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by shazow 8y ago
This is super cool, great work! It's the second (mostly-)language-native implementation[1] outside of a browser that I'm aware of, both started this year despite the WebRTC spec being finalized about 5 years ago. It's really
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by shazow 8y ago
"One of" :) I'd argue eternum is not quite at the same level since it just takes an IPFS object as an input (but no IPFS output). Op made a thing that takes an IPFS object as an input and produces a different IPFS object as a
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by shazow 8y ago
Is this one of the first examples of an IPFS-based API? This is very cool. I like that you can take something that is effectively on your disk, ping some endpoint, and it will get "pulled" by the service as a peer and process it.
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by shazow 8y ago
Also free reliable email forwarding.
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by shazow 8y ago
From the post: > One of the most exciting opportunities the Librem Key opens up to us is in integrating with our tamper-evident Heads BIOS to provide cutting-edge tamper-evident security but in a convenient package that doesn’t exist any
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by shazow 8y ago
pions' webrtc is the only third-party implementation with that level of completeness, and it's not very complete yet. It's super new (months old), but it's exciting! See issues: https://github.com/pions&#
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by shazow 8y ago
In case anyone is curious about the size of the Ethereum blockchain (which the linked article doesn't even mention but seems to inevitably come up in comments), I took some measurements recently: https://twitter.com/sha
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by shazow 8y ago
Ultimately, all full nodes will also be light clients--that is the nature of the upcoming sharding changes. It does not make sense to have a full node for every light client. A full node is perfectly capable of safely serving hundreds or th
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by shazow 8y ago
Godoc is an excellent forcing function when it's not ignored. Designing your package's public namespace so that it looks sensible in godoc yields great results for consumers.
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by shazow 8y ago
I suspect you're right in the short term, but in the long term it will push more users to adopt Linux and maybe eventually devs will pay more attention.
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by shazow 8y ago
Except there is clear evidence that FastMail employees are able and willing to read through your personal emails, and they've become actively user-hostile in their support: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/10
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by shazow 8y ago
Tracy has been working on Linux and Windows specific versions, but turns out the differences are super minimal. With Windows, the recommendation is to install the Linux subsystem, then things end up being the same (give or take some UI). If
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by shazow 8y ago
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. :)
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by shazow 8y ago
It is an "intro" after all. :) The target audience is beginners who are just trying to learn programming and things like that. Pipes are cool, but that's more intermediate/advanced. Maybe there will be another zine in th
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by shazow 8y ago
One of the goals of the zine is to get people up to speed with what they need to know to learn programming--good to have a goal while you're learning, right? When setting up Python (and really most languages), you end up needing things
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by shazow 8y ago
Hypothetically fair point, will keep that in mind for future revisions. In practice, have not seen any of the intended audience run into this.
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by shazow 8y ago
Heya HN, I worked on this with Tracy (who is on a plane right now). That is, she did everything and I made some doodles for the cover, but happy to answer any questions! If you have a friend or coworker who is looking to get more comfortabl
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by shazow 8y ago
Having shared these zines with beginners IRL (hi, I did the cover!), I can say that the abstract nature of the terminal makes it less intimidating but does not remove from the content. I imagine for an intermediate/expert audience who
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by shazow 8y ago
if stars == 0: Nobody heard of it yet. elif stars < 10: Probably shared with some friends or tweeted. elif stars < 1000: Probably announced officially, shared on some news aggregators, maybe there's a blog post about it. elif sta
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by shazow 8y ago
Like most things, "Open Source" is relative and spans a gradient. It can be open but undocumented, it can be open but with closed components, it can be open but broken, it can be open but closed to outside contributors, and so on.
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by shazow 8y ago
This is fantastic, thank you!!
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by shazow 9y ago
> But, if you put it on IPFS, what hosts the wallet, and wallet API? Which wallet? You can use whatever wallet you want which supports the functionality the DApp requires. There are dozens of wallets, some are in-browser. > Also, last
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by shazow 9y ago
Yea, my goes-to-gmail email is my "public" email that has been around since forever and is in plaintext on a bunch of websites and every commit etc.
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by shazow 9y ago
I'm very happy to share to and benefit from the collective emails of other users, because it yields noticeably better results for me. With Fastmail, if I push the spam filtering too aggressively then I get constant false positives. Wit
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by shazow 9y ago
Also Gmail's spam filtering is still unparalleled. I actually pipe my Fastmail through Gmail just for the spam filtering. Sigh. Kinda wish they released their spam filtering service as a stand-alone service.
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by shazow 9y ago
You can host the UI wherever you want. You can put it on IPFS, you can broadcast it as a bittorrent, you can put it on Github, you can put it in a pastebin, you can even put it on the blockchain. A lot of developers choose to have a replica
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by shazow 9y ago
The bad news: There's no unified HiDPI solution on Linux that works well end-to-end. The good news: You don't really need one. Bumping the font configuration fixes 80% of the scenarios, and the rest I tweak on a case-by-case basis
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by shazow 9y ago
I'm currently running Arch. Before that I was working on a custom kernel config with Gentoo but my timebox for that has elapsed. :) Related blog post: https://medium.com/@shazow/my-computer-is-my-home-5a587dcc1d...
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by shazow 9y ago
I think the included warranty varies by country. Some countries have required minimums for warranties. In Canada, it comes with a 1-year warranty. The 4 year I bought was a depot warranty (aka take it to the nearest certified repair center
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by shazow 9y ago
I like it. I feel it's about the right size and the texture/precision is good. It's a bit smaller than my 2014 rMBP which I thought was fine too. On the other hand, the new MBPs have these comically massive trackpads which al

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