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91.
by osmarks 6y ago
It might be somewhat irrational, but I prefer the fixed-cost-for-unlimited-use model, as it makes the cost of looking at a new thing zero. If I have to pay per use, I'll be discouraged from exploring new content I might like or might n
92.
by osmarks 6y ago
This doesn't seem significantly better than just having the organization providing a video sign it as "authentically theirs", in cases where that's possible; if you mean some sort of thing where editing software and came
93.
by osmarks 6y ago
This is still just a way to validate when something existed, isn't it?
94.
by osmarks 6y ago
That's what I meant by "validated by this source". But unlike with CAs, where they're (meant to) just base issuance on the simple objectively testable criterion of whether you control the domain in question, an external
95.
by osmarks 6y ago
Which is somewhat helpful, but also just pushes the validation work off onto large entities of some kind.
96.
by osmarks 6y ago
Maybe you could have some DRMish thing where the camera signs it with a "secret" key, but this would be terrible for various reasons and also likely broken very fast.
97.
by osmarks 6y ago
I don't see how you can cryptographically validate much more than "this was validated by this source before this time", which doesn't seem to solve the problem stated by the parent at all.
98.
by osmarks 6y ago
Western governments operate mass surveillance programs seemingly without any public open oversight or democratic input.
99.
by osmarks 6y ago
That could work, I forgot SQLite worked by pages. It's still probably not ideal, though.
100.
by osmarks 6y ago
I'm sure they'll stop all their illegal surveillance any day now.
101.
by osmarks 6y ago
I don't think browsers have a good API it could store to, though. As far as I know there isn't really anything for storing efficiently in-place updateable/readable large binary blobs.
102.
by osmarks 6y ago
If you want to do anything nontrivial, yes, probably. This hacked-together YAML syntax seems very irritating to write more complex programs in. And it probably needs sandboxing of its own to some extent, as it looks like it can do infinite
103.
by osmarks 6y ago
You could get much the same effect with an actual programming language and some conveniently pre-loaded libraries/APIs.
104.
by osmarks 6y ago
This is not "no code". This is code, imperative code even, in a really bizarre format.
105.
by osmarks 6y ago
This doesn't have any of what makes lisps nice, in that you cannot, as far as I can tell from those docs, operate on the data structures the code consists of at all.
106.
by osmarks 6y ago
Based on skimming the docs there, you can do infinite loops but may have finite storage (strings are apparently <=64KB and there seems to not be a way to append to arrays). It does have subworkflows, so maybe you could store data in th
107.
by osmarks 6y ago
Fair, and there's this neat Dhall ( https://dhall-lang.org/ ) thing for config files (not really this, since it seems like it is designed to actually encode some amount of logic) which enforces that while still being pre
108.
by osmarks 6y ago
This seems like some sort of horrible inner platform effect. It would be nice if they would use an actual embeddable programming language, like Lua.
109.
by osmarks 6y ago
I don't really want to be manipulated into buying things I would not otherwise want/need.
110.
by osmarks 6y ago
I'm inclined to think that this sort of thing is partly driven by something like Stockholm syndrome, because trying to convince yourself having a shorter life is okay is easier than actually extending it.
111.
by osmarks 6y ago
It does use flat files for storage, so there's not much lockin there.
112.
by osmarks 6y ago
Some RSS reader applications can fetch/view the page each RSS entry points to if the actual entries don't have the right information.
113.
by osmarks 6y ago
Having to carry some paper and writing tools around would make note-taking significantly more annoying for me than just being able to use my phone/laptop.
114.
by osmarks 6y ago
I'm running DokuWiki now, although as a PHP application it is somewhat irritating to integrate with the rest of my server setup, especially with the nice URLs mode requiring a bunch of rewrite rules. It is backed by plaintext files, ha
115.
by osmarks 6y ago
I'd expect that it's because if you have some new forum without (as many) restrictions, you get both: - people who disagree with the restrictions of other places on principle and want a freer alternative - people who can't sa
116.
by osmarks 6y ago
SlateStarCodex itself used to have advertisers on it, and the adverts seemed pretty much fine - just banners and descriptions from a bunch of sponsors, which were pretty relevant to the blog and, I guess, the people likely to visit it. Adve
117.
by osmarks 7y ago
They're more integrated. Each board and chip is doing a lot more than an old TV would have, and you can't really do anything to them other than just swap out the whole thing.
118.
by osmarks 7y ago
CBOR ( https://cbor.io/ ) allows custom types, but it's a binary format and not anywhere near as popular.
119.
by osmarks 7y ago
f2fs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS ) is now popular for Android-based mobile devices.
120.
by osmarks 7y ago
It would be harder to emulate but I see no intrinsic reason you couldn't .

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