Hacker News: exabyte

New comment by exabyte in "Nostr is an inclusive communication commons"

exabyte — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:40:35 +0000

i imagine the ball would be deflated by the end ^^

New comment by exabyte in "Nostr is an inclusive communication commons"

exabyte — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:28:37 +0000

if the protocol were to change, clients and relays would have to also be willing to adopt the change, almost if not all of which are open-source and easily forked if a large population did not care to pull in those changes. Sure there's always someone guiding the direction, but I don't know how much better you can get than that.

New comment by exabyte in "Nostr is an inclusive communication commons"

exabyte — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:18:31 +0000

The discussion in this thread doesn't seem to be a level of quality I would expect from Hacker News. Many people attacking a protocol because they don't like how it's being used. It's sad, I was hoping to see something more constructive.

New comment by exabyte in "Nostr is an inclusive communication commons"

exabyte — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:10:57 +0000

Sure, Fifa is quite corrupt. I still like to play soccer with my friends and organized sports in my town. I don't refuse to play the game simply because of Fifa.

New comment by exabyte in "Nostr is an inclusive communication commons"

exabyte — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:08:38 +0000

NOSTR is a protocol so there's no entity for you to be bitter with... You can be annoyed at the people who were on there, but that's a different subject. There's probably a better analogy than this, but what you're describing would be like playing soccer and being annoyed that your teammates are furries. Go find another team to play with.

New comment by exabyte in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

exabyte — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:29:32 +0000

true... there are many better reasons to leave iOS than for a keyboard

New comment by exabyte in "Ghostty 1.0"

exabyte — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 04:01:17 +0000

Genuinely excited to see this land! Can't wait to try it out. This could be the last piece of the puzzle to a nearly flawless terminal experience

New comment by exabyte in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"

exabyte — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:48:15 +0000

https://youtu.be/bFM9HHB9JXI

I found this to be a really well-done video on using quantum physics to track location integrating upon acceleration

New comment by exabyte in "Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price"

exabyte — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:47:30 +0000

oops, not sure what happened, meant to say "To purchase goods and services with Bitcoin, you would use a layer 2 protocol such as Lightning..."

New comment by exabyte in "Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price"

exabyte — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:58:24 +0000

To purchase goods and services with Bitcoin such as Lightning where fees are negligible. It is indeed being used worldwide. E.g., you can purchase a wide array of things with Lightning at Bitrefill.com

New comment by exabyte in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

exabyte — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:19:15 +0000

One of the top comments has a link to a fork in case you haven't seen it

New comment by exabyte in "We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready"

exabyte — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:29:27 +0000

Cool, love the project and have had a server running for over a year now! Appreciate your guys' awesome work

New comment by exabyte in "We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready"

exabyte — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:04:16 +0000

Does anyone know if this will let you search your messages? This is one of the lacking features I've noticed on the Android version of Element is that you can neither bookmark messages nor search throughout the (encrypted?) chat, making it difficult to find messages you want to refer back to.

You can search on the Desktop app, but not sure why you can't on mobile...

New comment by exabyte in "Runtipi: Docker-based home server management"

exabyte — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:56:45 +0000

Umbrel, citadel, start9, MASH playbook.

Sorry, on mobile right now, but these are great alternative projects

New comment by exabyte in "BrainGPT turns thoughts into text"

exabyte — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:03:12 +0000

My intuition is at least in the beginning, but with enough individual data won't you have a model that can generalize pretty well over similar cultures? Maybe moreso for the sheep, just speculating... who knows!

New comment by exabyte in "Deno vs. Bun vs. Node.js: A feature comparison"

exabyte — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:11:18 +0000

So this is a good thing with regards to your parent comment? I.e., should we feel safe using Bun despite heavy VC investment?

New comment by exabyte in "No way in or out of Burning Man after storm"

exabyte — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:56:06 +0000

All hail the Mud Wizard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9l3bLAx4Ng

New comment by exabyte in "Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground"

exabyte — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 06:03:20 +0000

That keyboard looks incredibly hard to type with, no?

New comment by exabyte in "Microbially produced protein that is much sweeter than sugar"

exabyte — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:43:10 +0000

yeah good point! although maybe diversity in addiction helps? E.g., instead of being addicted strongly to one substance, you get the desired pleasure from 2 substances... don't know, just a thought

New comment by exabyte in "Microbially produced protein that is much sweeter than sugar"

exabyte — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 05:53:31 +0000

Yes but we've seen added sugar to be quite an addictive substance. People want to quit and it's difficult. You will feel the void of sugar. So if there's a healthy alternative that can reduce sugar. It is a highly valuable stepping stone where the success of it would be to make itself unnecessary (although still fun to use!) I think if it's natural and doesn't pose health risks that it sounds great.