prajjwal
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Comment · 5 years ago
As much as I love IRC, it is fundamentally incompatible with the way people use
IM these days. Even if you gloss over the lack of "modern" features, you're
still going to have a very hard time with vanilla IRC on mobile where keeping a
persistent background socket open is frowned upon (if not outright illegal).
Don't get me wrong - I love IRC, and have used it as my primary social network for years. And after spending a full decade trying to switch people over to open protocols, I've found the hard way that the network effect trumps all.
I just don't see the average Whatsapp user ever switching to IRC.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's amazing that technology is empowering these protestors, but I'm not sure a vulnerable group of people such as this should be leaving identifying information on these servers.
- You cannot sign up for Telegram without your phone number (even if it isn't public). - End to End encryption exists but is limited to 1-1 chats. - Telegram cooperates with data requests from law enforcements.
The kind of risk this puts them in cannot be overstated.
Comment · 8 years ago
That basically hits the nail on the head, but it's not the full extent of it. We have ["Jugaad" culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad), where we actually take pride in doing things that would be labeled outright fraud in a lot of places.
I also can't see how its changing, I've become rather cynical from having to deal with it constantly. I sure hope you're right, though.
Comment · 9 years ago
Users who care about privacy are, quite literally, the only demographic that cares about Firefox at this point. The numbers clearly say that. I'm not even remotely versed in how to run a business, but in what twisted universe does it make sense to alienate us?
I put up with Firefox's single threaded nonsense for years, with their outright refusal to properly implement hardware acceleration for Linux, and with their clearly inferior performance. And now I find out they've got Google Analytics on a page where uBlock Origin can't even block it (at least not post FF 56), and that doesn't even respect my telemetry settings (which I've obviously disabled). Every decision they've made lately seems to be targeted at gaining the attention of people who clearly couldn't be arsed to get off Chrome if they proved it gives you cancer, instead of making it better for people who are keeping it afloat.
Congratulations, Mozilla. You've put a whole bunch of us out on the lookout for a replacement. Enjoy your descent into obscurity.
Comment · 9 years ago
The site is down for me. http://i.imgur.com/4goIadC.jpg
While this is nothing new, more sites like these are always welcome. If you plan on keeping this alive long term, please consider making an API so I can use it from the command line. Also, these services tend to get misused a lot, so you might want to log everything. Maybe encourage people to encrypt before uploading, too.
Take a look at a few existing services as well, to figure out what else you can add.
[1] https://file.io [2] https://transfer.sh
Just got done writing a script for the latter - https://gist.github.com/Prajjwal/63f5df1176ea05ee3679c04e0fa....
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