I came here just to write this – I thought we clearly chose to leave behind cybersecurity because education and science are bad.

Seconds before disaster!

Then use decentralized links or hashes, which is what IPFS uses to identify content. A character limit doesn’t solve this problem fundamentally. Indeed, it’s been a tough problem to solve for decentralized services.

I’m concerned about the large amount of low quality, vaporware/crypto applications built on IPFS which is the same core technology used here. It’s concerning how many clicks it takes to get technical specs for the underlying work, like libp2p for the network layer, which itself espouses only vague ideas on its main website that seems to focus a lot more on presentation than technical merit. Even the GitHub admits that the spec that most of these apps are relying upon is, well, unspecified.

Your project source downloads and runs an executable. That’s a little bit SUS; it would be much better if you compiled/built this core code as part of your build process, else, it’s not much in the way of source code, no? But, it works. It seems to delegate just fine, and few understand how to actually talk IPFS directly. But, this is the most important part!

I think the biggest tell that IPFS borders on vaporware is that there’s very little discussion about concrete specifications and the main problem faced by all DHTs: how you get your data to actually stay hosted on the network over time. These ideas are not new, and you may be better served building your app on technology that has spent vastly more time understanding the fundamental problems.

https://specs.ipfs.tech/

This is how you write a spec without actually writing a spec. And I’ve written a lot of specs.

https://geti2p.net/spec

This is how you write a spec. Excruciating detail of what actually gets sent over the wire at different levels of the design starting from the very bottom.

Anyway, just my 2c. It’s cool you’ve got functionality at this level and that’s commendable, but I feel it’s built on shoddy foundation of an immature technology. At least it should be easy to migrate to something else in the future as the distributed technology is offload to a separate binary anyway.

Note: Various edits for clarification and to ensure I focus on the code and not the human.

Me maintaining packages that depend on Java and discovering all the bizarre ways that you can install different versions of Java and have environment variables misconfigured or missing.

Why the fuck would I want a browser with AI?

This is exactly what some of my extended family uses because there’s literally no other option. Not even cellular.

This isn’t even up in the mountains or something. This is just rural Alabama where kids are struggling to do homework because they just don’t have access, and it all but guarantees that their technology skills will remain woefully outdated.

I remember when they had DSL not that long ago and I would turn off updates on everything because it was a complete waste of time to attempt.

I ask AI to avoid all the AI slop search results I’d have to sift through when I could get my slop delivered directly.

And here I am adopting abandoned ports on FreeBSD and packaging applications that I didn’t even write as a hobby.

Who cares. It’s effectively shut down, assholes. You know what you did.

Aero the Acrobat for GBA.

Cheap Sonic ripoff? I loved that game. Spent many childhood hours and AA batteries playing it and learning every corner of every level.

I’m afraid this may not be enough. One who is so deep in their delusions isn’t so easily brought back to reality, if they ever can be.

We have a dog daycare center around here called Pound Town.

Problem is, people want a silver bullet and there just isn’t one.

You need to create an economy that works for everyone where skilled workers from all professions can be successful. You can’t cram everybody into one job and expect everything to just work out.

Just about all jobs are important, and all workers deserve a living wage and fair compensation.

No amount of Band-Aid job stuffing is going to make up for a leadership that doesn’t believe that everyone ought to be able to live a good life.

Good point. Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.

I was promised 15 years ago that cloud computing would avoid unexpected bills and provide consistent expenses that project managers love so much.

Google’s decision to now discontinue the Pixel as an AOSP reference device is unfortunate, as it has pulled the rug from under developers like the teams at LineageOS and GrapheneOS who build Android for Pixel devices. These developers will still be able to build AOSP for Pixel devices, but it will now be more difficult and painful to do so than before, as they will need to build their own device trees from scratch. This also brings Pixels down to the same level as other Android devices[.]

Yep, looks like Pixel is just another Android to ROM developers. A sorry shame indeed. There goes another reason to bother with the Pixel. Just go buy Samsung if support was your reason. They bench better anyway.

When you learn as a space explorer that the dark forest hypothesis was correct.

Total silence.

Hot dog industry computing least common multiple tolerated by consumers to ensure you always have a hot dog or a bun left over.