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by ploum 5mo ago
If Satoshi has at least half a brain (which we know he has), he knows that moving even one coin from this historical stack could crash the whole Bitcoin economy. So, no, he doesn’t have trillions of dollars. (It is so basic, I’m still confu
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by ploum 5mo ago
My theory is that Satoshi is a persona created by Adam Back and Hal Finney. They probably devised something where both needed to agree and sign something for Satoshi to act. This also allowed them to say "I’m not Satoshi Nakamoto"
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by ploum 6mo ago
try gemini://bbs.geminispace.org
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by ploum 6mo ago
is it because I was young? I still believe phpbb forums were the best!
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by ploum 7mo ago
Your example is completely stupid: I’m talking about writing a website. Would you go to rural Spain without knowing a word of Spanish and handle flyers with a Spanish text you had no way to check? Seriously?
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by ploum 7mo ago
Exactly! If you can use GrapheneOS, good for you but what /e/OS offers is: - Usable Android with your usual Android app (banking, etc) - No data sent to Google by default - Easier interface with nearly no bloatware - Available eas
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by ploum 7mo ago
"One of my coworkers is EXTREMELY capable but functionally almost illiterate." I cannot imagine what it means. To me it reads like "I know someone who can run very fast but has no legs."
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by ploum 7mo ago
nope, let the user does the translation, with his own choice of tool and being thus perfectly aware of the shortcomings. I know that some people translate my French posts to read them. That’s really cool. But I would never post something I
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by ploum 7mo ago
Yet another text blog that doesn’t work without Javascript. What kind of sick mind does it take to ensure a straight blog post requires Javascript?
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by ploum 7mo ago
Me too but I’m OP. Really happy to see I’m not alone!
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by ploum 7mo ago
see that contributed picture: https://offpunk.net/screenshots/resist.png
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by ploum 7mo ago
the "open" open outside. So you go to a site. If the site is not complete, try "v full" (for "view full"). The reason is that there was no unmerdify rule for your site and that readability mistakenly assumes th
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by ploum 7mo ago
well, indeed. If you use mutt and use the "reply" feature in Offpunk, you will see how well emails and blog/gemini posts merge well ;-) (this will be the subject of another post later)
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by ploum 7mo ago
I tried to add kiwix support to Offpunk in the early days but kiwix do not support incremental update of the wikipedia database, which makes it a huge pain point.
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by ploum 7mo ago
The cache is pure and straight files-in-folders. This makes it trivial to browse the cache by hand: cd .cache/offpunk/https/news.ycombinator.com/item cat "id=46943752" So it could be trivially shared. The &quot
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by ploum 7mo ago
Contributions are welcome. I even believe that this whole code should be migrated from python-requests to curl.
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by ploum 7mo ago
OP here and Vim/UNIX fan. I get the idea behind "reinventing Emacs". But there are main differences: - offpunk is an offline content browser/reader. Main component is fetching/caching/displaying ressources - of
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by ploum 7mo ago
OP here: Didn’t even come to my mind while writing this. This would be totally against the philosophy of the projects. Don’t worry: I wanted to celebrate humans cooperating over good old emails to write code in their editor without any help
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by ploum 7mo ago
Try "gemini protocol", it helps a lot. But, trully, there’s no much to search. The beauty of Gemini is how small it is: all technical informations should be there : https://geminiprotocol.net/
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by ploum 7mo ago
offpunk’s slowness has two main sources (while offline): - loading modules at startup (will be solved in 3.1 with lazy loading, patch is pending) - parsing HTML with lot of pictures (because we wait for chafa for each picture) I’m not sure
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by ploum 7mo ago
each tool needs very specific set of options so we can’t just let the user input any command. And offpunk has been built for use with chafa since the start. Timg is just an historical workaround were Chafa had some bugs. But there are curr
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The Disconnected Git Workflow(ploum.net)
2 points by ploum 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ploum 8mo ago
Well it seems that, those days, instead of SUM(expense1,expense2) you ask an LLM to "make an app that will compute the total of multiple expenses". If I read most of the news on this very website, this is "way more efficient&
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by ploum 8mo ago
It is also a matter of choice. I don’t remember any news trivia, I don’t engage with "people news" and, to be honest, I forget a lot of what people tell me about random subject. It has two huge benefits: nearly infinite memory for
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by ploum 8mo ago
We use Chafa but I’m curious. Are you planing to contribute something related to w3m?
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by ploum 8mo ago
Offpunk uses Chafa.
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by ploum 8mo ago
OP here: Majority of professors became professors because there were very good at passing standard exam (and, TBH, some are not good at anything else). I’m different because I was a bad student. Only managed to get my diploma with minimal g
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by ploum 8mo ago
OP here: I teach Open Source Strategies. The main strategy is collaboration. If you are smart enough to: 1. Identify your problem 2. Ask someone about it 3. Get an answer which improve your understanding Then you are doing pretty good by al
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Giving university exams in the age of chatbots(ploum.net)
257 points by ploum 8mo ago|210 comments
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by ploum 8mo ago
So you mean that someone use LLM to generate a website full of JS, post a text in it and then we use LLM to try to rebuild the original content? If only we had a way to just share text without all those steps…

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