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| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-25, 22:14
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1161 of 1317 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 6 hours |
A year later... the situation has just turned to worse, sadly: - I've got forced (by family, no less!) to get Zucked, that is, WhatsFuckingCRAPP. Yeah, it's on a separate physical handset, with a separate phone line exclusively dedicated to it. I hate every single minute of it, and while I can't hate my family for being tech-illiterate (although that means I've been a failure as a CS engineer), it's extremely frustrating. Plus the app sucks balls, can't use it on Real Computers™ running the OS of my choice, etc, etc, etc. On the flip side, I guess Zuckerborg gets bored of my almost non-use of the crapp? (Spare me the "nobody at Farcebook can read your messages" crapola - if that were true, I have a couple rusty bridges for sale here. Also that's not my threat model!) - My dream setup, tdlib-purple, broke horrendously after I joined a local shopping/sales group (as MercadoLibre would like to have zero independent sellers instead these days with their selective application of asinine policies). Memory leaks so severe that either my machine gets sent to swap hell to never come back, or if I'm lucky, the OOM-killer will drop me back to a half-broken desktop. And every time someone joins/leaves the group (which happens several times per day as this is a mid-traffic city-wide group), the thing tries to rollback history, redownloading gigabytes of attachments AND leaking RAM like a monkey on crack. These seem to be well known issues, but nobody has the willpower (or the resources?) to fix them. So unfortunately that meant I had to stop using Telegram with Pidgin, and since I refuse to install the Electron pandemic here, it means my usage of Telegram has severely dropped :/ - Speaking of Telegram, they have a serious problem with identity-theft scammers and buttcoin spam! Since I joined that local sales group, suddenly I get added to buttcoin scam groups at least once a week, or get attempts of infosucking by randoms just telling "Hi", followed by "Where you work?" and "how much do you earn?". Sadly WhatsFuckingCrapp has MUCH better control for spambots here, as I've yet to get those there. - Matrix is a lost cause. They should rename it to "Element", since all other clients not named Element are unusable dumpster fires, and that goes double for purple-matrix, which BARELY supports talking to other people! So yeah, nope, I can't recommend Matrix to either normies or even techies - it's a severe problem of shit UI/UX that nobody cares fixing other than "your browser is not supported because is not Chrome" and "Element is the reference client, powered by Electron". So in short, instant messaging went from "pretty much a solved problem" 15 years ago to "unusable dumpsterfires for braindamaged teenagers". So much for progress :/ We're doomed as a society, and it's our goddamned fault! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| wertigon |
Posted on 22-08-12, 15:35
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Post: #191 of 205
Since: 11-24-18 Last post: 157 days Last view: 28 days |
I wish someone would rebase Discord into a QT based app or something. That makes it at least suck less. Discord has great backend plumbing as far as services go, but the frontend is just a horrible memory hog. The problem with communication is... That people seems to love their islands. Anyone outside their island can just be connected by telephone... Which is a service slowly disappearing across the world. I know people that have ditched their phone completely in favor of an unholy WhatsApp/FB Messenger/Discord trinity. Oh, sure, they still have a Cell phone, they just ditch the account for SMS and Voice, doing instead unlimited data, or even WiFi only and go off the grid when they leave home. I am hoping that all carriers band together and switch over to a binary equivalent to XMPP or something, but I'm not holding my breath. Everyone could agree on TCP/IP and HTTP, why not a Voice and Video protocol, perhaps with exchangable codecs? I'm not asking for much, I want: * Support for Federation at the protocol level * Support P2P voice/video streams (actually, generic Voice/Video/Data streams would be even nicer) * Base protocol should be an Open Standard Sadly, all three will be fought over tooth and nail and if one crumble all three crumble. Why can't we have Nice Things(tm)? |
