Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2024
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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??????