Show HN: Telegram bot with filters to read Hacker News
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#2would be better if number of points was shown on comments button, to save one line of text on mobile devices
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#3Nice idea. Will test it out.
Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future (vector/matrix is another, tent and even twitter used to be)
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#4Nice idea. Will test it out. Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future (vector/matrix is another, tent and even twitter used to be)
> Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future
Why? It was made by VK (russian Facebook) devs and there are many concerns about its security.
Re: Show HN: Telegram bot with filters to read Hacker News
#5Nice idea. Will test it out. Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future (vector/matrix is another, tent and even twitter used to be)
> Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future Why? It was made by VK (russian Facebook) devs and there are many concerns about its security.
Well, it's about the same level of security as other messengers like Facebook Messenger/Skype/..., it has a great robot API, is continuously updated on all platforms, is adding features fast, it has a great GUI, it "just works" everywhere.
Yeah, it's possible to have security like Signal, but then synchronization between devices is PITA and the rate of new features is slow.
It was not done by VK. It was done by Pavel Durov after he escaped from Russia.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future Why? It was made by VK (russian Facebook) devs and there are many concerns about its security.
Well, it's about the same level of security as other messengers like Facebook Messenger/Skype/..., it has a great robot API, is continuously updated on all platforms, is adding features fast, it has a great GUI, it "just works" everywhere. Yeah, it's possible to have security like Signal, but then synchronization between devices is PITA and the rate of new features is slow. It was not done by VK. It was done by Pavel…
> Well, it's about the same level of security as other messengers like Facebook Messenger/Skype/.. [...]
> Yeah, it's possible to have security like Signal [...]
Actually, WhatsApp has implemented Signal's encryption and they worked together with Moxie Marlinspike (the developer of Signal) who verified those claims (or something along these lines. I'm not 100% sure this is how it happened, please take it with a grain of salt). So at least one popular messenger implements security that is better than Telegram.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it's about the same level of security as other messengers like Facebook Messenger/Skype/..., it has a great robot API, is continuously updated on all platforms, is adding features fast, it has a great GUI, it "just works" everywhere. Yeah, it's possible to have security like Signal, but then synchronization between devices is PITA and the rate of new features is slow. It was not done by VK. It was done by Pavel…
> Well, it's about the same level of security as other messengers like Facebook Messenger/Skype/.. [...] > Yeah, it's possible to have security like Signal [...] Actually, WhatsApp has implemented Signal's encryption and they worked together with Moxie Marlinspike (the developer of Signal) who verified those claims (or something along these lines. I'm not 100% sure this is how it happened, please take it with a grain…
BTW, if we treat any claims about privacy and security with extreme skepticism (rightfully), then why do we trust Moxie and Facebook without being able to verify their claims? (I'm not saying that Moxie et al. are untrustworthy.)
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#8Nice idea. Will test it out. Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future (vector/matrix is another, tent and even twitter used to be)
> Telegram is one of my bets on a good, sane messaging platform for the future Why? It was made by VK (russian Facebook) devs and there are many concerns about its security.
1. It's not by VK.
2. "Many concerns" only accumulate to one bad default setting (namely end to end encryption opt-in).
People should stop spreading the same FUD over and over, it makes me wonder whether those people posting messages on social media to influence online conversions also post on HN.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Well, it's about the same level of security as other messengers like Facebook Messenger/Skype/.. [...] > Yeah, it's possible to have security like Signal [...] Actually, WhatsApp has implemented Signal's encryption and they worked together with Moxie Marlinspike (the developer of Signal) who verified those claims (or something along these lines. I'm not 100% sure this is how it happened, please take it with a grain…
BTW, if we treat any claims about privacy and security with extreme skepticism (rightfully), then why do we trust Moxie and Facebook without being able to verify their claims? (I'm not saying that Moxie et al. are untrustworthy.)
Especially when we have open source alternatives like all Telegram clients that implement MTProto (Telegram's end to end encryption protocol).
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#10lol This is exactly what I needed. It's a bit hard to read contents of HN without filters. Thank you for sharing.