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New comment by toomim in "DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed"

toomim — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:53:01 +0000

Complex Message Transfer Protocol

GameBoy Emulator on E-Ink [video]

toomim — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:55:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbOK90aJEo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727311

Points: 5

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New comment by toomim in "Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers"

toomim — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:40:47 +0000

Good point. You don't even need to rename the upstream project. Just create a new project, and get the code there. Since it's open source, it will eventually make its way into the upstream libwacom as well.

New comment by toomim in "There are no instances in ATProto"

toomim — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:22:24 +0000

AT does have instances. They are just grouped differently.

In BlueSky, there is only one single "AppView" instance in the entire network. There is one instantiated "Firehose". Each user can instance his own "PDS".

In ActivityPub/Mastadon, the instances are "sender's server" vs "receiver's server."

The difference isn't that there aren't "instances" in AT proto. It's just that the instances are segmented differently.

New comment by toomim in "DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'"

toomim — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:59:54 +0000

Because tribalism. NAACP is lefty, and Musk is righty. So they fight.

New comment by toomim in "macOS needs its grid back"

toomim — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:29:15 +0000

I just installed it, but I can't get it to switch spaces, or show the grid overlay. It just beeps at me with the "you can't do that" beep. When I click "Add Desktop", it says "Could Not Add Desktop" and "GridLion could not read the current Spaces for this display."

This is a M1 macbook air. I really want to try this.

New comment by toomim in "Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web"

toomim — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:05:34 +0000

It's compiled to wasm for "performance", but...

1. WASM FFI has a big overhead when interacting with the javascript DOM.

2. Any DOM UI has a big overhead compared to a canvas.

I would be curious to see an actual performance evaluation. This looks like it was built for the wrong tradeoff otherwise...

New comment by toomim in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

toomim — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:58:07 +0000

How do you compare this to the effort in https://braid.org, which is also a decentralized web, which adds subscriptions that can operate in a tree (or DAG) of reactive state, each with its own validator and supporting different media types, and merging with merge-types?

Freenet seems to not interoperate with the existing WWW as much, while at the same time giving more specification on a specific routing and WASM validator. The existing WWW and Braid leave those decisions up to each particular host/authority to decide.

New comment by toomim in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

toomim — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:21:03 +0000

If you like darcs, try Pijul. It's darcs' spiritual successor, and quite performant and capable.

New comment by toomim in "Claude Design"

toomim — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:45:46 +0000

"An AI model is incapable of that."

"Good designers will reject this."

^ Famous last words.

New comment by toomim in "Claude Opus 4.7"

toomim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:20 +0000

It released in February 2026.

New comment by toomim in "The paper computer"

toomim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:22:54 +0000

How about hacking a remarkable e-ink tablet as an easy prototype? The remarkable is basically a "better paper" already.

New comment by toomim in "More on Version Control"

toomim — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:27:28 +0000

The git porcelain is functional, like a toilet.

New comment by toomim in "More on Version Control"

toomim — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:30:37 +0000

You can generically represent copies and renamed (aka "moves") in a CRDT, OT or CTM using a Portal: https://braid.org/meeting-62/portals

New comment by toomim in "The future of version control"

toomim — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:49:12 +0000

Pijul does both. It's a VCS, that is a CRDT, that preserves conflicts until a human resolves them.

Look it up: https://pijul.org

It also makes cherrypicking and rebasing wayyyy easier. You can actually add or remove any set of patches, at any time, on any peer. It's a dramatic model shift -- and is awesome.

New comment by toomim in "The future of version control"

toomim — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:44:02 +0000

CRDTs actually have a long history in version control.

  - The original 1977 version control system, SCCS, was a CRDT: https://braid.org/meeting-60/sccs-is-a-time-collapse

  - It called its data structure a 'weave"

  - Brahm's old project "Codeville" used a weave for version control

  - But then git blew up in popularity.

  - The project "DARCS" tried to make a robust "theory of patches," and eventually led to the development of Pijul

  - Pijul is a VCS that is a CRDT: https://pijul.org

New comment by toomim in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

toomim — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:21:14 +0000

It depends strongly on the city, and became more pronounced since covid.

Seattle is the worst. They call it the "seattle freeze." The San Francisco Bay Area became almost as bad in covid.

The south is still friendly. Austin is incredibly friendly with strangers. Miami has strong stranger vibe. NYC is still alive, too.

New comment by toomim in "Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]"

toomim — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:05:15 +0000

You can do this by (1) extending your CRDT into a CTM (see https://braid.org/time-machines) and then (2) use the antimatter algorithm (braid.org/antimatter), or something similar, for acknowledgements.

The antimatter algorithm allows peers to learn where the rest of the network has caught up to, without a central actor, or relying on consensus, across arbitrary P2P connection & disconnection events in the network. It even allows subnetworks, after a partition, to prune the history that they generate while partitioned, while still holding onto the necessary older history to reconnect with the other half of the partition.

New comment by toomim in "Vouch"

toomim — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:46:00 +0000

From just 14 hours ago!?

New comment by toomim in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

toomim — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:32:48 +0000

Faster and cheaper transactions that don't get locked up by the whims of a bureaucracy. They continue to operate on non-business days.