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I remember that app! It sounded so cool but was only available for iOS at the time and when I saw the Android app a few years later by change it was only a weird proof-of-concept where you can transmit folder-icons from within the app to another phone with the app.

Mh, looks like they're still around: https://www.chirp.io/

I really like the concept, would be really nice to have a functional app one day.

I've been using Android for years and I'm still struggling with their copy and paste icons.

There has been a Radiolab episode about the slave-like conditions the workers at Amazon face:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/brown-box/

I'm not sure if that's going to work when more and more people are using mobile internet. Sure, we can all hope for real mobile flatrates but p2p videodistribution will add more traffic the networks … wait, no it wouldn't, would it?

Wow, they have a whole category for Lan-Messaging clients (only for windows, though): http://www.softpedia.com/catList/37,1,3,0,1.html Cheers!

Cool, thanks!

Yeah, that seems to be the way to go but I'd love a less geeky, n00b-friendly solution (pretty sure it doesn't exist but I can't figure out why. Is that so hard to code/achieve?).

Mh, looks like those are Windows only services/programs? I'll look into it, thanks!

I personally would be cool with that but nobody uses it, I haven't come accross this anywhere except maybe hackerspaces. Restaurant/bar owners would need to set it up, plus you need a computer(the router?) that is always online and tell the people how to enter the chatroom.

I just want a programm that I can fire up whenever I go somewhere with a (Wireless)LAN to see what's going on. Like Firechat for (W)LANs?

Don't take this too personal please but I think this is exactly how privilege works: For you it was funny because it happened to you once when you were on holidays. Now imagine this happened to you over and over, hundreds of times, since you were little in all sorts of contexts, at school, uni, work, on the street, at parties, friends, colleagues, people you don't even now. I think it gets less funny pretty fast.

The point of the OPs anecdote was that if a child who really sees an Afro for the first time does this it's okay. But grown-ups (who even if they only have contact to other white people are able to read up on those things) should know better.

I saw this a few days ago in F-Droid's „Recently Added“ category, a bluetooth chat app called Gilgamesh:

https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh (https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=info.guardianpro...)

Don't know if it's anonymous or encrypted (is that is even possible?) but other then Firechat (and most other apps linked here until now) it's Open Source.

Would love to know what someone with a more technical expertise than me thinks about this.

„I suggest the Scandinavian countries.“ Read up about The Pirate Bay trial and Julian Assange and you'll be thinking differently.

Well, I hope http://www.fairphone.com/ will do a good job, then.

And yet again the media gave him all the attention he was seeking. Also with that very article.

As a German it is always disturbing for me to read their full names (we cencor them here). Since this is one of the problems (media coverage of such events causing ever more copycats) I think the cencoring is a good thing in this case.

Boy, never thought I'd ever write that sentence.