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?
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
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.
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 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.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/28/tech/india-rajasthan-reet-exam-internet-shutdown-intl-hnk/index.html
India still seems to be leading country doing shutdowns though.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/28/in-2022-the-world-saw-187-internet-shutdowns-84-by-india-alone
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)
That’s exactly what it does
Exams???
Candy crush. They play candy crush.
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