Notice that this doesn't use handshake names (the popular naming scheme from last year) or namecoin (the big naming scheme from 5 years ago).
Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
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Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dunno, if Google was sold to a Chinese company (so, essentially controlled by the CCP), would that in your mind be grounds to avoid using their services, or just another case of "China bad"? I'm guessing you're perhaps conflating criticism of China/CCP with recent idiotic attacks on random asian people in the US?
I agree with you in principle, but I also disagree with your example. No doubt, China uses this kind of opportunity to spy on users, which I think is plenty good a reason to stop using Opera. OTOH, Google's also spying on its users for profit (at the very least). Please consider using Firefox. They're currently a very competent browser, and their principles are still rock-solid. If you still prefer Chrome but want to…
Mozilla has openly gone pro deplatforming recently: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
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> Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:
> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.
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>Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
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The basis they use to justify their stance is irrelevant. Good crises have always been used as a way to legitimize future abuse. I want a browser, not a tool meant to manipulate what I'm allowed to say and to see while posing themselves as arbiter of truth.
If you want to donate your hard earned money, the EFF are really the most effective, ethical and sane organization that I know so far. GNU is alright but are way too deep into ideology over practicality to my taste.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#123Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it. Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this: 1995: Oslo, Norway 2008: Linköping, Sweden 2014: Wrocław, Poland 2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuf…
I don't quite understand your point.
You are basically implying that opera is beyond rescue because the governance moved from a country you value to countries you value less?
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#124Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it. Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this: 1995: Oslo, Norway 2008: Linköping, Sweden 2014: Wrocław, Poland 2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuf…
I don't quite understand your point. You are basically implying that opera is beyond rescue because the governance moved from a country you value to countries you value less?
I can only assume that he is implying that any involvement of/by Chinese people is a very bad thing per se.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#125Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it. Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this: 1995: Oslo, Norway 2008: Linköping, Sweden 2014: Wrocław, Poland 2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuf…
I don't quite understand your point. You are basically implying that opera is beyond rescue because the governance moved from a country you value to countries you value less?
Shouldn't a company in a country with these[1] practices rightfully be met with distrust in these contexts? Spoiler alert: I'm not a culture (or politics) relativist.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#126So we need blockchain because google controls the emails of his kids that he has set up. What? If you want you data to be safe, then host your data yourself and make backups. Yet another "we had a blockchain and did not know what to do with it" solution that nobody needs. I think I lost IQ points reading this nonsense.
If you want to host your own data, it sounds like you need opera unite! https://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Opera-10-10-Final-w...
Aah 2009
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#127Dunno why, but IPFS seems such a kludge. Just share your static files in the distributed hash table and access those resources via their hash ID. Like... it's not much.
This news is interesting as I wonder what happens if .crypto does become a TLD?
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
> my mom has managed to keep all the videos and photos of key events in my childhood safe and intact for 40 years without having to put them on a public distributed ledger No offense, but in all likelihood no one is attempting to counterfeit or pirate your Mom's videos and photos of your childhood, and ownership/p2p ownership transfers are not material. There are almost infinite real world examples were ownership rec…
What happens when the blockchain does not reflect the actual legal situation of ownership? For example, assuming a classic blockchain model where my property deed is given to me as a private key, and I have to sign the transaction to transfer the property, what happens when I lose the key and yet the city has expropriated my lot to build a park? This seems to require the authorities to have some kind of master key or…
I suppose the answer to that would be to treat blockchain as the record of truth.
Kind of how if you have properly motorized property papers (I have no idea how this works in US), and find your land was inappropriately allocated by county without your knowledge you get to sue them, just with block chain record instead of paper.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting to think about this sort of thing: interactive forms generated from OpenAPI specs? Some way to plug-in handlers for specific mime-types? etc.
This is the dream, honestly. Dynamic form creation from specs. PowerShell has something like it (for a function it will create you a ugly form that you can render), but if you could deliver a OpenAPI spec and have Bootstrap (or whatever) UI on the frontend automatically generated.
The Swagger UI[0] is more a documentation/exploration tool for APIs, but it shows enough of what you can do that I don't think it'd be all that difficult to generate something that you'd want to put on your own website.
Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names
#130Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it. Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this: 1995: Oslo, Norway 2008: Linköping, Sweden 2014: Wrocław, Poland 2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuf…
I don't quite understand your point. You are basically implying that opera is beyond rescue because the governance moved from a country you value to countries you value less?
It seems a little weird that you'd trust a web browser developed by a company that resides in a country famous for massive, systemic internet censorship, as well as habitual government interference in and control over domestic companies' operations.
That doesn't mean that today's Opera is definitely an untrustworthy piece of software, but it does raise the probability quite a bit.