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h0p3··on Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
Thank you.
h0p3··on Ask HN: Which distro do you use? (2023)
NixOS with Distrobox, JuNest, and VMs.
h0p3··on AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)
Retroshare is still being updated and used (there's at least a few hundred on right now). It's relatively feature complete, and you can route it over i2p or tor as well (which is uncommon for this kind of tooling, in my experience).
h0p3··on Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?
Tiddlywiki or plaintext with good file management has worked for me.
h0p3··on The One Ring card, Magic: The Gathering’s coveted collectible, has been found
Proxy cube drafting is my favorite.
h0p3··on Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
Just wanted to say thank you, again. Your project gave me a lot to think about.
h0p3··on A Malleable Web
This is off topic, but this thread seems to have an abnormally high number of dead comments from presumably botted accounts.
h0p3··on The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption
The same is clearly true of economics and philosophy as well.
h0p3··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
I'd like to hear your thoughts on [[peruvian bull]].
h0p3··on Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
What do you think of The Dialetheia?
h0p3··on Big data is dead
I'd like to know more about "[Your] life under [your] state employed 'parents' and at the hands of other employees of the state"
h0p3··on Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
Whose authority do you trust, and why?
h0p3··on ‘The Battery’s Dead’: Burnout Looks Different in Autistic Adults
Are you an autistic person?
h0p3··on Tesla’s Cybertruck Delayed Again
I'd like to know what you take yourself to be doing here.
h0p3··on Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science
Schizo offering an actual joke to you: drunk drivers don't kill people; drunk crashers kill people.
h0p3··on How New Ideas Arise
You think it's fine if I just take CBD isolate alongside pure THCs (perhaps in lower doses)?
h0p3··on Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France
So, how concerned are you with government use, either directly or indirectly, of machine learning?
h0p3··on Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
Owning the means of production is no simple task.
h0p3··on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
That's a good idea.
h0p3··on Ask HN: Longer Discussions in HN?
I have to ask: have we ever met?
h0p3··on Bitcoin is not going to make it
When did it become their experiment? Why do you think that?
h0p3··on An antidote to envy
So, envy is not conceptually immoral on your view. It's perhaps a positivist's type of resentment, I take it. If that's the case, then I think I understand where you are coming from.
h0p3··on An antidote to envy
What do you mean by the word envy? Do you think it's a moral problem? Are you sure there's no plausible interpretation of this person's words that doesn't (or shouldn't*) sound envious?
h0p3··on Ask HN: Best way to version control your notes or documents?
I can tell you how I do it, but I dunno if that will be useful to you.

Every time I save an edit to a page in ⦗ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱: h0p3⦘, two jsons are created in a subdirectory of `~/Downloads`, an old and new copy of the edited page. That's usually the only versioning I directly use. I'm finished editing the majority of pages within a week (except for retroactive footnotes, which are themselves dated upon injection), but there are some pages I've edited thousands of times; all of it is captured, and I can archive or delete these at my leisure. Sometimes, I'll walk through my nightly zstd archives (and I've not had to go through my waterfall backups across drives yet), and even more often just use web.archive.org (since it's all wrapped into one html file). I've always wanted extremely lightweight automated versioning (not what I already do by hand, as I sometimes explicitly link together versions of a page) built into my wiki itself (none of the plugins available really do it well, imho), and I may work toward that.

I do have git repos available, and I know some found it useful. Traditionally, I keep a 2-minutely updated git repo (reset nightly), as well as a nightly. Something has gone wrong when I use it, but perhaps that's a lack of practical creativity otherwise on my part. For those participating in the mutable torrent swarm, hidden default Resilio Sync archives have provided useful versions to myself and others as well.

I'm paranoic about keeping a record of my streams of thought and the objects I grow in my garden, and I often find the most important aspects of the versioning of my thinking (and feeling) are captured by just thoroughly using and living with the tool in the first place.

h0p3··on Roam, Twenty Years Before Roam
I still recommend using singlefile TW (often with [[Resilio Sync]]) to newcomers. [[PMario]]'s tool continues to work well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/file-backups/.
h0p3··on The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
Thank you.
h0p3··on Ask HN: Pros and cons of thinking in public vs. in private?
Beyond [[pseudonymity|Anonymity]], [[privacy]] comes in degrees. Depending on your topics, interlocutors, and threat model, you may find it worthy to be able to scale your privacy up or down in various circumstances (which doesn't make all methods foolproof, but in practice it seems to go a long way). For example, being able to turn off parts of your web presence while still leaving up other parts of or gateways to your public net presence may be useful.
h0p3··on Ask HN: How do you maintain your daily log?
I use Tiddlywiki, though in the past year or so, I've started using text editors as buffers (though I sometimes edit my Tiddlywiki from my text editors as well). I've found a surprising number of things I write are logs (often logs within logs). Here's one window: https://philosopher.life/#New
h0p3··on The Social Recession: By the Numbers
I'll be your friend (https://philosopher.life/#Friendship), nomad (https://philosopher.life/#Find%20The%20Others). HMU (https://philosopher.life/#Contact%20h0p3) anytime. `/salute`.
h0p3··on Ask HN: What are some examples of “decentralized discoverability?”
`/nod`. I hear ya. RSS and mutable torrents seem like a fine starting place (if only to learn from), and I think we could argue ActivityPub's community has attempted to work on this problem. I worry that if we can't achieve the underlying distributed network (and effective DHTs [or the overlays on them] have a very long way to go, imho), we will lack the proper testing grounds to even know what the fitting standard(s) should be at some level. I hope I'm wrong about that.

I could see federated networks perfecting some aspects of self-sovereign, decentralizable identities or portable logical accounts, as well as fitting standards for sharing the data we find most salient among that federation. It's a start. I can't say something like Mastadon has succeeded here, but these amazing projects simply haven't received the funding they deserve. I could also imagine a centralized, for-profit institution creating something similar, but it would be a trade secret. I hope we find the answer before they do.

I'm not going to work on that problem until I have an underlying p2p network meant to actually replace at least the web (and, I am, of course, a huge fan of Sir pfrazee's astounding work in this sphere). I consider that an extremely tall task as it is, and, so far (and I say this with profound [[gratitude]] for those who have worked to solve the problem), nothing comes even close.

It's a pleasure to meet you, btw.

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