From f42b79a72171b466ed40add53fe1ffa282dc2224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Blue Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:53:45 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] #228 --- drafts/Telegram.md | 10 ++++++++++ notes/Notes-Telegram.md | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 drafts/Telegram.md diff --git a/drafts/Telegram.md b/drafts/Telegram.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..28eb15eb --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/Telegram.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# I Trust Telegram + +Believe it or not, I, too originally sought the Russian-owned, cross-platform-as-hell messaging service for “privacy” - or perhaps *solitude* would be more apt. It was in 2017, amidst the shock that the Tump Presidency was *actually going to happen* [^1], that I happened to hear about his pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVoss, whom had just 18 months prior led myself and some twenty thousand other poor souls in a most capitalist prayer to the Christian God for prosperity at her pyramid scheme’s ultimate “superbowl” gathering in Cincinatti. I had decided to “infiltrate” AMWAY under the ridiculous assumption that I might be able to contribute some new insight in writing critically about what I might witness. (In truth, I found my experiences that summer so utterly traumatic, existentially, that I never was able to do so.) I don’t know what consequences of her ascension to the Lord of American Schooling I expected to happen, but I was pretty hysterical about it - that is, more unhumorously alarmed about some grander world happening as I’d ever been by a long shot. For the first and only time in memory, I felt compelled to take some sort of malicious, obscured action - to organize somehow for a purpose other than to be publicly critical of this person, and to use my knowledge about digital media to the fullest possible extent to scrutinize her administration’s every movement and to be prepared, even, to take some sort of real action if she… well, I don’t know. I *didn’t* know anything, really, about anti-government organization, generally, but I was not acting rationally in the slightest.[^2] + +![White Sapphire](https://i.snap.as/aNADRjvK.png) + +I’m bringing this up for a few reasons, and the fact that the very decision of my personal hysteria was to set up a private Telegram channel + +[1] I still have not accepted this, by the way. I’m still back there. +[2] If I were to be 100% sincere, I might ask you to consider that this (hilariously brief) intent was a method of coping with the great existential truths I was facing for the first time. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/notes/Notes-Telegram.md b/notes/Notes-Telegram.md index 3f175ce2..d5a36359 100644 --- a/notes/Notes-Telegram.md +++ b/notes/Notes-Telegram.md @@ -3,4 +3,16 @@ * Relative link to messages that don't involve complex scripting. * Unlimited file upload limit - **2GB PER FILE LIMIT**. * Cross-platform as all fuck. -* Every programming/scripting language ever \ No newline at end of file +* Every programming/scripting language ever has at least a few (probably unfinished and abandoned) projects in the wild building support for Telegram APIs. +* Drafts as a safe dependable space to compose text does not have a windows equivalent, but Telegram can sort of function in that regard, largely because it continuously saves what one types in the text field. + + + +This is going to seem entirely out of left field, but for those looking for that OG function of Drafts... as just a safe place to compose text you intend to use elsewhere (as opposed to the Tweet compose interface, which just lost me like 15 minutes of typing, which led me here... hehe,) + +[Equivalent To Drafts, But For Windows?](https://talk.automators.fm/t/equivalent-to-drafts-but-for-windows/6159/8) - Windows - Automators Talk + +I have been using [**Telegram**](https://desktop.telegram.org/), of all things for years. notably, if you hit Ctrl + 0 from *anywhere* in the Windows client, you and your cursor are taken to the compose field beneath your personal "Saved Messages" channel, which is searchable, has an extremely high per-message character limit (after which it just automatically splits,) and is ridiculously reliable in saving "drafts" live as you're typing. as in... I have actively tried to lose characters by killing the application and then logging in on my phone and have yet to accomplish losing a single one (among other advantages: zero formatting added to plain text by default - not even line breaks - no total file limit and *2GB* per file limit uploads, absurdly cross-platform, literally more reliable than SMS in poor network conditions.) you can immediately reenter a sent message with `↑` to edit, copy it, escape with just `Esc` and then paste to start a new revision. + +my other suggestion which I would personally use for this if I wasn't such a high-intensity clipboard user: +God's great gift to man, [**CopyQ**](https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/,) is an extremely robust and infinitely customizable clipboard manager that supports complex scripting and.... somehow... I just managed to set up live syncing of my CopyQ clipboard over *iCloud for Windows*, and you absolutely would not believe how well it actually works. \ No newline at end of file