@ada interesting. Is blacklisting/spam much of an issue? As in, will I have to constantly change fight to get my IP to be trusted with the big email providers?
I’ve really hated the entire idea of app stores. I have been on Google Pixels since the 4, and use Calyxos, so can’t use PlayStore. Aurora comes preinstalled, but it’s kinda flakey.
F-Droid is ideal, all reproducible builds, opensource. It’s totally doable, but thinks like banking apps and utility apps, aren’t on there, as probably never will be as they all do dodgy stuff they don’t want you knowing about.
The reason I hate app stores, is because we already have a (somewhat decentralised) trusted transport in TLS/HTTPS. Like, I know if I’m on the hsbc.co.uk website, I’m 99.999999% sure I’m actually speaking to hsbc. So, then provide me the APK and let me down it. Or, make a decent PWA/WebApp so I don’t need your app.
Thing is. I don’t trust Google or Apple even a fraction as much as I would trust the TLS of the companies domain.
Interesting, it looks a little better for me, but it’s a bit slow and laggy.
I’ve tried to stay away from hosting email servers myself. It’s really hard. But I’ve thought about a project which uses something like mailgun or SES, but then I create a ui and restful server over the top of it. But, priorities….
The problem isn’t with NodeJS or NPM, it’s developers that are so willing to use horrible frameworks/libraries/tooling that is just simply not needed. NodeJS gives you so much out of the box, and NPM is simply a place to store your packages. With Deno, you won’t even need a package manager as it takes a step closer to go modules approach.
If you’re going to use React, TypeScript, NextJs, Webpack, Styled Components, Material UI, Jest, and the 10k dependencies that comes with it, then yeah, your dev environment is going to be slow, bloated, and incredibly frustrating to work with. Not to mention have security issues. I’ve literally just done a fresh create-react-app
installation (latest version 5.0.1 as I write this), and boom, 6 high severity vulnerabilities.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Choose lightweight libraries that do one thing really well, and build your project from the ground up yourself.
The problem isn’t with NodeJS or NPM, it’s the developers that are so willing to use horrible frameworks/libraries/tooling that is just simply not needed. NodeJS gives you so much out of the box, and NPM is simply a place to store your packages. With Deno, you won’t even need a package manager as it takes a step closer to go modules approach.
If you’re going to use React, TypeScript, NextJs, Webpack, Styled Components, Material UI, Jest, and the 10k dependencies that comes with it, then yeah, your dev environment is going to be slow, bloated, and incredibly frustrating to work with. Not to mention have security issues. I’ve literally just done a fresh create-react-app
installation (latest version 5.0.1 as I write this), and boom, 6 high severity vulnerabilities.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Choose lightweight libraries that do one thing really well, and build your project from the ground up yourself.
@prologic@twtxt.net for example, looking at your feed it says your first post was at 2022-03-09T23:38:24Z. But I know you were posting way before that. But if I look at mine, I see my first post was 2020-09-30T12:50:42Z.
So maybe it’s cut off by file size?
@markwylde@twtxt.net I would but 5.00am is really early for a Saturday :(
How come there is only 25 pages of twts on the feed?
Does it cut off at 25 pages max, or 2 weeks old max?
What happens to older twts?
kv-server --join somehost:1111
Did a quick benchmark:
https://git.mills.io/prologic/bitraft/issues/58
Seems the summary benchmark of a 5node cluster on my laptop is:
GET: 1165.64 requests per second
SET: 1061.80 requests per second
kv-server --join somehost:1111
But in Bitraft every node contains every key + value, right? I probably wasn’t clear above, but in my idea REPLICA_COUNT would be 3 but the NODE_COUNT may be 10. So a put would go to 3 of 10 of the nodes.
kv-server --join somehost:1111
@prologic@twtxt.net I’m happy to do it. Might try now actually. It was just incase you knew. I’ll post in the README if I get it working. I’m hoping redis-benchmark will work since it’s got the same api as redis.
