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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
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I agree, but maybe encourage a U2F key option instead. I really like the idea of completely removing the possibility of password phishing.
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Yeah basically I was referring to the situations mentioned above. Someone else's computer, private browser, etc. But then don't you have to login to your web vault? Why not just login to you…
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The email is the unique id.
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I guess you're right. I was thinking they only do it for password reset, but you don't actually have to reset your password to use the link option.
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Yes this whole thing is absolutely predicated on the concept of "if you lose access to your email you already have much bigger problems". But for me at least that's true. The phone app …
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Would you mind linking to where you originally made that comment? Sounds like it might be a relevant conversation I should read. I feel like you're making two somewhat contradictory arguments. Th…
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That'll mostly depend on if it still gracefully handles JS being disabled. But I hear ya.
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My rule of thumb when considering adding a dependency these days is to start by trying to implement the functionality myself. But I don't let myself spend too much time on it (maybe an hour or tw…
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I saw a random magazine 10 years ago that claimed Flagstaff was one of the top 3 "greenest" cities in the US. Prescott (where I'm from) was top 3 skinniest.
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I host my own. I think basically any of the popular static site generators[0] on a droplet or netlify are a great option. [0] https://www.staticgen.com/ …
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I think the human cost aspects of federation could work like subreddits in terms of the amount of work necessary to keep things running relatively smoothly. The tooling likely needs to get way better …
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Pretty sure you're describing DAT/Beaker browser. I'm not super familiar with it though so could be wrong.
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Does the fact that it runs through a proxy make it less of a server?
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Somewhat OT but are there any JS libraries (or maybe servers via query params) that you can configure to only download X-bytes from progressive images? For example if you detect your user is on a slow…
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I think you could achieve a first-order approximation by crawling front-page links a couple levels deep and seeing what's connected.
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Or you can self-host it.
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Does nohost let you host sites that others can access, or is it just available in the local browser?
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There are always tradeoffs. DHT resolution may never be as fast centralized solutions. And as far as I know there's still no general solution to certain attacks like sybil. An intermediate soluti…
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Personal plug: if you want something similar that supports Range requests (ie streaming), check out fibridge[0][1][2]. However, I haven't tried adding support for setting web mime types so you ca…
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Yeah, it's the breadth that gets me. There are several very impressive expert programmers in their area, but Fabrice seems to be able to step into any subfield he finds interesting, work on it fo…
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https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1149418907247104000?s... …
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Does it support Range requests?
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See also fibridge[0][1] [0] http://iobio.io/2019/06/12/introducing-fibridge/ [1] https://github.com/anderspitman/fibridge-proxy-rs …
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I said what I'd use it for ;)
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Normally I'd consider this hyperbole, but if I had the means I would absolutely offer it. He's a generational talent.
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Can you really put a number on this level of skill and productivity?
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This man is a wizard. You can also thank him for ffmpeg and qemu. A company I worked for once tried to hire him as a consultant because he had implemented an LTE BTS in software. Is there anything he …