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He even got hansmayer's original comment flagged. Truly a champion of the open web we should all be backing!


Correction: the champion of Web 2.0 2.0 - * whatever that means* :)


I didn't flag it.


Tchap looks neat as a Slack alternative, but it seems like it's still only for government workers.


Tchap is just Element/Matrix with some gov specific features.


We use Mattermost at work, and apart from the mobile app being a bit shit, and search being kind of useless, it's easily as good as Slack. In some ways it's better, e.g. you can use proper Markdown in messages instead of Slack's Mrkdwn abomination that doesn't even allow links.

I wish they would improve search though; it's kind of a critical feature in a company.


? I put Slack into non-rich-text-editor mode and use standard markdown link syntax dozens of times a day


Well maybe they've added that in the past 2 years but certainly 2 years ago you could only add links using rich text mode.


search is the #1 feature I use in our corporate slack (huge, huge instance).

without search it's useless.


It has search, it's just very basic. Only searches for exactly what you put etc.

I remember Slack's search being equally crap when I last used it a couple of years ago.


sounds exactly like slacks search, except slack also doesn't find exactly what you put in sometimes... (think the indexing isn't very fast because sometime a day old message is impossible to search for)


slack search has been awesome for me. if you want exact search, put it into quotation marks.


One simple script that automatically connects to your account on the current time frame's server and unifies all into a single timeline will kill the fun.


The messiest launch ever. The renewed UI makes it easy to assume that the LLM-backed Siri is already here but just isn't much better than the old one. A marketing disaster.


The notion of a class-action lawsuit was born for this day.


AI assistance in IDEs was the final nail in the coffin for Apple's development environment, which had already —and consistently— been lagging behind for over a decade.


This is awesome.


You beat me to it! Old enough to remember reading about this in the tech press back in the day.


Gen≠Z here, and that does sound like the best party ever.


I hang up the moment I realize it’s a sales call. If I’m in a particularly great mood that day, I might mutter a quick “No thank you I’m not interested.”

The way I vindicate myself morally is by knowing I’m not wasting their time this way. People like me are dead ends —— I know that I’m never going to be convinced to buy whatever they’re selling in a million years. By ending the call quickly, I feel like I’m doing them a favor. They can move on to someone who might actually be interested.


I try to do that, and if I get the robodialer pause I do hang up without any preamble. But some of the sales scripts are unnervingly similar to normal work conversations I have any day of the week. Those folks? They get the “no thank you” first, but sometimes they call back, and it’s open season after that.


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