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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:09PM (#25797196)
I donated as well. I've gotten a lot of good use out of Signal over the years.
I'd recommend Ripcord [1] as a blazingly fast native app that can talk on Slack and Discord while taking a max of ~50-100MB of memory at any given time, even with lots of connections/channels open.

[1] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

Re:Safe ways to do things in bash on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @02:47AM (#17072108)
I'd recommend checking out Plumbum (https://plumbum.readthedocs.io) -- at the very least, it has a solid base for easily setting up pipelines, input/output redirection, and signal handling.