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by p4bl0 4y ago
The file sharing part of this project made me think of RetroShare ( https://retroshare.cc/ ). Too bad this project never really had traction. It was really file sharing + social network in a truly decentralized fashion.
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Free Software / Open Source: Getting Back to a Social Frame(the.webm.ink)
24 points by p4bl0 4y ago|7 comments
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Kate's Git plugin is the only graphical Git interface I actually enjoyed using. Otherwise I'm always using Git from the command line.
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Using Kate's Git Features(kate-editor.org)
2 points by p4bl0 4y ago|1 comments
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Ah, this precise command is aliased as `git lol` (Log One Line) for me!
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by p4bl0 4y ago
My personal method is to type "ffmpeg" and then hit Ctrl+R repeatedly until I make it to the last time I used it to do what I want to do again now, and then adapt the command from history to my current needs. It's not very ef
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by p4bl0 4y ago
This is actually a good thing, for Mastodon. When you actually use Mastodon, those automatic crossposts are not cool: for example mentions are broken even if the concerned people are also on Mastodon and most of the time the authors of thes
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Jortage: Communal Cloud for the Fediverse(jortage.com)
1 points by p4bl0 4y ago|0 comments
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Huhu
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by p4bl0 4y ago
It's funny that I only match at 0.9999999999999982 with myself while all other username I tried matched with themselves at 1.0 ^^.
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by p4bl0 4y ago
> But you haven't given a solution to the problem that costs less, only argued that in practice the problem has assumptions that are in practice not necessary. Aiming for solutions to problems that do not exist is a thing among bloc
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I'm an associate professor of computer science, and my PhD was in cryptology. I think I know a bit about what I'm talking about here. Please stop assuming people you are talking to are just "not getting it" and try to ma
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I never said you had to trust the source, I said that the necessary level of trust is the same (and it is indeed zero). So yes, PoW can give you confidence, but it is unnecessary in practice. Well, let's say it's an additional sec
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Bootstrapping a client requires the same trust in the source from which you're getting the blockchain history, with or without PoW. PoW doesn't play a role here. But you're right that immutability does. What can give you conf
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Yes, proof of work is a consensus mechanism. But modifying a block discreetly would require a full collision on its hash. Even without proof of work. This is what makes a blockchain immutable, and is not a specificity of blockchains, nor of
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I know all this, thanks. Preventing double spending is a feature of the consensus mechanism indeed, if it is augmented with other rules (longest chain wins), but immutability does not rely on it, as I said in the comment you are replying
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Sorry, but proof of work is not an immutability mechanism. Proof of work is only a way to randomly and incontestably select a participant when participation is open and no one is trustable, i.e., a consensus mechanism (which, once augmented
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I don't mind internet services being down from time to time. What I mind is services that are unreliable, that acts as if they were working while they're not. The fail whale was there from time to time (I've seen my share of
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Twitter is not working anymore. I got errors after errors. My timeline won't load on mobile at least four times over five. I don't get most of my notifications on the website even when the interaction are right there before my eye
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The “Underlying Technology” Shibboleth(stephendiehl.com)
4 points by p4bl0 4y ago|0 comments
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Probably AMESys.
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I've been using <i> for things like inline simple math. I set it to display using serif font and in italic using CSS (while the surrounding text is not in italic and also using sans-serif fonts). The results is good visually, it
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by p4bl0 4y ago
Yes, the v102 upgrade was a nightmare for many users. I actually had an exchange about that with the person behind Thunderbird's Twitter account after their announcement of Supernova: > Neat. Please do test this thoroughly before re
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by p4bl0 4y ago
That's not distributed consensus it's centralized consensus, it could be automated without the need for a blockchain.
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by p4bl0 4y ago
> for example git could be described as a application of blockchain technology Git isn't a blockchain as it lacks a consensus mechanism. It can however be used as an append only immutable distributed ledger. If that's all you n
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by p4bl0 4y ago
In addition to opening the API, it would be cool if twitter became interoperable with ActivityPub. It would be one of the biggest instances and still attract a lot of people. It would be cool but I don't think it will ever happen, sadl
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I'm sorry, it's sad, but that's just not how it works. Even "a few tens of dollars" is too much for some people, much more than you can imagine. I teach at university and every year I have students who never had a p
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by p4bl0 4y ago
If I understand it correctly the idea of worker mode is to have a persistent application running where you can have the same objects in memory from one request to another rather than relaunching the app from scratch (requiring files, constr
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I can totally see the market for this. Imagine being a young person (let's say between 10 and 17), you read 2600 or something like it, you cannot pay for a server, you do not have your own Linux because the only family computer is runn
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by p4bl0 4y ago
I see the problem for scripts, but for people it's just a matter of setting an alias command, isn't it?

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