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by boramalper 2y ago
1) Do they post SatDump data somewhere? 2) (I doubt it but) Is it under a free license?
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by boramalper 2y ago
I think Carl was more of an early supporter and provided vital services without which TPB might not exist but I'm not sure if he should be considered a co-founder (or is considered so by the other three).
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by boramalper 2y ago
I believe people would (and already do) greatly benefit from cryptocurrencies but a) Why would a government/state want to back a currency that it cannot control by definition? Especially if they own the world’s reserve currency. What’s
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by boramalper 2y ago
> On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network was created when Nakamoto mined the starting block of the chain, known as the genesis block. Embedded in this block was the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second
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by boramalper 2y ago
A web-native[1] protocol for secure[2], decentralised[3] access to files distributed across mirrors: 1. "Web-native" as in the protocol is designed with HTTP and modern web browsers in mind. Consequently, it can be implemented usi
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by boramalper 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what were XMPP's alternatives at the time?
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by boramalper 2y ago
> Yeah, in 1997 I was using gaim to talk to anyone I wanted on AIM, ICQ, MSN etc and it worked great. But AIM, ICQ, MSN etc weren't open protocols either right? It was gaim/others reverse-engineering those protocols, like Pidgi
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by boramalper 2y ago
I honestly don’t remember ever using open protocols to chat, sorry. Born in ‘97, I was too young for IRC’s height, and although I flirted with XMPP, none of my friends were there so it was just me and a handful of like-minded people I’ve me
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by boramalper 2y ago
> which would make migration between instances seamless. Which instances? :) If you're referring to "Personal Data Stores", sure. However, it's the "Relay" (i.e. the aggregator that generates timelines) that
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by boramalper 2y ago
> First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice. Out of curiosity, what's the "fierce hostility" they're talking about?
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by boramalper 2y ago
> the federation of that massive amount of data and storage I'm not sure what you mean by that but the media blobs (photos and videos) are not "federated" (i.e. passed around instances) most likely, but hosted in one place
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Trump to make historic move toward revoking birthright citizenship(text.npr.org)
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Facebook blocks links to Pixelfed, a federated Instagram alternative(bsky.app)
179 points by boramalper 2y ago|66 comments
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by boramalper 2y ago
Alluded multiple times in the comments already but worth being explicit: Aaron Swartz killed himself 12 years ago yesterday for facing "a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison" [0] after downloading
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by boramalper 2y ago
> So there's a lot of DHT network scanning going on for sure. There is an entire category of free software whose purpose is to create an index of the DHT network. :) The idea is to allow users to find and search for torrents in a co
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by boramalper 2y ago
You're talking about Zero Data Apps[0]. :) [0] https://0data.app/
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by boramalper 2y ago
PeerTube has removed WebTorrent in 2022: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5465
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by boramalper 2y ago
> If you want to do P2P retrieval in browsers My understanding is that IPFS always requires an IPFS → HTTP gateway to work in browsers, so I wonder what you mean by "P2P retrival in browsers". Verified Fetch is about verifyin
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by boramalper 2y ago
Also see: Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28585208 https://libgen-crypto.ipns.dweb.link/
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by boramalper 2y ago
> Technically the index too can live on IPFS Besides, HTTP requests against indices should be fast enough for a decent user experience and IPFS (and/or its gateways) aren’t great at that in my experience. I think using GitHub (or an
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by boramalper 2y ago
Also see: OpenFreeMap — free OpenStreetMap vector tile hosting https://openfreemap.org/
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by boramalper 2y ago
They still have to put it behind a privacy-friendly proxy to hide their IP address from litigators right?
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by boramalper 2y ago
Illegal options also have lot less resources (revenue, service providers who are willing host/facilitate illegal activities, and so on) so it’s a fair comparison in my opinion.
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by boramalper 2y ago
> ask informed consent I think it's a bit cliché; where do you draw the line? Should free software also display a copy of their license at first start and ask their users to click "I agree"? When you start using a piece of
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by boramalper 2y ago
The meta-problem here is that the bar is unreasonably higher for free software than proprietary. Apple, who is known for being pro-privacy, makes your Mac "phone home to obtain a special boot signature, known in Apple jargon as a &#x27
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by boramalper 2y ago
Of course someone needs to scan/digitise those books but for those which already are, there is Anna’s Archive . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
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by boramalper 2y ago
Is this open source or do you have any design docs? I love the idea and would love to learn more about it.
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by boramalper 2y ago
Good to know. I’ve been sticking with OnlyOffice only because it’s supported out of the box on Hetzner [0] (as in, I don’t need to setup and maintain any “document server”). Surprisingly, this is what they say about Collabora: > Due to p
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by boramalper 2y ago
> the whole point of GDocs is collaborative editing Strong disagree. Collaborative editing is one of the major points but not the only one. For me and I believe many others, being able to view and edit my documents in a web browser is a
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by boramalper 2y ago
TIL, thank you!

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