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I realize it's not a pure-Rust UI, but building with Tauri has been a joy. I recently built a GUI for one of my side projects and being able to use standard Typescript client-side …

The unannounced web collaboration platform in-progress might be.

User friendliness. I’ve seen several less-technical people able to quickly access, create, and understand “llms.txt”. It’s not ideal but representative of the tension between user …

This was mostly funded by Zcash Community Grants. Good things can come from crypto R&D.

Cable failed at millennial+ user experience. Many on-demand viewing experiences still play ads through atrocious “cable box apps.” Entrenched cable bureaucracy disrupted by app cul…

I loved my AstroCam as a kid. I think dad and I tried six launches. When a photo finally came out it was the best day. Thank you for sharing, a great reminder of how far we’ve come…

This happened to me in college. They never refunded my $7k balance. It was devastating to me at the time. The experience has played no small role in me becoming a cryptocurrency be…

See also Obscura's approach of QUIC bridges to Mullvad as a privacy layer: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

Easier: I can earn or spend real money 24/7 without anyone’s permission, at any age, in any location. Faster: Payments settle lightning fast compared to ACH/Wires, permanently and …

At minimum all of these rules should be inflation-adjusted.

I’ve been curious to try starting an Aftok: https://aftok.com/

Perhaps the author would consider open sourcing if they received financial compensation for their work to date? Crowdfunding or retroactive grants can liberate code. Context: a big…

Sometimes you have applications that should not be able to access an entire database. There are other various scaling reasons, and PG extensions that can be helpful. But I agree th…

Yes. And they accept cryptocurrency natively (without using gift cards), extremely practical for believers in the space. Uber also owns a significant share of Grab.

The “someone hates Tor relays” theory doesn’t sound worth the effort. This could be an entity running malicious relays, while also trying to unethically take down legitimate relays…

Imitating science fiction is great marketing for a space company. Brand association with familiar depictions of “the future” is the goal, not realism.

Beware the edge case: I responded STOP to a message years ago, then was unable to receive SMS from a popular money transmission app during the signup flow to claim funds that a fri…

Context: these users were not paying, were using stolen credit card numbers.

Will you ever have regrets about your words and activities? Will your logged activities of today be acceptable to every regime in your nation’s future?

I hear you but caution against such oversimplification. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud is a thing. Our culture of cloud reliance is truly dangerous, but some vendors are at le…

It amazes me that people really believe that AWS logs nothing in its backend when logging is disabled on a bucket/feature.

I’ve often wished I could show an “I know what I’m doing” badge to support to guarantee escalation. “I’m a three star infosec General, if I’m contacting you it’s not to waste your …