Flamekebab

I don’t think the backend my code depends on supports this yet, but good to know it might well in the future.

Hardware costs have gone up, compelling games releases for them have gone down (and didn’t start from a good position).

Such a mystery.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I’ve finally made my repo public thanks to your comment: https://codeberg.org/Flamekebab/FruitBatBot

I’m not here to fight you. I was replying with a cool thing I wrote to share baby pics to family and friends, not trying to be the most perfect hardcore op sec person on the internet.

People I know use Signal. I have never even heard of two of the three services mentioned higher up the thread.

When I wrote it I was dealing with a newborn, auditing whether Signal passes some No True Scotsman test for open source-ness was really not my priority.

Ugh, this kind of response is so off-putting. You can reply if you like but I’m probably just going to delete the whole damn comment thread because fuck this kind of purity test bullshit.

I wasn’t asking for fucking feedback on my work.

Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.

But Signal is open source…?

Getting a phone number was relatively cheap and easy, so for a one-off implementation, Signal was an easy choice as it’s what many friends and family already use.

What would be the advantage?

Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.

I’ve written a Signal bot that listens for messages from my wife and me. It’s for sharing pictures of our daughter with a small list of people that want baby pics. The images we send it get blurred and sent as a preview, with an unblurred version sent as a “view once” image. Each blurred image contains an ID so that recipients can request the images again.

Didn’t Instagram add those stupid things because it was desperately trying to compete with TikTok?

I love having a platform that isn’t trying to do short form portrait video. Everywhere wants to do it and I detest the medium. It’s so boring!