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JavaScript-IPFS: A full P2P protocol written in JavaScript(js.ipfs.io)
10 points by j-james 6y ago|0 comments
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by j-james 6y ago
I don't see them claiming that anywhere in the article. "The first deep integration of its kind" probably refers to integrating go-ipfs into Brave, which is more complex than other changes they've made so far.
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by j-james 6y ago
Corresponding Chromium issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=722567 They've also whitelisted ipfs:// links since August.
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by j-james 6y ago
A couple of distributed protocols have been posted to HN recently. How does IPFS compare to I2P, ZeroNet, Freenet, and similar?
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by j-james 6y ago
I'd imagine that was a personal instance with him as the only user, which seems to be a fairly common practice.
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Opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrested on return to Russia(npr.org)
3 points by j-james 6y ago|0 comments
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Program Eloquence Considered Harmful(tilde.team)
35 points by j-james 6y ago|36 comments
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by j-james 6y ago
> Furthermore, just because you compile it from source and put it on your phone does not mean that you can reasonably stay aware of or understand all the internal workings that happen inside the app. Can you elaborate on this? That'
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by j-james 6y ago
> Their opposition to distributed social networking platforms Is there something I'm missing? Didn't Mozilla recently switch their IRC network to Matrix?
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by j-james 6y ago
That'd be very cool, but you then run into the data collection issues of all of those platforms. Many Fediverse users aren't so much concerned with being censored by Big Tech as they are with being hit with targeted advertising. R
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by j-james 6y ago
facebook: https://pleroma.social/ instagram: https://pixelfed.org/ blogger: https://write.as/ soundcloud: https://funkwhale.audio/ At the end of the day, though, the Fedive
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by j-james 6y ago
Sci-Hub is also mirrored to Library Genesis.
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by j-james 6y ago
Too bad SMS / MMS weren't included on that map. That's by far the most popular messaging option in my general area (where data is expensive, and unlimited texts common).
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by j-james 6y ago
Signal has (even automated) backups. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by chat sync, but using multiple clients at the same time causes no issues.
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by j-james 6y ago
Each of these have fairly different use cases. WhatsApp is bad. They are owned by a data collection company notorious for gross privacy violations. Both the client apps and the server are completely closed source, which means either could b
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Elementary OS launches early access Raspberry Pi builds(blog.elementary.io)
3 points by j-james 6y ago|0 comments
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by j-james 6y ago
Telegram's MTProto 2.0 encryption protocol was recently proved correct, but I haven't seen any peer review or discussion on the paper yet. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03141
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by j-james 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how can end-to-end encryption be verified when both the clients and the servers are closed-source?
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by j-james 6y ago
I'd certainly agree there. The eShop applet runs on it, and is easily the worst-performing part of the Switch - much slower and laggier than pretty much any site on the modern web.
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by j-james 6y ago
Here's an overview of the system Tinder currently uses, after their 2014 privacy fiascos: https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/09/how-tinder-keeps-your-lo...
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by j-james 6y ago
Telegram's protocol itself isn't necessarily a weakness - recently, a paper was published claiming to have proved the MTProto 2.0 protocol correct. Perhaps because of how recent this was, it doesn't seem to have garnered any
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C2nim: A tool to translate ANSI C code to Nim(github.com)
81 points by j-james 6y ago|22 comments
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by j-james 6y ago
The Switch does have a usable web browser, it's just difficult to access. The eShop and some online features run on it, but it can be accessed and used as a standalone browser. https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Internet_
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by j-james 6y ago
Here's one: https://www.zdnet.com/article/telegram-voicemail-hack-used-a...
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Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's Cryptographic Protocol(arxiv.org)
7 points by j-james 6y ago|0 comments
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by j-james 6y ago
Signal's reasons for not wanting to maintain an F-Droid repository are terrible, but that doesn't in any way compromise their security. As others have pointed out, reproducibility goes farther than just checksums.
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Snapdrop: Local file sharing in the browser, inspired by Apple's AirDrop(snapdrop.net)
2 points by j-james 6y ago|0 comments
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bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree(github.com)
121 points by j-james 6y ago|31 comments
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by j-james 6y ago
I would suppose the above user is referring, rather snidely, to GitHub not loading commit information without JavaScript. GitHub's JavaScript use is really quite minimal, and certainly nothing like GitLab.
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by j-james 6y ago
Suppose that in order to render stylized web pages, you had to install a non-free binary blob. You're free to not render websites you don't want to, and scroll through what's akin to a minimal HTML tree. Some content creators

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