rickcarlino

This is true for freelance technical editors, too.

Looking forward to no firmware updates and getting locked out of cloud hosted features.

2015 satirical article from The Onion: "HR Director Reminds Employees That Any Crying Done At Office Must Be Work-Related."

Meta’s reputation has eroded so much that many will view this as an act of desperation rather than a chance to reframe social media. The idea of paying for social media to become the customer rather than the product has been both discussed and tried. There is such a deep lack of trust from years of bad deeds that I doubt anything positive will come out of this.

Will we start seeing stock market dips and spikes correlated to model releases?

This point gets missed by a lot of people.

You could theoretically have a web that does not bloat. HTML is a very good technology for building clean documents. You are not going to get that, though. What happens instead is that you start on a thoughtfully designed page and are always one click away from a cookie consent banner on top of an email capture modal beside four flavors of ad. "Sure, but you can install adblock/VPN/Pi-hole/reader mode/turn off JS/etc/etc..."

I like Gemini because it actually delivered a lightweight protocol that provides what I was looking for. Additionally, it is not just a technology. It is an ecosystem that gained more traction than the hundreds of other attempts that never went anywhere.

The spec made mistakes, but HTTP has mistakes too.

Thanks for dropping a comment! Collecting Gnutella history is a hobby of mine if the article did not make that apparent. I’ve seen a lot of your past work related to Gnucleus while researching the protocol and digging through old documents in archive.org. It always surprised me that the homepage was still online after so many years.

Are you still active in open source / decentralized tech these days?

It is still around! I see network traffic from it on major GWebCache instances.

I’m glad you liked it! I hope to publish the follow up soon

Are you asking if lime wire used Gnutella Web Cache for bootstrapping? I’m not sure. GWebCache is one of many possible ways to boot strap, and I have not run lime wire in over a decade. I saw that GTKGnutella moved off of GWebCache sometime ago and uses some sort UDP based tool now. I am fairly certain that Shareaza still uses it because I see those results come up in my Web cache pull from time to time. I have seen a few advertisements from lime wire fork projects as well.

Part of that war is a war on URLs. URLs are bad if your goal is to keep people in app. Reddit, a site built for link sharing, favors self posts more in recent years. Sites like HN, Lobste.rs are a rarity and feel dated against the backdrop of everything trying to be a walled garden. I am grateful such places still exist.

What if they use advanced evasion techniques like printing it out and scanning it or taking a photo with their phone?

I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.

Your ads are out of control.

For a split second I thought this was a joke/commentary on Google and Facebook.

Have you blogged about this or written it down? I would love to hear more about this piece of history and it seems that the history is slowly fading.

GTK Gnutella or Shareazza seems to be the norm.

Gnutella is a mild obsession for me. The way that the protocol was designed and also the way that it saw a mainstream adoption has always fascinated me. For anyone reading this thread who is curious, I wrote a functional client this year for fun: https://github.com/RickCarlino/gnutella-bun-client/

The network still lives, even today. This is so underrated.

My mom is several years into Alzheimer’s and is at a point where she requires our help for nearly every daily task. She got a hearing aid put in last year and at the same time, she walks so slowly we often need to bring a wheelchair with us to get daily tasks done when she is around. There is definitely something going on here.

I have felt the same way about defunct search engine HotBot

Reminds me of http://cobra-language.com/

The death of the desktop app is troublesome, but one place it has been a win for users is daily driving Linux. The days of being forced to use windows because you need MS Word ended a long time ago for most people. The desktop is irrelevant and nearly everything an office worker does is in Chrome/Firefox. There are exceptions, sure, but they are fewer than ever.

I wish I could get in my time machine and post this whole thing on 2012 Hacker News. Everyone would tell me what a talented science fiction writer I am. 2026 is a wild time to be alive.

I extracted a lot of utility out of a folding bike during university in Korea. The smaller wheels are indeed a tradeoff for space vs. comfort but all in all it was a useful purchase.

Layoffs.fyi is not looking good right now.

Goose is an option, but it is just OK. https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose

Sonique media player, Trillian messenger and NeoPlanet web browser. I was there, man. Before flat UI and sensible color schemes took hold. For a moment, it was pretty wild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(software)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_(media_player)

My biggest concern about Youtube is that they do not truly have a competitor. They just raised premium prices again making it one of my most expensive entertainment subscriptions.

Pivoting Korean spaced repetition app towards reading features:

Video demo: https://youtu.be/cJfFAh6ox84?si=WScDPzI4rJIKe99n

GitHub: https://github.com/RickCarlino/KoalaCards