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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.
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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
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You can use rclone to easily backup to multiple popular services.
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I think the main point is if Cloudflare goes down or decides they (or the government) don't like the content hosted on this site, it will still theoretically continue to work over IPFS. Probably …
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> Anyway, what's the point of this article? To sell the author's new book.
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Oh I wasn't arguing in favor of using this. I doubt I'll ever use non open software for my data again. Just saying I've run into problems trying to use syncthing for sharing files.
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I found the FAQ[0] to be the most informative. [0] https://doc.duple.io/faq/
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While it would be nice if they provided HTML endpoints, there are valid reasons for using SPAs, even for text-heavy sites. That said, the loading bar is a bit mind-blowing IMO.
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Syncthing is great (I use it for all my syncing needs), but it's scope is limited. It doesn't really solve file sharing in a user-friendly way.
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ISPs (at least in the US) have been selling their customers out for years. Nobody cares as long as Netflix works and their photos get to the people they want to see them.
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Dropbox and Google Drive both removed HTML hosting over the past few years. With drive you can't even get direct links to images etc anymore. Not sure if public Dropbox files have the same limita…
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DRM video is a pretty big exception, and Google is already a de facto gatekeeper there.
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If you find this interesting, I recommend also looking into genetic algorithms, artificial life (alife), cellular automata, Conway's game of Life, falling sand games, and Karl Sims virtual creatu…
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Most of my time this year has been with browser streaming, async Rust, and vanilla JS. I think the last has been the most useful. I highly recommend really learning the DOM. Implement your own client-…
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Do GitHub pages integrate nicely with the large file support for storing binary media?
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Can you host public web assets on OneDrive?
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We're you able to use Google Drive for web image hosting somehow?
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Yeah I think the OP article is great but doesn't pay enough respect to the costs of dependencies.
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file.pizza has mostly solved this for me. Not ideal UX, but it gets the job done.
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My philosophical rule of thumb is that it is morally wrong for humans to ever wait on computers, period. It's an unattainable standard but results in much better software IMO.
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Started getting fairly severe RSI about a year ago. It's at a manageable level now, but was really scary there for a while. The things that I credit (this is difficult to measure) as most helpful…
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Mithril is fantastic. I think it does a great job of giving you the 20% of features that cover 80% of what you need to do for a solid web app.
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> The gist of which is, a job can be ‘not good’ from the perspective of the privileged but still ‘much better than the alternatives’ from the perspective of the people who take that job. If you wan…
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I might be misunderstanding here, but this sounds like it might lead to too much up front design, which is a trap I'm naturally inclined to fall into. Again maybe I'm misunderstanding. I fou…
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That's interesting. I'll have to do some tests to see if that's still the case.
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I agree I'd 100% prefer something like Duo if people were already acclimated, but I think we're 5-10 years away from that reality, if we ever get there. But I think a lot of the risks you&#x…
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No explicit backup, but I think you're also assuming Google-level lack of customer service. If someone contacted me telling me they lost control of their email, there's a lot of steps I coul…
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Ah yes that makes sense. I wasn't considering that because my email password is one of the few I have memorized.
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For lost email I'm inclined to agree with you. There would need to be some mitigation there (encourage or enforce users to have a backup email, etc). But for stolen email credentials, one of the …
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You should definitely be using 2 different forms of 2FA with important services like your email address, and one of them should not be SMS. Personally I use a phone app and a hardware key.