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Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by keanebean86 »

nly wrote: post #27
tpmx wrote: post #20

Opera 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…

It was dead to me the moment they switched to chromium

It would be cool if Opera published presto's source code. Even just for historical reasons. I'm sure there's legal and financial reasons they don't.

I was a huge fan and tried to convert my friends from 2004-2012. It was tough watching them slowly convert to firefox or stay on IE.

It really didn't help that Opera handled transparency so poorly. That made myspace pretty much unusable.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by imiric »

walrus01 wrote: post #11

People have been trying to make alternate-root DNS systems a thing for 20+ years, it has never caught on.

Blockchain technology only became popular in the last decade and, as much as it has become a meme at this point, DNS is actually one of the best use cases for it. The current DNS is distributed, but highly centralized, and paying renewal fees for keeping a record in a file and a server running feels like extortion. An immutable, consistent and decentralized storage system solves those issues, and I can pay once and technically own that record for life. (Though Unstoppable Domains' prices seem arbitrarily high...)

So I'm hopeful that some of this new tech can disrupt the current system, which we know is inherently flawed.[1]

While I'm not going to use Opera anytime soon, we should celebrate this news and push for other browsers to do the same.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pp72gUYx00

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by [deleted] »

hadcomplained wrote: post #22
baby wrote: post #10

Domain name/identity and key pinning has always been the only useful use of NFTs that I can think of. Today, to encrypt your communications with people, you use something like PGP or Signal which rely on "trust on first use (TOFU) but verify", in practice people don't really verify so it's more like TOFU. This means that if someone compromised the session at the moment where it was created (or re-created), then your…

> Today, to encrypt your communication to websites, you use HTTPS which rely on a vast network of certificate authorities. This fact has been irritating me for a long time. Because no one should believe that every single certificate authority is tolerant to any attempts to steal the private keys. But that is exactly the underlying assumption behind HTTPS being the only way to use HTTP in a more secure manner than exc…

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Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by lozaning »

throwaway_isms wrote: post #14
nonameiguess wrote: post #9

Why on earth do you want to decentralize personal belongings? I absolutely want my possessions centralized, in storage locations I own. That is the much more obvious solution than putting personal possessions on a blockchain. If you want to store digital tokens for your kids that you can be reasonably assured will still be there when they become adults, use thumb drives. Keep them in a fireproof safe if you're really…

> 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…

This is a great idea until you get hit by a bus and now your private keys are gone and your family can no longer recover your estate(house and investments).

Should a mechanism exist in your system wherein-by your family can reclaim ownership without your keys, means that whoever the chain says owns something clearly doesn't actually matter anyways.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by lifty »

jsmith99 wrote: post #15

More fragmentation. I use Nextdns for my router's DNS, which theoretically allows me to access any domains on the competing Handshake crypto protocol, but I've never actually some across any so far.

I really think that Handshake is the superior DNS root + PKI alternative, so hopefully more projects adopt it.

Re: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names

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Post by duskwuff »

keanebean86 wrote: post #31
nly wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was dead to me the moment they switched to chromium

It would be cool if Opera published presto's source code. Even just for historical reasons. I'm sure there's legal and financial reasons they don't. I was a huge fan and tried to convert my friends from 2004-2012. It was tough watching them slowly convert to firefox or stay on IE. It really didn't help that Opera handled transparency so poorly. That made myspace pretty much unusable.

The Presto source code was leaked around 2017, FWIW. There's a handful of mirrors around, including:

https://git.teknik.io/Zero3K/presto

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