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by nindwen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication
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by nindwen 7y ago
Searx aggregates different search engines. YaCy is peer-to-peer engine that can run its own crawlers to index content, and query other peers for their content. Looks like Searx has YaCy-integration available, so you could run a local YaCy-n
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by nindwen 7y ago
See also: https://newsnowfinland.fi/politics/how-finlands-fake-four-da...
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by nindwen 7y ago
I don't know why it seems odd to you, it is literally what Keybase has been about since its start: the point is that you can bootstrap trust by linking to multiple already known identities (like twitter, hn, github) in a secure way. Ev
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by nindwen 7y ago
> there's a zero percent chance any social media platform such as Facebook would ever ban ads. Yes, this is what the article says. This means we must force them to.
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by nindwen 7y ago
While decentralized protocols don't entirely prevent centralization, they're still better than if the protocol was centralized. While Facebook and Google exist, we can still make websites. While most people use Gmail, we can still
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by nindwen 7y ago
If you control your own domain, Web Key Directory [0] is a good option too. [0]: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD
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by nindwen 8y ago
Is the assumption then that "you" means only the conscious part of your brain?
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by nindwen 8y ago
I think it's interesting that the parent included Mastodon on their list, because it certainly has a very pro- safe space culture, despite it being very tempting alternative to people rejected from centralized Twitter. Mastodon has ver
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by nindwen 8y ago
In addition to the other replies: one big draw of specific servers/instances is the local timeline, a feed of every post on a server. While you can connect to anyone, discovering new people is much easier on the same instance. For this
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by nindwen 8y ago
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/ethereu... There have been other similar cases.
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by nindwen 8y ago
Reader mode is definitely a very important part of the modern web experience. A rather sad truth. I recently also found a Firefox extension [1] I'd been looking for a some time: a way to automatically enter reader mode on some URLs, su
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by nindwen 8y ago
> Stellar isn't decentralized. Just like Ripple, it uses Federated Byzantine Agreement, which means that nodes use a list of other nodes they trust. The fact that this scheme has nothing to do with the concept of a decentralized cr
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by nindwen 10y ago
> blogs and rss because they were so geeky and hard to use for normal people But isn't this fixable? What about a service with a twitter-like UX, but where following people just subscribes to their announced rss-feeds. User profiles
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by nindwen 10y ago
Supposing this is correct, you can add the json with cat: arecord -fdat | cat init.json - | wsta ws://
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by nindwen 11y ago
Vi and Vim are very different in this regard: (Most versions of?) vim shows how to quit both on start and when pressing ^C.
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by nindwen 11y ago
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by nindwen 11y ago
Does anyone know how widely these are actually used? When looking at the video, the key looked very "old fashioned", and I thought that surely they're not widely used anymore. In Finland, most locks are something called (afte