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by twiss 9y ago
The most significant ways in which it's a bit like an OS are 1. It has a Window Manager (try it out in the demo, you can drag around windows and such) 2. It has a File System, which does encryption and compression. This makes it so tha
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by twiss 9y ago
Yes, it is, but after that, it stays installed and runs before you open the web app the next time. In effect, this makes it trust-on-first use, just like if you'd install a desktop app which then had some secure update mechanism.
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by twiss 9y ago
Yes and no :) I did indeed not implement OT, but it's also a true story that I would create a Google Doc and share it, nobody knows what to write, I type a sentence, and my classmates delete it as a joke, to mess with me :) But yeah, f
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by twiss 9y ago
Hmm, that's not supposed to happen. It might be just that the server returned an error for one of the requests the first time.
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by twiss 9y ago
Hmm. Do you mean it sounds like we'll get hacked any day now? Do you have a suggestion for better wording?
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by twiss 9y ago
Yeah. While possible, Airborn OS isn't really meant to deploy yourself. If you want that, you might be better off with nextCloud or similar. Airborn OS was built to have a service that you don't have to self-host, while still bein
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by twiss 9y ago
Yes, that's correct. Unless Web Crypto is available, in which case it uses that.
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I made a Google Docs alternative where not only the documents are private, but you also have your own private installation of the app, even though it's hosted in the cloud: https://www.airbornos.com . If you enable "Not
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by twiss 9y ago
Hi HN! I made this. It has bulk import from Google Docs ;) thanks to a feature request from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478479
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Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative(airbornos.com)
469 points by twiss 9y ago|203 comments
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There's Strut, which is WYSIWIG and has path editing: http://strut.io/ I'm running a fork with some very minor improvements at https://www.airbornos.com/demo#open=strut . If you make an account the
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by twiss 9y ago
Hmm. I meant vegetarian, but upon Googling it seems that you're right that dairy and eggs contain B12. I've been vegetarian more or less my whole life but consume lots of dairy and my B12 is low. Maybe the comment sibling to yours
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Vitamin B12 deficiency is common in people who have been vegetarian for many years. (Others usually have a large reserve.) From the speculation in the article, it sounds like they'd be better off taking (normal) doses of it, since it&#
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by twiss 9y ago
I've been working on using Service Workers to fix the trust issues of web crypto: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap... Shoot me a message if you're interested in impl
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by twiss 9y ago
I've been working on adding code signing to web apps, using Service Workers: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap... The main blocker is https://github.com/w3
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by twiss 9y ago
> do you have any code or boilerplate I could plug in to achieve that? My implementation is at [0]. It basically fetches a list of files and hashes from GitHub, based on the commit in the X-GitHub-Commit response header (but you could ju
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by twiss 9y ago
I've been working on using Service Workers to solve that problem: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap... I'm planning on making a library to make it easy to make a web
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by twiss 9y ago
I'm not sure that China is that respected in the public mind for the iPhone. They came out last in this ranking, meaning not many positive associations, and it's not for nothing that Apple writes "Designed in California"
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> RIP Firefox OS. :/ It might be a little challenging to base on a platform with not a lot of future support. Yeah, it would've been nice if more apps for Firefox OS had been built, but it's also just web apps, and those a
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by twiss 9y ago
The marketplace is Firefox OS apps. Those are web apps, although Airborn OS also contains a fair amount of Firefox OS-specific code to be able to run them. Yeah, spreadsheets is probably the biggest missing thing. There's EtherCalc, wh
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by twiss 9y ago
Hi HN! I made this. Questions welcome. In my humble opinion, the most interesting/novel thing about this project is the approach to solving the classic "the code is coming from your server every time I open Airborn OS, so why shou
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Airborn OS – Open Source and Private Google Docs Alternative(airbornos.com)
4 points by twiss 9y ago|5 comments
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by twiss 9y ago
> What is bigger: a 400-pixel square or a 400-pixel circle? Geometrically speaking, their width and height are equal. The area of a circle isn't width * height though, obviously. If you plug pi * r^2 = 400^2 into WolframAlpha, you g
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by twiss 9y ago
According to the article, 2.26 million Catalans voted out of 5.3 million registered voters, so the result is highly significant. Even if only 21% of the people who stayed at home would have voted yes (unlikely), "yes" would still
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by twiss 9y ago
> For competitors like Ahold Delhaize, it would be another blow I'm not sure that's a very good example of a competitor. Carrefour is French, Ahold is Dutch. They don't compete in France, nor in the Netherlands. They both
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The next episode [1], aired two days later, contains the conclusion of the story, and he gets out of the tunnel. I do agree that 2 days is rather long to leave kids with the conclusion of that first episode though. The final lines are: &quo
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by twiss 9y ago
In many European countries, the prices of books are fixed [1]. Sometimes it's arranged by law, sometimes by publishers. Toy publishers could try to achieve the same. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_pri
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by twiss 9y ago
> The lawsuits generally ask judges to rule that the records being sought do not have to be divulged. They name the requesters as defendants but do not seek damage awards. Weird. Don't you at least have to allege that the defendants
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The Netherlands has an OAuth system for online identity verification, called DigiD, for anything government-related (taxes, healthcare, etc.) Other than that, occasionally a service asks for a copy of your passport, although that's not
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That's cruel. His only problem with being back in America was: “There, I could always take a walk to my friends’ houses. Here we have to drive. The only really social time is at school or on my phone or video games or Xbox. That’s whe

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