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AIM will be discontinued today

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Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by cylinder »

tunesmith wrote: post #182

One thing I'll miss about AIM is that it's a communication modality that doesn't exist right now. It was everywhere, and on MacOS it was integrated into the OS. For most people I knew, they had it set to join when they got on the computer. So it meant that you knew when your friends were at the computer, and you knew when you could have long "in the background" conversations with your friends. It was just a different…

It was just a totally different type of online conversation ("convo") which doesn't exist anymore. You always initiated with a "hey" or "sup." It was considered rude to not say "gtg, bye" before signing off or even "brb" when stepping away for 5 mins.

I will never know if the glory of my AIM days was due to being a teenager or just being a part of online chat during that special window of its history.

WhatsApp group chat with my closest friends is definitely incredible, but a different experience.

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Post by aquadrop »

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.

If you're on windows I found that MS OneNote has great built in OCR.

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Post by ansgri »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #143
Cknight70 wrote: post #113

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That's the reason I'm still using Winamp. Its aged surprisingly well and it has more features than a lot of modern media players.

It really whips the llama's ass.

There's also http://aimp2.us/, which, AFAIR, in some respects whips Winamp's ass. Sadly nothing comparable to either on Linux.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by ansgri »

digi_owl wrote: post #256
mrweasel wrote: post #101

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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.

Foobar2k on Windows and Deadbeef on Linux seems to do much the same job of playing music while staying minimal.

Sorry, but I see nothing minimal in their screenshots [0]. Same iTunes for my taste. I do believe the performance footprint is minimal, but that't not the first aspect for an everyday app.

[0] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/screenshots/0.6/screenshots....

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by herbst »

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…

Interestingly enough this should be illegal when you do a "Personal Data Request" they should be forced by law to give it out.

Re: AIM will be discontinued today

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Post by herbst »

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

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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.

> A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.

This is much more crazy the more you think about. Right now there are already thousands if not millions of kids who will never be able to get a higher up political position because of what they shared on social media.

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Post by delinka »

castis wrote: post #156
klez wrote: post #79

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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?

In the US, copyright law says you own what you create. What AOL's TOS must do is provide you with terms under which you license your stuff to AOL. Nowhere in the law does it say they have to give you a way to export the creations that you put into their system.
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