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by sanity 2y ago
The name belongs to the non-profit and not a specific codebase, the previous codebase had itself a number of fundamental rewrites (eg. with the 0.7 release) and retained the name Freenet through them - this is no different. The name change
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by sanity 2y ago
Thanks re: liking the project. I'm not going to change the name again. I carefully weighed up the pros and cons over the course of a year - debating the issue with those that disagreed. Eventually I made a call as the architect of Free
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by sanity 2y ago
I disagree that any "swiping" took place as I wasn't aware of the prior meaning because hardly anyone was using it in 1999, nor did anyone bring it up at the time. Similarly, no swiping took place more recently unless you thi
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by sanity 2y ago
It may have had that meaning in the early 90s but by the late 90s it was obscure, so much so that the domain freenet.org remained registered but unused from 1999 until I was able to acquire it in 2019. Calling this "swiping" impli
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by sanity 2y ago
True, they might be referring to that, although if so this is the first time I’ve heard such a complaint in 25 years. The usage of the term "free-net" to describe early methods of free internet access was quite obscure even in 199
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by sanity 2y ago
No relation except that it's created by the same person tackling the same problem (in a more general way) and sharing many underlying concepts like small world networking. The FAQ covers the main differences: https://freenet
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by sanity 2y ago
I didn't post this but I'm the guy in the video dressed like Tom Scott. This talk was 8 months ago but everything is still relevant. We're very close to an initial release which I'll (of course) announce on HN. In the me
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by sanity 2y ago
The most meaningful and useful diversity would be that of social class, and yet that's the one kind of diversity the DEI bureaucracy isn't interested in diversifying.
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by sanity 2y ago
Depends on the industry, 20 years is a lifetime in software.
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by sanity 3y ago
Hah, yes - I've been a big fan of Kotlin for the past decade or so, although Rust is growing on me rapidly. In particular, I think Rust's tooling is a lot better - too many headaches with Gradle. I've pondered the idea of doi
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by sanity 3y ago
I just picked Dioxus to build a decentralized homepage for Freenet[1], it will be the first decentralized website people see when they get Freenet set up. It reminds me a bit of my Kotlin web framework called Kweb[2] that I've been wor
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by sanity 3y ago
Fair enough, I'll remember that for the future.
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by sanity 3y ago
So true, today I was trying to decide whether to use Google's Vertex vector search in a project - until I remembered Google's track record with pulling the rug on services. Made it an easy "no".
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by sanity 3y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware that you should wait a year between reposts - although we did just release a new version that incorporated a bunch of feedback from the attention we got last time.
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Show HN: NowDo – a free macOS todo app designed to combat procrastination
1 points by sanity 3y ago|5 comments
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by sanity 3y ago
My progression was Atari 800XL, Atari 520STfm, then Atari Falcon 030 - then switched to a Linux PC in the late 90s. My parents most likely sold my old computers but a few years ago I reacquired an Atari 800XL for old time's sake.
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by sanity 3y ago
Interesting, I found Semantic Merge [1] years ago but it was never open source. This just does diff but not merge, but at least it's open source - and the diffs look a lot nicer, I've already made it my default. Any plans to ext
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by sanity 3y ago
That's if your agreement with the contract company allows you to recruit their people.
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by sanity 3y ago
This is a follow-up to this ShowHN from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38669781 We've just released version 0.2 of NowDo, including a variety of new features, many of which were suggested by HN users: *
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by sanity 3y ago
I remember back in the 80s I had friends who enjoyed coding in assembly and felt that using higher-level languages was "cheating" - isn't this just a continuation of that?
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by sanity 3y ago
Boy do I regret recommending Pivotal Tracker to people over the years, imagine doing something like this to paying customers - nasty.
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by sanity 3y ago
Nice, appreciate the suggestion.
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by sanity 3y ago
Do I still need to provide credit card info to use the promo code? No bueno.
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by sanity 3y ago
I linked to my github but can't find where to use the promo code :-/
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by sanity 3y ago
> Maybe in the filter bubble of a comp sci student lounge. My example of the NYT publishing Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with comp sci student lounges, can you imagine they NYT publishing something like that today? The equivalent mi
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by sanity 3y ago
There's definitely a slippery slope when you start with centralized moderation, which seems to be the article's central argument. With the new Freenet, we're using a decentralized moderation system that lets users control wha
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by sanity 3y ago
> In 2006, the internet was probably dominated by western audiences. Now, the user base of any large social media site includes much more of the world, including groups like Hamas, ISIS, etc. and they would absolutely claim their content
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by sanity 3y ago
I find that surprising, even in 2010 it was difficult to find illegal content on Freenet unless you were looking for it - and certainly in recent years it's virtually impossible, the default indexes are carefully vetted. In any case, t
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by sanity 3y ago
> why does what content creators may have believed mean fuck-all in terms of what these cases are arguing? I didn't say it did, I acknowledged that SCOTUS would probably rule against the TX and FL laws. I'm talking about the br
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by sanity 3y ago
Agreed, the overt political censorship didn't start until the mid-2010s, over a decade after today's tech giants solidified their dominant positions.

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