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I see, thanks to you and @weego for historical context. It makes me realize that git is probably some kind of append-only database too (and used for decentralization too). I guess …

Also, the blockchain has introduced (AFAIK) the idea of using append-only databases to build decentralized applications, and this is currently used in very interesting new techs wh…

Oh indeed, I'm not trying to say they should not fund these programs, this is awesome and welcome. I'm just warning about a possible pitfall for them to keep an eye on :)

Do people using these oldish softwares update them, though? Funding bug bounty programs kind of fail its objectives if they don't.

Hi Fabio, Congratulations on Notable, it's very slick, and exactly the kind of note taking app I was after. I'm mostly concerned about keeping my data offline these days, so Google…

Dweb related techs. Initially, I started with ssb (secure scuttlebutt), but ultimately moved to dat/beaker. I've been having a lot of fun with it, I love how this allows to publish…

I'll speak only for me, here, but Fallout 1 is the game that impressed me the most among these, during those times. It had to do with this idea that you could go anywhere you wante…

Btw, I wonder : I intend to use KDE on librem 5 (at least eventually, if it's not ready on phone release). Do you know if mixing GTK and QT apps on the system will be as easy as on…

Because having code that behaves differently on development and production is never a solution, it's a workaround. Having bugs that can't be reproduced locally is the worst thing t…

At the very least, CORS should be disabled for localhost. I build interfaces using create-react-app, which launches a dev server on localhost:3000 (useful for things like live relo…

That was my usual extension management method for chrome, but sadly each time I tried that on firefox, it didn't fly (IIRC, you _can_ load extension from your local FS, but they on…

If you want to implement payment, that's clearly the wrong tool for the job :) (although, it could easily leverage cryptocurrency networks) Personally, I see the dweb as internet o…

Note: I'll only speak for my toy app, not pretending to be an expert of Dat, obviously. I don't try to build a consensus (if by that we mean conciliating possibly conflicting entri…

I totally love that feature, actually. I'm toying currently with an app to do play by post d&d campaigns on Dat, I make one user create a Dat archive to hold game data, then each p…

I totally get it, it's all a question of balance, I guess. An _occasional_ thanks you mail is great. On the other hand, getting pass the 100 stars on a project on github is a big m…

I wouldn't dare writing just to say "thank you", it would feel like a no-op wasting people time. Instead, I would rather star the project on github. Did you consider those as thank…

Regarding Spotify : I use its desktop client (an electron-like app, but using their own implementation of a browser, if I got this right), and it does properly work with Connect, a…

Speaking of balls, please don't be a dick. I totally get it if you want the absolute stable experience (although, if your install of plasma is that unstable, my bet is that it's po…

Excited to see Connect being actively developed. It's already incredibly useful for me, but I can see it reaching a whole other scale when librem5 phones will be out. Something I w…

Just as programming languages are all (well mostly) doing the same thing. Cryptocurrencies are tech products, various projects try various ideas. You'll have the initial blockchain…

I've been using KDE Neon since a few months after its initial release, and I'm very satisfied with it. Before that, I was for a decade on Gentoo (switching between wmii and KDE fro…

I have a more radical approach to that : I discard any opinion I see in a press article (that is, most of it, usually), and only focus on new facts the article brings. I don't mean…

I don't know if it was intended to be tongue in the cheek from you, but this is stereotypical dropbox-like HN comment. "- We found a way to enable simple telepathy. "- Not impresse…

I can see this being seen as a turning point in the future, if Google loses influence. Until now, every time people were saying "I won't use a new google product, I don't trust the…

I read once that prime numbers were a key element element on cryptography (because it's easy to multiply two prime numbers, but difficult to say if a number is a multiple of two pr…