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Usually updates fix the problem. But I loved how the last update failed with a very clear "Error $SomeNumber". I just love Microsoft's style.

...</sarcasm>

> like Signal

Or ...Telegram (search in that page for "Telegram (secret chats)")

> 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…)

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.

The last time I used this tool (two years ago, I think), it was quite problematic to have it running. I was not able to find a suitable tutorial for it. Was this problem fixed nowadays?

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.

Wait, does that mean that I have to blindly trust the versions the author put on github?

Does that also mean I don't get the up to date javascript library when they change?

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.

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.

Modest and good perl programmer spotted.

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.

So, how is it going with D? Last time I gave it a look I really liked it, but I sadly left the place when I hit the multiple standard libraries problems.

Anyone using D in real life, among hackers here?

Not a real question, but a sincere Thank You for the efforts. I believe maintainers should be praised more.