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Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by jimmaswell »

ouid wrote: post #129
jimmaswell wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If that algorithm is building a model of me, then yes, it's clearly an invasion of my privacy. Google itself is the entity that I do not want to have access to a model of me.

I don't agree that an algorithm building a model of you based on information you've provided to the website is an invasion of privacy.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by greg5green »

phyzome wrote: post #147

As of yesterday, they were sending an announcement every 5 minutes about the impending shutdown. Now when you try to connect, they send the announcement and then disconnect you. I guess they want to see 0 traffic before they pull the plug.

Adium just got disconnected about 1:20am EST and shows an error when trying to connect. Were you using the official client?

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by ReverseCold »

mrweasel wrote: post #101
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.

Vox on MacOS does this by default. Very simple/fast/small music player.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by ReverseCold »

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.

What chat apps use separate windows? The only one I can think of is Steam.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by castis »

klez wrote: post #79
kodt wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, for one, am happy to see all my old AIM conversations deleted and lost forever.

Ok, but that should be your choice, not AOL's.

Did they ever say that information they store on their servers is solely owned by the user that generated said information?

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by jwilk »

danschumann wrote: post #120
danschumann wrote: post #116

When I started using aim, my password was 4 characters, and was a dictionary word, and I never got hacked. I spent days chatting with friends, chasing girls. I feel sad.

By the way it was "took" I thought that's how you spelled tukee (the exotic bird ). Hopefully no one can use this password against me.. Not sure if I ever changed it!

I wasn't sure what bird is that, so I googled for "tukee bird". Google says "Did you mean: turkey bird", but it shows me pictures of toucans. I'm confused.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by mikegerwitz »

jimmaswell wrote: post #106
mynewtb wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It really doesn't matter.

For those who are concerned about the privacy and are mindful enough to care about the privacy of others, putting any information on anyone else's computer (like Google's servers) is a leak. You don't know what is being done with those data, intentionally or not. And that would be the case regardless of whether or not the software is free/libre---it's being sent across a network to a destination you do not control.

Of course, information is leaked all of the time. Depending on the software that you use, your (generally, not you specifically) address book on your phone might be available to numerous remote services, and that is directly parsable by third parties, and directly tied to you and your contacts. It's up to you to consider your threat model. mynewtb's threat model is different than yours.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by Cknight70 »

ReverseCold wrote: post #155
0x445442 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What chat apps use separate windows? The only one I can think of is Steam.

Pretty much every older chat program used this at some point including Google chat, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Pidgin, and even Skype.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by linkedlist007 »

nerdponx wrote: post #19

Unfortunately you are not able to save or export your Buddy List. Your data associated with AIM will be deleted after December 15, 2017. Yes, you can manually save images and files to your computer until the morning of December 15, 2017. Whatever you thought of AIM, it's stuff like this that makes you realize just how important software freedom is. Insane that there is just no way at all , without outright hacking th…

Your data associated with AIM will be deleted after December 15, 2017.

Is it my data? If it is, why are you deciding for me what happens to it?

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