Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 hours agoFrance will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officialsnumerique.gouv.frexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down11
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minus-squarekorazail@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 hours agoCame to comment this. I know there are only so many letters, and so many combinations of 4-8 of them, but can we quit naming new things with the name of an old thing? Finding any details about France’s Visio is going to be a cluster.
minus-squareztar_473@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoVisio is [the shorthand of] what the french call a video call visioconférence
minus-squareRegrettable_incident@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoNah, you can always come up with new combos. They could have named it ‘squonchy’ or ‘flurgled’, for example.
Came to comment this. I know there are only so many letters, and so many combinations of 4-8 of them, but can we quit naming new things with the name of an old thing?
Finding any details about France’s Visio is going to be a cluster.
Visio is [the shorthand of] what the french call a video call
visioconférence
Nah, you can always come up with new combos. They could have named it ‘squonchy’ or ‘flurgled’, for example.