Comment by mberning
1 day ago
I am always amazed at how people can put so much effort into something that will very likely be killed or made impossible by the vendor. Reminds me of that iMessage client for android. It lasted what, a couple weeks of cat and mouse?
I enjoy the cat-and-mouse!
I've been writing the Teams plugin for Pidgin for the past few years and its great to be able to give users the kind of features or privacy options that you'd never get from official clients, while learning lots of fun ways (ab)using web tech to solve problems.
Like how in Teams, it does a "reverse webhook" to push presence notifications to a web client acting as a server over a websocket
No idea if it applies here. But many people outside of tech start crafty projects as a way of regaining some control from stress and pressure. Its fun, rewarding and something you can do in a sea of things you can't.
Beeper mini.
Teams will always work in a browser, so make hay whilst the sun shines.
Sadly bits fall off depending on which browser you use. Firefox seems to have fallen out of favour and can no longer share. Chromium efforts still seem to work OK. I have sometimes found that faking my browser agent helps with stability ... which is sad and possibly rather disingenuous.
I must get around to spinning up a Jitsi jobbie. BBB should be my favourite but is a non starter due to elderly software in the stack. I need to take another look at all this stuff.
I mean that's like real life too right? you'll die eventually so might as well give up? or you might get hit by a car tomorrow too so yeah don't bother with anything.
Also lets forget the fact that some people actually like coding or wanted a fun weekend project.