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+Hello, my name is Gabriele,
+
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+and today I'm going to tell you about Telega
+
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+and the Emacs community on Telegram.
+
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+I'm not affiliated with Telegram or Telega,
+
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+and opinions are my own in general.
+
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+I'm going to give you my personal spin about these topics.
+
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+The plan for the talk is the following.
+
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+First, I'm going to talk about what is Telegram.
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+Next, I'm going to tell you
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+about the Emacs community on Telegram.
+
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+And finally, I'm going to discuss telega.el,
+
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+an Emacs package for Telegram.
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+In all of these, I'm now going to dive into details.
+
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+My goal here is to give you
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+some exposure about these topics.
+
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+You can find out more online, if you want.
+
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+Let's get started with what is
+Telegram.
+
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+Telegram is a cloud-based
+
+00:41.100 --> 00:42.879
+instant messaging platform.
+
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+It's a popular one.
+
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+It has more than half a billion users.
+
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+I think one of the reasons
+
+00:47.840 --> 00:49.600
+why it's so popular, it's because
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+it's really rich in features
+
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+while being user friendly.
+
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+Hence, in some regions,
+
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+Telegram has good market penetration.
+
+00:56.960 --> 00:59.039
+And of course, because of network effects,
+
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+this brings even more users.
+
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+The details of the features
+
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+is not particularly important.
+
+01:03.680 --> 01:04.879
+What I want to emphasize, though,
+
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+is that while Telegram is mostly text-based,
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+there's also support for audio/video calls and notes,
+
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+and there's also a lot of features
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+which typically you find
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+in other instant messaging platforms:
+
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+you can chat with yourself,
+
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+you can make polls,
+
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+you can make quizzes,
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+you can schedule messages,
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+you can send attachments of any kind,
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+even big ones, and you can send stickers.
+
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+Telegram, overall, is quite customizable,
+
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+and I would say that the platform is, overall, hackable.
+
+01:30.560 --> 01:32.799
+You can expand it with bots
+
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+and the clients are open source.
+
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+In all of this, we shouldn't forget, though,
+
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+the Telegram is centralized
+
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+and it is not free software.
+
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+Nonetheless, it's still used by a number of people,
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+and people use Telegram for different reasons.
+
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+For example, some people use it to stay in touch
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+with friends and families.
+
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+For this, Telegram offers private chats
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+or group chats with a restricted number of people.
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+A lot of people use it
+
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+for engaging in online communities.
+
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+For this, Telegram has super groups,
+
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+which are groups with up to
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+hundreds of thousands of users,
+
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+and has also channels,
+
+02:03.360 --> 02:07.119
+which are one-to-many ways of communicating,
+
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+so these are ideally suited for,
+
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+for example, following news,
+
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+all sorts of news.
+
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+Telegram also has bots
+
+02:13.680 --> 02:15.840
+which can be useful by themselves.
+
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+They provide value.
+
+02:17.040 --> 02:18.400
+And the chat with oneself
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+can be used for sending links,
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+making notes, or sending reminders.
+
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+So overall, there's multiple ways
+
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+in which you can use Telegram.
+
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+When it comes to instant messaging,
+
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+many people call Telegram home.
+
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+It shouldn't come as a surprise, then,
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+that Emacs users want to meet
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+on Telegram as well.
+
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+And indeed, there's an Emacs community on Telegram.
+
+02:38.480 --> 02:41.519
+Here I'm listing a few super groups
+about Emacs.
+
+02:41.519 --> 02:43.040
+There are language groups,
+
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+so there's Emacs English, Emacs Russian,
+
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+Emacs Spanish, Emacs Mandarin, Portuguese...
+
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+There are groups which are specific to starter packs.
+
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+For example, there are Doom Emacs,
+
+02:53.040 --> 02:54.879
+Spacemacs, and there are groups
+
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+which are specific to packages like telega
+
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+which I'm going to discuss later.
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+These are what you would expect
+
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+from traditional internet chat rooms.
+
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+So they're used for shared links,
+
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+they're used for discussing, troubleshooting,
+
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+giving each other recommendations...
+
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+I think there are healthy communities
+
+03:10.879 --> 03:12.239
+with typically a hundred
+
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+to a thousand members.
+
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+An example of an initiative that's put forth
+
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+by the Emacs community on Telegram
+
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+is @emacs_stories. @emacs_stories
+
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+collects links and messages and pictures
+
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+that can showcase what Emacs can do.
+
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+One of the goals here is
+
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+to show people that are new to emacs
+
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+what you can achieve
+
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+if you spend time with your editor.
+
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+And here, what I'm showing you
+
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+is a screenshot from Telega.
+
+03:34.159 --> 03:36.080
+So let's move on to the final topic
+
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+of this discussion,
+
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+which is telega.el.
+
+03:39.200 --> 03:41.440
+Telega is a terrific piece of software.
+
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+Telega is a interface to telegram within Emacs.
+
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+It's developed by @zevlg,
+
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+which is a long-time Emacs hacker,
+
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+and it's very actively developed.
+
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+Telegram itself is under active development,
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+and telega has to implement
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+all these new features
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+that Telegram implements.
+
+03:58.720 --> 04:00.400
+Indeed, Telega implements
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+almost all the features
+
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+available in Telegram,
+
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+even things like live location,
+
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+except for audio/video calls
+
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+but these are work in progress.
+
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+Just to give you an idea
+
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+of the size of this effort,
+
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+we're talking about
+
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+30,000 lines of code,
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+which doesn't tell you much,
+
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+but maybe you can get a sense
+
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+that this is a significant project.
+
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+In fact, I think Telega is a really remarkable
+
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+piece of software.
