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Meta is now a US Defense contractor(theregister.com)
5 points by rapnie 1y ago|2 comments
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by rapnie 1y ago
Here it is better to quote in context, though (italic mine): > This comes from research carried out by Civo, a UK-based cloud operator which undoubtedly has skin in the game , having campaigned against what it sees as unfair practices b
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by rapnie 1y ago
A LICENSE file would be better, yes. But the package.json at least says it is ISC-licensed.
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by rapnie 1y ago
There is a proliferation of sync tools and little standardization. Here some in local-first space [0]. Martin Kleppmann in his talk last year spoke [1] the need for a generic sync protocol, which was very interesting. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by rapnie 1y ago
Living in a Smart City.
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by rapnie 1y ago
It was the giddy techbro optimism that struck me most with a "Hey, if all this quadrillion dollar value comes to Google it surely will greatly benefit all of society". While we are talking here effectively about a near-monopolisti
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Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine(travellemming.com)
161 points by rapnie 1y ago|167 comments
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by rapnie 1y ago
Being open source is a feature, and I have often seen marketing imply this and when pressed returning a "we are considering it", while remaining proprietary. I have also seen "at this early stage the core is still minimal&quo
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by rapnie 1y ago
> Not OSS (yet) Does the "yet" infer that you do intend to open source the baseline product, and then have paid plugins?
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New Privacy Principles for a more trustworthy web(w3.org)
1 points by rapnie 1y ago|0 comments
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by rapnie 1y ago
> LiveStore extends its local event-sourcing model globally by synchronizing events across all clients, typically through a central sync backend. Is that a requirement or could there also be federated nodes, or a full p2p modus operandus
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by rapnie 1y ago
First we invented fire. Then along came the wheel. Countless inventions followed. Today, using the most brilliant minds of our time, the technology of billionaires, and hubris that runs thickly through our veins.. we made not just another s
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GitHub AI protection denies access to users without account(infosec.exchange)
5 points by rapnie 1y ago|0 comments
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by rapnie 1y ago
> Mycelium is a set of typed formats for storing and transferring data. As you might expect it supports things like I did not expect that, as I am not in your world. Your project would benefit with a better description and context on wha
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by rapnie 1y ago
I fail to see how your comment relates to the article or the Bonfire project. But maybe the general approach triggered you to post this. I am curious. Would you enlighten me?
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by rapnie 1y ago
For anyone working remotely in tech, even when they watched this video long ago, it is highly worthwhile to rewatch this brilliant and inspiring talk by Bret Victor. Imho my of the most noteworthy talks ever. When doing so take special note
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Bret Victor – The Future of Programming (2013) [video](vimeo.com)
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by rapnie 1y ago
OTOH it also depends on the architecture you build. If you have a local-first thick client the initial install of 800 MB is less relevant if after install you communicate on a tightly controlled (by you) p2p networking stack, but take on he
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by rapnie 1y ago
> bonus/severance bribe?
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by rapnie 1y ago
> because the other Rust GUI libraries/frameworks aren't great. Waiting for Robius / Makepad to mature a bit more. Looks very promising.
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by rapnie 1y ago
Yes, a big difference between 'telling your friends' in an offline social setting and broadcasting it online.
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by rapnie 1y ago
If you want it more straight-forward and simple hypermedia approach, then check out https://data-star.dev (highly recommended, there are great youtube video's where the maintainers discuss their insights). Following up wher
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The Abstraction Gap(nazhamid.com)
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How to opt out of Meta's AI private data collection (in Insta, FB, WhatsApp)(mastodon.pirateparty.be)
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation: Documents about NATS(github.com)
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Statement on proposed changes to CNCF NATS.io licensing and ownership(wasmcloud.com)
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by rapnie 2y ago
TIL to my surprise that Wikimedia has an Enterprise, which serves big customers like Google. We monetise what you crowdsource to us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Wikimedia...
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by rapnie 2y ago
Same in the Netherlands. And also the ridiculous QR-code DIY waiter thing doesn't really take on, luckily.
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by rapnie 2y ago
I found this vid extremely funny as I've been in the same position sort of: "draw seven stricly perpendicular lines" asked of the dev by the sales team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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by rapnie 2y ago
> Everything old is new again An age ago I took interest in KnockoutJS based on Model-View-ViewModel and found it pragmatic and easy to use. It was however at the beginning of the mad javascript framework-hopping marathon, so it was cons

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