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2color commented on Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? eljojo.github.io/rememory... · Posted by u/eljojo

2color · 5 days ago

I like that more people are thinking solving some of the problems of digital inheritance we face. These are problems that are so important now that so much of our lives are digital and tapping into ones actual social circle seems the best way to do this.

Also, kudos for packaging it as a static web app. That's the one platform I'm willing to bet will still function in 10 years.

2color commented on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info sheldonbrown.com/... · Posted by u/ostacke

hilsdev · 5 days ago

This was a major influence for me, both getting into single speed and fixed gear biking before the craze, and building geo cities sites with my friends in high school

2color · 5 days ago

same

2color commented on The Toxic Modernity Narrative theargumentmag.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/honoredb

2color · a month ago

I am sympathetic to the criticism of the naturalistic fallacy, however there are some aspects of modernity that are unquestionably toxic, like air pollution.

2color commented on What does connecting with someone mean? talk.bradwoods.io/blog/co... · Posted by u/bradwoodsio

2color · 7 months ago

A good way to avoid the "how are you?" small talk trap, is to ask "how are you sleeping?"

2color commented on Persistent Peer IDs in libp2p JavaScript gist.github.com/Realman78... · Posted by u/Realman78

2color · 7 months ago

There's a `loadOrCreateSelfKey` function which you can use to load the key from a persistent datastore (fs).

It's documented here: https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/tree/4420fad686921f88785...

I'll be sure to update the docs to include an example in the config docs.

2color commented on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing blip.net/... · Posted by u/miles

ryandotsmith · 7 months ago

Does anyone have an idea of how this is built? I wonder if they are using QUIC with relay servers or something like Tailscale's DERP.

2color · 7 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it's built with Iroh

https://www.iroh.computer/

2color commented on Hacking a Toniebox schafe-sind-bessere-rasen... · Posted by u/LorenDB

pmg102 · 7 months ago

I decided to go for Yoto over Tonie because it explicitly encourages "Make Your Own" cards which you can put any MP3 files of your own or RSS links to podcast.

2color · 7 months ago

Same. It's much more customisable out of the box and has a lot of nice features.

2color commented on Local-first software (2019) inkandswitch.com/essay/lo... · Posted by u/gasull

2color · 7 months ago

It's a very exciting moment for this movement. A lot of the research and tech for local-first is nearing the point that it's mature, efficient, and packaged into well designed APIs.

Moreover, local-first —at least in theory— enables less infrastructure, which could reignite new indie open source software with less vendor lock-in.

However, despite all my excitement about embracing these ideas in the pursuit of better software, there's one hurdle that preventing more wide spread adoption amongst developers, and that is the Web platform.

The Web platform lacks building blocks for distributing hashed and/or signed software that isn't tied to origins. In other words, it's hard to decouple web-apps from the same-origin model which requires you set up a domain and serve requests dynamically.

Service Workers and PWAs do help a bit in terms of building offline experiences, but if you want users to download once, and upgrade when they want (and internet is available), you can't use the Web. So you end up breaking out of the browser, and start using Web technologies outside of the browser with better OS functionality, like Electron, React Native, Tauri et al (the https://userandagents.com/ community is doing some cool experiments in this space).