Flaki

Well I guess I have a really good reason now to figure out how to get the rest of the family & the family chat to Signal.

Half a decade of chat history will be hard to let go... :(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxvr3n7wlxo

Telegram announces partnership with Musk's xAI

The $300m deal, which will last one year, will see xAI's assistant Grok integrated into Telegram.

BBC News
May 30 at 4:51pmWeb
Show threadcoldclimateMay 30
@flaki I am beyond furious
Show threadDennis SchubertMay 30
@flaki A couple of years ago, I used tg-archive to dump all chat history into a sqlite database. Worked fine back then. Of course, you still can't import that into Signal, but at least you can search it and sift through old memories.
GitHub - knadh/tg-archive: A tool for exporting Telegram group chats into static websites like mailing list archives.

A tool for exporting Telegram group chats into static websites like mailing list archives. - knadh/tg-archive

GitHub
Show threadjan-erikMay 30
@denschub @flaki uff the memories.
Show threadDennis SchubertMay 30
@jer @flaki heh, I thought about adding "but in hindsight, I regretted that, I should have just let it go" - but I didn't want to be /that guy/. :p
Show threadjan-erikMay 30
@denschub @flaki so much good stuff in there.
Show threadFlakiMay 30
@jer @denschub for certain (=twisted) definitions of "good"
Show threadFlakiMay 30
@denschub love that it grabs all the media + makes a static website, will give it a go in (one of the) weekends, would be great to wave goodbye to good ole товарищ Pavel
Show threadDennis SchubertMay 30

@flaki it doesn't dedup files, though, so if you send a lot of meme pictures, be warned.

(rdfind -makesymlinks true . for the win.)