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usbfingers

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About usbfingers

Creator of Syphon (https://syphon.org)

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    How do you know that's not a part of the joke?

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    The cool part about using Alpine as a minimalist desktop is you can run the entire system from RAM - assuming you're running in diskless mode. I've showed people my Alpine desktop …

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    I assume financially this would probably not be feasible or sustainable everywhere but I really wish malls could lean further into theme parks rather than shopping hubs Most of the…

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    Comment #30564197

    Not intended on initially being what you're looking for, but contributors and those interested often discuss privacy implications of developing software in the Off Topic chat for p…

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    Comment #30107946

    this is an excellent point Sort of tangent, but the fact that Block Protocol is also managing the distribution of the resulting UI components, unlike Solid which encouraged people …

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    Comment #30107577

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30105910 At its heart, it is very similar. Comment above does a good job at describing the distinction. It's more than just re-usable HTML/CSS/…

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    Comment #30105945

    Many have tried - very recently - and seemingly stalled or failed at creating something like this with wide adoption, most notably Tim Berners-Lee with the SOLID protocol https://s…

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    Comment #28682384

    Syphon ( https://syphon.org ) landed Multiaccount support several months back, though it still lacks many other features.

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    Comment #28088230

    https://www.noom.com/#/survey/basicHealthGoal https://www.lemonade.com/onboarding/1 So many signups now involve taking a small survey that will sort you into a some cohort. Lots of…

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    Tried the demo and got stuck at the Stripe payment step and hit the error "Provided API Key is wrong". That said, this is a desperately needed product for small teams. Was consider…

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    Note, some of that is a requirement by the Matrix protocol and is out of clients control. It's ultimately up to the server to configure different password requirements. https://mat…

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    Comment #27972683

    Very glad there's other clients supporting this. Thanks for the heads up! I was under the impression some of the desktop clients had it in the form of swapping CLI flags on start, …

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    Fluffychat is mentioned a lot here as a good UI/UX alternative to Element. Just wanted to bring up another that I'm working on called Syphon. It's not at the stage where it can com…

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    I'm almost more excited because of the proxy network affect this will have on microkernel popularization and alternatives like Dahlia OS ( https://dahliaos.io/ ) that are looking t…

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    Agreed, very good news though I'm left with the same question. It doesn't inspire that much confidence, but the recent embrace of Flutter from Canonical leaves me hopeful even if G…

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    Location: Atlanta, GA (Soon Tampa, FL) Remote: Only Willing to relocate: Only after 16 months (for the right company) Technologies: Flutter, React/React Native, Vue, Node/Apollo/Gr…

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    Comment #25894735

    If the product is anything like the pwnagotchi, many could use this as an alternative to research intercepting / cracking local wifi. My understanding may be a bit dated, but unaut…

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    Comment #25893957

    I'd love to buy one of these, but I can't get over the potential legal repercussions of running one, especially within ones own home. In college, I was terrified of even attempting…

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    While I think the core focus of Beeper as a cross platform messenger is great, the bigger positive here in my opinion is a matrix client with good UX and design. The user experienc…

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    There is currently a snackbar in the login for errors. Just signed out and typed in a wrong password to make sure I didn't break anything. However, I am on version 0.0.19. If you d…

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    I've addressed these problems you listed in version 0.0.19 but getting updates to the F-Droid store is a very slow process. The next F-Droid release will have auto updates enabled …

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    it's next on the list after group E2EE is stable along with key import/exports