I wonder if sharding could be implemented by:
Presumptions:
- redis can broadcast to all nodes in the cluster
- REPLICA_COUNT is 3
PUT workflow:
- a PUT get’s forwarded to REPLICA_COUNT random nodes in the cluster
GET workflow:
- a broadcast is made to the cluster saying “I NEED A VALUE FOR KEY ‘TEST’”
- all nodes that contain that value reply to the server
- the first response get’s forwarded to the client
- the other responses are discarded
I’m sure there would be some edges cases, like syncing.
- What if 1 of the random node’s is full and therefore only REPLICA_COUNT-1 nodes received the document
- This could me 2 nodes have the new value, but the 3rd has the old value
Maybe it could be solved by only committing once REPLICA_COUNT nodes successfully receive the message.
kv-server --join somehost:1111
@prologic@twtxt.net ever done any stress testing on bitraft? In a cluster, do you know that the throughput would be? Like, PUT’s per second and GET’s per second?
kv-server --join somehost:1111
Thanks guys. Bitraft is awesome @prologic@twtxt.net but yeah, not sharded :( I did try etcd before @abucci@anthony.buc.ci but I did find it tricker to setup than Bitraft. But again, it’s not sharded :(
I love simple, lightweight, small, minimal tools that just do the bare minimum. Based on that, does anyone have any good recommendations for a key value store that is:
- lightweight
- clustered
- sharded (so if I have 5 instances and 100 keys, each node will roughly have 20 keys on it).
- easy to join nodes: as in
kv-server --join somehost:1111
For reference, I think Consul is too heavy (and not sharded I believe).
It would be great to have a small go executable, that I can run on 10 servers, all connected up, that exposes a redis like api. Simple GET, PUT and STREAM would be great.
@prologic@twtxt.net anyone else here I can ping?
I love it. Just signed in and wondered if anyone had mentioned me. Clicked and saw this thread. ❤️
I think maybe an account swither in the nav would be a good balance to start with. If it turns out many people use multiple pods, we could improve the UI to make switching easier.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this is what I’m thinking. How about, since the app would technically be able to connect to any pod, it could store a list of pods you’re a member of. For redundancy, for example.
So you would add an account (minimum of one), then you could also add additional. Then if you can’t connect to the first pod, you can connect to the second?
Still pointless? I mean. It’s easier to just have 1 account that’s stored and connected to every time. But I’m just wondering if anyone here does have multiple accounts.
@eaplmx@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net I’m defo looking into building a multi pod PWA, especially now there shouldn’t be any CORS issues between pods. But I’m struggling to get enough time to build it.
I’m looking into building a standalone app that can connect to any twtxt pod.
I’m considering a slack like approach, where down the left hand side you can have multiple pod instances.
Do people have an account on multiple pods? Or is there not really any point since you can feed into any pod from any other pod?
Are there many JavaScript developers on here? I’ve built a super basic testing library, because pretty much every library out there does a bunch of magic like auto running the suite, auto loading files, hooks (beforeEach/beforeAll/etc) and all the nesting (describe/it).
I don’t think it’s needed and have pretty much exclusively been doing “no mocking”, “no hooks”, and it’s worked well for me.
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Okay to bring this back on topic. The reason I said all the above, is because I see the cloud hosting crap as a similar problem.
I think really we’re stuck with them and their vendor locked, restricted, marketplace centric platforms. But we can minimize the lockin we use.
Make sure you only use VM’s. Don’t use any of their cloud databases, build, pipelines, kubernetes, containers, etc. Just use, simple, basic, abundant virtual machines that can be portable to other cloud companies.
Yeah I get your dilemma James. I have almost the same one. I hate how Intel and AMD chips have built in backdoors [1] that Intel/AMD can take control of your machine without you knowing/agreeing. But it’s impossible to find a laptop/machine that doesn’t use Intel. There are a few ARM chromebooks, but they’re really not good enough for a daily driver.
Apple managed to escape by using their own ARM mobile chips in the M1/M2 laptops. But the problem is Apple still create’s a walled garden they can take over without your knowledge at any time. So we’re back to square one.
I’ve had to suck it up, stick with this stupid Intel processor, but I’m on a system76 2 which uses coreboot , which at least frees me from the UEFI [3] firmware mess (which is Microsoft’s control over what OS you can boot).
