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Johan Bové

Pretty cool how a bug in web.whatsapp.com which occurred in Firefox since a couple of days, is being resolved so quickly by an active community and a savy and pretty cool front-end engineer at Meta. Kudos to Egrodo for their help! cf. https://webcompat.com/issues/125920#issuecomment-1682993012 and https://github.com/Egrodo

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

The backup file of our family Whatsapp group, including videos, is about 7GB large. Good thing we can still locally backup the files to other systems.

Johan Bové

Deleted my Dropdox account multiple years ago - or so I thought... Last Friday a friend shared some excellent photos from a fun event we were at through his Dropbox account. He posted the link on our WhatsApp chat. I clicked it using my Android phone and enjoyed seeing the pictures. This morning I receive a message on the e-mail address I used to have with Dropdox about their updated terms and services. How did Dropbox found out I accessed their services? Was it Google, through Android, was it Meta through WhatsApp? Or what dark marketing magic was applied to detect I "came back" to Dropbox? You can check out, but you can never leave.

Johan Bové

@jackyalcine The hardest "Meta" app to ditch for me and my family will be WhatsApp - it's the only thing my parents in law are accepting right now as chat app. We have about 7GB worth of picture files in our family group. I backed these up, but still will be hard to replace with anything else.

Johan Bové

The battle inside Signal

On January 6th, WhatsApp users around the world began seeing a pop-up message notifying them of upcoming changes to the service’s privacy policy. signal, syndicated, tech

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Considering the digital picture frame that comes with a SIM card and a WhatsApp bot. Wondering however what would happen with being able to show pictures if the Familink business would shutdown their servers.

Johan Bové

NovaChat - Multi-Network Chat

> Apparently the Matrix community has been building bridges between Matrix and any other chats (WhatsApp, Telegram, Twitter, etc), and now there's a desktop app to aggregate them all

Johan Bové

Nokia 8110 4G Requests - Part 1

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Nokia 8110 4G banana yellow and black side to side

Gathering a list of issues and changes I would like to see fixed on my 4G phone.

Most of these issues can be fixed with a hypothetical software update. So it's up to HMD Global (@NokiaMobile) to work on the apps and system software on the phone and release a new update - preferably sooner than later.

And the WhatsApp integration should be implemented by Facebook Team WhatsApp of course.

List of software nuisances:

  • WhatsApp is running on the phone, but is lacking in these ways:
    • No https://web.whatsapp.com support, even-though the phone has a QR-reading-cabable camera on board
    • Received videos have a maximum file size of 8MB, so anything bigger than that cannot be opened, at all. Memory limitations?
    • No calling
    • No video chat
  • No emoji input - This makes me really sad. 😅
  • No CalDAV and CardDav sync support - would have been great to be able to easily synchronize contacts outside of Google or Apple sync.
  • The volume controls are practically useless as the phone has three volume settings even-though it has a scale from vibrate to 15, the actual volume stages are "Really Loud", "Loud" or "vibrate".
  • The phone gets really hot during calls - not sure if software or hardware related to be honest.

It would be awesome if this list could be marked off soon.

Johan Bové

Wrote to Web support regarding getting WhatsApp Web on the powered 8110 4G:

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Hello Dear WhatsApp for KaiOS Developers!

Thank you first of all for your efforts and trouble making WhatsApp
available on the Nokia 8110 4G! It's amazing how capable a device like
this little phone can be
On the other hand however I am missing gravely the integration of
WhatsApp Web with the phone, especially since the keyboard and text
input experience is somewhat... bad.
Something I don't really understand as the hardware is there. The phone
has a capable camera to read the QR code.
So I was wondering, what's the holdup to release this SUPER DUPER useful
feature in the next release of WhatsApp for KaiOS?

Thanks for listening en keep on rocking!

Cheers,

Johan from Düsseldorf, Germany

aka @johanbove on Twitter`
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Johan Bové

So if is out, should we a by to , to keep up with the times?

Johan Bové

Seriously, who is still using ? Since came along I haven't contacted anyone on Skype any more. Might change again once Facebook enforces FB account linking with WhatsApp accounts. I actually miss Skype a little.