Timja

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by Timja 3y ago
Entries on a blockchain are auctioned of in an auction which allow arbitrarely low bids. So it is to expected that there is a long tail of bids with a low chance to win. If a mempool clears, that just means there is limited demand to use th
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by Timja 3y ago
Before lightning was a thing, he anticipated the block size would increase over time. And he changed his mind when the idea of level 2 came up. Which was the right thing to do. But hard to understand at that time. UX is a problem throughout
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by Timja 3y ago
The question asked on that video does not mention lightning. But his answer begins by explaining lightning. Back early on forsaw that lightning is the way forward and not larger blocks. Which is another indication to me, that he is indeed N
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by Timja 3y ago
Wikipedia says "Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation."
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by Timja 3y ago
Oh, interesting. So he only keeps his face secret, not his identity? I remember reading an interview with Ozzy Osbourne who said he refused to work with Buckethead because it spooked him that BH always kept a mask on, even when they talked
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by Timja 3y ago
I think there is some systematic reason why people like Satoshi, Buckethead, Banksy, etc are not uncovered. In each case, I doubt that it really is hard to figure out who they are. Maybe it is the way the press and social media work. You ge
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by Timja 3y ago
Most servers don't set a CORS header though. So usually it does not work in the browser. Try this in your console while not on Reddit: fetch('https://www.reddit.com/.json')
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by Timja 3y ago
Is this Capacitor specific code? Here it seems the JS code can fetch data from any domain: https://github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app/blob/main/src/js/g... Since that is not possible in the brow
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by Timja 3y ago
I would love a battery powered 32" E Ink screen that does nothing on its own, but lets me send it images to display. But for that I guess I would have to give that thing access to my wifi? I wouldn't want that. Any ideas if such a
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Ask HN: Threads in Europe?
1 points by Timja 3y ago|3 comments
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by Timja 3y ago
Chrome and Firefox here are an example for "Two users who use exactly the same hardware but different software". To distinguish between users between of a larger set, you do more such tests and add them all together. Each test add
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by Timja 3y ago
Not sure if the workload makes a difference. We would have to make examples of what Computation1 is and what Computation2 is to make a prediction if certain types of workloads will impact the ratio of their performance. Example: s=per
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by Timja 3y ago
There is no way to escape fingerprinting. Just one example: A script which runs many different types of computations. Each computation will take a certain amount of time depending on your hardware and software. So you will get a fingerprint
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by Timja 4y ago
My prediction: SQLite will keep gaining popularity. Especially among pragmatic software builders who run their own business and do not work for the man. A demographic that I expect to grow. Talking about SQLite: Is there any downside to par
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by Timja 4y ago
I think it's not a distro thing. It's a hardware thing. Too bad. I was hoping AMD still supported it.
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by Timja 4y ago
Then you don't have suspend to ram. The way I read it, s2idle leaves the CPU running. So it is up to the OS if it wants to use it or not. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/states.txt
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by Timja 4y ago
Is that the peers list? Other instance where at least one user follows one user from the given instance?
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by Timja 4y ago
Then why?
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by Timja 4y ago
Strange that users have private keys. Is that kinda forward-looking, so that at some point those keys could be moved to the users themselves? So they can keep their identity, even if the owner of their instance becomes malicious?
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by Timja 4y ago
With "actor" you mean "user"? Every user has their own private key?
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by Timja 4y ago
Nice! 283 files Still crazy many, but I will look a into it in case https://microblog.pub turns out to be not what I am looking for.
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by Timja 4y ago
I would expect "Open Federation" does not mean you need to talk to every instance out there directly. But that it works like a web where messages are routed around. I could be wrong. But I would expect the "servers_i_talk_to&
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by Timja 4y ago
Thanks. 153 files. An order of magnitude leaner than the ones I have seen so far.
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by Timja 4y ago
The download goes to tgz files. No GitHub or GitLab repo?
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by Timja 4y ago
GoToSocial: 6849 files plus dependencies Pleroma: 2289 files plus dependencies I might miss my target of 2 files. But I will surely not get the filecount go up to these extremes :)
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by Timja 4y ago
The trending images have only a handful of likes. Are likes not federated through the Fediverse? If someone on mastodon.social likes a post on pixelfed.social, will that increase the like count on pixelfed.social?
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by Timja 4y ago
What do those "HTTP Signatures" do? If admin of serverA decides to add serverB to the servers_i_talk_to array, they also ask serverB to give them a public key and from then on serverA only accepts messages from serverB if they are
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by Timja 4y ago
Thanks, will look through these. But all of the ones I have looked at so far seem pretty complex with hundreds of files. I don't know the fediverse protocol yet, but I would hope I can get away with just two files like this: receive.ph
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Ask HN: ActivityPub or Mastodon?
36 points by Timja 4y ago|61 comments
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by Timja 4y ago
If I register with a Mastdodon instance, then why do I need a "home Mastodon instance"? Wouldn't I just use the web frontend the instance I registered with provides?

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