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[derefr]

> I've been using chat apps at least since ICQ (1996) and sometimes I feel the user experience has declined.

You never used ICQ over a spotty 3G connection, though, did you?

[ComputerGuru → derefr]

I have, with an OpenVPN-over-UDP tunnel as a workaround. If they included Wireguard (or better yet, just used encrypted UDP) it would still be smaller (and probably more reliable).

[notyourday → ComputerGuru]

Introduce random dropouts, crazy jitter and random IP switches and you get the emulation of what a crappy network looks like.

[lvh → notyourday]

I don't know if this is what you were referring to, but for everyone else: this is actually super easy to add with Wireguard because Wireguard just uses Linux networking you can do things like:

  $ tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem loss 0.3% 25%

(Lose 0.3% packets on average, but each packet is 25% correlated with the last packet loss, to produce bursts.)

  $ tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms 20ms distribution normal

(Add mu=100ms, sigma=20ms normally distributed latency.)

[danudey → derefr]

Not a lot of 3G coverage back in 1996, honestly.