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simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

> still recommending Telegram

I'm not. I'm just saying that the majority of my friends are using it. For me it's better than skype and whatsapp. The GNU/Linux client works fine (although I'm not a big fan of its codebase: I had a look at it and guess what…)

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

I was thinking on this topic. You know what's the problem with alternatives? Nobody uses them. I'm seriously pissed off by this.

I recently saw how all my friends moved to Telegram, and this is nice. But for instance my company has daily skype calls, and I have to get skype for those.

I eventually decided to give it up on my (Linux) laptop and get the calls only on Android, where it still sucks, but at least it works.

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

As a GNU/Linux user, I join the choir of frustration. I'm not adding my own experience, since it's the same for everyone.

My two cents about alternatives: appear.in Not so good with connection establishment, but works fine most of the cases.

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: Unix History Repository

Wait, what? How could someone reconstruct single commits? There was no Git back then! The patch program is quite old (1985), but those patches go back to 1972.

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: Why Perl 6 is Different (2010)

This post sounds a bit like trolling :D

However, I believe the real power of Perl, besides the obviously awesome regex handling, is the "huffmann" principle of making common things super-quick. Sure this is the major cause of read-only code, but it's also the reason why I use perl every time I just need things to be done.

In Perl6 they kept this principle in mind, and this is the important part IMHO.

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: FastMail: Shutting down our XMPP chat service

Actually we see attempts to extend libpurple with many recent protocols. For instance telegram works on pidgin AFAIK, and I could recently see se a Tox plugin.

Clearly we cannot play a fair game with the closed whatsapp, but hacking cannot be stopped or forbidden.

After all, it was always like that. If you go back of 10 years al "regular people" had MSN and similar stuff, and we were IRCing. As a hacker, you migth feel sad, and think openness lost the war. IMHO the only difference is that nowadays we have much more "regular people" than before. They were simply sms-ing before they could access whatsapp.

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: Cmus – A Small Terminal Music Player

My two cents: I used cmus before, but in the long term I still prefer mplayer.

I construct the playlists myself by using soft-links to the actual paths of the songs. Real files are placed in sensibly named directories.

It's a matter of taste of course. Still I really appreciate that people write this kind of software for the terminal!

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: S/party/hack like it's 1999

Funny list of pictures.

Another cool thing, besides icebergs, would be a service checking for escapes given the URL. Or for other caveats (e.g. is the url https? Is it editing weird files (follows list of files))

simgidacav | 10 years ago | on: S/party/hack like it's 1999

Tried with vim, I see the escapes, cristal clear.

However, I honestly don't see why I should do something foolish as `curl | sh`, even though from time to time I see websites suggesting this crazy approach. The first thing I think of is "why should I give you control on my shell?".

…I guess, however, this is kind of a natural behavior for the user who doesn't know the shell-fu. I've seen a similar article once about Ubuntu Forums. Unfortunately I can't recall the URL.

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