Popegaf

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by Popegaf 5y ago
Yeah, really great news: more vertical integration for higher walls around those gardens. And, as usual, the majority of hackernews is celebrating this as a win and will happily shovel more money into the pockets of tax evasion and anti-com
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by Popegaf 5y ago
I think introducing a law to require open documentation plus repairability at launch, and open-source+hardware at EOL (maybe even before say 5 years after launch) could work. Businesses keeping their secrets to make a profit and get a head
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by Popegaf 5y ago
> The lesson? There’s no tool, however well designed, that can bring pure reason to politics. The whole article is just slamming an attempt at improving the situation without suggesting any improvements. It's the typical "Hah!
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by Popegaf 5y ago
If WebRTC is activated in your browser and webtorrent ( https://webtorrent.io/ ) is being used by the instance, yes. However, you could say the same for Zoom or most video calling platform, if I'm not mistaken.
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by Popegaf 5y ago
WebTorrent ( https://webtorrent.io/ ) is built upon WebRTC, but I believe PeerTube should fallback to simple HTTP mp4. There is a download link handy that you can open in the browser, vlc, mpv or your favorite video player.
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by Popegaf 5y ago
It's not P2P, it's federated. Anybody can host an instance and probably that one has low bandwidth and isn't mirrored by other instances. Instances like https://tilvids.com/ or https://video.ploud.
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by Popegaf 5y ago
It does use Webtorrent by default (it can be turned off).
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by Popegaf 5y ago
Is this comparable to IPFS running on I2P?
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by Popegaf 5y ago
It depends on the configuration of the server. Some disable Webtorrent (probably because it doesn't support HLS). When they do that then I think it pulls from the federation, which then depends on how many have mirrored it.
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by Popegaf 5y ago
Please not mailinglists. They are unbrowsable and who likes getting their inbox spammed in order to follow a discussion? What's more, not everybody follows etiquette: - reply and just keep the original message at the bottom - reply in
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by Popegaf 5y ago
I'm a little split on it because they don't use IPFS. It would be great if they had a button to "mirror" or "contribute bandwidth", because that I would do. I have a few VPSs contributing bandwidth to other sma
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by Popegaf 5y ago
It's not JS or node that's the problem, it's the JS ecosystem. Badly or too broadly defined dependencies can (and do) lead to pulling a new version of a dep that introduced a breaking API change and tada, you have to start hu
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by Popegaf 5y ago
I'd go even one step further: EOL software and hardware should be forced to be open-hardware (at least open schematics) or opensource. If you're not willing to support a product anymore then it should not be possible for it to sim
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by Popegaf 5y ago
That's going to take a while. But at least the linux kernel is starting to integrate Rust. It's doubtful they'll rewrite the whole thing in Rust, but getting it in there is a start. I know the Chromium team was considering sw
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by Popegaf 5y ago
This reminds me of the words in the video "Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)" [0] > At the very bottom are plugins, extensions, mods and hacks. They fundamentally depend on the indifference or obl
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by Popegaf 5y ago
https://zorin.com/os/pro/ is basically what you're looking for
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by Popegaf 5y ago
1. Other OSes (at least linux) have user keychains. 2. Once malware is running as your user, how do you expect to protect against that even with a keychain? They can log all your keystrokes, extract certificates and keys from applications r
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by Popegaf 5y ago
While watching live, probably not, but once downloaded they lose value, don't they?
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by Popegaf 5y ago
Considering the current system and real options that they have right now, what are they supposed to do if they want to earn money (or even a living) making videos that will make you happy? Perhaps more importantly, would you give them money
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by Popegaf 5y ago
Will this set a precedent for other countries or economic regions to follow suit? I could see France for example pointing to SK as a successful model and implementing it. Probably other EU powers will disagree, but they seem like the most l
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by Popegaf 5y ago
I'm reading the comments here and it seems like quite a few people are disgusted but not surprised by this behavior. My question to them: has it changed / will it change your behavior and what you buy? It's easy to complain,
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by Popegaf 5y ago
You mean the Afghan conflict? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_conflict_(1978%E2%...
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by Popegaf 5y ago
China is doing more for those countries than the West ever has or will. Yeah, sure, they're building the infrastructure to strip the country bare, but the West hasn't been much better. Funding wars and bribing officials to keep a
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by Popegaf 5y ago
Linux laptop or desktop: https://linuxpreloaded.com/ or customize a desktop yourself You can checkout compatibility of hardware components @ https://linux-hardware.org/ It's of course possible to keep
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by Popegaf 5y ago
LineageOS and GrapheneOS are as close as you can get to freedom and privacy on your phone while keeping lots of features. Open hardware + software phones are in the budding stage so people investing in them and using them right now are trai
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by Popegaf 5y ago
How many do care though? The vast majority has swallowed whichever pills were laid in front of them and fully believe the "I have nothing to hide" message. It's not hopeless, the people with money here should be putting it wh
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by Popegaf 5y ago
I think the problem with your response is that you aren't proposing anything better. It just sounds like you're saying "give in, it doesn't make a difference anyway". That capitulating, "crabs in a barrel"
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by Popegaf 5y ago
Some apps (especially banking and governmental apps) refuse to start at all. With microG ( https://microg.org/ ) you can run a wide range of apps though. It's quite bearable, especially if you aren't an app junkie t
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by Popegaf 5y ago
I hope so, but at the same time, which app developer is going to target compatibility with the windows desktop when writing an app? Also, how will/do apps that depend on Google Services work (or not)? Is there some shim or something?
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by Popegaf 5y ago
Which ocean current, when was it predicted to collapse, and what do they mean by collapse?

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