- https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
- https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
- http://techrights.org/2012/07/17/rms-on-uefi/
Oh wow, maximum message length? Annoying.
#opohjmq @prologic@twtxt.net This one made me think of you.
Okay, weird. It’s now working:
https://twtxt.net/search?tag=opohjmq
Hmmmmmm
I’m confused. There is a hacker-news feed here, and I can see an interesting post I wanted to comment on:
Twtxt search says it’s there, but I can’t actually see the post. I do follow hacker-news on twtxt, but there’s only like 5 posts from there.
Is this expected or a bug?
I mean, if it is pretty good, why should we care if it is based on Ubuntu? 🤣
Haha, yeah, you’re right.
Yeah I’m using Windows for a bit of gaming. But most stuff on Steam actually works on Linux, via Wine. I think/hope you’re right, we’ll finally have a year of the Linux desktop 😁
Yeah, absoluteky. The closed source reason doesn’t make it trash. Sublime text is in no way trash, but is closed source and proprietary.
It’s the points I listed after, that gets me to the conclusion macOS is trash.
Signing is a great feature. But the gatekeeper shouldn’t be Apple.
8gb is huge. But I guess, like everything, it’s subjective.
@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com yeah, I’m really fussy over software and a big supporter of the GPL/GNU/FSF stuff. So pretty much any proprietary software, I’m against 😛 I’m very unreasonable, I know 😛
But I really hate:
- telemetry
- signing/gatekeeping software
- can’t actually download it in a nice iso
- lots of legal conditions, like only allowed on Apple hardware. Can’t just buy the os.
- closed source
- its huge. Like GBs in size
Currently I use popOS on a System76 laptop. It’s pretty good, although I wish it wasn’t based on Ubuntu.
It always amazes me just how bad Microsoft’s “products” are. I actually thought Windows 95 to XP where really good, lightweight (relatively speaking) and flexible.
I got a Windows PC for gaming a while back, which is Windows 10 I think. The entire thing is just a cesspit of surveillance and adverts. But, with the added benefit, of having to pay for a closed source proprietary piece of garbage.
Why anyone would choose to use that over Linux or a Mac is beyond me. Don’t get me wrong, macOS is still trash. But miles better than that Windows disaster.
I wish the web was like this. I would 100% take this over the spying, tracking, huge file sizes, adverts, popups, chat windows, cookie banners, forced signups, centralised hosting, social sharing.
Gitea is lovely. Its amazing how fast it is.
What feature in this release are you liking the most?
@prologic@twtxt.net what happened to private messaging James? Did it get removed?
Well, in the latest game of “Which of the UK and Australia is worse?”, UK scores some points:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/revealed-uk-government-publicity-blitz-to-undermine-privacy-encryption-1285453/
We’re struggling to fund our national health service, but yet our tax money can be spent towards this uneducated and ill-informed anti encryption and privacy campaign.
What an embarrassment for the UK.
@prologic@twtxt.net for me the site loads so fast I can’t notice a single layout shift :P Just give all img
a width
and height
.
Now your website will seem like it was made by a PRO
I’m in tears. I just had to share this one.
https://hiccupfx.telnet.asia/
Yeah the day’s just starting for us in the UK :P
Nicely said @movq@www.uninformativ.de All this is doing is showing how trash the web is.
Although, I think the problem also stems from web browsers not doing enough to sandbox domains. A huge benefit of web and the web browser, is that you can go to untrusted websites, and not have it compromise/track/monitor/leak info to other sites/app on your device.
Third party cookies should never have been a thing.
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you’re all enjoying your time with friends/family :)
Looks good to me on Chrome Desktop (using mobile mode) 🤔
Haha @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com sometimes it just takes a fresh pair of eyes :P
Woohoo! 🥳️
@prologic@twtxt.net +1 for the VSCodium. VSCode has too much spyware in it.
Honestly, what a mess :( Very disappointing the way the world seems to be heading.
Hey @prologic@twtxt.net Haven’t signed in on here for a while :( New theme is looking cool! I should be more active in the future once I’ve settled back in the UK and got our own place. Housing market’s still nuts over here :(