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> Anyone know why they used UTF-16 for the message type, instead of UTF-8? It is an artefact of the original implementation, which was not discovered until the protocol was already…

> It seems weird that you would write a formal, generalized protocol specification relying on the idiosyncratic implementation details of JavaScript, for such an important thing as…

You're welcome. I'm working on ssi/DIDKit, at Spruce: https://github.com/spruceid/ssi https://github.com/spruceid/didkit

You're too kind. Top contributors to DID Core can be seen on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/did-core/graphs/contributors

Great questions, csense. It is preferable that users bring their own DIDs, rather than you assigning them DIDs as a service provider, to ensure user autonomy. However, you can crea…

Some updates: Oasis is a new frontend (alternative to the Patchwork desktop app): https://github.com/fraction/oasis/ Manyverse continues development, including working on low-level…

The work was picked up and completed. Rust: https://github.com/sunrise-choir/ssb-legacy-msg/blob/master/... https://github.com/sunrise-choir/ssb-publish/blob/master/src... https://…

Location: New York, NY Remote: no Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Node.js, C, Linux Résumé: https://celehner.com/resume-2020.pdf Email: see profile

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/ https://bentrask.com/ http://nullprogram.com/ https://drewdevault.com/ https://joeyh.name/blog/ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://apenwar…

Marak It sounds like you are working with private repos. With git-ssb currently a repo is either public or private. Private repos are encrypted to a fixed set of recipients so only…

The quoted 150 MB is for all messages in one's network. On my local node there are 91773 messages, going back roughly a year and a half, taking up 147 MB - of which about 72 MB is …

It can take a while to index the database. In places lacking internet bandwidth, people could run pubs in hackerspaces, schools, offices, homes, Actual Pubs, etc. A pub in a place …

> What problem are they solving? That facebook and twitter can delete and alter your messages? that using those services for one's communications places too much power in the hands…

The distinction of binary and non-binary posts on Usenet is paralleled by the separation of messages and blobs on Scuttlebutt. As staltz [explained]( https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

> So, if I post a GB worth of diary entries, who ends up caching it by default? Just my followers? People I follow? Pubs I connect to? your followers, their followers, and their fo…

Each message includes a signature by its author of its content, so it can't be falsified (unless the author's key is compromised)

The equivalent to a bootstrap node is the pub to which you used an invite code to connect to when joining the network (unless you connect to the network in a different way, like by…

With SSB, you could make a UI that renders the content in a different way, such as a HN-style thing, and use it on the existing network alongside people using other clients. The so…

For me, just a master branch. Commit before/after destructive or cross-cutting changes, and "once in a while" in the course of adding regular activity. Also I use a script to mount…

I like that interface idea. There is ledger-autosync (in Debian and on GitHub[0]), which should pull transactions from with accounts with OFX. I haven't tried it as none of my acco…

See also t [0], a script for working with ledger timelog files. Now for a script to generate invoices from the timelog... [0] https://github.com/nuex/t

Here's a good one: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mjmcguff/research/#mcguffin_info... It combines a tree of decendents from one person with a tree of ancestors of another person, to m…

Yes, the Public Suffix List: https://publicsuffix.org/

> project out there to redo the IP system in a decentralized fashion https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns