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4 votes
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The Israeli election is over. It never mattered to Palestinians.
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We are back at square one of personal messaging
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal,...
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Riot, etc. This happened once already, at the dawn of 200X IM revolution that deprecated SMS for good we also had MSN, ICQ, GTalk, Jabber, etc. This also was a set of very similar personal messaging clients and protocols, similar in any way to each other. It all changed when the multi-protocol messaging apps came out - Pidgin, QiP, Miranda and others made it easy to gather all your contacts from various protocols in one place and to keep in touch with everyone. Shortly after Jabber transports were made so you could congregate all other accounts into one single XMPP account. Even N900 that came out in 2009 had the ability to gather various accounts into one single contact list.
I feel like right now with all the segmented IM apps it's a good time for something like this to happen again, and Telegram already has wat-bridge.
What are your thoughts on that topic? Do you think the history will repeat itself? Would a new federated formate like XMPP rise up?30 votes -
The OpenAI team are holding an AMA on /r/Dota2, after their bots defeated the current champion team of the game
13 votes -
Kacey Musgraves - High Horse (2018)
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Kitchen spices look startlingly different in the wild
14 votes -
Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
9 votes -
Why disabled journalists should report on disability
7 votes -
'We want a kid you don't have any idea what to do with': Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy helps very vulnerable students succeed in high school—and beyond
7 votes -
The antique toaster that's better than yours
11 votes -
Diane Coffee - Spring Breathes / Not That Easy / Mayflower / Green (2015)
3 votes -
Yalla - Vostochnaja Chajkhana (The Eastern Chaikhana) (1988)
3 votes -
A twenty year old Doom record was finally broken
17 votes -
Google and Amazon make up — YouTube coming to Fire TV
8 votes -
Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings on James Holzhauer: 'It's absolutely insane'
9 votes -
All jury trials in East Baton Rouge on hold until maybe summer after major 'glitch' found
10 votes -
Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men
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The insistence on home-cooked family meals doing more damage than good, says sociologist
12 votes -
Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
15 votes -
Do not bump topics from offtopic comments?
Should offtopic comments bump up topics? IMO, offtopic discussion is not “real” discussion. Seeing a topic at top with 7 new comments only to discover that all of it is offtopic, meta discussion,...
Should offtopic comments bump up topics? IMO, offtopic discussion is not “real” discussion. Seeing a topic at top with 7 new comments only to discover that all of it is offtopic, meta discussion, is annoying and disappointing.
As an example, there is one topic on the front page (don’t want to link it), that was bumped by the biggest offtopic discussion I’ve seen on Tildes so far. The discussion itself is not wrong, and is quite interesting, but it’s not about the post. The comment chain should IMO either be in it’s own topic, or not bump the topic up.
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The data all guilt-ridden parents need: What science tells us about breast-feeding, sleep training and all the agonizing decisions of parenthood
15 votes -
Achint and The Khan Brothers - Jhedar (2018)
4 votes -
New Brvtalism No. 179 - Carl ClanDestine + New Releases
5 votes -
Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy
10 votes -
Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%
30 votes -
How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer
11 votes -
Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think
10 votes -
Running an IRC Network in 2019: Challenges and Opportunities
7 votes -
How 'liberal' late-night talk shows became a comedy sinkhole
11 votes -
Normalization of deviance
8 votes -
We need to get ready for GamerGate politicians
23 votes -
Journalist Lyra McKee shot dead in Northern Ireland rioting
10 votes -
Looking for assistance for professional or personal development? There is an opportunity to receive a coding scholarship through Lesbians Who Tech!
7 votes -
Why won't studios read my pitch?!
5 votes -
A promising anti-HIV drug poses a dilemma
12 votes -
Spring 2019 Premiere Digest
4 votes -
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
50 votes -
Report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential election
4 votes -
Osamu Tezuka, Godfather of Anime
4 votes -
Uber raises $1 billion for its self-driving unit from SoftBank Vision Fund, Toyota, and DENSO
5 votes -
Tiki Taane - Use Somebody (Kings Of Leon cover) (2009)
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A newly digitized map from 1587 offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization
14 votes -
Eat like Andy Warhol
4 votes -
To cook a steak, first you must unlearn what you have learned
12 votes -
New mod for bsnes emulator makes “Mode 7” SNES games look like new
21 votes -
How a drunken swim in Nevada's Devils Hole and a dead endangered pupfish led to a rare prosecution and prison sentence
13 votes -
How do you find new books to read?
We all have plenty of books on our bedside table, waiting their turn. What makes you choose the ones you do?
15 votes -
How Southern Baptists Are Grappling With Artificial Intelligence
10 votes -
Through births, illnesses, and holidays, Ben “CohhCarnage” Cassell streamed on Twitch for 2,000 days in a row
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Google Voice is now available as a core G Suite service
I received this email yesterday but haven't seen any blog posts or press releases about it yet: Hello Administrator, Since our Beta Program announcement last year, we’ve been testing an...
I received this email yesterday but haven't seen any blog posts or press releases about it yet:
Hello Administrator,
Since our Beta Program announcement last year, we’ve been testing an enterprise-ready version of Google Voice. Over the next seven days, Google Voice will become available as a core G Suite service for all eligible* G Suite customers (additional fees apply to this new, managed version of Google Voice). This email will help you understand the transition details but you can also refer to the Voice webpage for more information.
What's changing:
- Managed Google Voice is available in 3 tiers and will become a core G Suite service for your domain after subscribing to a service tier.
- Managed Voice accounts will be covered under your existing G Suite agreement and additional Google Voice service specific terms.
- Support for managed Voice accounts will be the same as other G Suite core services.
What's not changing:
- The Google Voice service will remain “on” by default.
- If users in your domain signed up for Voice prior to this launch, they will be able to maintain their legacy unmanaged Voice subscriptions without additional cost, and will remain subject to the Google Voice consumer terms of service. You can add a Voice subscription and upgrade these users to managed Voice users in your Admin console.
- Hangouts Meet (also a core G Suite service) is integrated with Google Voice, allowing meeting participants to dial in or be added by phone.
What do I need to do?
- If you did not participate in the Google Voice Beta Program and would like to use Google Voice for your organization, follow these steps to add a Voice subscription.
We're here to help
If you have additional questions or need technical assistance, please contact Google support. When you call or submit your support case, reference issue number ----------.
Sincerely,
The G Suite Team
* Google Voice is not yet available for G Suite for Government customers. Google Voice is available for purchase in select countries.
It looks like Google Voice is going to be sticking around for awhile. You can even use Polycom desk phones with it if you get the $20 tier.
9 votes