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They shut down discord?
Skype was shutdown forever ago
Edit: Skype for Business was shutdown but not regular ol skype!
I considered Skype shut down as soon as Microsoft bought it and broke it. I didnt wait around to see what turd they finally reshaped it into.
I used it for a while after they acquired it and it got sooooo bad sooooo fast. You made the right decision
Lync -> MS Teams
Idk it’s like any other relaunch for software, sometime a good sometime a shit
What I’m I using then to “Skype” my family?
Thanks for checking me, it turns out only Skype for business was shutdown but regular ol skype is still in use!
Oh yeah, that did happen (it was a completely separate protocol iirc, they just used the same name). Even with a local app it just redirects to Teams (I’m too lazy to uninstall it at the office so like twice a year or starts with Windows logon). It’s funny how MS keeps buying competitors from the same market & they end up with line 5 business social media apps, several chat services, etc.
I really think these companies just get so big they don’t know what to fucking do with themselves anymore so board members just push psychotic movement towards anything remotely shiny.
Such a strange existence this life
Skype was mostly p2p so it enabled a lot more free functionality. Discord runs everything through its servers.
Almost as though it would be better if it didn’t
Pros and cons.
The experience is way more consistent in a centralized service. In Skype, sometimes your messages took ages to send and the call quality was horrible.
In turn, on a centralized service, they have limits, monetization, and they can sell your data.
P2P exposes your IP to those you need to connect to. So if you’re a streamer or something - share a file and you dox yourself. It also means if you’re offline you can’t send the file.
It’s just not practical over remotely hosted for it to be the default. There’s other apps you can download if you still want to use P2P
That’s the main reason I left Skype. Giving someone even your username and simply answering their call would expose your IP and be a major security liability.
skype probably didn’t save a copy of all your files forever, discord has to save a copy for the government!
Original Skype was mine blowing at the time because it was able to send files peer to peer even when people were behind firewalls. Peer to peer file transfers were the norm at the time, but when both parties were behind firewall file transfers wouldn’t work, obviously. Skype used different hacks like UDP punch to establish P2P connection and if everything failed then it would fall back to proxying.
Skype was wild with how aggressively it tried to create a direct connection. I love it for its tenacity but it would do things like open up listening sockets on common server ports (so it would conflict with e.g. a webserver) which drove me nuts at the time
Haha, yeah! Going to settings and changing ports was always the first thing to do after installing Skype.
How is udp a hack?
UDP punching is a hack.
UDP hole punching could be regarded as a clever “hack”
Recently I wanted to transfer one 20GB file to my brother and I ended up using FileZilla.
But before that I tried some quick effortless solutions (like opening Skype/Teams and using that) and I failed.
I miss opening the IM app and quickly transfer something.
Bro fuck discord
Honest question: how come?
Because is proprietary and they’ve been making bad decisions like removing discriminators. Try out https://revolt.chat or https://matrix.org instead.
Dont forget they also harvest quite literally every single piece of data they possibly can about you- and if you install their app they collect information on everything else happening on your pc as well.
Oh and the admins have been exposed as groomers and their platform is absolutely infested with pedophiles in general.
That’s like… any platform ever tho?
I was going to ask “every platform is run by groomers and is infested by pedos?” but then I realized how close to true it is…
No sense in fighting the ‘everyone collects and sells your data’ point however, considering yes- they all do, but some do far far more harvesting than others…
The thing that did it for me was the updated privacy policy scandal about how they could now store all the contents of voice recordings. Now they know exactly where I live, how much I make, everything. Never paying for Nitro again, and my activity there plummeted.
Why is everyone celebrating that companies are starting to keep voice recordings and chat records of users? It is mad.
This is limitations of scylladb and their api service requirements.
They haves something called a service agreement. That means the API is required to respond in 99% 99.999% etc. and by limiting to 8mb for files, charging for a bit more etc. they can both monetize and enforce guaranteed api requirements internally.
Isn’t the file limit 25MB these days? And yeah, I remember Skype having no limit on that but I also remember it taking an eternity and a half to transfer some of those files.
The fucking bane of my existence I swear, all my homies hate filesize limits.
Fortunately we have a few options, some better than others, and if it helps one person Imma talk about it now.
Magic-wormhole: My favorite, CLI client that shares files from your computer to a server to be downloaded with a password you send through your normal means of communication. No filesize limit, files stay on the server for 1h unless downloaded (deleted after download.) For sensitive information I would PGP it before I upload but I have trust issues.
Warp: Magic wormhole, but GUI. Second favorite, only because I love my terminal so much. It’s literally just a GUI wrapper for magic wormhole though so no complaints from me. Works on windows too iirc, and the android wrapper for it is called just “wormhole” alone, no “magic.”
Onionshare: Sends files directly from your pc to theirs, works through Tor. I have gotten it to work before, but sometimes it hates me and refuses to connect, usually when I try to DL from mobile.
Soulseek: Not exactly private, but it works if you can forward a port. If you need privacy you’ll have to mark the files as private, probably name them something nondescript like “file1,” and set it so only your trusted buddies can download it, then whitelist the buddy you want to share it with for that time (would have to remove trust for buddies by default, only enabling the ones for the current file to be shared, then swap that again next time. Like I said it “works” but it’s far from ideal. Would also PGP them files to be safe.)
Torrents: well we all know this one, it’s the classic!
I’m probably forgetting some/don’t know some, so anyone else feel free to add!
The classic would probably be plain old FTP, but SFTP/SCP/SSH works fine as well.
When I need to share files to newbs I usually just use a small Node script to host an HTTPS server from terminal, and give them a file link
I remember being shown FTP back in high school and finding any reason at all to use it, in spite of the fact there were better alternatives for my friends to access certain files, especially considering I probably got the shit of Kazaa anyway. But we FTP’d, and it was slow most of the time, or slower than any of the shares, but it felt good.
so true
“Hello, File Seller, I am going into uploading and need your strongest files”. “My files are too powerful for you, traveller”.
You cannot handle my files traveller!
Tbf, the Skype file transfer was shit
It was internet that was shit back then. File transfer didn’t change.
Tbf all P2P file transfer back then was shit.
Torrents tho
Hard to disagree but with internet we had back in the day it was hard to send large files with just about anything
Y’all don’t pass CDs around anymore?
You stopped using floppy?
Smh, kids these days. Clay tablets are superior!
I want to see your clay tablet when it rains young man. We drew on walls in a cave and then told the other one to go there.
You can burn them, but you can’t reuse them afterwards
But cave sharing is not private. Once it’s in the cave, it’s there forever. Do you want some scientist to study your nudes 10,000 years from now?
I graduated to 100MB ZIP Disks.
25Mega Bites now
😬🦷🪥
Just use mega instead???
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