thekyle

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by thekyle 8y ago
As an alternative but similar idea, Proof of Work was originally developed to solve the email spam problem. The idea was that you would hash the email body + timestamp + nonce producing a hash with some number of leading zeros. It would be
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by thekyle 8y ago
Also sometimes packages will just randomly disappear from the repositories.
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I don't think this is a good solution. They would be going from metaphorically "selling" user data via ads to literally selling user data.
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by thekyle 8y ago
There are languages like Lojban that are designed to be an ideal intermediary language for machine translation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
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List of eponymous laws(en.wikipedia.org)
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by thekyle 8y ago
I think it's pretty clear that the average user isn't willing to pay anything for an email account.
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Yeah, I hadn't considered that. Ultimately as with any online peer-to-peer marketplace, there would need to be some process for handling disputes.
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by thekyle 8y ago
It would be ideal to integrate the donation system with the existing issues system. That way individual issues could carry a bounty added by people wanting that issue fixed.
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by thekyle 8y ago
This. I've always wondered why sites like GitHub/GitLab won't allow issues to have a bounty. It seems to me like its the obvious solution to crowdfunding OSS. When I find an issue on GitHub requesting a new feature or reporti
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by thekyle 8y ago
For a while, DDG offered a free Jabber provider which lots of people hoped would do to XMPP what Gmail did to Email but they shut it down.
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I think it's probably that DDG does a better job at marketing themselves. Whenever there is any sort of privacy scandal there always seems to be some comment from their PR dept. Personally, I am highly skeptical regarding DDG and find
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by thekyle 8y ago
Doesn't UPnP already solve this? And it enabled by default on most routers.
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by thekyle 8y ago
Well, I'm not sure exactly what OP meant when he said "innovation" I was just stating some practical use cases.
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That's true, although I was surprised to find a few weeks ago that Skype does not actually support porting phone numbers in, so you would need to get a brand new number.
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I figured he was suggesting a voice over IP solution more like Google Voice that can still communicate with the regular cell networks.
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Well the obvious benefit is that you could access your voicemail recordings offline. Also for Android devices there would presumably be some way to access the raw audio files and transfer them to another computer for long-term storage.
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Not to mention that Netflix is also publicly traded. Personally, I would not consider any public company to be a startup.
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It doesn't make them much but I believe they sell a premium version with access to stickers and other stuff for chatting, and they have a video game store for PC now.
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by thekyle 8y ago
Maybe, a few years back I had the idea to create a service identical to what Brave offers today (except based on the traditional banking system, not cryptocurrency) however I stopped after reviewing the money transmitter laws in the United
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There are plenty of Linux distros that are supported for upwards of 10 years. Debian and CentOS come to mind but Ubuntu 18.04 was also recently announced to have support until 2028.
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Mozilla is both a non-profit and a for-profit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
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by thekyle 8y ago
I would argue Email is heavily abused, much more than Twitter. It's just not very noticeable if you have a good spam filter.
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by thekyle 8y ago
If these Nextcloud instances are being installed on routers then they likely won't have access to very much storage space.
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by thekyle 8y ago
> Well, they might need one for their site and once it's up and loaded with your content, you can now start to query it for data that you don't host. That's a very interesting idea that I hadn't considered. So basical
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by thekyle 8y ago
I think he means gmail.