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Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by YjSe2GMQ »

vk23 wrote: post #192
YjSe2GMQ wrote: post #177

About the intro: how many more people (since Karl Marx) will rediscover the Pareto distribution and come to the conclusion that it should not be the case ... It's perfectly natural, so many systems follow Pareto. From Wikipedia: - The sizes of human settlements (few cities, many hamlets/villages) - File size distribution of Internet traffic which uses the TCP protocol (many smaller files, few larger ones) - Hard disk…

Given that you feel like the Pareto distribution can never be wrong I propose that we model all taxes accordingly. After all it should be natural that very few people pay most taxes while most pay almost nothing. Nothing about wealth distribution is natural. With the help of the Pareto distributed political power that installed the system in the first place wealth is controlling itself.

I'm 100% for progressive taxes (i.e. higher taxes on richer people). People should have decent lives even if they can't participate in the workforce/markets with great success.

Also taxes are a very successful way of dampening the inequality: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/04/13/american...

It's just that the top 50% or top 10% or top 1% or top 0.1% will always hold disproportionate amount of wealth, and no system will change that. Under USSR the select few in the communist party had that wealth, although it wasn't expressed in dollars (or any other currency), but in the power and unquestionability of their decisions.

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Post by z0mbie42 »

smadurange wrote: post #121

Having the balls to take up on a project of this scale is admirable. All the best! Wish I could contribute but not familiar with any of the languages used. Will try to contribute in other ways. Good luck!

Thank you, You can check frequently the issue list to see if something might interest you: https://gitlab.com/groups/bloom42/-/issues

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Post by z0mbie42 »

pcdoodle wrote: post #200

Wow, this is super badass! A few people mentioned email, Instead of making a hosted email system, how about a client for IMAP? PS I couldn't get create contact to pop up a dialog (Safari w/ublock origin)

Thank you!

Bug have been identified and is in progress to be fixed.

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by fock »

z0mbie42 wrote: post #196
fock wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

best comparison would be Nextcloud.

'NextCloud' is what we are today, but I think it's not really relevant. I've dared the Google comparison, because in my point of view, It's THE company who is changing the world.

so, you are saying you are going to change the world by imitating Google? Good luck with that.

Besides the opaque sign-up scheme and a total disregard for standards (your calendar/contacts "sync" integrates with which clients?), even today your project is much less than Nextcloud...

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by heliostatic »

z0mbie42 wrote: post #215
heliostatic wrote: post #184

An exciting and audacious undertaking! I see the "Books" folder in the Drive. It would be great to have an ePub reader built in, perhaps using https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/

Thank you. It's planned (but no ETA for the moment)

That's still great to hear.

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Post by Animats »

patcon wrote: post #103
z0mbie42 wrote: post #75

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Hi, Thank you for the the harsh feedback. Bloom being open source, if you want a more private option than the hosted service bloom.sh you are totally free to host it yourself. On the other hand, It's just a beta launch, we made it work (and free and open source), and thanks to your feedback, we will make it great :)

I appreciate your generous work, but I think this person is commenting on the lack of any screenshots. That is normally a "smell", no matter how wonderful your intentions are <3

The project claims a position of moral superiority over Google, but, from the terms and website, has little to act superior about.

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Post by z0mbie42 »

ldubost wrote: post #139
z0mbie42 wrote: post #65

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Unfortunately, I do not share this point of view. At least in France. My friends from CS school know it well, but my friends from Business schools does absolutely not.

I'm from France too, and Mozilla is already more known than many others in the Open Source space, and their user base is still huge compared to anything else. Z0mbie42 is young and did not see when Mozilla was the browser alternative before Google Chrome and stole the show. It is coming back today though because users start to realize the "Google problem". Now Mozilla is a browser alternative and not a services one.…

Hi, I would love to be in touch, please contact me: https://bloom.sh/contact

As being a huge topic, federation is planned for Q3/Q4 2020.

I checked cryptpad, but I feel it's really lacking focus on user experience.

About e2e encryption, it's planned for Q4 2019, but collaborative encryption is really not an easy stuff. "Cryptography is a serious matter".

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Post by dancedar »

z0mbie42 wrote: post #203
dancedar wrote: post #137

So, I tried bitflow, pasted a magnet with 2500 seeders. Same in to seedr.cc. The latter it was downloaded in roughly 45 seconds, on bitflow it's still queued. No title/name, just the magnet link. Can you share details on this?

Resource were not size for the load. I'll increase resources :)

Thanks! It is completed. But I can't do anything, clicking it does nothing, I cant see any files in the folder of the torrent. Long press does nothing. No documentation, help pages empty.
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