A large p2p network for arbitrary content that's encrypted and anonymous by default. If only people cared as much about freedom of speech as they do about watching movies and playing video games for free.
Freenet?
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#4821/ Better laptop stands, that don't make the problem worse. 2/ Computer that lets me walk and ride a bicycle while working.
Regarding (2), here's some inspiration: http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/vintage-video-computing-acros...
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> An open protocol can also lead to an inconsistent user experience. No more so than a proprietary protocol. All the IM clients and apps are different, just like all the email clients. What matters is that I should be able to just get anybody's IM address and message them with my client and service of choice.
> No more so than a proprietary protocol. All the IM clients and apps are different, just like all the email clients. What? No, if my colleagues and I all decide to use ${CLOSED_CHAT_SERVICE}, the user experience is generally going to be consistent. > What matters is that I should be able to just get anybody's IM address and message them with my client and service of choice. This is what matters to you . I don't care…
> What? No, if my colleagues and I all decide to use ${CLOSED_CHAT_SERVICE}, the user experience is generally going to be consistent.
But even in email, if a group of people decide to use only Gmail web interface for example, the user experience is going to be consistent for them as well.
The underlying detail about email being an open protocol will be transparent to them.
In fact, an email client could be designed to implement instant messaging — by sending messages as emails — and if two people both use that same client, the experience would be indistinguishable from an IM service!
You'd still have a conversation history, you'd still have offline delivery, you'd still be able to send graphics and animations and audio attachments and anything else that HTML can render.
(I get that current email protocols may not be lightweight/efficient enough for rapid delivery of a large amount of short messages though.)
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This. It's baffling; we've "solved" email – anyone can have an account with any provider and is able to mail anyone else – why haven't been able to do the same with instant messaging already?
Then let's just use email as the underlying infrastructure to message people! You would just need to build a ui to make it look like you were chatting with someone :)
I was thinking about the same thing and just posted a comment to the same effect :o
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#485A paid, sustainable, ad-free, version of Facebook.
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I think I read somewhere recently that Google is going to kill off chrome apps. Can anyone confirm?
It's true. Check here: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
That's really disapointing... Chrome apps were really the first of their kind... An app, you effectively run everywhere... Windows, mac, linux/chromeos and they work everywhere. nw.js and electron are node-based ecosystems, and don't run on chromeos or android (looking towards chromeos/android merge).
It's really a shame to see the first effective write once run everywhere platform die like this.
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#487A slim, networked, pocked sized computer with a physical keyboard, running android or Linux. These used to exist - albeit disguised as phones - but the marketing department decided we don't need no friggin keyboards, and remove everything but the touchscreen and call it a tablet. The result is a consume-only device, on which it is all but impossible to input large amounts of text. Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 3/4, HTC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5 form factor with modern phone hardware.
Yes, this, exactly
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X61T was the pinnacle for me.
I have a X201, what am I missing? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/ThinkPad...
Higher resolution 1400x1050 4:3 screen, instead of 1280x800 widescreen.
As a programmer I like large wide screens, but when it comes to laptops, I prefer 4:3 screens because I never have enough vertical screen estate.
The 16:10 screen in X201 was still usable, but with X220 they switched to a 16:9 1366x768 screen. This killed the X series for me. Nowadays they have higher resolution screens (still 16:9 though, which is stupid, because the vertical display bezels are huge, they could have put a 16:10 display there easily), I have a 1920x1080 X250. However, it's not very good. The pixel density is too high so you can't use in 1:1 mode, but it's too low to be used in retina mode. I need something like 1.33x scaling, which Linux doesn't do very well.
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#490A non-cloud off-site backup appliance. This is what I want (I know there are alternatives, but this is what I want): A device that I buy, and can plug at least one hard drive in to. I give it some sort of passphrase. I then place it in a friend's house and connect it to their internet connection. I can then access it remotely from my house. I can easily backup my stuff to it. My backups are encrypted, both over the w…
There's been a few services like this. None have seems to have made it, at least I can't remember any names.