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by imaginator 14y ago
Simon ( https://demo.buddycloud.org/simon@buddycloud.org ) from the buddycloud team here. Happy to answer any questions about the bc architecture or our approach.
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ShowHN: buddycloud, a distributed social network
73 points by imaginator 14y ago|38 comments
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by imaginator 14y ago
StartSSL uses client side certificates to authenticate you. Last time I checked this only worked in Firefox. Perhaps that is the reason for your crashing.
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by imaginator 14y ago
(Simon from buddycloud here) We've tried to take the approach that for everything you can use the REST-based JSON delivering API ( https://github.com/buddycloud/buddycloud-http-api ). The federation, domain discovery, message passing betwee
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by imaginator 14y ago
/me nods. I'll write something up this weekend. Thanks for the feedback!
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by imaginator 14y ago
Wow. This all seems very micro-manager-y. Now I'm curious how Twitter will respond: some open souce developers are working on integrating Twitter posts to buddycloud. That means Tweets will be displayed in a buddycloud channel. How exactly
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by imaginator 14y ago
https://buddycloud.org and https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Buddycloud_HTTP_API to get started. Or jump into the https://beta.buddycloud.org/team@topics.buddycloud.org to ask any questions about dev issues.
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by imaginator 14y ago
They have definitely captured mindshare and championed the need for federated systems. I've not tried Diaspora though so can't comment.
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by imaginator 14y ago
Excellent idea about the screenshot. I've added it to my todo list. I'd love someone to test this https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Buddycloud_nginx_setup and provide feedback about what else is needed to get bc running on nginx. And also about
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by imaginator 14y ago
Anyone remember “Go to AOL Keyword: Coke”? I try to avoid blowing the buddycloud trumpet (we're building an open federated/distributed social network) on hn each time there is a future-of-twitter post. Sorry - I can't hold back this time. H
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by imaginator 14y ago
+1. Really looking forward to it.
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by imaginator 14y ago
The list is here: http://www.london2012.com/mm/Document/Documents/General/01/2... : – Personal/private wireless access points and 3G hubs (smart devices such as Android phones, iPhone and tablets are permitted inside venues, but mu
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Olympic committee banning 3G-Wifi Access points at venues(mobilesociety.typepad.com)
2 points by imaginator 14y ago|2 comments
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Elon Musk's Hyperloop tunnel - reinventing transport(businessinsider.com)
2 points by imaginator 14y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 14y ago
You should check some of the MVNO providers in Germany. These mobile operators compete on price and anything that smells like custom development of a blah-portal-blah is cut. There was a time when ISPs used to think the could do value-add c
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by imaginator 14y ago
Everything about undersea cabling is fascinating. Here's a video of powering up an undersea cables's repeaters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2zDrUz9lgY (it takes about 30 mins to fully ramp up an undersea cable). And of course the obli
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2012 Submarine Cable Map(submarine-cable-map-2012.telegeography.com)
176 points by imaginator 14y ago|68 comments
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Carriage vs Content (and the Internet before Google)(potaroo.net)
1 points by imaginator 14y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 14y ago
Nice graph from Hetzner showing the spike: http://imgur.com/a/ykoup
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by imaginator 14y ago
just remember: date -s "`date`" solves it. No reboot, no stopping and starting NTPd.
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by imaginator 14y ago
Better translation of their message to English speaking customers: During the night of 30.06.2012 to 01.07.2012 our internal monitoring systems registered an increase in the level of IT power usage by approximately one megawatt. The reason
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All Apple stores could close for 30 days in Italy over warranty case(theregister.co.uk)
47 points by imaginator 14y ago|33 comments
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by imaginator 14y ago
So I'll step up and blow my team's trumpet. It's the end of a long weekend hackathon on buddycloud. It's also great to see the rumblings of what could be next. Where we stand: The server and webclient are mostly done. We're now working on d
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$RANDOM-USER testing. 50c/test.(blog.buddycloud.com)
4 points by imaginator 14y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 14y ago
Looking forward. If anyone is interested, I was recently in Mountain View for buddycloud's YC interview and can describe the preparation and process and interview.
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by imaginator 15y ago
I remember seeing mindhunter presenting this the first time. The effect was cool. But seeing him jump up and down on stage because he managed to get it working. Way cooler!
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by imaginator 15y ago
I helped organise the last Munich HN meetup and we ran it from Cafe Ringlnatz's backroom. About 15 people showed up and it was a great evening. I'm definitely keen to attend or help organise another.
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by imaginator 15y ago
I think that for opensouce projects to have traction, reinventing a closed system isn't going to win over more than 1% of potential users. A federated social network also changes many of the social networking paridyms - like how you trust o
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by imaginator 15y ago
We host all of buddycloud's servers on them and they really do rock. Support is good. No outages in over three years. Very solid.
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by imaginator 15y ago
Has anyone done any research to find a difference between "desktop" drives and "enterprise/pro" drives? I'm inclined to believe it's marketing speak and targeted at the same people that buy electron-aligned speaker cable.

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