Readit NewsOr ...Telegram (search in that page for "Telegram (secret chats)")
I'm not. I'm just saying that the majority of my friends are using it. For me it's better than skype and whatsapp. The GNU/Linux client works fine (although I'm not a big fan of its codebase: I had a look at it and guess what…)
I recently saw how all my friends moved to Telegram, and this is nice. But for instance my company has daily skype calls, and I have to get skype for those.
I eventually decided to give it up on my (Linux) laptop and get the calls only on Android, where it still sucks, but at least it works.
My two cents about alternatives: appear.in Not so good with connection establishment, but works fine most of the cases.
Edit: someone asked how this works..
1) it looks up the resource in the mapping (linked above) (matching the cdn and file path).
2) if found, it replaces it with the copy it includes: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes/tree/master/data/r...
So for those files, requests are never made to the CDN.
If the website uses a different CDN; a lib not recognized; or a version not recognized.. then the request is still made.
Does that also mean I don't get the up to date javascript library when they change?
However, I believe the real power of Perl, besides the obviously awesome regex handling, is the "huffmann" principle of making common things super-quick. Sure this is the major cause of read-only code, but it's also the reason why I use perl every time I just need things to be done.
In Perl6 they kept this principle in mind, and this is the important part IMHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Next_Generation_Internet
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