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One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps.

My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal ¹, #Telegram, #Discord ², #WhatsApp ³, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:

  • WHY is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite?

  • WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can??

This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)

So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!

  • Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!

  • Can we please get that back?

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)Content warning: Rant re: Signal Shills being dangerous Tech Illiterates

Tein paluun irciin ja päädyin paikalliselle kaupunkikanavalle paasaamaan pyöräilystä. Mut se oli sen toisen syy, se aloitti! Kysyi mielipidettäni bussien runkolinjauudistuksesta, johon mulla ei ollut mitään sanottavaa, koska pyöräilen kaikkialle. Siitä se sit lähti.

Sori siitä.

No ei oikeastaan.

#Turku #irc

(Nyt odotan että mut stalkataan sieltä tänne, ja jommassakummassa asiasta auotaan.)

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I couldn't figure out how to add my #matrix account to the Chats app, so that's why I fell back to using #irc

That said, I'm surprised the #gnome weather app worked... because it doesn't on normal #alpinelinux o_O.

I'll try to add my calendar and contacts later and see if I can make an actual phone call... crazy stuff :}

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Updating from my #alpinelinux laptop... because typing on the #postmarketos #gnome shell is really challenging/unforgiving both in terms of latency and accuracy.

I was not a fan of #firefox, especially with the bottom address bar, so I used console to install #epiphany via:

$ doas apk add epiphany

Not only does epiphany look better on the phone, but it also allows me to install web apps, which I did for #thelounge, a web-based #irc client.

@sacha hey, I'm having @damaru on the #lispyGopherClimate tomorrow (and @eduardoochs is going to hang out live in #emacsconf on #irc) -

I was just wondering if you had anything you would like to see an early-emacs-days #writer do with #emacs in our community particularly (noting your sachachua.com/topic/#topic-ind ).

Sorry, gef, for volunteering you for lab experiments ;p

Honestly my goal is to see whether #eev anchors work for his flow, and whether it's-possible to use my own 'easy' graph stuff.

sachachua.comIndex :: Sacha Chua
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Je vous propose sérieusement d’organiser une campagne sur TikTok pour promouvoir LinMo.

Si vous voulez qu’on se rencontre sur #IRC répondez à ce post, ou envoyez-moi un MP, je vous recontacterai et on se créera un salon pour en discuter à plusieurs.

(J’ai déjà eu une discussion sur le développement d’une application de rencontres LGBT prévue pour limiter les risques de takeover/fuites de données, on n’a rien fait après mais on a passé un bon moment.)

Wenn ich manche Konversationen hier so lese, fühl ich mich immer wieder an meine Zeiten im #IRC erinnert. Echte Unterhaltungen, freundliche Menschen, echte Diskussionen....
Ich freue mich sehr hier zu sein im #Fediverse
Möge es lange so bleiben.
Danke euch, dass ihr da seid.

Had an issue with a piece of software after an update. Went online, searched for 30 minutes, found nothing useful or relevant.

Spent 20 minutes wrestling with it myself, seeing if I could fix it.

Gave up, went on #IRC and got a workaround to my problem in literally 3 minutes (and an hour later, an update to the software package to fix it properly).

IRC proving to me, yet again, that it continues to rock.

Thank you for the support, random stranger.