.
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Jun 10, 2018 17:20
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FilthyImp posted:High schoolers use it for group chats, from what Ive seen. Lots do because doing group chats over SMS can be tricky since some people have imessage, some people have android etc and it results in weird poo poo like messages getting delayed by hours if they ever arrive at all, even in TYOOL 2018 where a mixed environment has been present for years now. jojoinnit posted:Sorry about your lack of friends? Facebook is like a potemkin village of friends. I know these people, were supposedly friends, but they'd probably be annoyed if not creeped out if I actually tried to talk to them. Bringing this back on topic from the brink of E/N, I'm probably not the only one who feels this way and I wonder if this will start becoming more of a thing in the mainstream as people and social media age
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Jun 10, 2018 17:40
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Casimir Radon posted:I've been using WhatsApp a lot to talk to people back home when I'm overseas. Helps that it's not tied to your phone platform, and besides that I refuse to use Facebook. Good call, refusing to using Facebook by using Facebook. I refuse to use google, so I use gmail.
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Jun 10, 2018 18:48
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klafbang posted:Good call, refusing to using Facebook by using Facebook. I refuse to use google, so I use gmail. You either don't know what WhatsApp is or you're just being deliberately obtuse...
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Jun 10, 2018 20:47
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jojoinnit posted:You either don't know what WhatsApp is or you're just being deliberately obtuse... Facebook has owned WhatsApp since 2014.
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Veib posted:Facebook has owned WhatsApp since 2014.
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Jun 10, 2018 20:58
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The majority of people I know and around me use a social media service that I don't approve of. Wake up, sheeple!
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Jun 10, 2018 21:02
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Modern TVs are basically monitors except shittier, especially now that some don't even have built in tuners. Everyone I know with a game console plugs it into a PC monitor for the reduced latency, and shows generally get watched on streaming services on a tablet or phone. You are weird and only know weird nerd people Cojawfee posted:People actually use messaging programs? I am a hermit and I live in a cave, so it seems weird that people talk to other people. I assume my situation is the norm. I use FB messenger everynow and then to harass some college/grad school friends. Seems less intrusive sending a goatse over FB messenger vs direct text message to their number/
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Jun 10, 2018 21:28
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I ise hangouts because it lets me text on my computer and forward calls from phone to computer, both of which are super useful.
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Jun 10, 2018 22:34
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Hangouts merged with google voice a while ago.
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Cojawfee posted:Hangouts merged with google voice a while ago. Also they're probably going to unmerge them based on the fact that they started developing the voice app again and they've apparently lost interest in hangouts as a consumer product. mystes has a new favorite as of 22:49 on Jun 10, 2018 |
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Jun 10, 2018 22:40
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Cojawfee posted:Hangouts merged with google voice a while ago. Iirc they are deprecating hamgouts as well as allo I really wish google would straighten their chat poo poo out Google i want to use your chat services i just dont want to figure out the new one every 2 loving years
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Jun 10, 2018 23:28
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It's Google. Someone randomly picks a project they want to work on, then they break it, and then it dies. Then someone else merges it with their project and then they abandon that. And then someone else comes along and removes some feature you really needed and then goes radio silent. Posting on a google message board just gets someone saying the bug you keep getting is an "intended feature."
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Jun 10, 2018 23:33
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Star Man posted:The majority of people I know and around me use a social media service that I don't approve of. Wake up, sheeple!
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Jun 10, 2018 23:38
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roffels posted:I hear this thrown around, but is this a case of remembering really good albums and ignoring unmemorable or outright bad ones? Yes. Same with anything nostalgic. The only difference between modern music and old music is that modern music is too new to have forgotten the bad stuff yet.
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Jun 10, 2018 23:45
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One difference with older stuff is that an album is more easily thought of as an indivisible whole, and people just remember how great the album is. Even if a few songs aren't your favorite, it's still part of the album.
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Jun 11, 2018 00:11
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Regular Nintendo posted:hamgouts Mods
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Jun 11, 2018 00:45
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Hamgouts sounds painful.
