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While we are sharing eye rollers.. I had this person plonk into our issues once with a “revolutionary” encryption technique. I wish I could remember the concoction he described.. Now that I’m trying to find it, it seems they deleted the github account. Seems like he saw the light, or got banned. Either way SNR increased and I’m all for that.


There was a guy, Kryptochef, roaming german tech forums. Hard to tell if this was an extremely committed comedic troll or an insane guy. This was his website: https://web.archive.org/web/20140504165057/http://kryptochef...

It went down in 2014 and the guy vanished never to be heard of again.


This is beyond shitty behavior, especially considering that most OSS folks do it in their free time… uugghhh.


IMHO Keyboard quality in thinkpads dropped like a stone after the 230s. It’s like Lenovo lost the plans for how to build those.

The keys in the recent ones are incredibly mushy.


not if you have a model with a Chicony keyboard.


I’ve been traveling from Hamburg to Barcelona by bike for the last ~6 weeks. Total is about 2700km. It surely could be done faster but I’ve met people along the way and did some work.

Also you get to connect with locals and nature along the way. Another thing that’s totally lost when you do the airborne thing.

Crossing an ocean is ofc a different beast but I’m also excited for a re-emergence of blimps!

ps: I’ve created a few collections on Komoot with the routes, if any1 is interested in more details: https://www.komoot.com/user/1468572320030/collections?type=c...


As someone following beam stuff from a distance: why would I pick this over elixir/Phoenix?


I would say run with Nova if you want to code Erlang. If you want to code Elixir choose Phoenix. In the end both are based on Cowboy.

We started to create Nova from the lack of frameworks on the Erlang side. We wanted a fast way to start new web application and start writing on your app instead of spending time on setup.

Elixir have always had good tooling and framework from the start.


Being blunt, if you're new to Beam, I'd probably choose Elixir and Phoenix. But Elixir isn't for everyone, and if you prefer Erlang's syntax or are interested in contributing to some of the projects written specifically in Erlang, then that's what you should pick.

Both are great, but I think Elixir is more beginner-friendly. Through the course of learning one though, you'll inevitably see some of the other, which is pretty cool. :)


Presumably because you like Erlang.


Glad you picked up on it. It’s not on the protocol guide yet but there are two or three new formats in discussion which all just sign opaque bytes. Wider adoption pending but the meta feeds is in JS already.

Here is the most recent one and it links to the other two as well: https://github.com/ssb-ngi-pointer/bendy-butt-spec


ps: I did implement the v8 pretty-printer in go and it was a nightmare.. I’m sure it still has some corner cases that are not covered….


I can ignore the licensing for my personal stuff (and some work might be able to, too) but from a technical perspective I find the SPL translation layer and fs caching overhead much greater pill to swallow. It’s basically bolting on Solaris as a 2nd memory system just for zfs. I really hope this hack is recognized for what it is sooner rather then later…


Came here to make exactly this post. Thank you.


An SSD is soulless, a Veliciraptor was top of the line unicorn Mike beast of HDDs. I still habe one in my old Tower, happily running. Not even too noisy. Well, at least not if you don't use a SSD equppied machine when bo Fans are running as a comparison.


No idea what auto correct did with that post, I turned of everything I found that could effect the words I'm typing now so. Seems to be impossible to type regularly in thre languages otherwise on mobile...


sorry to rain down here but multi-device support is not a feature of metafeeds at all. It only realizes partial replication. It's equally important to grow the network but strictly distinct, all metafeeds are on the same device.

multi-device is only spec'ed but not implemented in what we call "fusion identities": https://github.com/ssb-ngi-pointer/fusion-identity-spec

also, the ngi team has nothing to do with planetary.


> which i wrote.

lol?


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