dbread @dbread@qoto.org

@Sempf Never heard of it but it's for smartphones only, apparently. The desktop can access it only via a browser (like Teams on Linux but on all platforms), which is not good enough for me.

So far, of the 17 messengers I've examined, only Zoom, Discord, Teams, Session, and Element X sort of work, the rest is unusable crap. Zoom and Discord are way too complicated for my mother and her friends and Session's voice/video is horribly bad. I find Element satisfactory but my mother finds it too complicated. We're waiting to see if Microsoft will make the importing of Skype chats and contacts actually work in Teams (it currently doesn't).

If not, I'll spend a couple of days connecting her with two of her best friends on Teams and she'll give up the hope of communicating with the rest via a messenger. For the office, we'll spend a week connecting everybody and the boss will give up hope that she'll be able to page me unannounced on my Linux machine and will use the phone instead.

@Daojoan just remember kids, alphas can't penetrate paper, let alone women. 🤣

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. ​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... ​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of these sites for reference:

https://refseek.com

https://worldcat.org

https://link.springer.com

https://bioline.org.br

https://repec.org

https://science.gov

https://base-search.net

Eigentlich sollten alle 195 Staaten, die dem Pariser #Klimaabkommen beigetreten sind, in dieser Woche ihre neuen #Klimapläne („Nationale Klimabeiträge“) vorlegen. Darin müssen die Maßnahmen festgehalten werden, wie die Länder bis 2035 ihre Emissionen senken wollen. Und die Maßnahmen sollten ehrgeiziger ausfallen als im jeweils vorherigen Plan. Abgegeben haben aber bislang nur dreizehn Staaten – unter anderem die USA, noch unter Joe Biden. #klimawandel
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/pariser-klimaabkommen-nur-zehn-von-195-staaten-liefern-rechtzeitig-neue-plaene-a-e208f1ed-3577-41d7-aae4-b584aaaa0eb9