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The only solution is to ban all open source models and create a certification process under the auspices of OpenAI. /s

il y a 5 joursdiscuss

Live demo has a lot of lag and redirects to a login page

il y a 6 joursdiscuss

Invitation-only is the future of online communities. Lobsters still has a pulse because you need to know someone to get in and it’s a bad look if you invite annoying people.

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il y a 11 joursdiscuss

Social media companies became so obsessed about maximizing ROI on short form video content that they stopped being a platform to share with friends and turned into Temu Youtube. You won’t see your friends stuff on any of them because it’s designed to work that way. Group chats are the only way to have a meaningful conversation if you a casual non-technical Internet dweller.

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il y a 15 joursdiscuss

It will work for documents and the most simple TODO apps. It actually will not work for anything useful. There are a number of security policies in place explicitly to prevent things in file:// from accessing features available over real HTTPS. You will not have access to anything that requires a network connection, local storage, location services, WebRTC, etc. This is why things like Electron exist and why experiments like Active Desktop, HTA, the thing linked to in this article, that other project that had the same name as this one, and Adobe AIR were tried.

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il y a 15 joursdiscuss

You have clearly never actually tried that.

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il y a 15 joursdiscuss

I was going to mention Microsoft Active Desktop in the original comment, but I didn’t want HN to know how old I am.

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il y a 15 joursdiscuss

Desktop operating systems should be able to run zipped web apps the way Electron apps run today. It ought to just be part of the OS.

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il y a 25 joursdiscuss

I wish someone would build something like hiring.cafe but for DRM free digital content. One search query => uniform search results with direct link to purchase page on relevant marketplace. Basically just scrape and index every DRM free content marketplace and put it behind a single search interface.

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Some will never know the thrill of downloading a mislabeled MP3 that introduces you to a new genre or thinking that Daft Punk actually released a track called “Vietnam”.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

We have entered the GoFundMe era of vibe coding.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

This is true for freelance technical editors, too.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Looking forward to no firmware updates and getting locked out of cloud hosted features.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

2015 satirical article from The Onion: "HR Director Reminds Employees That Any Crying Done At Office Must Be Work-Related."

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Meta’s reputation has eroded so much that many will view this as an act of desperation rather than a chance to reframe social media. The idea of paying for social media to become the customer rather than the product has been both discussed and tried. There is such a deep lack of trust from years of bad deeds that I doubt anything positive will come out of this.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Will we start seeing stock market dips and spikes correlated to model releases?

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

This point gets missed by a lot of people.

You could theoretically have a web that does not bloat. HTML is a very good technology for building clean documents. You are not going to get that, though. What happens instead is that you start on a thoughtfully designed page and are always one click away from a cookie consent banner on top of an email capture modal beside four flavors of ad. "Sure, but you can install adblock/VPN/Pi-hole/reader mode/turn off JS/etc/etc..."

I like Gemini because it actually delivered a lightweight protocol that provides what I was looking for. Additionally, it is not just a technology. It is an ecosystem that gained more traction than the hundreds of other attempts that never went anywhere.

The spec made mistakes, but HTTP has mistakes too.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Thanks for dropping a comment! Collecting Gnutella history is a hobby of mine if the article did not make that apparent. I’ve seen a lot of your past work related to Gnucleus while researching the protocol and digging through old documents in archive.org. It always surprised me that the homepage was still online after so many years.

Are you still active in open source / decentralized tech these days?

rickcarlino

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

It is still around! I see network traffic from it on major GWebCache instances.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I’m glad you liked it! I hope to publish the follow up soon

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Submissions

8086 Emulator Inside Scratch

Layoffs.FYI Adds new AI attribution layoff chart

How Gnutella Scaled to Handle Query Traffic

InternNav – Navigation Toolbox

Internet Radio Station Directory

Keet – Encrypted peer to peer messaging

GemCities – Free Gemini:// capsule hosting

Age Verification in Monolith OS

Jo is a statically typed language that enables compile-time sandboxing

A Botched Master Thesis Proposal and Idea for a Decentralized VPN

AMule 3.0.0 – The "Alive Again" Version

LimeWire re-emerges in rush to share pulled 60 Minutes segment

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

Gnutella2 Network Statistics

Dandelion Rubber for Sustainable Tires?

The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind KDE oxygen revival

Kryptor – Simple, modern, secure file encryption and signing tool

Cozy.Talk – Old web inspired discussion community

Why TUIs are back

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