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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
Personal site:
apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
recent activity (3,567 total)
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Sorry I was on mobile and wasn't very clear. I meant in terms of services like Google Drive or Dropbox, what about the sharing functionality doesn't work for you?
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What hiccups do you run into in terms of permissions with sending an "anyone with link can view" link over email? Asking because I'm working on a competing technology and want to get th…
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How would that look for assignment submissions? Something like WebDAV?
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Probably in case the house burns down.
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The vision for the product is for you to be able to do everything you just described, and still have the files available for sharing and publishing through the cloud. Note, that doesn't mean sto…
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> Years ago websites were made of files; now they are made of dependencies.
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If this resonates with you, I'd invite you to follow my work on MooseDrive [0]. I'm calling it a "data ownership" company. The product is focused on storage for developers. [0] ht…
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I'd prefer both.
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The batteries in the banner image look to be 18650s, an extremely popular lion form factor. There are more than 7000 of them in each Tesla battery.
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That's a bit of a relief. Thanks for the clarification.
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> Just because it's on Github has no bearing on what kind of software it is Straw man. > I don't have any scholarly research on the subject to put forward, but I can tell you that igno…
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Is HN's official position that the definition of the term "open source" is universally agreed upon as 100% matching the OSI definition? If so that's news to me. Maybe I really am o…
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My experience is that that genie is already out of the bottle. IMO this project falls under the "open source" umbrella. I know that could mean a number of things. The term is overloaded. The…
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I see some integrations related to functions. Could you use this as some sort of a self-hosted alternative for AWS Lambda or CloudFlare Workers?
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Based purely on experience. People use the term to mean different things. That's why the first thing I do when I see a new "open source" project is check the license to clarify "wh…
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Replying here because I think it got too deeply nested. I disagree with the definition, or at least the strict application of it. Therefore it is not "universal".
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Clearly stated by one organization. Everyone is free to agree or disagree with that organization's position, whether fully or partially. There's a reason they have a logo, and I don't s…
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I'd be careful about reading too much into the results of that poll, or the number of upvotes on the github issue. The people who disagree with you are far more incentivized to vote than those wh…
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Do you really believe that the only definition of "open source" that any honest person is referring to when they use the term is the exact definition that you subscribe to?
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HN usually finds a theme to complain about with any cool project. Looks like this time they picked licensing. Just wanted to say thank you for making this project. I think tech like Zapier/IFTTT …
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Counterpoint: I've been employed to work on liberally licensed software for many years. In my experience, the idea of "open source" exists on a spectrum. Open source is important to dif…
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If it's like most things in software (and life), there's probably a long tail of niche/useless integrations in that list.
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Came here to recommend Bobiverse
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Agree. I love my 4k monitor, and I think 8k will reach the point where I don't need any higher resolution.
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> Ad-blocking relies on knowing the origin of ads and blocking requests to the servers browser-side. Regardless of where you shift the content it is just a matter of time until it is fingerprinted …
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It would be nice if there was a dead-simple Firebase-like tool you could self-host. ie just a single instance that you could point all your toy apps at to give them a little real-time persistence.