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by rakoo 3y ago
That's the thing: everything is temporary, but who gets to decide how temporary it is ? If it's you, fine; if it's not you for totally avoidable reasons, that's a problem.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Rob Pike once said "A little copying is better than a little dependency" as part of the reasons why Go is the way it is, and the more I use programming, the more I understand what he meant. Repeating yourself is not a problem in
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by rakoo 3y ago
How does that make no sense ? That's the whole point of a business.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Not entirely true, Syncthing works perfectly for Linux + Android
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by rakoo 3y ago
Openpgp keys in DNS, 2016: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7929 Certificates in DNS, 2006: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4398
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by rakoo 3y ago
At this point, with the impact they have on the global stage and the fact that they will only pay their taxes where they want, it's a but irrelevant to keep this frame of thoughts.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Yes, it's good to remember that use cases differ, and that not everyone has a few TB to share between multiple devices. Of all the people I know who still use cloud storage, none of them pay for it because it's not needed, and the
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by rakoo 3y ago
I've never used it, but there's a syncthing app that doesn't sync anything but allows you to browse what's in the share: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.syncthing.lite/
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by rakoo 3y ago
If you repatriate content locally, do you need a NAS ? I see the alternative to the cloud as being ~50, or more realistically ~100 for a usable external drive. No consumption when it's not used. Higher longevity than a NAS with the sam
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by rakoo 3y ago
Not trying to disparage but: how is Inferno a complete break from Plan9 ? I mean there's some fundamentally breaking changes (it's just(TM) a VM, the language is brand new) but I don't feel like they're the kind of chang
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by rakoo 3y ago
Go is among the modern languages that are totally supported, so there's a huge usable ecosystem out there
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by rakoo 3y ago
"Free (price) and easy" are not the values peertube is pushing forth, so it's not really relevant. Peertube makes it so you own your infrastructure, your data, and can do whatever you decide to do. You are not subject to fore
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by rakoo 3y ago
You can't seriously put out your 1-minute theory that goes against more than ample evidence to say this is going to happen to peertube. The premise itself is wrong: the conditions of "winning" are not the same, to the point t
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by rakoo 3y ago
You don't care about most users, and you don't care about creators, that's alright, but please don't behave as if they didn't matter. You are not representative of useful population if you use yt-dlp to bypass issue
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by rakoo 3y ago
Peertube is a software, not a service. If you find hateful content, it's not because of peertube, it's because whoever is hosting it (and how you got there)
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by rakoo 3y ago
Okay but what service exists that doesn't exhibit the same problems as youtube, ie the necessity of hyper-growth to satisfy investors, ads everywhere, total surveillance of its users ? Because a search engine that indexes only services
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by rakoo 3y ago
If you dig deep enough, you'll see that "open-source" is actually the preferred term for HN because it is business-friendly: I can use this open-source, depolitized piece of code to make money and not give any to anyone. It&#
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by rakoo 3y ago
And yet the comparison is apt. Both provide ephemeral positive signals to the brain at a cost that is detrimental to individuals' or society's health (not even talking about environment, which is a part of society's health).
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by rakoo 3y ago
Which means that rethinking our habits to explore using the mouse, and inventing other concepts that include the mouse, is worth it
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by rakoo 3y ago
More specifically: it is aimed at read-only web. YouTube videos can be downloaded with yt-dlp. There probably is something for downloading spreadsheets into CSV, but nothing to interact.
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by rakoo 3y ago
Ah, I had the same thought you had and didn't think of dynamic content. Maybe using variable length blocks split with content-defined chunking, and if 99% of the blocks are the same then assume the content is the same, and store the 2
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by rakoo 3y ago
We ? We the users have 0 say into what the web looks like, where it is heading, how it works and how it is financed. Indeed capitalism, through for-profit companies, decides why list of bookmarks are not sufficient anymore, why we need to f
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by rakoo 3y ago
Your sarcastic description of the web shows exactly why TFA exists: by using such tasteless metrics everything can be easily gamed to always the same site, always the same format. And I don't know what I want to discover, so I can&#x27
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by rakoo 3y ago
OK but if it's that common it shouldn't take more time to create the final result than the time it took to draw it and render it. We don't want to spend time at such a low level abstraction, we want to be describing higher-le
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by rakoo 3y ago
I'm not a fan of a bland list of websites, because it feeds into my FOMO and either I find the courage to click on all the links to add them to the pile of I-will-read-this, or more likely I realize I will never have the time to do it
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by rakoo 3y ago
Hot take: The optimal solution is the most obvious one for people who are more used to UNIX commands than programming languages, because the primitives in UNIX are more powerful (they give you a beautiful solution if you can make your pro
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by rakoo 3y ago
Yep, and that's a few billion people. I think it's alright.
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by rakoo 3y ago
TLS brings security and auth: how do you know twitter's service is at https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4av... ? Or is it at https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4av...
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by rakoo 3y ago
Software patents are only valid in jurisdictions that believe in them. Fortunately the EU still doesn't, and that's why VLC is at all possible.
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by rakoo 3y ago
If you're operating between your devices, that's not interoperability.

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