In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? privsecfoss ( @privsecfoss@feddit.dk ) Free and Open Source Software • edit-21 year ago message-square310fedilinkarrow-up1198
arrow-up1198message-squareIn your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? privsecfoss ( @privsecfoss@feddit.dk ) Free and Open Source Software • edit-21 year ago message-square310fedilink
I’ll start: RSS and blogs, news vs. social media XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc. Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
minus-square DrWeevilJammer ( @DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no ) linkfedilink8•1 year agoIf you can’t rollerblade to a public phone to use your bluebox so you can call your granny for free, are you really a phreaker?
minus-square metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) linkfedilink3•1 year agocore memory unlocked. except replace blue with beige and granny with a running a pirate BBS
minus-square gabereal451 ( @gabereal451@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoHow do you use a beige box on a payphone? Wouldn’t people get curious if you start trying to expose wires and connect alligator clips?
minus-square DrWeevilJammer ( @DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoExtra memory unlocked: WWIV BBS software HOLY SHIT, it’s still being developed ^°§√|~[%$&#. NO CARRIER
minus-square gabereal451 ( @gabereal451@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoI mean, I would use a redbox myself, but diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks.
If you can’t rollerblade to a public phone to use your bluebox so you can call your granny for free, are you really a phreaker?
core memory unlocked.
except replace blue with beige and granny with a running a pirate BBS
How do you use a beige box on a payphone? Wouldn’t people get curious if you start trying to expose wires and connect alligator clips?
Extra memory unlocked: WWIV BBS software
HOLY SHIT, it’s still being developed
^°§√|~[%$&#.
NO CARRIER
I mean, I would use a redbox myself, but diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks.