From e8e25c3c457b30b34bbae4c93ebd08ae48d1d710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:45:57 -0500 Subject: Update --- ...m--gabriele-bozolla-and-evgeny-zajcev--main.vtt | 769 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 769 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-telega--telega-el-and-the-emacs-community-on-telegram--gabriele-bozolla-and-evgeny-zajcev--main.vtt (limited to '2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-telega--telega-el-and-the-emacs-community-on-telegram--gabriele-bozolla-and-evgeny-zajcev--main.vtt') diff --git a/2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-telega--telega-el-and-the-emacs-community-on-telegram--gabriele-bozolla-and-evgeny-zajcev--main.vtt b/2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-telega--telega-el-and-the-emacs-community-on-telegram--gabriele-bozolla-and-evgeny-zajcev--main.vtt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..87161e3d --- /dev/null +++ b/2021/captions/emacsconf-2021-telega--telega-el-and-the-emacs-community-on-telegram--gabriele-bozolla-and-evgeny-zajcev--main.vtt @@ -0,0 +1,769 @@ +WEBVTT + +00:00.000 --> 00:01.599 +Hello, my name is Gabriele, + +00:01.599 --> 00:03.439 +and today I'm going to tell you about Telega + +00:03.439 --> 00:05.600 +and the Emacs community on Telegram. + +00:05.600 --> 00:08.400 +I'm not affiliated with Telegram or Telega, + +00:08.400 --> 00:10.719 +and opinions are my own in general. + +00:10.719 --> 00:14.160 +I'm going to give you my personal spin about these topics. + +00:14.160 --> 00:16.160 +The plan for the talk is the following. + +00:16.160 --> 00:18.800 +First, I'm going to talk about what is Telegram. + +00:18.800 --> 00:19.840 +Next, I'm going to tell you + +00:19.840 --> 00:21.840 +about the Emacs community on Telegram. + +00:21.840 --> 00:24.720 +And finally, I'm going to discuss telega.el, + +00:24.720 --> 00:26.560 +an Emacs package for Telegram. + +00:26.560 --> 00:29.359 +In all of these, I'm now going to dive into details. + +00:29.359 --> 00:30.880 +My goal here is to give you + +00:30.880 --> 00:33.120 +some exposure about these topics. + +00:33.120 --> 00:35.840 +You can find out more online, if you want. + +00:35.840 --> 00:38.960 +Let's get started with what is +Telegram. + +00:38.960 --> 00:41.100 +Telegram is a cloud-based + +00:41.100 --> 00:42.879 +instant messaging platform. + +00:42.879 --> 00:44.079 +It's a popular one. + +00:44.079 --> 00:46.559 +It has more than half a billion users. + +00:46.559 --> 00:47.840 +I think one of the reasons + +00:47.840 --> 00:49.600 +why it's so popular, it's because + +00:49.600 --> 00:51.360 +it's really rich in features + +00:51.360 --> 00:52.960 +while being user friendly. + +00:52.960 --> 00:54.640 +Hence, in some regions, + +00:54.640 --> 00:56.960 +Telegram has good market penetration. + +00:56.960 --> 00:59.039 +And of course, because of network effects, + +00:59.039 --> 01:01.120 +this brings even more users. + +01:01.120 --> 01:02.239 +The details of the features + +01:02.239 --> 01:03.680 +is not particularly important. + +01:03.680 --> 01:04.879 +What i want to emphasize, though, + +01:04.879 --> 01:08.400 +is that while telegram is mostly text-based + +01:08.400 --> 01:12.000 +there's also support for audio/video calls and notes, + +01:12.000 --> 01:13.600 +and there's also a lot of features + +01:13.600 --> 01:15.119 +which typically you find + +01:15.119 --> 01:17.360 +in other instant messaging platforms: + +01:17.360 --> 01:18.479 +you can chat with yourself, + +01:18.479 --> 01:19.360 +you can make polls, + +01:19.360 --> 01:20.159 +you can make quizzes, + +01:20.159 --> 01:21.280 +you can schedule messages, + +01:21.280 --> 01:23.280 +you can send attachments of any kind, + +01:23.280 --> 01:25.759 +even big ones, and you can send stickers. + +01:25.759 --> 01:27.759 +Telegram, overall, is quite customizable, + +01:27.759 --> 01:30.560 +and I would say that the platform is, overall, hackable. + +01:30.560 --> 01:32.799 +You can expand it with bots + +01:32.799 --> 01:35.280 +and the clients are open source. + +01:35.280 --> 01:37.280 +In all of this, we shouldn't forget, though, + +01:37.280 --> 01:38.448 +the Telegram is centralized + +01:38.448 --> 01:39.840 +and it is not free software. + +01:39.840 --> 01:42.720 +Nonetheless, it's still used by a number of people, + +01:42.720 --> 01:45.200 +and people use telegram for different reasons. + +01:45.200 --> 01:47.200 +For example, some people use it to stay in touch + +01:47.200 --> 01:48.399 +with friends and families. + +01:48.399 --> 01:50.560 +For this, Telegram offers private chats + +01:50.560 --> 01:53.600 +or group chats with a restricted number of people. + +01:53.600 --> 01:55.040 +A lot of people use it + +01:55.040 --> 01:57.600 +for engaging in online communities. + +01:57.600 --> 01:59.439 +For this, Telegram has super groups, + +01:59.439 --> 02:00.719 +which are groups with up to + +02:00.719 --> 02:02.159 +hundreds of thousands of users, + +02:02.159 --> 02:03.360 +and has also channels, + +02:03.360 --> 02:07.119 +which are one-to-many ways of communicating, + +02:07.119 --> 02:09.280 +so these are ideally suited for, + +02:09.280 --> 02:10.959 +for example, following news, + +02:10.959 --> 02:12.167 +all sorts of news. + +02:12.167 --> 02:13.680 +Telegram also has bots + +02:13.680 --> 02:15.840 +which can be useful by themselves. + +02:15.840 --> 02:17.040 +They provide value. + +02:17.040 --> 02:18.400 +And the chat with oneself + +02:18.400 --> 02:20.400 +can be used for sending links, + +02:20.400 --> 02:23.440 +making notes, or sending reminders. + +02:23.440 --> 02:24.959 +So overall, there's multiple ways + +02:24.959 --> 02:26.560 +in which you can use telegram. + +02:26.560 --> 02:28.239 +When it comes to instant messaging, + +02:28.239 --> 02:30.000 +many people call Telegram home. + +02:30.000 --> 02:31.840 +It shouldn't come as a surprise, then, + +02:31.840 --> 02:34.480 +that Emacs users want to +meet + +02:34.480 --> 02:35.680 +on Telegram as well. + +02:35.680 --> 02:38.480 +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, + +02:43.040 --> 02:45.599 +so there's Emacs English, Emacs Russian, + +02:45.599 --> 02:48.800 +Emacs Spanish, Emacs Mandarin, Portuguese... + +02:48.800 --> 02:51.440 +There are groups which are specific to starter packs. + +02:51.440 --> 02:53.040 +For example, there are Doom Emacs, + +02:53.040 --> 02:54.879 +Spacemacs, and there are groups + +02:54.879 --> 02:57.280 +which are specific to packages like telega + +02:57.280 --> 02:58.720 +which I'm going to discuss later. + +02:58.720 --> 03:00.159 +These are what you would expect + +03:00.159 --> 03:02.800 +from traditional internet chat rooms. + +03:02.800 --> 03:04.319 +So they're used for shared links, + +03:04.319 --> 03:06.959 +they're used for discussing, troubleshooting, + +03:06.959 --> 03:09.120 +giving each other recommendations... + +03:09.120 --> 03:10.879 +I think there are healthy communities + +03:10.879 --> 03:12.239 +with typically a hundred + +03:12.239 --> 03:13.519 +to a thousand members. + +03:13.519 --> 03:15.280 +An example of an initiative that's put forth + +03:15.280 --> 03:16.879 +by the Emacs community on Telegram + +03:16.879 --> 03:18.720 +is @emacs_stories. @emacs_stories + +03:18.720 --> 03:21.680 +collects links and messages and pictures + +03:21.680 --> 03:24.080 +that can showcase what Emacs can do. + +03:24.080 --> 03:25.680 +One of the goals here is + +03:25.680 --> 03:28.239 +to show people that are new to emacs + +03:28.239 --> 03:29.120 +what you can achieve + +03:29.120 --> 03:31.200 +if you spend time with your editor. + +03:31.200 --> 03:32.480 +And here, what I'm showing you + +03:32.480 --> 03:34.159 +is a screenshot from Telega. + +03:34.159 --> 03:36.080 +So let's move on to the final topic + +03:36.080 --> 03:37.040 +of this discussion, + +03:37.040 --> 03:39.200 +which is telega.el. + +03:39.200 --> 03:41.440 +Telega is a terrific piece of software. + +03:41.440 --> 03:45.280 +Telega is a interface to telegram within Emacs. + +03:45.280 --> 03:46.959 +It's developed by @zevlg, + +03:46.959 --> 03:49.680 +which is a long-time Emacs hacker, + +03:49.680 --> 03:51.280 +and it's very actively developed. + +03:51.280 --> 03:54.000 +Telegram itself is under active development, + +03:54.000 --> 03:55.840 +and telega has to implement + +03:55.840 --> 03:57.200 +all these new features + +03:57.200 --> 03:58.720 +that Telegram implements. + +03:58.720 --> 04:00.400 +Indeed, Telega implements + +04:00.400 --> 04:01.360 +almost all the features + +04:01.360 --> 04:02.319 +available in Telegram, + +04:02.319 --> 04:04.159 +even things like live location, + +04:04.159 --> 04:05.439 +except for audio/video calls + +04:05.439 --> 04:07.040 +but these are work in progress. + +04:07.040 --> 04:08.000 +Just to give you an idea + +04:08.000 --> 04:09.040 +of the size of this effort, + +04:09.040 --> 04:09.680 +we're talking about + +04:09.680 --> 04:11.280 +30,000 lines of code, + +04:11.280 --> 04:12.720 +which doesn't tell you much, + +04:12.720 --> 04:14.080 +but maybe you can get a sense + +04:14.080 --> 04:16.000 +that this is a significant project. + +04:16.000 --> 04:18.400 +In fact, I think Telega is a really remarkable + +04:18.400 --> 04:19.199 +piece of software. + +04:19.199 --> 04:20.639 +Not only it implements all the features + +04:20.639 --> 04:21.680 +available in Telegram, + +04:21.680 --> 04:22.960 +but implements new ones, + +04:22.960 --> 04:25.120 +which are only available to Emacs users. + +04:25.120 --> 04:26.800 +Here I'm blinking the documentation + +04:26.800 --> 04:28.560 +for you to read if you're interested. + +04:28.560 --> 04:29.759 +What I want to mention, though, + +04:29.759 --> 04:31.360 +is that Telega is available on MELPA, + +04:31.360 --> 04:34.160 +but it requires an external library, TDlib. + +04:34.160 --> 04:35.759 +Most distributions do not pack + +04:35.759 --> 04:37.360 +a recent version of TDlib. + +04:37.360 --> 04:39.600 +Such you have to compile yourself. + +04:39.600 --> 04:41.280 +if you don't want to compile TDlib, + +04:41.280 --> 04:43.120 +you can use the officially supported + +04:43.120 --> 04:44.560 +Dockerfile or guix file + +04:44.560 --> 04:46.080 +so that you can get everything + +04:46.080 --> 04:48.000 +without too much worry. + +04:48.000 --> 04:50.720 +Now let me tell you more about Telegram. + +04:50.720 --> 04:52.080 +Of course, the best way is to just + +04:52.080 --> 04:53.520 +experiment with it yourself. + +04:53.520 --> 04:54.800 +And here I just want to give you + +04:54.800 --> 04:56.720 +a glimpse of how Telega works. + +04:56.720 --> 04:57.840 +When you start Telega, + +04:57.840 --> 05:00.000 +what you see is a root buffer. + +05:00.000 --> 05:01.280 +The root buffer is essentially + +05:01.280 --> 05:02.960 +the list of all the chats that you have, + +05:02.960 --> 05:05.199 +and, by itself, is a really powerful tool. + +05:05.199 --> 05:06.639 +You can use it for sorting + +05:06.639 --> 05:07.680 +and filtering your chats, + +05:07.680 --> 05:10.639 +or you can create groups which are thematic. + +05:10.639 --> 05:12.720 +There's sophisticated search functions. + +05:12.720 --> 05:14.240 +For example, if you want to search only + +05:14.240 --> 05:16.800 +for specific type of media, + +05:16.800 --> 05:18.240 +you can start new chats, + +05:18.240 --> 05:19.680 +you can get info about the chats, + +05:19.680 --> 05:22.479 +and you can even change Telegram settings + +05:22.479 --> 05:24.720 +which are applied across the board. + +05:24.720 --> 05:26.479 +Here I'm showing you an example + +05:26.479 --> 05:27.520 +of what it looks like. + +05:27.520 --> 05:30.720 +As you see, we're enjoying the support for emoji + +05:30.720 --> 05:33.039 +that Emacs has been improving upon + +05:33.039 --> 05:34.320 +over the past years. + +05:34.320 --> 05:36.400 +Once you select one of these charts, + +05:36.400 --> 05:38.880 +you're brought to the chat buffer. + +05:38.880 --> 05:40.400 +Here I'm showing an example of + +05:40.400 --> 05:42.320 +what a chat buffer looks like. + +05:42.320 --> 05:43.360 +So this is a screenshot + +05:43.360 --> 05:45.520 +from the Emacs English group + +05:45.520 --> 05:47.840 +where people were discussing about + +05:47.840 --> 05:49.039 +compiling Emacs. + +05:49.039 --> 05:52.000 +As you can see, we see the conversation. + +05:52.000 --> 05:53.280 +We see the avatars. + +05:53.280 --> 05:54.639 +We see that there's a thread. + +05:54.639 --> 05:55.440 +We also see that + +05:55.440 --> 05:57.360 +I'm going to send a message, + +05:57.360 --> 05:58.240 +message with emoji, + +05:58.240 --> 05:59.440 +a message with formatting, + +05:59.440 --> 06:01.120 +and I'm attaching an object. + +06:01.120 --> 06:03.680 +I can format my messages + +06:03.680 --> 06:05.520 +using Markdown or Org Mode + +06:05.520 --> 06:06.720 +or whatever I prefer + +06:06.720 --> 06:09.199 +and I can attach any kind of attachment + +06:09.199 --> 06:10.560 +I like. For example... + +06:10.560 --> 06:11.520 +What I can also do is, + +06:11.520 --> 06:13.120 +if I'm editing a buffer, + +06:13.120 --> 06:15.680 +I can send that buffer through Telega, + +06:15.680 --> 06:17.199 +which I find quite useful + +06:17.199 --> 06:18.720 +especially when I'm sending code. + +06:18.720 --> 06:20.240 +And again, just to show you that + +06:20.240 --> 06:22.319 +Telegram is not just text messages + +06:22.319 --> 06:25.199 +and Telega supports all the features in Telegram, + +06:25.199 --> 06:27.199 +here at the bottom, I'm showing + +06:27.199 --> 06:29.759 +a voice note being played through Emacs, + +06:29.759 --> 06:31.919 +and as you see, there are some buttons + +06:31.919 --> 06:33.199 +which are functional. + +06:33.199 --> 06:36.240 +If I hit the two times button, + +06:36.240 --> 06:38.160 +the playback speed will be twice, + +06:38.160 --> 06:39.600 +which is really neat. + +06:39.600 --> 06:40.800 +Telega and Emacs can even + +06:40.800 --> 06:43.039 +reproduce videos or gifs, + +06:43.039 --> 06:45.280 +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 + +06:59.280 --> 07:00.080 +with dashboard, + +07:00.080 --> 07:01.440 +so that we have recent chats + +07:01.440 --> 07:03.120 +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, + +07:09.919 --> 07:11.759 +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. -- cgit v1.2.3