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skullum··on The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets
Phoenix live view (anything on BEAM really) maps each ws to a BEAM process so scaling to 10000+ connections is both cheap and built-in
skullum··on ESA Space CyberSecurity Call for Ideas
> The Campaign is open for submissions from academia, research institutes and economic operators registered in any of the GSTP participating states: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada.

Not open for submissions from the USA in case anyone else from there was getting excited :(

skullum··on Tell HN: Hours left to protest ICANN's plan to uncap prices of legacy TLDs
I can't understand their reasoning. Why would they need an unlimited price cap on gTLDs? I can't imagine their expenses are that high and they're a non-profit so whats the incentive to increase gTLD pricing?
skullum··on Ask HN: Where did you donate money in 2018?
- wikipedia - eff - signal
skullum··on Ask HN: Where did you donate money in 2018?
how were you two connected? I'd love to participate in something like that.
skullum··on The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love
Reader mode works for me in Firefox. What browser are you using?
skullum··on Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
How can they be orthogonal when eventually you need open software of some kind to make a verification?

If the software I use to verify the closed source software is closed, then I will need another piece of software to verify that the verify-ing software is what it says it is and so on until we reach a piece of software that I can verify with my own eyes (or a friend has verified with their eyes).

We all eventually have to place our trust somewhere but we shouldn't have to agree with where you decided to trust.

skullum··on Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqcdn.com
Its also used to evade censorship...Lots of other ways to combat malware.
skullum··on Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqcdn.com
Afaik it hasn't been officially announced but they are shutting down support. :/
skullum··on Show HN: HN Domain Leaderboard
hnleaderboard insecure connection rip
skullum··on Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
Yes, quite profitable since 2014. Turns out it doesn't take many engineers to make a search engine that doesn't track you: https://www.quora.com/Will-DuckDuckGo-get-profitable-anytime...
skullum··on How JavaScript works: memory management and common memory leaks
if you program you have some concept of what memory is. I found the review of basic terms helpful in understanding the common JS leaks. YMMV
skullum··on Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer
OTOH it will make it way easier to auto-mute TV ads :p
skullum··on Progressive Web App: A New Experience for Mobile
Some people have pointed out that a lot of this doesn't work on iOS. I'd like to add that it also doesn't work for Firefox on Android. Instead you are re-directed to the App Store and get a pretty strange fallback page [1] if you don't use the App Store.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qr4e54ja8vnyoa8/Screenshot_2015-11...

skullum··on A user-friendly solution to piracy
Interesting idea, especially if the site comes with the support of actual Hollywood studios. Anyone have more information about this? Website is pretty sparse...
skullum··on Google Helpout is shutting down
I'll give it a shot. Its about a difference in expectations for success, specifically how Google's differ from its users.

So what obligation does Google have to keep the service alive? None. But the spirit and marketing of the site was to connect and create a community of people helping each other. And Google is going to destroy that community for (probably very reasonable) business reasons.

I guess I would like Google to give a warning that if a site doesn't reach some n DAUs then the service won't take off. It might give some people pause before putting a lot of work into something they ultimately don't have control over.

I feel users have a legitimate cause to be upset when a site is closed -- this was a real community that because Google couldn't make enough money off them, is gone.

skullum··on SF Gentrification/DropBox Community Service – Mission Playground Is Not for Sale
This is really sad. I'm not from the Mission but I used to play pickup here all the time. Never had any problems. I hope they all just shut up and played together.
skullum··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
Yeah this is exactly it! Thanks!
skullum··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
Venmo Receipt bill splitter: Mobile app that analyzes a picture of a receipt using tesseract or something similar and allows the user to charge Venmo friends for certain items on the receipt.

I would pay for this because then I wouldn't have to create a Venmo payment for each user.

skullum··on Reinventing the School
I agree. I think stuff like Khan academy https://www.khanacademy.org/ is the future.
skullum··on I'm leaving SendGrid
Will you still go to East Coast Hackathons (PennApps, HackPrinceton etc)? I enjoyed your demos and appreciated your help.