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Opa language 2012, it was a typed nextjs before its time. http://opalang.org/ I think the market was still skeptical about nodejs on the server at the time but other than that I don’t really know why it didn’t take off
Secure-Scuttlebot (the gossiped social network) died circa 2019 or 2024 depending who we ask. It died before it's time for various reasons including: 1. competing visions for how the entire system should work 2. dependence on early/experimental npm libraries 3. devs breaking existing features due to "innovation" 4. a lot of interpersonal drama because it was not just open source but also a social network the ideas ar…
The "Eve" programming language / IDE - https://witheve.com It was a series of experiments with new approaches to programming. Kind of reminded me of the research that gave us Smalltalk. It would have been interesting to see where they went with it, but they wound down the project.
A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…
Hangouts had trouble scaling to many participants. Google Meet is fine, and better than e.g. MS Teams.
Legacy suite, free forever? Did they also promise a pony?..
Play Music: music is a legal minefield. Don't trust anybody commercial who suggests you upload music you did not write yourself.
Finance: IDK, I still get notifications about the stocks I'm interested in.
NFC Wallet: alive and kicking, I use it literally every day to pay for subway.
Can't say anything about Chromecast. I have a handful of ancient Chromecasts that work. I don't want any updates for them.
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ouch, last “recent update” in 2023. Any idea what happened?
The author got hired by Modular, the AI startup founded by the creators of LLVM and Swift, and is now working on the new language Mojo. He’s been bringing a bunch of ideas from Vale to Mojo
Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.
I don't know if it was Yahoo Pipes that died, or a mainstream internet based on open protocols and standards.
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> from the perspective of what surveillance policies it would have (and very possibly did) inspire/set precedent for… I can’t think of a single thing that’s come along since that is even remotely similar. What are you thinking of? I think it’s actually a horrible system to implement if you want to spy on people. That’s the point of it! If you wanted to spy on people, there are already loads of systems that exist whic…
> I can’t think of a single thing that’s come along since that is even remotely similar. What are you thinking of? Chat Control, and other proposals that advocate backdooring individual client systems. Clients should serve the user.
Chat Control is older than Apple’s CSAM scanning and is very different from it.
> Clients should serve the user.
Apple’s system only scanned things that were uploaded to iCloud.
You missed the most important part of my comment:
> I think it’s actually a horrible system to implement if you want to spy on people. That’s the point of it! If you wanted to spy on people, there are already loads of systems that exist which don’t intentionally make it difficult to do so. Why would you not use one of those models instead? Why would you take inspiration from this one in particular?