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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? (feddit.dk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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(?)

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[–] gabereal451@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I learned nothing from the movie 'Hackers', it's that all hackers need to know how to rollerblade. It's like, if you don't know how to rollerblade, are you really a hacker?

[–] DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

core memory unlocked.

except replace blue with beige and granny with a running a pirate BBS