Private file access between computers. Even in 2020 it appears that building a connection between machines (macOS, Linux and Windows) requires a miracle if you don't like to share everything with cloud providers. cryo file mangager is an attempt to get rid of the hassle: https://cryonet.io
I recently used magic-wormhole [1] for this. It was a 1-line command that gave me a keyphrase that I told to someone else. They typed the same command on their end, put in the keyphrase, and received my file.
No IPs, no forwarding ports or files. It was a magical experience and Just Worked.
Opinions like what? The only opinions people get banned for are ones which seem openly racist, homophobic, etc. Nobody gets banned for having or encouraging alternative opinions about, like, which Java framework is the best. Not even for more controversial arguments like whether God exists (at least as far as I’m aware.) Therefore the only ‘rational debate’ that will take place is between what most people would call…
"There are two genders" would be one - a position that I guess that the majority of the public also believe. That's ground for banning in plenty of places. We aren't allowed to discuss on many platforms. Of course I will be labelled transphobic for that opinion. > Nobody else is going to want to post in or even look at such an environment, so it rapidly turns into a completely worthless bigoted echo chamber where eve…
So, let’s assume that everyone who got banned for saying there are two genders (and presumably strongly believes it, because they cared enough to be banned for it) is attracted to this platform. People who disagree won’t be attracted to it; they can already post their opinion on, say, Twitter without being banned, and they hold the opposite opinion anyway. Now Twitter is an echo chamber of one side of the debate, and this new platform is an echo chamber of the other side. No debate can happen on Twitter; debate can IN THEORY happen on new platform, but won’t, because of the huge imbalance in participants (imagine an in person debate where one side is allowed to bring a hundred people who will all argue with the single guy on the other side). What have we gained by that? There’s still no debate happening. The banned people might as well have started blogs instead.
PROBLEM(S): I (well, the nonprofit I lead) am trying to solve for the general problem of municipal public policy but, as you might expect, it's a series of discrete, linked problems. Some of these problems have thousands of people focused on a solution; in other areas, it's virtually greenfield. SOLUTION: The space doesn't lack for good research and policy recommendations, but it has historically lacked (on the right…
Knowledge. Working on building a self-hosted app that would alow you to save, organise and search your knowledge in one center. It would contain information like notes, bookmarks (it would download the links contents) and in general provide a programmable, opensource interface to preserve the info you'll find useful and even sync with external apis to save your online presence locally (think reddit posts, hn links, e…
Seems like multiple people in this thread are working on this or similar. Maybe we should start a subreddit for people building this stuff.
Yeah if there's enough people! I only noticed one other similar comment for now.
Knowledge. Working on building a self-hosted app that would alow you to save, organise and search your knowledge in one center. It would contain information like notes, bookmarks (it would download the links contents) and in general provide a programmable, opensource interface to preserve the info you'll find useful and even sync with external apis to save your online presence locally (think reddit posts, hn links, e…
So something like what Bookstack is doing https://www.bookstackapp.com/
Wow that is quite similar! Mine is a bit simpler but insists on providing flexibility with different apis so you can sync your online presence locally while also providing an easily programmable interface.
Automating cloud architecture creation. I'm building a "catalog" of architectures that you could use to create a complete cloud architecture on your AWS, GCP or Azure account in less than one minute. So, for example, you could create a docker-based architecture with CI/CD, auto-scaling, zero downtime deployment, SSL, load-balancing, high availability and MongoDB in less than one minute in your own AWS account. It's l…
That does sound challenging. APIs and service change too. I can't imagine how complex that can get if something stops working. Still when you succeed perhaps the next goal is to simply specify what sort of compute function, the scale and risk tolerances, and let the patterns be assembled accordingly.
Yes, you're right.
Even if you can lock the API version of the SDKs, you will still need to update all the architectures with the new features and changes.
Automating cloud architecture creation. I'm building a "catalog" of architectures that you could use to create a complete cloud architecture on your AWS, GCP or Azure account in less than one minute. So, for example, you could create a docker-based architecture with CI/CD, auto-scaling, zero downtime deployment, SSL, load-balancing, high availability and MongoDB in less than one minute in your own AWS account. It's l…
This so much. One of the main reason the big players dominate the Web (in the marketing space) so much is because SaaS is easier to handle (for most people) than having to deploy and maintain your infra. if you streamline the process so that your regular SMB can build their digital infrastructure and maintain their private data clouds, it would go a long way to help us all with privacy. A suite of open-source / on pr…
I think it's very, very obvious that "custom styling" here is referring creator styling, not user styling, so I'm not sure that you're in a position to be criticising the person you're responding to for "misunderstanding".
If I read you right, you’re saying that I’m the one misunderstanding OP? It’s honestly not clear to me what the difference between “user” and “creator” would be in the context of this discussion. Could you elaborate? Since a “creator” is also a user of the web, I guess you mean “user” as in someone who only consumes content? I’m confused by that since nothing in the discussion seems to be about user stylesheets.
I...am a bit confused as to whether you're actually reading the same conversation.
The project creator explicitly said that their creation cannot be styled, at all. It renders the exact same "standard" way on all devices. The retort was that the vast majority of people (with a clear callout to companies that would obviously like their own branding) do not want a web where every site looks the exact same, which is why CSS exists in the first place. You seem to have read/decided to turn this into a discussion about end-user customisation of sites (and, frankly, a thinly veiled rant about Facebook and Medium), when that first of all has nothing directly to do with what was being discussed and second of all would also be out of scope for this project because it had styling itself out of scope.
Existing mediums for note-taking (Evernote, Notion, Roam Research) are not sufficient for doing knowledge work over long periods of time. The functions these incumbents serve are primarily as “stores of knowledge” that we save because it’s interesting in the moment but never read through or “scratchpads” that we use once and never get rid of, which end up cluttering our information space like a junk drawer full of sh…
Are you working on a solution in that field? I've been thinking about the same problem lately, especially how information can resurface contextually while typing or searching for knowledge.
I'm curious how is your solution different from the Zettelkasten-inspired note taking tools?
Automating cloud architecture creation. I'm building a "catalog" of architectures that you could use to create a complete cloud architecture on your AWS, GCP or Azure account in less than one minute. So, for example, you could create a docker-based architecture with CI/CD, auto-scaling, zero downtime deployment, SSL, load-balancing, high availability and MongoDB in less than one minute in your own AWS account. It's l…
I've often found myself wanting something like this, a bootstrap to spin something relatively complex up quickly and then start customizing it. I think it would be nice if there was a way to export to the format native to whatever cloud you're targeting, e.g. CloudFoundry. This is something I've found missing in tools like Serverless Framework.
Thanks!
For the export feature, It's something I've been thinking about for a while.
Given that I use Terraform under the hood, I've been thinking about a feature to merge the base architecture plan with your custom plan.
So you could have a catalog of "base" architectures and another catalog of "custom" architectures that you could spin up in seconds.