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I once worked with a guy who kept looking over my shoulder and saying 'just use binary'. Nice guy, but they had to let him go.
What are options? Password manager (most people I know don't use one), Browser keychain (no guarantee of sync between user devices), WebAuthn (same problem), IndexedDB or localstorage, (both can be purged, again, no sync).
Unless I'm missing something, I feel this is problem worthwhile solving as a community, it would unlock a lot of utility/privacy for the average web user.
Would love to hear any more qualified takes on this.
If you mean that both of these are achievable on an individual level, then I fail to see how coding an idea has any more potential to achieve these extremes than using a paintbrush.
Look at the kids: they get far more excited by video games than DeFi.
1. The most beautiful and innovative things being done in the Web3 space are much more beautiful and innovative than anything you will do in your life.
2. The most dastardly things being done in the Web3 space are much more dastardly than anything you will do in your life.
Now for the two broad camps of people I see here:
a. People who think 2. is not relevant to pursuing 1.
b. People who think 2. can never justify pursuing 1. – or even finding out about it.
Look at the kids: the day is better spent curious.
Secondly, if you open up the depth of field with a very deep scene, you create more possibilities for composition, framing or storytelling. Again, all you have at human eye level is chicken/grass. At chicken eye level, with a very deep focal range, you might also be able to tell the story of the chicken in 'the great outdoors', you may see mountains and forests on the horizon etc.
Hope that helps.
From a designers/UX perspective, there are some thoughtful touches. "The feed" is not just a bucket/folder, but the UI changes for all those newsletters, and I've found that calming. I actually read the curated list of newsletters I've signed up to now, once a week or so in a magazine-like stream without the dozen buttons required for a letter-like email.
The 'reply later' feature allows me to put aside a few emails over a couple of days, then click the 'focus and reply' button and those emails come up in a clean list with a stripped-back interface which moves on to the next email in the stack.
Despite the on-trend aesthetics, this is a thoughtful piece of design, which I moved to for the above reasons and is delivering on.
The support has also been excellent. I submitted a feature request, they got back personally quickly, and then a couple of months followed a personable (possibly automated) email saying the feature I'd requested was now live. (Notion is also in the habit of attending to its users like this).
All email clients are garbage-out if we keep putting garbage in, but as a person looking for a more calming space to manage the deluge, I would say the above review is limited in scope in understanding what Hey is designed for. Why build another email client if it doesn't make some opinionated moves contrary to the state of the art?
I guess this is science communication stuff, rather than talking through the technicals, my background is design.
pfraze, is there a recommended resource for communicating the players and ideas on the resilient web, placing Beaker in its respective place and laying out the benefits in a friendly way for laypeople?
Like most of crypto, the basic immutable nature of things is simply bad for humans. Here, your private key is eventually going to get stolen because you have to type in your private key for every login. It creates a phishing/key-logging jackpot. And once the attacker gets you private key there is no recourse. No password reset. No way to regain access. Your accounts are forever compromised. This is the problem with "decentralization" in general. All of the benefits it brings are completely washed away by the mundane daily activities of being human.
I don't use it, but Minds is an example of an app that is using delegated keys to sign people's messages using nostr protocol, allowing a user's data a route out of Minds' infrastructure in the future. Again, seems a healthy improvement.