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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
So, this is about popups inside of browser windows, is it? And not about popups in Windows/Mac/Linux desktops? Because I couldn't start making up my mind until close to the end of the article. FWIW, I do make some use of mo
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
So, I take it that the "decentralized" aspect of all this stuff really comes into play when all of the server hardware is surgically implanted into our limbs!
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Very well. Our civilization is absolutely ripping apart at the seams ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/gaya-her... ) but we can all rest assured that the "safety" features bui
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
I think I'll take this opportunity to introduce "HackerNotify" ( https://lotw.site/net/HackerNotify.app ), which is a different kind of interface into the Hacker News backend (via firebase). You can tell h
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Does anybody know what the first popular "Against Something" was? My guess is it was Feyerabend's Against Method ...
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Among other things, Linux on the Web can be used to usher in a new paradigm for accessing online resources. The current document-centric approach has an intensely graphical (attention grabbing) aspect which very much encourages the least
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
This is true motivation to keep me working out the ideal desktop environment for Linux on the Web. The idea of "a message passing facility enabling client programs to rendezvous and exchange messages" is in particular the kind of
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Nevermind, I see the demo is the Eliza widget on the main page. So, I can do Eliza with it then... I'll keep that in mind for the next time that I need to get an Eliza widget working ;)
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
No demo. I was wondering what kinds of things I could be doing here that I couldn't do before (with websockets, webrtc, etc) but demo.connect.build just redirects to connect.build. I'd only known of "Protocol Buffers" as
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
>Lighten up on the philosophy of a topic before you understand it But philosophy is an activity that must necessarily be done in order for there to even be a topic that can at all be understood in the first place! We had to have someon
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
>they're space-time shapes with a singularity at the middle Upon googling "black hole singularity", the first "People also ask" is "Does black hole contain singularity" and the answer is, "No, blac
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
At a certain point of abstraction, theoretical physics almost never has any direct correlation with empirical reality. It is most often used as a way to give the paradigm lenses that color our thoughts nice little workouts. (One can also ap
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
I've actually managed to make nano look even simpler, by getting rid of all the interface elements except for a vim-like cursor position indicator in the bottom right. The notes to do it are here: https://drive.google.com&#x
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Isn't the reason why people gravitate to standard utilities such as emacs and vim largely because they simply can't cope with all of the shiny graphical bloat while they are trying to wrack their brains coming up with some new k
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Funny, that, seeing how M$ themselves are perhaps the biggest contributors to the current browser codebase monoculture issue. Anytime a software project develops enough complexity, there is no shame in targeting a specific platform. Given e
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
As I child of the 80's, I can still feel the theme for Full House reverberating through my bones: Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening tv? How did I get delivered here? Somebody tell
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
If I would have continued my original approach, I probably would have been able to get something like that working pretty well, but since it is pretty hard to beat Virtual DOM types of approaches, I had no need to try anything else when ren
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Yeah, I don't personally mess with anything but Chrome, and I consider supporting browsers that are not Chromium-based to be a fork of the entire project. Per the Disclaimer in the Github README ( https://github.com/linu
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
One of my proudest moments during the development of "Linux on the Web" had to be the creation of a Terminal application (try it at https://lotw.site/shell ) that can render its output with near-native efficiency.
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
In my own experience developing a new kind of system from the ground up, I can only say that you have to talk to yourself , but as an extended conversation over a good number of years (a decade in my case). It is essential to occasionally
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
I've been hacking on this thing, pretty much nonstop, for the last decade of my life. I have no need for more attention that I already have. I am something of a local celebrity (can offer proof). I know this kind of innovation is right
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
You can obviously do soooo much with it, that my mind boggles. As an example of how much more you can do versus some other things, I can only contribute a very boring example (involving no musical universe at all) via "Linux on the W
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Cast of Characters: - Ezekiel as the Old Man with the Grey Beard - Assorted youths off the street, aged 16-25, as the Whippersnappers [Old Man, bent over and walking with a cane, enters stage right and starts pointing around in a somewhat a
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
One of the greatest joys of my life is going on gleeful rampages of Ctrl+w tab annihilation! Lots of times, I'll end up with just two open tabs: devdocs.io and the local development version of my own namesake :)
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Needing lots of browser tabs is a direct result of the fact that individual web sites are not very good at multitasking (they can usually only do one thing) or at "remembering" (they are almost never locally stateful). I'm ac
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Skimming this, I was interested whether Popper tried to do any work in the logic of Quantum Theory, and yes he did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popper%27s_experiment While I also advocate a more realist/Bohm-lik
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
One reason I started working on "Linux on the Web" is that I wanted to work within a paradigm (web development) that has strong connections with current practices but that also can allow me to iterate in directions that are more r
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
If you are truly developing tools innovative enough to battle against the existential crises of human civilization (as first enumerated by the Club of Rome in the early 70's and currently unfolding today), then all problems of law&#x2F
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
Yes, a cooperative, or even a tech-savvy intentional community. That is the kind of thing I'm really going for with "Linux on the Web". Something like a new hippie age must start arising as the post-peak-oil era continues to
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by lotw_dot_site 4y ago
If it's truly an intranet then it is physically disconnected from the public internet, and would not be merely a "dark web", but more like a "black hole web". But if they are trying to run public services, then yo

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