I keep waiting for someone to port Beaker Browser[1] or Dat to mobile.
A Revolution in Your Pocket
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#92This is just... weird. We have centralized services for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that they're more reliable than decentralized systems. Phones get lost, stolen, drowned, and crushed. People drive through tunnels or into mountains without cell signal. Batteries die. It seems patently absurd to think that a P2P network of handsets is somehow going to replace The Datacenter, on any timescale.
There are lots of places where we have trained ourselves to think that timeliness is the most important quality when it absolutely isn't. If I drive into a tunnel and my family has to wait an hour before they see the new photo of my son, that is not an epic tragedy. There are also maturing p2p ways to help solve this problem. If my sister gets my update with the new photo before I hit the tunnel, she can share it wit…
If I drive into a tunnel and my family has to wait an hour before they see the new photo of my son
That's the experience we have right now, with centralized servers. With a P2P system the experience is: My sister sees that I uploaded a new picture, tries to click on it, and gets some opaque timeout error because unbeknownst to her I drove into a tunnel. Depending on whether or not my phone is destroyed in an accident before I emerge, she may never see the picture.
Unreliable distributed systems look intermittently and unpredictably broken to users.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're two separate sentences. Many, maybe most people have smartphones. The most expensive of those have these stats.
> They're two separate sentences. Right next to each other, in the same paragraph... are you really arguing it is not implied that high specs are intended to be relevant to the authors argument? If so what is the purpose of this sentence?
"many people have smartphones. They're so powerful, that some of them are equivalent to laptops from a few years ago."
I don't know how on Earth you can't parse this simple paragraph.
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#95We've been working on a very similar idea to this for the past few months: https://pocketweb.io There is a very early iOS beta available, and Android is coming within the month. We've thought a lot about battery and data and have gotten really good results by leveraging existing radio wakeups, batching requests, and doing all sorts of optimizations to the sites themselves. Right now we're focused entirely on personal…
> "When you are ready, turn your PocketWeb site on and you'll a URL that you can share." I think you accidentally a word. Love the project though.
Thanks! We'll get that fixed tonight.
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#96We've been working on a very similar idea to this for the past few months: https://pocketweb.io There is a very early iOS beta available, and Android is coming within the month. We've thought a lot about battery and data and have gotten really good results by leveraging existing radio wakeups, batching requests, and doing all sorts of optimizations to the sites themselves. Right now we're focused entirely on personal…
Love the idea. Couple first impressions from the iOS app though:
1. Most of the icons and images are really low-res. You should include @2x, @3x assets or just have higher res images and let them downscale on older devices. 2. A lot of the "Latest Active Sites" won't load, and the spinner just spins forever. I know the whole point is that it's a site hosted on someone's phone and may or may not be available, but there definitely needs to be a more graceful way to fail. The spinner blocks the UI and doesn't go away.
I know it's isn't part of the core service you're trying to offer, but seeing blurry buttons and having the app get into a broken state after clicking some links is not a good first impression. There's a lot of signalling involved in the first 30 seconds or so when a user (like me) is trying to decide if they want to invest time and brainpower into exploring your service, and it's worth smoothing those things out.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
The paragraph after "The Vision" seems reasonably clear on this: > There is the potential today to reclaim control of our digital lives from monopolist platforms and unnecessary rent-seeking. There is a world within reach where always-on, always-connected pocket computers become personal data stores. All your photos, documents, messages, and other data live with you, not on a faceless server belonging to a random cor…
But they're not stored on central servers because we don't have room on our phones but because we want to share them with others. This whole article feels like an attack on Facebook and similar services without actually naming them. And, as a consequence, without actually addressing how they succeeded or how to supplant them.
I wasn't making an argument, just repeating the author's summary that was requested.
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#98We've been working on a very similar idea to this for the past few months: https://pocketweb.io There is a very early iOS beta available, and Android is coming within the month. We've thought a lot about battery and data and have gotten really good results by leveraging existing radio wakeups, batching requests, and doing all sorts of optimizations to the sites themselves. Right now we're focused entirely on personal…
Love the idea. Couple first impressions from the iOS app though: 1. Most of the icons and images are really low-res. You should include @2x, @3x assets or just have higher res images and let them downscale on older devices. 2. A lot of the "Latest Active Sites" won't load, and the spinner just spins forever. I know the whole point is that it's a site hosted on someone's phone and may or may not be available, but ther…
Thanks for the feedback! We're still in very early days with regards to the UI, and I know there's a ton of room for improvement. Hopefully we'll have something more presentable ready soon!
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#99Anyone interested in this sort of revolution should look into Dweb Camp (https://dwebcamp.org/about/) put on by the Internet Archive crew. Folks from Mastodon, Gun, Scuttlebutt, IPFS, Beaker Browser (DAT), etc. will likely be there. If not, look into these names, download Manyverse for your Android phone (Scuttlebutt client) and start playing around.
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#100This feels like a superset of the problem medical records management is in a digital age. There are the bits you need public. your anaphylaxis status. your advanced health directive with 'do not rescucitate' and your organ donation status. There are the bits you need semi public. You need a trained health professional in sexual health to know you have chlamydia, but its not relevant to a physio doing upper body work.…
> your mental health status adversely affects your employer insurance This statement makes no sense in 99% of the countries in the world.
If you have any private health benefits anywhere worldwide through your employer it's meaningful. That's the UK, Australia, new Zealand, the middle east.. sure it's an American disease but it's spread worldwide.