anderspitman

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by anderspitman 3y ago
You can start investing in open platforms and services that get better, not worse, over time. Centralized tech doesn't result in less pain. It's just amortized over eternity.
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546255
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Tunneling solves the ISP problem and the complexity problem of handling inbound connections. It also has some nice security benefits
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by anderspitman 3y ago
One advantage of tunneling is your ISP doesn't know what the traffic is. Also I expect ISP competition to slowly improve. More people are getting access to fiber all the time.
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Sandstorm is awesome but requires significant modifications to apps in order to work within the system. Also, it doesn't solve the complexity problem. You still need a programmer or sysadmin to set it up and manage security. See also C
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by anderspitman 3y ago
That link is corrupted. HN thinks the ");" is part of it: https://forum.restic.net/t/continuous-backup/593
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Any sufficiently popular/reputable VPN provider will eventually remove port forwarding functionality. It's almost exclusively used for scams and torrenting and creates a fat target for litigation.
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by anderspitman 3y ago
How would you synchronize them?
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by anderspitman 3y ago
For small deployments, you might be surprised how far you can get with just systemd/journalctl. It even has built in aggregation over a network.
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by anderspitman 3y ago
I was introduced to this concept as a kid by "The Great Brain" book series. Was surprised to discover as an adult that it actually works in many ways. I'm a huge proponent of sleeping when I'm stuck on something. The tri
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by anderspitman 3y ago
> We all claim to hate complexity, but it’s actually just complexity added by other people that we hate — our own bugbears are always exempted, and for things we understand we quickly become unable to even see there is a potential proble
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Threads.net now supports IndieWeb microformats rel-me(tantek.com)
1 points by anderspitman 3y ago|0 comments
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Dr Warnock spoke several months ago at an awesome graphics symposium at the University of Utah: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H4lCCyKkChk&pp=ygUkdXRhaCBncmFwa...
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by anderspitman 3y ago
I've had a great experience with eSIMs these past few days during a trip to Europe (coming from the US). It's so convenient to be able to arrive at a city and use airport wifi to download a mobile data package for a few bucks. The
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by anderspitman 3y ago
There's a lot of use cases outside traditional tablet functionality, such as running a webserver or turning those excellent Apple screens into a secondary monitor.
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Would love to see it, but my guess would be only if there's ever regulation to force Apple to allow it under climate concerns or right to repair type policy.
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StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks(phoronix.com)
4 points by anderspitman 3y ago|0 comments
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Not refuting your valid points but just another angle to consider, do all websites need to work all the time? If my family knows they can go to apitman.com to see my latest trip photos, if it's down occasionally that's not going t
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by anderspitman 3y ago
> 99.99999% of people want to host nothing at all While I agree this is true today, people also didn't know they wanted cars or smartphones until good implementations were made. Smartphones existed for many years but were niche befo
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by anderspitman 3y ago
I'm a big proponent of this idea. Unfortunately IPv6 alone isn't enough, due to firewalls. It's just not realistic for the average person to be expected to set up port forwarding etc. Now, if something like UPnP was universal
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Do you have an overview anywhere of the protocol you're using to encapsulate TCP in HTTP? Why did you go with HTTP instead of WebSockets? Does Narrowlink support UDP? Sorry for so many questions
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Hot take. IPv6 adoption is never going to hit 100% because SNI routing covers most of the cases people actually need. If UDP functionality is necessary QUIC will be used. I wish this wasn't the case. It would be nice if the software wa
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Hopefully we'll see browser integration eventually
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Yep, and WinFSP and dokany are two options for FUSE on Windows. I'd recommend using rclone or maybe check this list: https://winfsp.dev/doc/Known-File-Systems/
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by anderspitman 3y ago
You might be interested in our paper that just got published in Bioinformatics today as chance would have it: https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article-abst...
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by anderspitman 3y ago
You mean you're implementing something like this to be used by puter.com?
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by anderspitman 3y ago
The current browser stack is a lost cause. There's just no way for anyone who cares to compete with Google. But we still have TCP and HTTP. We will rebuild this place.
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by anderspitman 3y ago
I don't see a huge difference between Firefox and Chrome these days, as they implement everything Google tells them to (and pays them to)
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by anderspitman 3y ago
Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback. It might not go through. But remember whether it goes through or not isn't the important thing. The fact that Google wants it to is what matters.
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by anderspitman 3y ago
You're ascribing a ton of ill will here, and I hope you'll give me a little more grace, but on the other hand maybe there is some truth to your words. I'll see if I can communicate more clearly and authentically in the future

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