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~pseudoriemann

Thanks for the encouragement! I have never been called a hacker before (even though I have used the command line in public) so I will take this as a badge of honor.

I definitely learned some things by doing this side quest, mainly that tinkering with video/audio programmatically can be much more tricky than one might think. It was very annoying to get things working but I'm glad I did it in the end.

Sadly not all software freedom related problems can be circumvented by hacks. The biggest issue is that the majority of important discussion among my fellow students is done via WhatsApp groups...

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~kyle wrote (thread):

Sadly not all software freedom related problems can be circumvented by hacks. The biggest issue is that the majority of important discussion among my fellow students is done via WhatsApp groups...

This is very annoying. Back then we used to have a mailing lists.

Have you tried this thing, btw?

kyle@saturn$ apt info yowsup-cli
Package: yowsup-cli
Version: 3.2.3-2
Priority: optional
Section: net
Source: yowsup
Maintainer: Josue Ortega <josue@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 57.3 kB
Depends: python3:any, python3-yowsup, python3-protobuf (>= 3.6.0), python3-pil
Homepage: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
Download-Size: 21.0 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
Description: command line tool that acts as WhatsApp client
 WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows
 you to exchange messages, via Internet, without having to pay for SMS,
 using a mobile phone.
 .
 In addition to basic messaging, WhatsApp users can create groups, send
 each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages.
 .
 yowsup-cli is a command line program, based in python-yowsup library, that
 allows you to login and use the WhatsApp service, providing all capabilities
 of an official WhatsApp client, as encryption of messages. This program can
 be used for multiple purposes as e.g. to receive messages from network servers
 or appliances, notifying about issues, via direct command or by special agents
 (Zabbix, Nagios, iwatch, portsentry, etc.).
 .
 This package is a good example of the python-yowsup library implementation.