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mburnson Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift

It is more complicated than it needs to be, but very similar to the BitTorrent ecosystem.

https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/

IPFS is a protocol, it needs a client. That client can be a web page or local software, just like torrents.

Curl now supports downloading IPFS resources (but uses an HTTP gateway, it doesn’t talk to the DHT directly).

mburnson Flameshow: A terminal flamegraph viewer

> Stack samples can be captured using Linux perf_events, FreeBSD pmcstat (hwpmc), DTrace, SystemTap, and many other profilers. See the stackcollapse-* converters

https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph

mburnson IPFS support got merged into curl

Not really, a transient ipfs node works just fine.

There are stable nodes to bootstrap a new node into the network. More initialization that if you were using http, sure, but it isn’t as against the grain as you suggest.

https://github.com/ipfs/ipget

mburnson Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows

They have a 3d render if you scroll halfway down.

mburnson Reclaiming Control: The Internet Archive Empowers People. Gatekeepers Keep Suing

For more context, here is the official guide to request removing content from the Archive, which anyone can request for their own social media account.

“… indicate … the time period during which you had control of the site or relevant user account (if applicable)”

https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...

mburnson Reclaiming Control: The Internet Archive Empowers People. Gatekeepers Keep Suing

What familial connections?

https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/false-taylor-lo...

mburnson HashiCorp switching to BSL shows a need for open charter companies

Terraform providers weren’t relicensed under the BSL.

mburnson Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python

Not OP, but Brendan Gregg has written a lot about performance and benchmarking.

* https://www.brendangregg.com/activebenchmarking.html

* https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-06-30/benchmarking-ch...

mburnson Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic

> No, unlike with Substack, you don't get access to articles through Buttondown, the payment is just a donation.

Because that is how he set it up because that is how he explicitly wants it. If he wanted to charge for access, he could, on his current platform. So, yes.

https://buttondown.email/comparisons/substack

> So what? Yes, this is a wash, and I didn't say it was worse than before

You said it “may get worse” but what you described was a wash.

Maybe avoid the repeated insults.

mburnson Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic

Substack doesn’t solve that problem any more than Buttondown (which accepts paid subscriptions) already does. Go subscribe and pay him money. Be the change you want to see in the world.

> the problem may get worse

If you didn’t subscribe to the Atlantic (which it sounds like was the case) this is at worse a wash.

mburnson Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic

This full-length (albeit short) article is him announcing he’s leaving The Atlantic.

So… problem solved?

mburnson IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)

Linen might be a good fit.

https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31494908

mburnson Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks

It goes into a blind trust or an index fund.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/349...

mburnson Sinead O’Connor has died

She spoke truth to power.

With the benefit of hindsight, how is there any doubt she was on the right side of history for bringing attention to the issue?

mburnson Oxide Computer: Docs

looking at his (recent) comment history, I can’t imagine this is the one in particular that got him shadow banned.

mburnson Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

Saidit has a (mostly) compatible API by running a fork from when Reddit was still open source. It isn't a drop-in replacement but most of the core API endpoints are the same. Things like modmail, live threads, collections are exclusive to Reddit, for example.

Not sure the community is welcoming or even interested in the potential growth, tbh. But it exists.

https://saidit.net/dev/api

mburnson Self-hosting the Tor Project users forum

Sounds like that is in the cards:

>This will offer us more control over the forum's configuration and allow us to provide an experimental onion service for our users accessing the platform via the Tor network.

mburnson The $40M bet that made South Korea a food and cultural power

> Everyone is at most 7 connections away

That is not strictly true, but the world is certainly smaller than we tend to think.

    However, detractors argue that Milgram's experiment did not demonstrate such a link, and the "six degrees" claim has been decried as an "academic urban myth".’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

mburnson FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund

> For organizations providing grants, I don't think Mozilla even does that?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/

mburnson New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings

New York doesn’t have any coal plants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyregion/coal-energy-ny.h...

mburnson Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised [video]

The original Steamboat Willie enters the Public Domain come January 1, 2024. It seems unlikely Congress extends copyrights in the next 8 months.

https://observer.com/2023/02/so-mickey-mouse-is-about-to-ent...

Things that entered the public domain this year: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/public-domain-da...

mburnson Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems

context: https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/no-its-samsung-not-swiftke...

mburnson The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

There was a time when Ron Paul was Reddit’s favorite politician.

https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/11/ron-p...

mburnson Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

~25% of House Dems crossed the aisle to vote on a Republican amendment to the ACA to ban federal funding of abortion[1]. While that specific amendment failed in the Senate, it still forced a handshake deal that Obama would issue an EO to that effect.

It seems very unlikely that the ACA could have been passed if it enshrined abortion rights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupak%E2%80%93Pitts_Amendment

mburnson Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

Texas v. White established that states cannot unilaterally leave.

Would the federal government carpet bomb a state that tried? No. But there are other means to exert force and stop secession. Besides, the U.S. Government has no reason to ever willingly let California (or Texas, or really any state) leave the union, so why would they ever sit down at the negotiating table?

mburnson Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

The 'Six Californias'[0] proposal would be a net-positive for Democrats.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias

mburnson Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

Secession is unconstitutional. Splitting up an existing state is consitutional.

mburnson Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

The NSA didn’t fund Tor, though.

Tor was initially funded by the Naval Research Lab (which is broadly similar to DARPA), and from a quick google, has received funding grants from the NSF and Department of State.