dannyobrien

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by dannyobrien 7d ago
(I think EDR here means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpoint_detection_and_respons... )
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by dannyobrien 8d ago
I want to know and understand how/when we switched from all-caps tags -- <HTML><HEAD></HEAD> to lowercase. It was early on, but what prompted it?
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by dannyobrien 13d ago
I just wanted to add how much in awe I am at you creating this game in '93 in assembly. Around the same time I was trying to write a game on the Atari ST, and the dedication to the project -- especially when documentation was so thin o
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by dannyobrien 13d ago
Duelling opinions! (Not really -- downtown SF has had a lot of trouble in the last few years, though as Noah notes, it's been feeling a bit better lately). However, the trajectory isn't quite that clear, at least over a longer tim
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Protocols for People: AI, the Internet and the IETF(digitalmedusa.org)
2 points by dannyobrien 14d ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 16d ago
I like Brave, and I know and respect many of the technical team there. I looked into the various stories about the browser that led to it being unpopular in some key communities, and I really couldn't find anything some misunderstandin
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by dannyobrien 17d ago
So none of these are mandated backdoors, or weakening end-to-end encryption. They're examples of the intelligence services pursuing signals collection. Mandated backdoors would be something like the the United States' (as far as w
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by dannyobrien 17d ago
Could you give examples of the US adding backdoors and weakening end-to-end encryption? I'll give you the almost-certain weakening of proposed crypto standards, and Clinton-era export controls, but I don't think I've seen any
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by dannyobrien 20d ago
A somewhat similar pattern has been suggested with the Open Knowledge Format: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blo...
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by dannyobrien 25d ago
well that and the claustrophobia and the sugars
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by dannyobrien 27d ago
The best state of affairs is that neither Aaron nor Meta nor anyone else should be targeted for scraping. It shouldn't be a crime. I understand the ire about the injustice, but I don't think the right situation is that because Aar
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by dannyobrien 28d ago
There's also Spritely's[0] work on Ocapn[1], and Hoot[2], their Guile Scheme implementation in Wasm. [0] - https://spritely.institute/ [1] - https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn [2] - https:/
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by dannyobrien 1mo ago
Also in this genre: Moxie Marlinspike (yes, that[1] Moxie Marlinspike)'s documentary about anarchist yacht-squatting, "Hold Fast" (2007) https://vimeo.com/15351476 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by dannyobrien 1mo ago
My most used pandoc snippet: tidyhtml () { pandoc -f html-native_divs-native_spans -t markdown-raw_html-raw_attribute | pandoc -f markdown -t html } which strips out styling, wrapper divs, spans, inline attributes, etc from (for instanc
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
At the time, I was working at the Committee to Protect Journalists with dissident bloggers working in Syria, Egypt, UAE, Turkey, etc. We had a group of them come to the US to talk to the big tech companies about the issues they were struggl
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for writing this -- I couldn't find a way of contacting you directly in the repo, so I'll just have to bury this here! I really appreciate the work that went into this, and the design.
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Agntcy – Open Infrastructure for the Internet of Agents(docs.agntcy.org)
2 points by dannyobrien 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
I eagerly await the models replying with that: "I'd be happy to create a pelican riding a bicycle, but just a note that this might already be in my training data. Simon."
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
What I'm looking for right now is a tool like this that lets more than one person participate in the conversation: right now Claude Code and similar tools are great for working alone, but I'd like to effectively pair-prompt with a
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by dannyobrien 2mo ago
So I'm not sure if it's the first version of this doc, but I ran the first version of it that's on Wayback Machine[1] with the current version to see what the differences are. Most of the changes seem to be because Masley fou
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
Actually, this works now! https://inbrowser.link/ https://github.com/ipfs/service-worker-gateway -- getting p2p working in browsers is still surprisingly hard: even the official routes like webrtc have
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How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy(openassistivetech.org)
175 points by dannyobrien 3mo ago|23 comments
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
apply. you have nothing to lose, and the bureacracy/burden is very small. I'm a big NLNet fan.
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
would it possible to have iroh as a libp2p pluggable transport? So you could dial a iroh node with /iroh/proxy/ed25519key?
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
FYI: though EFF articles have individual named authors, they go through an extensive collective editing process. Every post will have had at least one domain-specific lawyer reviewer who signs off on it.
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Verifiable partial data for peer-to-peer systems(bab-hash.org)
2 points by dannyobrien 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 3mo ago
I got early access to the pre-ChatGPT OpenAI API (actually by pinging someone from OpenAI who posted about it on HN). At work, we were setting up to play a livestreamed JackBox game for a charity event. This would have been in 2019. In a pr
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Atomically Precise Mechanosynthesis of Carbon Structures on Hydrogenated Si(100)(somewhereville.com)
4 points by dannyobrien 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dannyobrien 4mo ago
Have you read the responses to (at least) the first of these videos? https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center... Also, I thought the response by Benn Jordan on Bluesky was informative. https:/
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by dannyobrien 4mo ago
I think people sometimes misunderstand Daniel's point here, though it's clearer when taken in context of the rest of his article. The tools in general are getting a lot better at finding security bugs, it was unclear to Daniel bas

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