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by olah_1 5y ago
Brave is technically using this SaaS solution from the company that develops Jitsi: https://jaas.8x8.vc/#/
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by olah_1 5y ago
how does a port “wear out”? i’ve never heard of that
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by olah_1 5y ago
Yeah "main", which contains 5 lines. So you gotta find where the real action is and down the rabbit hole you go.
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by olah_1 5y ago
Hardest part of reading code is knowing where to start. I wasn't around at this point, but I can only imagine the horror of a C programmer seeing their beautiful art broken apart into a bunch of nonsensical files in C++. I like that Go
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by olah_1 5y ago
That works too. Pretty much the same result. More people are just familiar with HTML/JS I’d wager. How do you handle users and permissions?
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by olah_1 5y ago
web based solutions are getting crazy good. Pixlr in the browser probably works better than Gimp for simple use cases. https://pixlr.com/
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by olah_1 5y ago
I suspect that Valve is actively working on anti-cheat solutions because of the upcoming Steam Deck console.
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by olah_1 5y ago
Yeah two-way data binding isn’t exactly new. What I would like to see more of is “no backend” type solutions that allow you to just write front ends that leverage existing auth, databases, etc eg. Sia, Gun, Dfinity, etc
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by olah_1 5y ago
Aether is doing something pretty cool. Combining chat with threads and email lists. All three together. https://aether.app/
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by olah_1 5y ago
Proton[1] is the reason my next machine will be Linux. [1]: https://www.protondb.com/
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by olah_1 5y ago
There’s no reason that intermediaries couldn’t be used. But it wouldn’t be part of the actual core tech. There should be multiple options for such things as well. All competing for better service.
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by olah_1 5y ago
It is the common narrative, yes. But it doesn’t need to be. Monero has view keys that allows for audit-ability, for example.
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by olah_1 5y ago
Algorand is the exact opposite ethos from Monero. They are partnered with the World Economic Forum and being used for things like vaccine passport haha
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by olah_1 5y ago
Is it that "Howler chat" app? Is it usable today?
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by olah_1 5y ago
I have definitely noticed a functional programming to golang pipeline. Multiple people used Haskell and switched to Golang. Interesting anecdotes.
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by olah_1 5y ago
you have a warning during sign up that says “you will lose everything if you forget your password”. naturally this is off-putting to most normal people. any plans to implement a social-recovery system like we see in the ethereum world? if i
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by olah_1 5y ago
is there a way to automatically migrate from google photos?
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by olah_1 5y ago
the answer is right here https://ente.io/transparency
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by olah_1 5y ago
> So if you want to know how it’s going [...] message me on Signal. Does this guy just give out his phone number to anyone?
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by olah_1 5y ago
This reads like an advertisement for peer to peer apps like Manyverse[1], Iris[2], or Capsule[3]. He mentions mirror.xyz in the footnotes, but I can't figure out what that is. One of those annoyingly exclusive projects like Clubhouse.
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by olah_1 5y ago
This reminds me of identity in Secure-Scuttlebutt. It’s my favorite naming system. Basically you’re just an unpronounceable identity. Other people give you names. Different people call you different things. After all, when you’re born, you’
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by olah_1 5y ago
Similar to doing ctrl+s five times in a row on a document, this pattern leads to the new anxiety driven UX of right clicking a link and carefully selecting “open in new tab”.
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by olah_1 5y ago
I was giving the person above me the benefit of the doubt. I assume that was their argument, not mine. But i entertained the idea regardless.
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by olah_1 5y ago
Maybe it failed in the consumer app space because it couldn’t keep up with user experience expectations. But if that is the metric, then Matrix already failed too, right? One new server + consumer app combo could revive XMPP for consumers q
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by olah_1 5y ago
Who wouldn’t want their data pinned? That is the expected behavior of a chat app today. So to provide a “first choice” experience, they will need to do so. So, how does P2P solve the metadata sponge problem?
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by olah_1 5y ago
It is interesting that the funding from them happened very early on, at the same time as the design of the protocol itself. Now it is too late to rethink the design to be less of a honeypot. So the only solution is P2P matrix. But even P2P
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by olah_1 5y ago
The problem with going off of commits is that if someone doesn’t follow every week, they are likely to miss what is happening. The only place I go to see updates for projects is Releases (or a changelog file). Maybe a nice middle ground is
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by olah_1 5y ago
No release since 2018? They seemed to have been derailed by the focus on crypto-currency as a solution to funding. In a bitter irony, they were too early to the party. Had they continued momentum on regular work, they could now have used gi
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by olah_1 5y ago
> but to call Conspicuous Consumption "fundamentally human" is overstatement. My take is that what his wife wanted was not “conspicuous consumption” but rather just a healthy social life. Granted that is just what i gleaned fro
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by olah_1 5y ago
Yeah, this line: > And she wasn’t trying that hard anyway, because she had acquired, somehow, New Life Dreams, which had to do with Conspicuous Consumption and Keeping Up and being Visibly Awesome — dreams which are at odds with my own.

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