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by mawise 6y ago
In their "code requirements" section they say: > Freely & publicly available external data is allowed So I presume it would be fair to fetch and leverage additional data on your own.
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by mawise 6y ago
This article is good, but it seems very focused on the mediator's approach--get both parties to follow these steps. Often the relationship doesn't feel like one where I can make that kind of ask of the other person. "I read
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The mom-test is a good one, I'll have to think more about it. The truth is the advantages and disadvantages of various authentication systems are subtle, and hard for a lot of technical people to understand, much less care about. Appl
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You're right, all the websites could band together to coordinate and share that the same person logged into each site. They do this today with email addresses and phone numbers explicitly (and implicitly with "advertising IDs&quo
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by mawise 6y ago
You're right that the user experience is a huge blocker, but I think that's something we as authors of tools can improve on. For example, there's a Wordpress plugin that lets your Wordpress site act as an IndieAuth identity[
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by mawise 6y ago
It's a step in the right direction, but it's still centralized. A lot of the work done by the Indie Web community around IndieAuth[1] is really attractive. Your identity is your domain, and you can change how your domain says yo
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Everytime I read about solid I just can't see it working out. It's HARD for someone to host something themselves, and when you talk about decoupling the data from the interface that means any user needs to deal with two system wh
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by mawise 6y ago
I really like this. It seems like the federated model is gaining traction among the decentralized community (Mastadon, peertube..) but I'd love to get to the point where self-hosting is as accessible to internet users as signing up. M
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by mawise 6y ago
Yeah, I've noticed that too. One of these days I'll probably get around to fixing it. :)
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I remember that previous post, and was interested in building something similar. I got turned off by the high prices of large eink displays but I did build an amazon lambda to let me use that published PDF as a daily news-source. I really
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by mawise 6y ago
Until the bouncer (or the bar's contracted developer) thinks it's easier or more secure to use the "Request all data" feature, and logs everything to an unprotected MySQL database. When a bouncer looks at your ID he doe
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by mawise 6y ago
Awesome! One thing I noticed: your LinkedIn logo has an artifact when rendered small in my browser (Firefox). There is a thin vertical blue line between the downstroke and the round stroke in the 'n'.
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by mawise 6y ago
Vector graphics can have colors...
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~500GB
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Glad to hear you like it!
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Hi, I'm the author. I was inspired by a post here on HN a few months ago about someone who put today's paper on a giant e-ink display. This link is just a helper redirect to the New York Times' website. For anyone intereste
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Show HN: Read the frontpage of today's New York Times(nytonline.net)
8 points by mawise 6y ago|5 comments
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by mawise 6y ago
Has a couple nice quotes, but doesn't come to any useful conclusion or call to action. Feels like it's speaking platitudes without even trying to push/offer an alternative or even a new way of thinking about things.
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by mawise 6y ago
> Reality is, most people are more afraid of being thought of as an outsider than any conceivable consequence that befalls their perceived in-group I think that very nicely sums up the problem. Very few people are willing to socially is
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by mawise 6y ago
This type of thinking has been a huge motivator to my side project as I try to envision what a more user-centric internet could look like. The core being self-hosted internet infrastructure--my project being an open-source, easy-to-run, _p
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by mawise 6y ago
+1 to this. I wanted to build a private blogging app/site with a big focus on speed and performance, it might not be popular anymore but I went with Rails. Server-side rendering lets the browser do what it's good at. The only t
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by mawise 6y ago
Why is there so little interest in helping people self-host their own content? I know it wouldn't be a panacea, but it feels like at least a step in the right direction. This is a big part of the motivation for my side-project to hel
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by mawise 6y ago
I'm trying to help people host their own websites instead of trusting their social data to big tech. It started as an open source blogging system, but I think it takes a hosted option to be sufficiently accessible. Still a very new p
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It's definitely tricky--on my site I display images capped to the reading pane, but they are also links to a full-res version of the image that it too big to justify forcing the browser to load.
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by mawise 6y ago
Bonus points for supporting feed URLs with embedded http basic auth credentials. This is the core protocol that I think could lead to a decentralized web where people host their own private sites. It's also a huge motivator in my sid
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While this is all very shady, it also seems to be a poor long-term business decision for Google. "Our revenue and profits have dropped accordingly,which has forced me to cut our staff down to a bare bones team ... the quality of our co
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by mawise 6y ago
The introduction to OpenType options is awesome! Sounds like we could set up a font to display smart quotes while still copy-pasting code snippets as dumb quotes!
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Nobody seems to be taking this to the logical conclusion. If Apple's behavior is not desirable, then don't build apps for the Apple app store. They're apparently providing enough value in giving developers access to premium
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by mawise 6y ago
Sounds a lot like IndieAuth, but with keys and math instead of "centralized" DNS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieAuth
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Police brutality is a Bad Thing. There is also much lower hanging fruit in terms of saving lives and improving the world. About 1,000 people die in the US each year through encounters with the police. Over 400,000 people die in Africa ea

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