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hey mr. email sorry to bother i know you're busy like,, laying off all your workers but i was wondering could you please like make an actual standard for end to end encryption?? like with forward secrecy and shit like we have the technology. like steal omemo its literally right there its free its already implemented just put it in the email protocol thanks john email. i don't think it should take…
in a previous post i dumped my thoughts about what an ideal replacement for discord would look like. at the time none of the projects i saw tackling the issue had all the qualities i wanted, but i recently found that polyproto is pretty much exactly what i was looking for: decentralized open source identity federation, not content federation simpler protocol, not matrix the biggest difference from…
i am the single maintainer of a minecraft mod called openboatutils . i am going to quickly explain what this mod is and where it came from, but im not sure it particularly matters for this post, so skip to the section "minecraft updates" if you dont care, or you already know. openboatutils in 1.19.4-pre1, a prerelease minecraft version, there was a bug that let boats step up blocks like mobs do.…
seems impossible discord is one of the harder pieces of software to replace, due to: server costs network effect years of progress & feature development that a replacement would have to catch up to but, replacing it is something i've thought about quite a bit and i figure i should write down what i have so that that thinking isn't entirely useless. pieces if your only use case is 1:1 messages,…
In a previous post I tried to explain my obsession with movement using skateboarding as a metaphor. What I've realized since then is that parkour is a much better metaphor, and I think I've figured out why it didn't occur to me at the time. In my head now, there are really three different uses of the word parkour that make sense: the original literal sense, involving movement with the body.…
(spoiler: its because of bugs)
there's a habit I have which I find really difficult to explain to most people. the best I can come up with is using skateboarding as an analogy: Metaphorical Skateboarding given a skate park, or an obstacle, or really any kind of space you have access to, skateboarding generally works like this: explore the given space, interpret your findings, and execute some trick or series of tricks.…
introductions are hard, heres random info: Software that i use: xfce 1 firefox 2 neovim 3 vscode 4 that i've written: minicalc OpenBoatUtils (minecraft mod) game jams: mini celeste Pocket Dimension Racing Music artists/bands that rule: acloudyskye 5 good kid 6 rec hall 7 individual songs that also rule: Lazy River by Daniel Koestner 8 Let It Happen by Tame Impala 9 everything means nothing by toe…