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Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by mrweasel »

Cknight70 wrote: post #64

Something I'll miss about AIM and older chat clients is how compact they were. Most of these newer chat programs seem to assume you're going to have their application take up the entire screen.

Most modern audio players have the same issue. WinAmp/XMMS took up very little of your screen, while most modern players will assume that full screen is what you want.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by benburleson »

mynewtb wrote: post #97
erickj wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

upload it to Google Drive for easy OCR to a doc https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?co=GENIE.Plat...

Why let Google invade your (and your friend's) privacy just something easily done locally.

Most people (including myself, an average HN reader) don't actually know how to do this locally.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by jakebasile »

0x445442 wrote: post #85
Cknight70 wrote: post #64

Something I'll miss about AIM and older chat clients is how compact they were. Most of these newer chat programs seem to assume you're going to have their application take up the entire screen.

One thing I hate about most IM clients is the buddy/friend/roster list runs in a separate window from actual chat sessions. I much prefer the one window paradigm of IRC.

Funny, I'm the exact opposite. Most of the chat programs I use (or have used) use the combined approach. Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and so on all have the "buddy list" permanently attached to the conversation window such that you can only see a single conversation at a time. I prefer the MDI of yore since I can have multiple conversations open at once (on desktop, I realize this isn't feasible on mobile).

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by jetti »

goric wrote: post #93
jetti wrote: post #57

While I haven't used AIM in ages, I remember it fondly. There was a cool addon/hack for AIM that gave it more functionality such as combining all chats into one window and the ability to adjust the windows so that you could see through them. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If you do, do you remember the name of the addon/hack?

DeadAIM [1] was one such hack. I remember it also provided the ability to manually change your status to anything, including invisible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeadAIM

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I remember that hack fondly. It made things so much easier.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by zjaffee »

drdeadringer wrote: post #96
fragsworth wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't even consider that. All those shitty things I said when I was a teenager...

I am again reminded that "youngsters these days" pretty much no longer have this option unless their online footprint is actively managed from Day One. A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.

This isn't necessarily true, snapchat deletes all of the physical messages sent within 30 days.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by jimmaswell »

mynewtb wrote: post #97
erickj wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

upload it to Google Drive for easy OCR to a doc https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?co=GENIE.Plat...

Why let Google invade your (and your friend's) privacy just something easily done locally.

This is ridiculous FUD, you're not compromising anybody's privacy by letting google drive do an OCR for you. The chance is extremely remote that there would somehow be a leak of the information to malicious parties or the like out of Google. Is this is all over the possibility of their advertising engine seeing keywords and giving you an ad based on it? Even if that's the case then that's not a privacy violation, no human ever can see how that's associated with a specific identity. Do you also avoid sending anything personal through gmail? Using google search at all? It's impractical tinfoil hat territory to act like there's any reason to be concerned about this OCR tool or any other instance of putting your files on Google. To my knowledge there has never been a hack of Google's data or any leak connecting any user's identity to PII.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by jakebasile »

pcunite wrote: post #35

I had one of the coolest experiences with AOL Instant Messenger. I think it was 1998 ... my dad and I could communicate over this new and virtual wave of the future. I could send him a short thought, and like magic, his thoughts would appear back on my screen accompanied by a cool sound. Even though he was all the way across town, I felt very close to my dad that day.

I remember a similar experience when my dad and I tried it out back in the day. We weren't even that far apart but I remember as a 10-12 year old (can't remember exact time) asking him to use it to talk to me from the next room over. I wish I had kept those AIM and other services' messages since they're mostly lost to me due to either the service shutting down, lost passwords, or my own mistake of deleting them around the time he died - in my grief I thought I'd never want to see them again.

It was one of the things that got me into computers. Although it doesn't directly affect my day to day as I no longer use AIM, it was the first place I registered my screen name that I still use everywhere. Yes, my screen name is just my name, but it has significance to me all the same.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by mynewtb »

benburleson wrote: post #102
mynewtb wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why let Google invade your (and your friend's) privacy just something easily done locally.

Most people (including myself, an average HN reader) don't actually know how to do this locally.

You can search for 'OCR your-os' and will get a multitude of tools that work locally.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by toomanybeersies »

tantalor wrote: post #37
toomanybeersies wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I presume you mean Snapchat stories? In that case, it's a bit different. Snapchat (and Instagram) stories are a gallery of photos and videos that you upload, where the photos and videos are removed from the gallery after 24 hours. Essentially giving you a rolling 24 hour window into peoples lives. I've become a big fan of instagram stories as a way of keeping up with what my friends are doing, since I've moved overse…

> gallery of photos and videos that you upload, where the photos and videos are removed from the gallery after 24 hours Ugh, really? That sounds like a lot of work. Pass.

Basically if you see something cool, you take a snap.

Usually when I take a photo, I say "neat!", so I feel like Bender in Futurama (https://gph.is/1LilXnT)

Anyway, my point is they've made it quite seamless. Pull out phone, swipe for camera, maybe type some text, and hit the upload key.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by Xeoncross »

zjaffee wrote: post #105
drdeadringer wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am again reminded that "youngsters these days" pretty much no longer have this option unless their online footprint is actively managed from Day One. A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.

This isn't necessarily true, snapchat deletes all of the physical messages sent within 30 days.

Snapchat is only one of several organizations who get a copy of the messages.
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