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boramalper

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About boramalper

Bora M. Alper

Developer, Amateur Photographer, and Human After All.

bora at boramalper dot org

https://www.boramalper.org

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    Comment #49226550

    This needs "(2025)" in the title; nothing new.

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    Comment #49164935

    I don’t think it has backward compatibility / stability guarantees though, does it?

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    Comment #49033311

    > They aren't obligated to do any of that; they own the platform. > Play ball or get out. People can say things on their way out, and this is what's happening.

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    Comment #49032765

    > It seems that what they are saying is: In a free hosting platform where we share all the resources, it's not fair that some people using LLMs are using up disproportionately huge…

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    Comment #49023003

    Ah okay, and no problem!

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    Comment #49022887

    > I also don't know how many members were in the meeting in the first place and how many just got the email "Wanna ban AI? Vote now!" Was that actually the subject of the email? If…

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    Comment #49022789

    > The author seems annoyed that Codeberg wants to focus on projects that have a legitimate contributor community and is not designed for one-off individual projects. I think Codebe…

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    Comment #49022493

    > It's interesting because the terms have repeatedly stated that using them isn't banned This is the relevant part in Codeberg's Terms of Use: [0] > You must not share projects tha…

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    Comment #48871487

    I certainly experienced this (the vicious try-again cycle) but curious if you have any sources for this?

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    Comment #48756939

    > Couldn't you also just build a bittorrent client that hosts a local webserver to provide http access? And this does exist! See confluence by anacrolix: https://github.com/anacrol…

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    Comment #48752721

    > The idea of simply mounting a filesystem You can use fuse-btfs [0] for mounting torrents as filesystems! Last I checked it was a fairly mature piece of software so hopefully it d…

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    Comment #48752682

    Very interesting! I wonder if it’s still live and there is any writing on it?

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    Comment #48752596

    I think the biggest sin of IPFS is not working natively in web browsers—instead, requiring the use of either HTTP gateways or native apps running outside the browser.

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    Comment #48751233

    And why would you do that? As opposed to, say, distributing via BitTorrent or serving them using a good-old HTTP server? edit: Not opposed to the idea, just curious what makes you …

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    Comment #48751183

    It slowly was taking off—e.g. Library Genesis on IPFS[0]—but then IPFS introduced Bad Bits Denylist [1] which killed it on arrival. [0] https://freeread.org/ipfs.html [1] https://b…

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    Comment #48751125

    I don’t think NFTs (should) count: My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

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    Comment #48750706

    Is anyone still (or has anyone ever) used IPFS in production? I’m not talking about technology demos such as Wikipedia-on-IPFS (which indeed worked and was impressive) but where IP…

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    Comment #48705078

    For macOS and iOS, you can create a profile to configure which DNS server you want to use at all times (including across different Wi-Fi networks and mobile data). See: https://doh…

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    Comment #48358445

    From "The Pirate Bay down, forever?" (2014) > TPB has become an institution that people just expected to be there. Noone willing to take the technology further. The site was ugly, …

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    Comment #48343588

    Are you referring to Apple Creator Studio? https://www.apple.com/apple-creator-studio/

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    Comment #48244263

    I think this HN submission provides little value and a lot more headache to the maintainers of FOSS project (you can already see a lot of brigading in the GitHub comments). IMHO HN…

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    Comment #48121539

    For Codeberg Pages you mean?

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    Comment #48087783

    Social Maps: a user reviews and ratings service for points-of-interest (e.g. cafes) in OpenStreetMap. I’ve been trying to reduce and eliminate my reliance of the Big Tech and the l…