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Some Love for Interoperable Apps(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
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by rapnie 2y ago
You might have a look at Librecast [0] which is a R&D project funded by Horizons Europe NGI0 programme via NLnet, aiming to the bring multicast to the current unicast internet and smoothen the transition of projects that adopt it. A gre
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> To my knowledge there is not a Vue/React-WASM-type framework out there yet or any framework for building web apps in WASM (without starting from a blank canvas). Not sure if these qualify, but these Rust web frameworks use wasm:
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The other day I bumped again into Markus Lanthaler's hypermedia adventures with Hydra [0] "Hypermedia driven web API's" dating back from Semantic Web days, and later revived and stalled again as the W3C Hydra Community G
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The whole left/right thing has been weaponised to distract from the up/down, top/bottom real issue.
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The speed with which things are ending are most important I think. For decades there has been a slow decline in US power. Today we have the BRICS trade block representing more than half of the world's population. And countries hold a b
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Not just sad to watch . Would a country with a low-trust business environment be allowed to have such a huge mountain of government debt, and continue to have its currency be the world's reserve currency? A lot of sadness hinges on th
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> We always have moved forward technologically despite doomers. We nowadays always introduce technology no matter what. Focused on 'users' as a small subgroup for which we rationalize and validate the introduction. Success me
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What makes it skilled is the amount of soldering points you have to make in an hour, and the grit you need to maintain that rate because you have no choice. The same kind of skills that orange pickers in the US south require, and is more ab
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> pretty nice for humanity in the last ~50 years. Case in point, the EU with its internal markets.
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Another angle: The planned demolishment of democracy involves a recession/depression.
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In the Netherlands 3 panopticon-style prisons were built from 1882 to 1886. This is the one that stands in Breda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koepelgevangenis_(Breda)
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A long-term thing. In the Netherlands decades ago a huge gas reserve was found. And it made us Dutch (and esp. Exxon and Shell) rich. And the region where it was discovered? The Dutch government left the people in the province of Groningen
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I did see fish fly by so fast that it would be really tricky to snapshot them.
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Whatever you think of Musk or where your political leanings are, this move is so anti-democratic and a clear abuse of power by means of this social network, that it should now be painfully clear to any legitimate company, government or inst
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Martin Kleppmann in one of his recent talks about the future of local-first, mentions the need for a generic sync service for the 'local-first end-game' [0] as he calls it. Standardization is needed. Right now everyone and their m
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Old people get sad by what modern tech has to offer them. My elderly non-technical mother is forced into "digital transformation", this mindless 'tech-is-good' hype that is marketed as making our lives better, but which
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I know that mCaptcha is based on PoW. It may be usable here. https://mcaptcha.org/
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Is this a community-driven project, or is there a company behind the project?
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Different UI paradigms? Then Dynamicland [0] communal computing by Bret Victor [1] comes to mind. Anyone knows other examples where truly different UI paradigms are involved? [0] https://dynamicland.org/ [1] https:/&#
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All those competent departments. Dismantled on a whim. It is unbelievable. How many billions of investment dollars are wasted that way, spent during many years to organize such departments efficiently?
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OT but related: I recently bumped into this great video demonstrating "Gaussian Splatting in UnrealEngine - Bahnhof "Aachen Schanz" mit XGRIDS L2 Pro". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVvNJX3WTgQ
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Yes, a la the old and famous CSS Zen Garden [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Zen_Garden
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WikiAsteroids classic arcade asteroids game powered by real-time Wikipedia edits(payravi.xyz)
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Too bad. Mammoths? Not possible and unethical, according to this geneticist's opinion piece in The Guardian. > The only way you will ever see a living mammoth is if our physicist friends finally crack time travel. I am a mere geneti
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But it is not nationalism as the set of common shared values aren't bound to nations. And neither is it protectionism in the traditional meaning of the term. If you don't participate in upholding the value system (or worse activel
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Also the entire site keeps in the dark who is behind this initiative. You can become a coordinator / collaborator and "Reach out to our team at catzlaura@proton.me". Whose team? I always find campaigns like these with anonymo
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Things may also be related to the ideologies Thiel et al are promoting that involve destruction of the state in favor or more, umm, entrepreneurial governance models. Where billionaires can be themselves and the world is their oyster. There
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Remote controls, tumble dryers, do we have to make everything so complicated?(theguardian.com)
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The landing page may be a bit too minimal in giving overview of this cool project. I really liked the direction towards real-time P2P networking, based on Iroh [0]. See the blog post about this [1]. > After almost two years of collaborat

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