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https://tapwithus.com this looks interesting indeed, thank you!

The neural band always looked more interesting than the glasses tbh.

I've been moving more and more away from terminal and IDEs, and I've been exploring how I could move to a flip phone / table + compact keyboard as most of my development time is now possible to be done via just using TTS.

I'd be interested in exploring if something like this could remove the need for a mouse or touching the screen as well.

Some alternatives that are not bound to the meta glasses: Mudra Link (USD 299), Mudra Band for Apple Watch (USD 350), MindRove Armband (USD 800, wow), SiFi Labs SiFi Band (no price), OYMotion gForce Pro+ (USD 1250, ok this side project is starting to look expensive)

I'm trying to work out how the OP's system would look like and I was wondering the same.

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There are at least three parts that you'd need to solve:

1. AFAIK there is no single globally canonical Firehose. Different relays aggregate different sets of PDSes, and some might decide not to include your PDS if they don't like your content. The Firehose also isn't really the authority here. It transports signed updates from account repositories.

2. In theory you could make up a new kind of DNS record instead of NS, called PDS, PLC, or something. You'd ask your TLD registry to publish something like `PLC <did>` instead of the NS records for your DNS server.

The value should probably be the account DID (that's the PLC mentioned above), rather than the address of its PDS. The account DID is the stable identity that signs the repository updates. The PDS is just the server currently hosting that account's repository, and its address can change.

3. You then have a bootstrap problem. To get from an account DID to its PDS, you resolve the DID document and look for its `#atproto_pds` service entry. But `did:web` resolution uses HTTPS and therefore DNS. `did:plc` uses the PLC directory, but reaching that directory and then reaching the PDS URL also normally requires DNS.

So the DNS replacement would depend on the old DNS system to discover the server containing its DNS records.

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Then, as an example, Google's DNS resolver at 8.8.8.8 would subscribe to one or more Firehoses, index DNS records from account repositories, and verify that their updates were signed by the DID named in the registry record.

Querying would then be something like: you look at the top-level record for the domain, see that there is no NS entry, find the PDS or DID entry, and look in your local Firehose-derived database for DNS entries signed by that account.

If the records aren't there, you might resolve the DID, find the current PDS, and fetch the repository directly. But that brings you back to the bootstrap problem.

Maybe the registry record would need to include both the DID and some kind of glue-like PDS address. Or perhaps the new system would need an independent way of resolving DIDs and locating PDSes without using DNS. I'm not sure what that would look like, especially once you include PDS migration and key rotation, but I think this is an additional part the proposal would need to solve.

/shrug

Was thinking the same. ?v=4#sha111 for defining the version and using fragment for hash verification seemed like a more interesting approach.

which efforts you have in mind?

been playing around with similar stuff as well just for fun but I'm not happy with any solution so far :( -- if there is anything you can share I'd love to take a peek :)

Any suggestions for UK alternatives for cutting and bending the steel sheets needed for the chassis to the suggested US company in the video? I’ve reached out to a couple for quotes a couple of days back but haven’t heard back yet.

Unfortunately there is no example on the home page, and the “try in browser” doesn’t seem to ever finish loading on ios safari.

I’m not really sure how much of a problem this truly is and I would have appreciated if the author made a little bit more effort and backed at least some of their claims with some citations as I’d genuinely interested in leaning more. The way this is presented feels very hand wavy and over sensationalized.

> Your fight or flight is stuck on ON mode. Total sympathetic nervous system dominance.

> You can’t just snap out of it, you blew your dopaminergic load and are literally burning neurons.

> No parallel processing, your brain cant’t handle it.

> Productivity plummets, meaning evaporates, creativity disappears…

> Direct correlation between IQ and noise tolerance.

> Our GABA system can’t keep up with modern demands for inhibition.

The overall style is also very much to my personal liking.

Unabomber picture with an edited quote was my first issue.

> Now you’re marinating in auditory AIDS 24/7.

> Cognitive goonery.

I love beeper and have been using it for a very long time at this point, but I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a good client.

Whatsapp mentions don’t work (just show the name of the mention to the other users), and polls or albums don’t work.

Messenger disconnects every couple of days at this point.

Pasting links won’t always expand.

Attachments are always hit or miss.

So many small other things. Still love it.

^ this. Most likely just an accessibility setting.

UK's emergency alert system [1] is based on SMS-CB [2] so it's just test based.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Emergency_Alert_System

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast

(2023)

I’d expect social acceptance and access to tiktok/ig to go hand in hand. Was the same with access to tv programs and video games when growing up in the early 90s.

Congrats on the launch, this looks really nice. Some examples would be really nice. I’m currently on mobile and tried to sign up and use the app but the ui is not very responsive. That’s not an issue as I didn’t expect it to be very usable, it’s more that I wanted to check out what it looks like.

+1 for migadu as well

Hey, good luck with your launch.

Some very first thoughts on the landing page from someone who probably is in the target audience as I’ve used quite a few similar apps so far. (I did not get to actually try the service due to the lack of integration with bank data)

There is little of substance on the landing page. As a user who is interested in using this, I’d want to learn what features the app has, what is different and better than the competitors, and at the very least see what the app looks like.

Video guide of the features would also be very interesting.

You mention it doesn’t integrate with banks. That is unfortunate. Any thoughts or supporting csv imports or an api to allow users to diy?

Good luck and I’ll keep an eye out :)

Happened to be in sf last weekend and saw a cicada 3301 poster with what seemed to be a qr code with dots that didn’t scan in the gg park. Seems people still bother with this.

The link seems to be wrong. Correct link is probably https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-i...

And just for good measure, https://archive.ph/8mAtm

Questions I didn't find answers to at a first glance: you're calling this "the most private personal finance app", and then mention e2ee, but there is no mention of why encryption is needed. Does the app offer sync across devices? Is there a mobile version? Can I use it offline or does it need to talk to a server?

I'd personally happily pay for a good offline only finance app, or one that uses iCloud app sync or whatever it's called, but I'd probably not pay for an excellent online only app.

I assume you might be able to build some sort of word or concept embeddings? You should be able to compress a text into its concepts, and when you decompress it the text itself might be different but shohld retain the same meaning.

Plain, simple, great. Custom domain support at 9 usd per year is really refreshing to see.

> 120 metres = 4724.409 inches

This looks amazing for kids getting into coding. Thank you.

VB6 was honestly one of my all time favourite languages. Was something like 8-9 years old and compared to Qbasic, VB was just mind-blowing to me. Spent so many hours coding random useless stuff, it was just an amazing gateway to programming with instant feedback and results. Compared to today's stack of frontend/backend separation, and even frontend presentation/business logic separation (i'm looking at you html), vb was such a good way for people to learn.

> 1,000 PageHits/mo/site

This seems pretty low for 16 usd/month

This is really frustrating, I love it. I feel that the penalty for deleting words is pretty harsh.

> About seL4

> seL4 is a high-assurance, high-performance operating system microkernel. It is unique because of its comprehensive formal verification, without compromising performance. It is meant to be used as a trustworthy foundation for building safety- and security-critical systems. It is available as open source on GitHub and supported by the seL4 Foundation.

I think that the key point here might be the curved part. Curved ultrawides mostly took over the market for large monitors cause they offered better ergonomics (curved + horizontal only head movement) and enough real estate.