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by diggan 1y ago
TLDR/Introduction: > The Authenticated Transfer (AT) repository and synchronization protocol addresses the challenges of building decentralized applications that require consistent data replication across distributed multi-party inf
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IETF Draft: Authenticated Transfer Repo and Sync Specification(ietf.org)
1 points by diggan 1y ago|1 comments
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by diggan 1y ago
This is such fun comment because it's ambiguous enough to speak to both "the individual is the most important" and "family is everything" people :)
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by diggan 1y ago
We have something similar in Barcelona (maybe entire Spain? Apparently called NaviLens, colored squares rather than triangles) all around public transit points. They're used for blind people to navigate the public transit system :) &gt
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by diggan 1y ago
Yes, and I enjoying swimming in the ocean for example. But I don't like swimming just for the sake of "it's good for you", don't know why and doesn't really matter. Point is that some people know what's go
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by diggan 1y ago
2mm QR codes according to the article: > The protocol used at Fukushima is automated. Each bee is equipped with a 2-mm-wide QR Code which is read by a camera, activating the opening of the maze. But yeah, doesn't look like a QR code
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by diggan 1y ago
During the Cold War, Russia managed to map huge parts of the world, sometimes with higher quality and more accurate measurements than the countries themselves! Especially noteworthy considering that some of those countries (like the UK) wer
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by diggan 1y ago
This is amazing, seems really detailed and leveraging official sources too, nice job! Since the author seems to be Catalan, I'll shamelessly plug a Metro-station-relevant event that is ongoing right now in Barcelona: There are many &qu
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by diggan 1y ago
Therapy is a great way of doing that. Even if you just see it as another person to "bounce ideas against", it can help you zoom out a bit without feeling like you completely abandon the introspection hole for "living in the m
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by diggan 1y ago
Some people want the benefit of an activity, but they don't like the activity itself, like me and physical workouts for the purpose of a physical workouts. Finding ways of making activities "more fun" so those people don&#x27
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by diggan 1y ago
Thanks a bunch for describing it in more detail, actually very helpful! And no worries, nothing discouraging, discussing the idea with others no matter their reaction tends to do the opposite for me, so thanks again for taking the time :)
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by diggan 1y ago
Another anecdote: Started using a password manager in 2017 (8 years) and today I have 520 credentials, using it for everything from my normal accounts to environment variables, configuration and a bunch of other stuff. Only thing I handle m
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by diggan 1y ago
Sounded nice, but I'm not sure what this actually adds. I'm currently using 1Password for doing "environments", but it's all using the existing `op` CLI. So adding a new collaborator to the project would involve add
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by diggan 1y ago
Which ones are the best for the anglophone world currently? I'm struggling to find traditional forums that are still "alive", general enough to cover a broad spectrum and well-moderated to remove all noise.
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by diggan 1y ago
I was thinking more of the physical controls rather than the implementation details :) Most of the reasons I use hardware rather than software boils down to "feels great" and "is more fun" basically, because of the physi
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The Sacred Conspiracy by Georges Bataille (1936)(marxists.org)
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by diggan 1y ago
Same thing is widespread on reddit, usually for pushing specific products/projects/organizations into the limelight. Landing on the frontpage of reddit/HN drives huge amount of traffic, so obviously "optimizers" lea
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by diggan 1y ago
Paradoxical title, once you've read it fully, it becomes false.
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by diggan 1y ago
Was kind of hoping it'd take people longer time to notice where the idea came from :) But also kind of cheating for you to bring it up, but understand it's hard to resist.
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by diggan 1y ago
> The encoder issue was fixed with a firmware update, No joke? I was sure it was a hardware issue, but guess I should give that a look, still have my Blofeld around here somewhere, thanks for sharing the "news" :) > love the
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by diggan 1y ago
What's the point of giving constructive feedback when you can question people's motivation instead? Do you think that making a VST is a realistic alternative to the linked instruments in the submission article? I'm guessing t
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by diggan 1y ago
> Is Reddit not like a forum? What about HN? Biggest difference for me betweeen HN/reddit and the forums of yore is how the ranking/sorting is done. On HN/reddit, "most popular" opinion or "best sounding&quo
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by diggan 1y ago
Just because the forums you hanged around were like that, doesn't mean every forum was like that. Probably the web forum I hanged around the most on (which is where my HN username originally comes from) has strict rules about each indi
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by diggan 1y ago
> Conversely, the likelihood of making it big just by making some good damn music was never lower than it is now. Is that statement backed by any facts? Otherwise it sounds like a soundbite that sounds good, but I'm not sure how tru
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by diggan 1y ago
> My Blofeld has taken far more abuse than any laptop or tablet will handle and still going strong 15 years later; three laptops and two tablets later. On the other hand, my Blofeld had wonky unresponsive knobs after just a couple of mon
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by diggan 1y ago
> One can hardly control one coding agent for correctness Why not? I'm assuming we're not talking about "vibe coding" as it's not a serious workflow, it was suggested as a joke basically, and we're talking a
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by diggan 1y ago
> In the discourse about social media, the term "algorithm" is exclusively used to refer to purposefully-maligned algorithms engineered to addict and abuse people. But I feel like it misses the point. What about a service where
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> I have often wondered why such a thing hasn't arisen again, on things like twitter. We still have "flame wars" I think, they're just less intelligent, is more about spamming than insulting, and is often called &quot
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by diggan 1y ago
> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature Exactly how I feel about AI art today, and doesn't make me super hopeful for the future. Hopefully there been cases whe
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by diggan 1y ago
> You don’t need to be 18 to have a bank account, even in the UK (which just introduced age verification laws). Yeah, I had one of those myself when I was under 18 too, I think it was called Maestro or something similar. However, it didn

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