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by olah_1 7y ago
Signal is planning on using Intel's SGX enclaves. https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/ Not sure how much of a risk this plays in that plan, though.
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by olah_1 7y ago
All I care about is that decentralized data projects somehow utilize our existing, real life, social networks. I want a family to all be able to "friend" each other and seed each others' data. And just because you're see
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by olah_1 7y ago
> It might not be as elitist as rust or clojure but if collaboration is important for your project I'd rather have simple I'm not a rust fanboy, but I wonder why people have the assumption that programming should _not_ be eliti
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by olah_1 7y ago
I truly wish that people didn't swing between extremes on this topic. Surely we can acknowledge the truths of history while also not endorsing genocide. Is that too much to ask?
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by olah_1 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801
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by olah_1 7y ago
> What protocol are you talking about? Any social tools built on top of a decentralized database would do it. - https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db (3Box) - https://github.com/amark/gun (Iris)
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by olah_1 7y ago
> you can export all of your account data And then what? Write a script that systematically re-posts it all on your new account? > and you can host mastrodon on a raspberry pie, what are you talking about The amount of time and dedica
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by olah_1 7y ago
That is not the same as moving your old account to a new instance. If your old server actually dies, your old account data is just gone. And if it dies before you get a chance to migrate, then you're really out of luck. I just don&#x27
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by olah_1 7y ago
> you can find a better instance that suits your needs, or run your own instance I understand that this is the concept, but in practice, it's a laughable recommendation. Accounts aren't portable and running your own instance is
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by olah_1 7y ago
The reason that everyone congregates on only a few servers is because it solves the problem of discoverability (which is essential if you want others to watch your content).
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by olah_1 7y ago
The most useful reviews will always be ones from within your own social network. Because if you have a relationship with the person, they won’t endorse something unless it reflects well on themselves. This is why I’m bullish on protocols li
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by olah_1 7y ago
When you review books on amazon, are you reviewing the content or the edition that you purchased (paper, typesetting, cover, etc)? I wish there were two separate ratings.
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by olah_1 7y ago
Obligatory link to Aether as the modern, decentralized Usenet. I highly suggest everyone looking at this post download the app and join some tech rooms. Just repost links and help build the community up, quite literally "for science&qu
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by olah_1 7y ago
I love StrongTowns. They do a great service in bringing many different political dispositions together for common, practical goals of simply better living. Often times, what they advocate for can be championed by Distributists, Libertarians
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by olah_1 7y ago
Yep. And so many of the apps are useless if you're not a system admin. So in that sense, having too many highly specialized (or low quality) apps can also be a turn off because it just confuses people.
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by olah_1 7y ago
Can you test it in Microsoft's new Edge browser based on Chromium? I'm very curious about that. (I don't know how to test such a thing myself, sorry :S)
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by olah_1 7y ago
I'm partial to Freedombox https://www.freedombox.org/ My parents can understand something like a physical box that sits next to their router. They just need to start specializing rather than being a "jack of all t
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by olah_1 7y ago
For customers: Free games all the time. For developers: A huge lump sum of cash (although this certainly won't continue forever)
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by olah_1 7y ago
I like Jai's `use` keyword. Fun fact: Odin has this exact same thing with `using`. https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#using-statement
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by olah_1 7y ago
> I still don't get why they aren't selling an "enterprise" version of Discord. Something that would be completely separated from the "public" one, with different account and a strong privacy policy. Probabl
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by olah_1 7y ago
I actually think the "code of conduct" culture that Rust embodies exacerbates this kind of drama. Ironically, it creates a more unsafe environment where everyone feels anxious and judged by the CoC Police. Under the CoC, I am enti
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by olah_1 7y ago
> Firefox's bold font rendering is one thing keeping me away from it. You are not alone. Firefox font rendering actually upsets me. Comparing to Chrome rendering, it's just a non-starter. I have brought this up many times, but
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by olah_1 7y ago
Yes, for that reason I recommend Will Kurt's Haskell book instead. It's way more practical.
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by olah_1 7y ago
I read that book for 6 months straight, followed all the exercises, and quit when I realized I couldn't write a simple script that did something useful. But boy did I sure evangelize Haskell throughout the process! facepalm
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by olah_1 7y ago
Jami is missing group text conversations. It's a major work-in-progress.
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by olah_1 7y ago
Bingo. This is why crypto currency won't take off without more humane tech being inserted into the process. People aren't robots. We want many many ways to un-screw ourselves when we inevitably screw ourselves. That's why I&#
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by olah_1 7y ago
> More importantly, I plan to support Windows and Linux which means that writing the core in a portable language is going to minimize the amount of work I have to do as well as the differences between the implementations on each platform
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by olah_1 7y ago
There’s no obligation for Whatsapp to prove that there is no backdoor? Yeah I guess when a product is too big to fail, they’re not obligated to do anything. True.
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by olah_1 7y ago
I completely agree. Ironically, centralization has not helped them move faster. They won’t have usable group messaging without proper “mentions only” notifications. I’ve tried to explain so many times on the forum that they don’t need usern
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by olah_1 7y ago
It's been a while, but it was the common issue with certs that Ruby on Windows also has. I just couldn't get it sorted for whatever reason. Maybe it's not an issue anymore though? Rust http client works OOTB on Windows?

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