This is what end-to-end encryption should look like! - Jitsi
what i should probably be doing with spare programming cycle is learning rust and sysop kit, but then i think "you know i bet you could do a p2p fediverse with dat and activitypub"
I added apk download links to the Cliqz Concept Browser readme. Get yourself an android browser that can load dat:// URLs.
https://github.com/cliqz/cliqz-concept-browser/blob/master/README.md
i've gotten to know like...... a mindblowing amount of mindblowing people. i guess the p2p web is not just alive, but blossoming
wow
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
"Local-first software
You own your data, in spite of the cloud"
"However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost."
asking for help should never be something you feel embarrassed or ashamed about
even if you ask every day.
you are allowed to ask for help. you are allowed to need help. you should ask for help when you need it, that is the correct response to distressing times and emotions
anyone who has made you feel badly about doing so deserves a swift kick to the shin
the year is 2070 and elon musk’s grandchild stands in his grand library, surrounded by books long unprinted. he regards a reproduction of an advice dog meme, blown up to occupy the whole wall above the fireplace. “buy a pizza” it says above, and below: “pay with snakes”
he considers the piece regularly. something about it truly is wise, he thinks. has my pizza been paid for with snakes? have i paid snakes for the rich pizzas of my life? outside, the soil burns under acid rain.
My brain was fried from work yesterday so I finally got around to finishing up this this thing.
Now I can render a terminal in #WebVR that opens a shell to an Ubuntu instance running on my phone.
The goal is to make a VR development environment. 😁
The Political Compass model is based on a right wing premise: that authoritarianism and libertarianism are opposed, that what it calls the "Economic-Right" can sometimes oppose authoritarianism.
The most extreme advocates of right-wing libertarianism are in fact just advocates for authoritarianism of a slightly different kind.
To classify one's own beliefs according to the Political Compass is to classify oneself according to a right-wing model of politics.
@garbados By the way, I just wanted to say thanks again for making dat-librarian! It's been really handy for the pinning service thing in working on. 💜
Thank god the entire industry hasn't decided to revolve around Blink/Chromium for 95% of the web's browser traffic, or else Google would have an unlimited ability to push forward whatever bullshit standard they wanted.
Wait hold on, my producer is telling me something [places finger on my ear piece]
Oh no.
Been writing up how basic Dat support is implemented in Firefox with dat-fox:
https://sammacbeth.eu/blog/2019/03/22/dat-for-firefox-1.html
Next post will be how dat-webext fixes all the shortcomings that dat-fox has!
Into p2p and distributed systems.