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by carussell 9y ago
> It's pretty much the same security model as regular web content, as you mention. I can't say much about IPFS, but this is not quite true of Dat. The Beaker team is working on a complementary set of APIs to read and write to
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by carussell 9y ago
You're making a category error. IPFS (and friends—like Dat) are analogous to HTTP. Would you call HTTP a silo? No; services like Facebook and Google Drive are silo-y, but HTTP is not. The people working on the P2P web are just tryi
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by carussell 9y ago
Although not IPFS, Dat[1] is another protocol (associated with Beaker Browser, linked in another comment here), and there's a group trying to build the P2P web on that. In the case of Dat, you can create an account on Hashbase[2], and
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by carussell 9y ago
> for me I just want to use npm to install a program or two. I don't think you're introducing new information. When I wrote my original comment, it was intended to fully acknowledge that this is what's at play. And rerea
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by carussell 9y ago
`sudo npm install -g` is one of several examples of the normalization of deviance rife in the NodeJS community. Most command-line utilities distributed through NPM recommend running as root (implicitly—because they all suggest installing i
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by carussell 9y ago
If you're suggesting that Signal will eventually federate, there's nothing in those two links to support that interpretation. In fact, to the contrary: > Early on, I thought we’d federate Signal once its velocity had subsided.
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by carussell 9y ago
A null vision. Moxie is against federation, and he's against interoperable clients. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issue
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by carussell 9y ago
Sounds like jwz's "intertwingle"[1] strawman with a smidge of "unity of interface"[2], or JetBrains's old Omea information manager[3]. 1. https://www-archive.mozilla.org/blue-sky/misc/
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by carussell 9y ago
I'm not trying to imply that any given game as it currently exists would be a suitable candidate for the format. In-game puzzles would obviously benefit greatly from consideration by the authors of the input method and player environm
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by carussell 9y ago
I've thought for some time now that the real killer app for natural language assistants—especially voice activated assistants like Alexa, perhaps slightly less suited for text-based chatbots—lies in short, episodic, choose-your-own-adv
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by carussell 9y ago
The Dat project, which is somewhat similar to IPFS, and the people behind Beaker have addressed these things. So you can have a site like dat://9900f9aad4d6e79e0beb1c46333852b99829e4dfcdfa9b690eeeab3c367c1b9a/ or you can acc
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by carussell 9y ago
Here are links to two of my favorite essays that make a similar point: Java for Everything[1] Too DRY[2] And then there's a third, which is not quite the same topic, but still in the same vein. It's arguably even more relevant to
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by carussell 9y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen...
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by carussell 9y ago
This submission is here because of the link to the intro to OSes book[1] by one of the Clive authors that was posted yesterday. It's worth taking a look at the other stuff referenced on this page page, as well as the author's oth
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by carussell 9y ago
Is there a contingent of 9fans doing work on using Plan 9 for DevOps? The fact that doesn't have popular graphical software (or even the same conventions) wouldn't hold it back there. If it's really as well designed and coh
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by carussell 9y ago
Now you're begging the question. In the original anecdote, we started with something we know based on observation—that very few IKEA products end up in stores selling recycled goods—and are offered the conclusion that this is because
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by carussell 9y ago
The original anecdote is that there were very few IKEA items in a store for recycled goods. The point you seem to be ignoring is tjoff's comment that IKEA products are so good that you can resell them and don't have to resort to
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by carussell 9y ago
> My edit in brackets) You meant towards improving Nylas Mail, not Thunderbird? No. What I wrote is what I meant. > it sounds like Nylas was reaching out Mozilla to replace Thunderbird with their re-licensed Nylas Mail Yes. (But not
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by carussell 9y ago
> Are you implying it somehow is meaningfully different? I don't know what you're asking. Different from what? You think the fact that your friends have never heard that Mozilla is a non-profit contradicts what I wrote? I did
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by carussell 9y ago
> but turned out by "please use this" they still require you to opt-in with Nylas Identity tied to Nylas Cloud We're talking about Thunderbird development. When I wrote that they changed to a compatible license and reache
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by carussell 9y ago
Mozilla has always reaped a lot of benefits, PR-wise, out of the impression people form when they hear that it's a non-profit.
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by carussell 9y ago
1. You're sorry? No you're not. Now that is disingenuous. 2. When responding to a comment about your inability to engage rather than writing out snarky one-liners, choosing to rebut it by replying in the form of a snarky one-l
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by carussell 9y ago
> Am I missing something You're not. This was one of jwz's big complaints when he wrote about why he doesn't use Firefox[1] several years back, and nobody has ever fixed it. 1. https://www.jwz.org/blog&#x2
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by carussell 9y ago
Sure, but the big thing is the "serious" part. We're basically talking about the patch paradox[1]. At any point in time, someone could have stepped up and made it known they were willing to do the necessary work to move off
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by carussell 9y ago
DuckDuckGo has some open source extensions and SDKs to integrate with their service. DuckDuckGo itself, however, is not open source. Do you realize how misleading it would be if someone said this, and then I showed up with a link to their o
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by carussell 9y ago
The most important thing here is that there's now a serious plan in place to move Thunderbird off of XUL and XPCOM. If Thunderbird builds can happen without incurring the expense of building Gecko (and there's no reason that shou
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by carussell 9y ago
When you read my comments, are you ignoring every fourth sentence or something? Mozilla is not in a downward spiral due to money. We are not in a situation where Mozilla leadership must decide to jump and hope to survive, or don't jum
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by carussell 9y ago
The general tone of your two comments is that I've been disingenuous, when the real disservice to the conversation is the zero-effort, thread-derailing snark. Here's a more verbose way to say exactly the same point I was making, b
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by carussell 9y ago
They wouldn't need to stop the world and do a full rewrite. It would be feasible if they stop writing new components in Ruby and began replacing the existing parts piecemeal.
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by carussell 9y ago
Let's suppose there is no published source to corroborate the statement I wrote. Is the statement ipso facto untrue? Alternatively, let's say there's a source, but I don't provide it. Does that effect whether my statem

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