Wha… why didn’t I think of this before?

Disturbing

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Ciscord wants to train on you 🤤😏

(Ew, Zoom, that's a fuckin' creepy move with an AI there!)

I've seen an article where AI would be able to tell what you're typing in the background of a zoom call by hearing the keystroke sounds.

I don't know what that will achieve but, 🤷

@ostream I tried to join a distro's public IRC server once to ask for help, I got blacklisted because port 80 was open on my IP which is apparently typical of bots.

At least with Discord the pathetic, self-important, detached yet nosy mods don't get my IP address.

@ostream Look, I'm not saying Discord is a good service, I'm just saying that if you have such an awful bot problem that you have to make _accepting inbound traffic_ a bannable offense on a _linux distro_ forum then maybe you could work on the whole "proof of personhood" aspect of a usable chat app.

And btw yeah, any on-line system that claims to be fit for open usage without a whitelist needs some proof of personhood. It doesn't have to be perfect, mods can do some of the work, but it's absolutely needed.

@ostream Yeah, but IRC allows for neither. Again, I don't think Discord is an ideal solution, I'm just saying that IRC is underdesigned.

why did i knew this was kiki before opening the rant

@ostream You're correct on this, so I'm investigating IRC further, but right off the bat, I know of a few other open chat protocols so I feel I can safely say that _preserving a chat log_ is not antithetical to the ides of freedom.

This is actually vastly important today. Last week I had to switch phones twice and set up both replacements in a matter of minutes to the point where I could communicate, and as a result I ended up destroying my WhatsApp data including chatlogs, which now aren't synced from my friends' devices. This experience is a stronger argument to me - and would be to most users I think - against WhatsApp than questions of freedom and privacy.

@ostream I'll try matrix next probably. It's true that I don't own my data in WhatsApp, but that's not the problem, because I own all the data I can collect in IRC and it still doesn't sync the chatlog from other concurrently available members of the channel. This is purely an engineering problem.

(There's also an UX problem in WhatsApp that lead me to destroy my data in the first place because I can't copy and merge backups or store multiple backups on the same cloud provider)

@ostream I didn't know you could sexually open french emo chicks on IRC, this should be advertised more :)

@ostream matrix dr is for dem cool kids!

@ostream what I like about irc is de simple protocol. Wrote servers, clients and a botnet 😁