+
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+Not only it implements all the features
+
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+available in Telegram,
+
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+but implements new ones,
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+which are only available to Emacs users.
+
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+Here I'm blinking the documentation
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+for you to read if you're interested.
+
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+What I want to mention, though,
+
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+is that Telega is available on MELPA,
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+but it requires an external library, TDlib.
+
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+Most distributions do not pack
+
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+a recent version of TDlib.
+
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+Such you have to compile yourself.
+
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+if you don't want to compile TDlib,
+
+04:41.280 --> 04:43.120
+you can use the officially supported
+
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+Dockerfile or guix file
+
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+so that you can get everything
+
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+without too much worry.
+
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+Now let me tell you more about Telegram.
+
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+Of course, the best way is to just
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+experiment with it yourself.
+
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+And here I just want to give you
+
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+a glimpse of how Telega works.
+
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+When you start Telega,
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+what you see is a root buffer.
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+The root buffer is essentially
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+the list of all the chats that you have,
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+and, by itself, is a really powerful tool.
+
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+You can use it for sorting
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+and filtering your chats,
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+or you can create groups which are thematic.
+
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+There's sophisticated search functions.
+
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+For example, if you want to search only
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+for specific type of media,
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+you can start new chats,
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+you can get info about the chats,
+
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+and you can even change Telegram settings
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+which are applied across the board.
+
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+Here I'm showing you an example
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+of what it looks like.
+
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+As you see, we're enjoying the support for emoji
+
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+that Emacs has been improving upon
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+over the past years.
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+Once you select one of these charts,
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+you're brought to the chat buffer.
+
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+Here I'm showing an example of
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+what a chat buffer looks like.
+
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+So this is a screenshot
+
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+from the Emacs English group
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+where people were discussing about
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+compiling Emacs.
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+As you can see, we see the conversation.
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+We see the avatars.
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+We see that there's a thread.
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+We also see that
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+I'm going to send a message,
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+message with emoji,
+
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+a message with formatting,
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+and I'm attaching an object.
+
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+I can format my messages
+
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+using Markdown or Org Mode
+
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+or whatever I prefer
+
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+and I can attach any kind of attachment
+
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+I like. For example...
+
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+What I can also do is,
+
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+if I'm editing a buffer,
+
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+I can send that buffer through Telega,
+
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+which I find quite useful
+
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+especially when I'm sending code.
+
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+And again, just to show you that
+
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+Telegram is not just text messages
+
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+and Telega supports all the features in Telegram,
+
+06:25.199 --> 06:27.199
+here at the bottom, I'm showing
+
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+a voice note being played through Emacs,
+
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+and as you see, there are some buttons
+
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+which are functional.
+
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+If I hit the two times button,
+
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+the playback speed will be twice,
+
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+which is really neat.
+
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+Telega and Emacs can even
+
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+reproduce videos or gifs,
+
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+at least for a recent version of Emacs.
+
+06:45.280 --> 06:47.520
+Finally, I want to emphasize that Telega
+
+06:47.520 --> 06:49.280
+integrates really well with Emacs.
+
+06:49.280 --> 06:51.039
+For example, we are showing you
+
+06:51.039 --> 06:54.319
+how you can use a transient interface
+
+06:54.319 --> 06:56.720
+to Telega, or on the other side,
+
+06:56.720 --> 06:59.280
+I'm showing you how Telega integrates
+
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+with dashboard,
+
+07:00.080 --> 07:01.440
+so that we have recent chats
+
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+and we have the Emacs stories.
+
+07:03.120 --> 07:03.840
+Because, you know,
+
+07:03.840 --> 07:05.759
+who doesn't like Emacs with stories.
+
+07:05.759 --> 07:06.880
+On top, on the other hand,
+
+07:06.880 --> 07:08.880
+I'm showing you that we can have
+
+07:08.880 --> 07:09.919
+syntax highlighting,
+
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+which is something that Telegram by itself
+
+07:11.759 --> 07:14.240
+doesn't have, this Emacs-only feature,
+
+07:14.240 --> 07:15.919
+and we can edit this
+
+07:15.919 --> 07:17.599
+in the same way we edit
+
+07:17.599 --> 07:19.759
+Org Mode source blocks,
+
+07:19.759 --> 07:20.880
+so we can edit this
+
+07:20.880 --> 07:22.800
+with the minor mode for,
+
+07:22.800 --> 07:24.080
+in this case, Emacs Lisp.
+
+07:24.080 --> 07:26.240
+So, to conclude, I wanted to show you
+
+07:26.240 --> 07:27.759
+that the Emacs community
+
+07:27.759 --> 07:29.120
+also meets on Telegram,
+
+07:29.120 --> 07:31.360
+and we're an active and healthy community,
+
+07:31.360 --> 07:32.880
+and I want to present Telega
+
+07:32.880 --> 07:35.759
+as a really amazing piece of software,
+
+07:35.759 --> 07:37.919
+one of the best clients available for
+
+07:37.919 --> 07:39.599
+Telegram with Emacs.
+
+07:39.599 --> 07:41.680
+Even if you don't use Telegram,
+
+07:41.680 --> 07:43.599
+I think you should have a look at Telega
+
+07:43.599 --> 07:46.080
+just to appreciate how amazing
+
+07:46.080 --> 07:47.280
+a piece of software it is.
+
+07:47.280 --> 07:49.680
+And with this, I thank you for your attention,
+
+07:49.680 --> 07:50.960
+and if you like Telega,
+
+07:50.960 --> 07:52.720
+please consider donating
+
+07:52.720 --> 07:54.800
+to support the development of the package.
+
+07:54.800 --> 07:57.599
+Thanks.