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by mg 4y ago
The Fediverse could be the solution. It is kind of Web2.5 because your identity is tied to the traditional DNS system. But if decentralized domains become a thing, that would automatically make the ActivityPub protocol offer decentralized i
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by mg 4y ago
No, it's just for my own usage.
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Banksy confirms seven new murals in Ukraine(cnn.com)
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by mg 4y ago
Yes a bit. With a focus on browsing/editing databases.
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by mg 4y ago
It's not just a shell. It is a terminal UI in which you can browse tables, go into tables, browse and edit rows in a spreadsheet like interface etc. If there is any database out there that is commonly used to demonstrate DB software, I
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by mg 4y ago
I have several projects that I develop just for myself. One is a command line based database browser/editor. PhpMyAdmin for the terminal, so to say. I do all my database work inside of this editor. The terminal is just so much faster.
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by mg 4y ago
Is there a need for an additional mechanism? Sending a magic link to @user@domain results in a 3 actions login: 1: User types "@user@domain" into the login form and hits enter. 2: User switches to their fediverse inbox 3: User cli
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by mg 4y ago
I will use MicroBlogPub on my own domain: https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub It seems to have the leanest code base. I am currently putting together a setup script for it. It has an install documentation here: ht
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by mg 4y ago
I'm not sure. I don't like @abc.xyz.com at all. @xyz.com/abc has the nice benefit that it is like https://xyz.com/abc with only the https:// part is changed. But "Written by @joe@someinstance
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by mg 4y ago
Not sure. The code and the interface of Pleroma are way more complex than microblogpub. I tried a Pleroma instance and the UI had sticky elements. Sticky elements make me scream and run. I really like the HN interface. My ActivityPub node s
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by mg 4y ago
Using oAuth would only allow users in who use an ActivityPub instance that supports oAuth. I for example will probably use something much simpler than Mastodon. As I will actively look for an ActivityPub software that is lean and does one t
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by mg 4y ago
I had the same reaction at first. But after some contemplation, I changed my mind. It's not so easy to say if there is a better alternative. We need way to say "This is a Fediverse users. Their instance is xyz.com and their userna
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by mg 4y ago
Is there already a Fediverse mechanism to let people log into 3rd party sites? Like "Log in with Twitter/Google/Facebook" but "Log in with ActivityPub"? That would be pretty cool. I like the aspect of ActivityP
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Three things to like about the Fediverse(twitter.com)
3 points by mg 4y ago|0 comments
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by mg 4y ago
Before Gnod, I mostly used computers to do explore generative art and all kinds of other experiments. The idea of illubots is that it provides the same service you would normally get from an illustration agency. For example a book cover. Th
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by mg 4y ago
Heya, nice to meet you! Gnod is still my main project. Combined, the Gnod projects for music, movies and literature are used by about half a million users a month now. I just closed the discussion boards because they caused so much work. Ot
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by mg 4y ago
It is hard to keep the discussion friendly and on-topic. And mod actions very often result in someone becoming angry. Which is not only stressful but now you have to deal with off-topic meta discussions about the mod actions.
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by mg 4y ago
It feels like a lifetime ago, but one of my first online projects included discussion boards for literature and movies. You can still browse them: Literature: https://www.gnooks.com/discussion/ Movies: https:/&#x
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by mg 4y ago
dig example.com | jc --dig Seems a bit redundant. Maybe it should be the other way round? jc dig example.com Similar to how you do time dig example.com
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by mg 4y ago
Is the performance difference of Python and Javascript due to the language or due to the runtime? If one would compile both, the Python version and the Javascript version, to WebAssembly and execute that, how would the performance differ th
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by mg 4y ago
The article seems to distill the concept of quantum uncertainty into this statement: there is an inherent uncertainty about what happens to a quantum system when we attempt to observe it Is this a good way to put it? I&#x27
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by mg 4y ago
$100B is not that much when you compare it to the value self-driving cars will create. There are over 1 billion cars on the road which need humans to drive them. How much are they used? I don't know. Let's say one ride per day. Wh
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by mg 4y ago
I think about this a lot. When I build a project, I want it to be as low maintenance as possible. So that even if it never becomes a big commercial success, I can keep it running indefinitely. The approach I took for my latest project is th
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Buridan's Ass(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mg 4y ago|0 comments
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by mg 4y ago
The input is a bitmap. Yes, the plotter cannot lift the pen. This is what it looks like: https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1579054642545438721 The solution you linked to is doing hatching. I also found a tool
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by mg 4y ago
Tried vpype and the hatched plugin now. Works, but is very basic. It fills black areas with lines without any regard to the shape of the area. The result looks very "rasterized". One could come up with way better algorithms that t
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by mg 4y ago
The hard part is not the tracing, but to fill black areas with thin lines. vpyped hatched works: https://github.com/plottertools/hatched But is very basic. If that is the best that's out there, I am tempted to wri
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by mg 4y ago
Thanks! From the description on GitHub, vpype looks very good. I will play around with it.
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by mg 4y ago
I can do the conversion into an SVG myself. For example, here is an SVG version of one of the illustrations made from only black paths: https://www.gibney.org/jonas-illu-as-paths.html What I don't know is how to turn t
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Ask HN: Software to turn black and white image into plottable SVG?
3 points by mg 4y ago|12 comments

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