WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by walrus01 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:19PM (#16634462)

you ssh into your own trusted openbsd system, run bitchx and connect to efnet, just like the good lord intended back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

i am only partially sarcastic here.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by djsumdog on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:56PM (#16634954)

I do miss the mad west of the IRC/NNTP days. I also miss multiple search engines. Yahoo/Lycos/Hotbot/Dogpile/AltaVista all give you different results and you could have fun searching around.

The current Internet is a monoculture

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by lazyjones on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:33AM (#16637464)

NNTP, so awesome until 95% of its resources were consumed by its abuse as a file sharing platform for (naughty to nasty) images and pirated software and until power-hungry local group moderators started abusive banning/deleting practices against people who disagreed with their opinions on politics etc.

People want their own fluffy & safe social bubbles, not open, distributed networks.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by Gigablah on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:14PM (#16635066)

You do realize that DDG is the modern incarnation of Dogpile?

Also, why are we pretending that Bing, Yandex and Baidu don't exist?

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by endisukaj on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:38AM (#16636858)

Because Yandex and Baidu give your data to some of the worst governments in the world.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by lazyjones on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:26AM (#16637420)

IRC, so awesome, until local server admins began k-lining people for disagreeing with them.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by sureaboutthis on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:19AM (#16637744)

An aside and coincidentally, WhatsApp runs on FreeBSD.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by peterwwillis on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:10PM (#16635046)

you can afford a dedicated openbsd system?! i'd have to use a friend's free shell account and hope i don't get klined (again)

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by lgregg on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:26PM (#16634501)

you lost me after openbsd.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by walrus01 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:41PM (#16634581)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitchX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by lgregg on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:29PM (#16635153)

ahhh, Yes... I remember IRC. I used a different client though.

I looked at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_C...

mIRC is the only familiar one. Then again, this was back when I was a kid. Vaguely related, AIM was my jam. I was a script kiddy and needed IRC to talk to all the l337 h4ck3r5.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by danielvf on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:40PM (#16634569)

Definitions:

bitchx - an IRC client: http://www.bitchx.com/

efnet - one of the oldest IRC networks, founded in 1990

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by portofcall on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:40PM (#16634575)

IRC baby, and efnet is an old network you can connect to. Bitchx is an irc client, free last I checked. To GP, are eggdrop bots still a thing?

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by walrus01 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:43PM (#16634588)

I believe they are, though I haven't checked in a long time. Seems to be semi actively maintained.

https://github.com/eggheads/eggdrop

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by dopamean on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:17AM (#16635669)

irssi

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by walrus01 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:11AM (#16636336)

Back in my day we walked uphill to the vt100 terminal both ways, used ircII, and irssi didn't exist yet.

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by dopamean on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:34PM (#16642634)

lol touche

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