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by fiatjaf 7y ago
Ripple was never implemented.
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by fiatjaf 7y ago
I give you the bike, you give me credits.
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by fiatjaf 7y ago
All the ideas are simple and as old as Fugger's Ripple. The part that is missing to all "mutual credit" payment system is how to do atomic transactions. The linked article doesn't explain that which should be the most im
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by fiatjaf 7y ago
Wrong. First there was Ryan Fugger's Ripple, then people bought the name from him to make an entirely different system (it had some resemblances in the beginning but they got smaller and smaller as the system was developed).
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by fiatjaf 7y ago
The original Ripple concept failed for an entirely different reason: no one could come up with a good routing and atomic payments implementation. Then Bitcoin appeared. I don't know why you're presenting such a wrong narrative as
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by fiatjaf 7y ago
I would prefer an alternative web client that talked to the Gmail API, because the normal UI is not only unusable, it's too heavy and slow and that extension doesn't fix these problems.
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by fiatjaf 7y ago
Do they define Gmail as a website? No. Actually, they pioneered the idea of calling websites "web apps" instead.
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by fiatjaf 7y ago
How do I use that?
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Which is worse.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
What is an application-layer proxy?
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
2FA works great until you lose your phone.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
I'm desperate for a Gmail replacement that uses the Gmail API. I'll give this a try because I didn't find any other one and the canonical Gmail web client is utterly broken, too heavy, too slow. I don't want any enhancem
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
There's my https://teams.cardsync.xyz/ , which I did as toy and forgot about, then months later I realized there were many many users using it for free, then started charging a little and people indeed started to pay! T
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Does AMP run on Firefox? I've been using Firefox since the Quantum launch and haven't seen any AMP lately. I had completely forgotten this nightmare once existed.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
"Decentralized". Goes on to make a thousand XHR calls to infura.io
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Do you have a PGP key? No, because it's a hassle. With Keybase it isn't anymore. You can sign stuff and encrypt stuff without telling people to install obscure software anymore.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Yes, you are right. The entire ActivityPub concept is flawed, but not because you would be left alone in your server, it's the opposite: since you're interacting with your friends, your friends' server would then fetch all po
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
There's no trust in Keybase, my friend. Everything is signed by users themselves and you can verify that. Keybase is only providing the infrastructure.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
It can be used to generate JSON using functions, input data, conditional expressions and anything you want.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Why not jq, then?
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Can you automatically compute and store computed data?
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
IPFS is not usable outside of browsers yet, so I guess you're too optimistic.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Well, to me these seem like some adolescents trying to be funny and go against the mainstream. They post swastikas and call racial slurs because they know they shouldn't be doing that. They aren't really nazis, right? They don&#x2
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
I just clicked on notabug and didn't see any swastikas or racial slurs. Are you lying?
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
I didn't say it's everything. I don't think HTTP must die or will die. HTTP is great, it's awesome, wonderful. I would like IPFS to exist along with HTTP, that's what I said. Actually, I think the fact that IPFS dev
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Every time I see a new database announced I expect to see the database of my dreams: a simple JSON store that runs arbitrary computations and store these so they can be queried fast (and reruns just what's needed when some piece of dat
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Dynamic content is not the problem. I don't want dynamic content. I think HTTP and servers are the way to go on dynamic content. I just tried, for years, to use IPFS as a way to distribute static content (you know, stuff that will neve
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
The vision of a IPFS-powered web working is beautiful. However I would love to see a reference implementation that works at minimum and not just drains out your computer up to latest resource it may have. If we're so near the "pro
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
Google offers some interesting services, but their API is always so awfully complicated and cumbersome that I've given up entirely trying to use anything.
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by fiatjaf 8y ago
You should be telling "you are not Google" to people who try to build the next social network or any app that is basically an enormous chicken-and-egg problem. Most programmers try to do that. And they keep trying. They're wa

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