Readit Newsjron commented on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Can I install my own applications on it yet?
jron commented on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics windirstat.net/... · Posted by u/whereistimbo
I am building an advanced filemanager (FileNinja) for Windows with full integrated everything search & query. you have the option of saving bookmarks to virtual folders that consist of everything searches. Instant directory sizes, tags, custom file descriptions for ntfs. Anyone interested?
https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk?si=sP05UCOrskpX8OTq
Do you have a git repo to follow?
jron commented on Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file github.com/dtonon/oracolo... · Posted by u/dtonon
For that you will need to connect to all relays in existence, right?
Users currently tend to push events to massive relays but decentralization is still a goal:
https://raw.githack.com/dtonon/oracolo/master/examples/fiatj...
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md
Still, the short answer to your question would be "yes."
jron commented on Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file github.com/dtonon/oracolo... · Posted by u/dtonon
> Projects like this give me a little hope that blogging can make a comeback.
From nostr site: "If all the relays that you have used in the past go offline, all your posts will be unretrievable." https://nostr.com/relays
Nostr doesn't solve the archival problem
Unlike web scraping where spaghetti logic is required to follow abstracted JS links, archival of nostr events can be as simple as running a relay and mirroring blog content.[1][2] nostr does a lot of what NNTP did but with additional flexibility.
[1] https://logperiodic.com/rbsr.html#nostr
[2] https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/master/docs/negentrop...
jron commented on Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file github.com/dtonon/oracolo... · Posted by u/dtonon
I regularly find myself on the internet archive hoping to find a working copy of a page created ten-plus years ago. Page rot, SEO spam, walled gardens, and AI generated nonsense are all converging to suck the value out of the WWW.
Projects like this give me a little hope that blogging can make a comeback. NIP-13 [1] also has the ability to use POW to limit bot activity. Thanks for sharing!
[1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/13.md
jron commented on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com/news/se... · Posted by u/talboren
The strong anti-Bitcoin sentiment on HN is still amusing. It goes way back - 13 years or more.
Having read many of these negative comments, I think part of this sentiment boils down to the commenter seeing no point to Bitcoin. Just this thread has examples. It must be more than a little annoying to feel very strongly that Bitcoin is pointless, but to also notice that it's still here. Year after year.
If that shoe were on my foot, in addition to being annoyed I'd be curious about what I was missing.
Bitcoin doesn't have to do something useful for everyone to survive. It doesn't have to "replace fiat." It doesn't have to be a payment system. It doesn't have to "go to the moon." It doesn't even need an ETF. Bitcoin just needs to fill needs (or wants) not met by anything else. They don't even have to be your needs or wants.
Unlike every other attempt at electronic cash that came before it, Bitcoin also doesn't need the approval of any person, police force, legislative body, military, or government. I'd challenge people who hold negative views on Bitcoin to name some other systems for which this holds true.
I think that's the point that a lot of hostile commenters might be missing.
"People want you to do well but not better than them."
jron commented on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/MurizS
jron commented on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/MurizS
A decent bunch of the apps on F-Droid are woefully inadequate or still early in development. At the moment F-Droid allows sorting apps either by time of most recent update, or alphabetically. Neither of those is actually useful to me as user.
If there are multiple apps doing the same thing, it is currently incredibly hard to see which one is the best. I do not want to download and install multiple apps only to find out they are essentially unusable, and that of the 5 options only a single one is actually functional.
I understand that F-Droid might not want to go all-in with the rating and review system, but a barebones download counter would at least show some indication whether people install it once and remove it after trying it out, or leave it installed long enough to survive multiple updates.