oelmekki

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by oelmekki 8y ago
I see, thanks to you and @weego for historical context. It makes me realize that git is probably some kind of append-only database too (and used for decentralization too). I guess I can still thank blockchain for having introduced the idea
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Also, the blockchain has introduced (AFAIK) the idea of using append-only databases to build decentralized applications, and this is currently used in very interesting new techs which have nothing to do with currencies or economics (like se
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Oh indeed, I'm not trying to say they should not fund these programs, this is awesome and welcome. I'm just warning about a possible pitfall for them to keep an eye on :)
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Do people using these oldish softwares update them, though? Funding bug bounty programs kind of fail its objectives if they don't.
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Hi Fabio, Congratulations on Notable, it's very slick, and exactly the kind of note taking app I was after. I'm mostly concerned about keeping my data offline these days, so Google Keep and Evernote were no fit for me. I take tons
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Dweb related techs. Initially, I started with ssb (secure scuttlebutt), but ultimately moved to dat/beaker. I've been having a lot of fun with it, I love how this allows to publish side projects without needing to rent a server. F
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I'll speak only for me, here, but Fallout 1 is the game that impressed me the most among these, during those times. It had to do with this idea that you could go anywhere you wanted and you weren't forced into a linear plot (somew
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Btw, I wonder : I intend to use KDE on librem 5 (at least eventually, if it's not ready on phone release). Do you know if mixing GTK and QT apps on the system will be as easy as on desktop?
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Because having code that behaves differently on development and production is never a solution, it's a workaround. Having bugs that can't be reproduced locally is the worst thing that can happen to a developer. So yeah, you can _j
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by oelmekki 8y ago
At the very least, CORS should be disabled for localhost. I build interfaces using create-react-app, which launches a dev server on localhost:3000 (useful for things like live reload), making requests on a go api on localhost:5000. On produ
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by oelmekki 8y ago
That was my usual extension management method for chrome, but sadly each time I tried that on firefox, it didn't fly (IIRC, you _can_ load extension from your local FS, but they only lives for the time of the session). By the way, if s
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by oelmekki 8y ago
If you want to implement payment, that's clearly the wrong tool for the job :) (although, it could easily leverage cryptocurrency networks) Personally, I see the dweb as internet of the early days, when we were all writing blogs and pu
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Note: I'll only speak for my toy app, not pretending to be an expert of Dat, obviously. I don't try to build a consensus (if by that we mean conciliating possibly conflicting entries, like Stellar if doing, for example), I just me
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I totally love that feature, actually. I'm toying currently with an app to do play by post d&d campaigns on Dat, I make one user create a Dat archive to hold game data, then each player has their own archive for their character, th
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I totally get it, it's all a question of balance, I guess. An _occasional_ thanks you mail is great. On the other hand, getting pass the 100 stars on a project on github is a big moral boost too, and probably wouldn't feel so grea
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I wouldn't dare writing just to say "thank you", it would feel like a no-op wasting people time. Instead, I would rather star the project on github. Did you consider those as thanks?
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Regarding Spotify : I use its desktop client (an electron-like app, but using their own implementation of a browser, if I got this right), and it does properly work with Connect, as it implements the standard media player controls on deskto
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Speaking of balls, please don't be a dick. I totally get it if you want the absolute stable experience (although, if your install of plasma is that unstable, my bet is that it's poorly configured, either by you or by your distribu
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Excited to see Connect being actively developed. It's already incredibly useful for me, but I can see it reaching a whole other scale when librem5 phones will be out. Something I wonder more and more often, lately, is if Connect should
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Just as programming languages are all (well mostly) doing the same thing. Cryptocurrencies are tech products, various projects try various ideas. You'll have the initial blockchain idea from bitcoin, the privacy blockchain from monero,
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I've been using KDE Neon since a few months after its initial release, and I'm very satisfied with it. Before that, I was for a decade on Gentoo (switching between wmii and KDE from time to time), and then on Ubuntu for a couple y
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I have a more radical approach to that : I discard any opinion I see in a press article (that is, most of it, usually), and only focus on new facts the article brings. I don't mean any disrespect for journalists and I'm deeply tha
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I don't know if it was intended to be tongue in the cheek from you, but this is stereotypical dropbox-like HN comment. "- We found a way to enable simple telepathy. "- Not impressed. I can already communicate by speaking.&quo
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I can see this being seen as a turning point in the future, if Google loses influence. Until now, every time people were saying "I won't use a new google product, I don't trust them to keep it running", they were quickly
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I read once that prime numbers were a key element element on cryptography (because it's easy to multiply two prime numbers, but difficult to say if a number is a multiple of two prime numbers, if I remember correctly). Will this discov
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Good idea, thanks, I didn't think about OpenWrt. I initially checked if there was any possibility for my spare router (a d-link dsl-3782) to connect to my phone's wifi and then allow other devices to connect to the router, but it
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Something I'm also really interested in is the perspective that I may do advanced routing with my phone (although, I guess it could fit in the "manipulate every aspect of it" category). 4g has gotten really good those latest
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by oelmekki 8y ago
I see, thanks. I had the experience of having some mails ending in gmail spam box until we added SPF, but we were a young company (and thus, domain name), and it was in 2014. I wouldn't feel confident recommending not using SPF to anyo
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by oelmekki 8y ago
Just to be clear, if we don't implement SPF on our domain names, our mails will be rejected by gmail, right? If that's so, this is purely a theoretical discussion (which has its own merits, of course).
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by oelmekki 8y ago
That was my first thought as well, but the blocking reason reads : "This URL has been categorized under : Criminal Skills / Hacking news". This sounds targeted : I guess a torrent domain name wildcard would have read somethin

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