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badly coded _fancy/shiny_ shit with a web interface ;) Apart from the sarcasm, I'm serious on the web part, which is terrible: all around the world people are
by pmlnr 10y ago
badly coded _fancy/shiny_ shit with a web interface ;)
Apart from the sarcasm, I'm serious on the web part, which is terrible: all around the world people are "porting" protocols to JSON+HTTP ( example: JMAP[1] ). IRC is awesome[2], but it's not GET & POST and the new kids on the block run away if it's a real protocol instead of a HTTP hack.
[1]: http://jmap.io/ http://jmap.io/
[2]: https://aaronparecki.com/2015/08/29/8/why-i-live-in-irc https://aaronparecki.com/2015/08/29/8/why-i-live-in-irc
- tormeh 10y agoIt's because of firewalls.
- pmlnr 10y agoSorry, but this is bs. You could run any application on any port: IRC on port 80 with SSL would still run just fine.
- oarsinsync 10y agoIt'll run fine, but I won't be able to connect to it from the inside of a corporate firewall, which doesn't actually grant me access to the internet, but redirects me transparently to an HTTP proxy that only permits HTTP requests to tcp/80 and tcp/443, with SSL interception on the proxy. You can run whatever you want however you want, but that doesn't change the reality of the enterprise environment.
- pmlnr 10y agoThat's a real problem which I forgot about. Sorry.
- wtbob 10y agoThe thing is, you really shouldn't be using your corporate network for non-work-related things. Use your own network service for that kind of thing! Do you want your boss to see your reddit history?
- notacoward 10y agoSome of us don't have Reddit histories we'd be ashamed of others seeing.