21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by libraryatnight on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:09PM (#24511068)

at least you had a friend to email! I couldn't get any of my friends to do it. "Man we can encrypt our emails." "But why..." "It'd be cool" "This seems hard." "Come on, exchange keys with me." "I don't want to make one."

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by thereticent on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:50PM (#24511350)

My high school friends and I settled for using Gain and Pidgin to enable the "secure" icon. :)

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by input_sh on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:24AM (#24513918)

Ah, the good old days when I could just plug my IM services into one desktop app. I miss those days very much.

Now I use three Electron apps on a typical work day.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by flyx86 on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:14AM (#24514636)

Matrix bridges do that for me today! Currently using IRC and Telegram bridges, thinking about adding Slack.

Sadly, Electron-based Element is still the best Matrix client by far.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by the_duke on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:14AM (#24514954)

The lack of thread support in Element makes Slack bridging very hard to use, sadly.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by flyx86 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:35AM (#24515446)

I needed some time to figure out you're not talking about multithreading in JavaScript/electron, but about this

https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2349

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by JetSpiegel on Saturday September 19, 2020 @10:31PM (#24531568)

I still use Pidgin for Skype and Hangouts. For text only it's perfect:

- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-hangouts-git/ - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/purple-skypeweb-git/

Works even on old and crappy computers.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by nikisweeting on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:53PM (#24556860)

Rambox and Franz both do this today. They are electron apps but you only need one for all your services.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by godelski on Thursday September 17, 2020 @08:15PM (#24511532)

For awhile you could use Pidgin and OTR to even have secure messages through facebook's messenger. I'm not sure if they decrypted it or not, but it sure was fun.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by gogopuppygogo on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:06PM (#24512566)

Reminded me of my Adium days.

Back when I liked my messenger app on the Mac.

Apple has tried hard to degrade the experience of their built in messenger.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by sli on Thursday September 17, 2020 @08:51PM (#24511805)

Been a hot minute since I've thought about Gaim. Thanks for the memories.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by thereticent on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:16PM (#24512281)

Yep, I meant Gaim. Damn you, autocorrect!

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by p1mrx on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:00PM (#24512531)

Gaim is just Pidgin's original name.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by Alopis on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:04AM (#24513174)

I assume he first used it when it was called Gaim, so he has stronger memories associated with that name than with Pidgin.

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