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Kevin Karhan

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Kevin Karhan

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#digitalmarketsact #platforms #DMA #portability #compatibility @European Commission

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Kevin Karhan

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#ethereum #cursed #shitcoins #cryptobros #techstack #blockchains #middleware #metamask

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Drezil

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Right as I read that I got a spam-phishing Mail for metamask 😅

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Kevin Karhan

Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • 1 Monat her (Empfangen 3 Wochen her) • •

Like: There's not much of a technical reason something similar to @zulip 's #TUI - based client could exit.

Obviously #proprietary platforms - (just like #Shitter even before #ApartheidEmeraldBoy took over and speedrun it into becoming a #NaziBar) - will try to passive-aggressively stifle such #clients, but still...

If people can build #bots for shite like #discord, #Telegram, etc. then why not make an actually good client ???

Creating A Python Discord Bot - A Complete Step-by-Step Guide - AskPython

Discord is one of the most popular social media platforms of the 21st century and making a discord bot might be one of the coolest python projects out there.

^{Shreya Bose (Rnzo1zWtYm)}

#bots #discord #telegram #Shitter #tui #clients #proprietary #nazibar #apartheidemeraldboy @Zulip

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Kevin Karhan

Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • 4 Wochen her (Empfangen 3 Wochen her) • •

We have @EUCommission [rightfully!] crack down on #cars and their #emissions by demanding ever lower #FleetEmissions and #FuelConsumption numbers but still accept #Bloatware like shitty #WebApps and #Windows11 to demand so much #WastefulComputing that it's painful.

Like Margaret Hammond and Grace Hopper would be shaking their heads in agony, pointing out how they got people on the moon with less storage than the SPD-ROM on a RAM stick and how their programming language still runs #TradFinance respectably, but somehow sending text messages is too much for a machine that costs €499 yet has more computational power than all the machines they worked on combined.

#WastefulComputing like all those phat & enshittified messengers should be illegal.

Espechally since they have 0 reason to be that resource intensive, even if we believe some of their security-focussed marketing lies.

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)

For those who don't know the [size of the problem]( https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114862595629371002): In 2006 I bought a new [entry level] Computer with 256 MB of RAM and a single-core P4 Celeron with 2,8 GHz.

^{Infosec.Space}

#windows11 #emissions #cars #webapps #wastefulcomputing #bloatware #fleetemissions #fuelconsumption #tradfinance @European Commission

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Kevin Karhan

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For those who don't know the size of the problem:

In 2006 I bought a new [entry level] Computer with 256 MB of RAM and a single-core P4 Celeron with 2,8 GHz.

This thing ran #WindowsXP and #NeedForSpeedMostWanted just fine.
Nowadays it would crash trying to open #Slack even on a minimalist #Linux distro like @bunsenlabs in @dillo, a lightweight browser ...

And now imagine that some folks have to use #Slack, #

For those who don't know the size of the problem:

In 2006 I bought a new [entry level] Computer with 256 MB of RAM and a single-core P4 Celeron with 2,8 GHz.

This thing ran #WindowsXP and #NeedForSpeedMostWanted just fine.
Nowadays it would crash trying to open #Slack even on a minimalist #Linux distro like @bunsenlabs in @dillo, a lightweight browser ...

And now imagine that some folks have to use #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, #Telegram, #Signal, #WhatApp, #WeChat, #QQ and #LineMessenger at the same time on their machine, and you can imagine that this will make entry-level desktops already scream harder than if someone were to loop the Lost Coast benchmark on them...

The #bloat of modern #WebApps is just the socially accepted equivalent to #Cryptojacking desktops and driving some phat #SuperUselessVehicle just to get less than a kg of groceries at a walking distance supermarket.

Kevin Karhan

2025-07-16 11:08:37

One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps.
My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal ¹, #Telegram, #Discord ², #WhatsApp, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:
WHY is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite?
WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU they can??
This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)
And no, bridges don't count!
I mean API 0 - style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !
So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!
Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!
Can we please get that back?
#api0 #Enshittification

Dalai (@dalai@toots.ch)
Attached: 1 image @kkarhan@infosec.space @FandaSin@social.linux.pizza Why not use Matrix and bridge the other Messenger into it? I'm a Matrix only kid, so i don't have anything to bridge, but it's possible https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/
^Toots

#superuselessvehicle #Linux #signal #microsoftteams #telegram #windowsxp #Slack #wechat #qq #webapps #bloat #whatapp #cryptojacking #needforspeedmostwanted #linemessenger @BunsenLabs Linux @Dillo browser

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Kevin Karhan

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I mean, these ain't like in the old days where a few Megabytes got you #Pidgin and other Multi-Protocol Clients of the old days where everyone had to implement bespoke, custom and incompatible and *often completely undocumented, proprietary * protocols like #ICQ, #AIM, #SIPE, etc.

Nowadays all these do have some kind of #WebApp or Web Interface one can just login (because *none of them do proper #E2EE with #SelfCustody of all the keys!) so this should be way easier these days: All they do is do HTTP(S) GET/POST so the most critical part is to attain credentials like a #Login #cookie and to basically run a console on i.e. #Firefox to reverse-engineer the #API...

Wikimedia list article

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

#e2ee #firefox #login #cookie #api #icq #pidgin #webapp #selfcustody #aim #sipe

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Kevin Karhan

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It just makes me wounder: Are modern messengers these days complicated or do the people who have the talent to write such a #MultiProtocolIM chosen that this is stupid and that like myself they'd never touch that shite in their life and make peace with it?

And I'm not talking about specific #API limitations like #Discord uses to force people to use their garbage client, but like #WhatsAppWeb and others...

#discord #api #multiprotocolim #whatsappweb

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Kevin Karhan

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And it's not like people and espechally businesses are unwilling to pay for good tools, cuz not only is HootSuite still around, but @tapbots, who made the excellent TweetBot nowadays make @ivory, an excellent #ActivityPub client with focus on #Mastodon that people are willing to pay a #subscription for!

And from what I could see from users who pay for it, they are not just happy, but it also looks and feels better than #TweetDeck in it's golden days...

tapbots.com/ivory/