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mystes posted:Without a Google Voice account? I have a GV account and it's the only number I give out and put on applications, the only number I've used for years. Makes life simpler when my primary carrier is Sprint, with how they're super lovely and maybe merging and maybe have coverage in big cities. It also made it easy to add multiple other numbers when I had a business and/or was on a deployment and couldn't use my regular cellphone - I just logged into google voice/hangouts and had the GV number forward to the new desk phone on base. There was also a brief period where Sprint was unavailable where I was staying for six months so I picked up a pay-as-you-go and just had GV forward to that phone. One number, multiple carriers. Google had better not gently caress it up completely 
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Jun 11, 2018 03:41
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One reason for using a chat service over here in not-USA is that international SMS used to be a little bit unreliable, and trusting international MMS was downright naive. (Besides, MMS used to be expensive.) It's not super important if all your contacts are local and neither they nor you ever travel outside the country, of course.
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Regular Nintendo posted:Iirc they are deprecating hamgouts as well as allo Bring back Google Wave. (Please don't)
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Devdisigdu posted:Bring back Google Wave. They did. It's called Slack and it's Good.
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jojoinnit posted:I have Signal only to talk to one friend who works in infosec and is therefore paranoid. Paranoid infosec nerd here, seconding your friend's recommendation. Signal really is the gold standard for secure chat/voice/video. But any of the other encrypted message apps (Telegram, WhatsApp, Wickr, whatever) are almost as good and should be plenty secure for almost anyone. The funny part is that all these apps are gradually helping to make ordinary phone calls obsolete. Come for the paranoid encryption, stay for the enormously improved sound quality on the call.
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Slack is just IRC with giphy integration
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How does WhatsApp actually make money? Last time I checked I just got a bunch of conjecture.
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Casimir Radon posted:How does WhatsApp actually make money? Last time I checked I just got a bunch of conjecture. Doesn't it cost money after the first year, or did they drop that when Facebook bought it? I installed Whatsapp at one point, got on my wife's family chat... uninstalled it after a couple days because I didn't care for 50 "Good morning" images every single day  https://www.indiatimes.com/technolo...dle-338246.html (100 crore = 1 billion)
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Jun 12, 2018 21:00
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I used it 4 years ago to talk to my mom when she was overseas for a month. I started using it again this year to talk to people back home while I'm overseas for 6 months. Never had to pay for anything.
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Jun 12, 2018 21:03
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I'm pretty sure I paid 99c for it back in the day. Now it's just Facebook money so I doubt they matter for revenue.
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Casimir Radon posted:How does WhatsApp actually make money? Last time I checked I just got a bunch of conjecture. Users aren’t the customer. They are the product. WhatsApp is the information gathering mechanism.
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GutBomb posted:Users aren’t the customer. They are the product. WhatsApp is the information gathering mechanism. Charging customers money is the real tech relic here. I use WhatsApp a lot since the sound quality is good, when I installed it it was by far the easiest way to set up a group chat with people in multiple countries and worked everywhere I could get internet. I know a lot of people in the Navy who use it when they're underway but other than that I don't think I've seen Americans use it a ton.
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Finns do WhatsApp a lot for some reason, it's the app of choice for those who don't do Facebook and it makes multinational chat groups a breeze. The irony is, of course, that Zuckerberg gets to read through your messages anyway.
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Jun 15, 2018 06:48
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Found a SEGA Naomi 2 arcade CPU board at Bookmans Mesa a few days ago; all it needs is a power supply. So, y'know, if you're interested in running SEGA arcade games on the original hardware, this is the stuff for you. The 200 dollar stuff for you.  
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Found a bunch of other stuff that made me feel very old, too. Because I am.            
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Gonz posted:Found a SEGA Naomi 2 arcade CPU board at Bookmans Mesa a few days ago; all it needs is a power supply. $200 is actually a pretty good price I think
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Yeah, if it's functional (how special is the power supply?), that's pretty fair for relatively modern arcade hardware, even though it's "just" a sorta-kinda upgraded Dreamcast. I confused it with the Triforce system at first, that would absolutely be worth $200, probably add another zero to that. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 14:10 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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Powered Descent posted:Paranoid infosec nerd here, seconding your friend's recommendation. Signal really is the gold standard for secure chat/voice/video. But any of the other encrypted message apps (Telegram, WhatsApp, Wickr, whatever) are almost as good and should be plenty secure for almost anyone. My colleagues and I use Signal when we are coordinating all our teams on multi-site raids. We don't tend to send anything really sensitive over it, mind you.
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Gonz posted:Found a SEGA Naomi 2 arcade CPU board at Bookmans Mesa a few days ago; all it needs is a power supply. I do want that and can pay. But Australia  EDIT: You photo of VB stuff. One of these days I will finish my VB code for a Metal Slug port. Sadly I sold my VB so actual hardware debugging/testing is out the window.
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