demesisx

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[–] demesisx@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Perhaps I’m the one who’s mistaken.

I came to this conclusion because: From my initial cursory investigation of NOSTR, in all of the instructions to get started I found, the first step was to create a lightning wallet. Maybe I’m incorrect but, from what I understood, BTC’s authentication is one and the same with NOSTR’s authentication.

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Edited. Good call.

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

If you want to have a go at using that NOSTR tech but stripping the lightning wallet thing out for another (less BTC maximalist but equally or even more secure) form of authentication, I’d be very interested. I’m obviously not going to roll my own auth from scratch….but as I see it, tying BTC to it could prevent MANY people from giving an otherwise very promising tech a chance. Besides, there are already far more secure cryptographic elliptical curves in use by other cryptocurrencies that NOSTR conspicuously passed over in favor of BTC’s.

I probably don’t have the resources nor experience to do it myself but I’d love for this tech to exist.

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If you find that the fediverse isnt the right tech for this kind of thing, have a look at NOSTR. I recently learned about it in the context of my hypothetical Lemmy fork. For what I am trying to do with it (decentralized retail inventory), NOSTR was much better suited than Lemmy. My only issue with it is that it ties bitcoin lightning walllets into its authentication mechanism (a dealbreaker for me at least). My future uses for it would be FAR different than yours but it also seems more well-suited to activism as well.

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got you, fam(ily). It has a real smooth, simple ring to it. ;)

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 143 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Temu: contribute to the irreversible heat death of your own planet just to save some money on useless, piss poor quality trinkets created out of cancer-causing, hazardous materials using slave labor coupled with unfair market practices that are then shipped thousands of miles over the oceans using the world's worst polluting container ships.... like a billionaire.

That should be their slogan.

edit: added slave labor, unfair market practices edit: added hazmat

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I'm finding the signal to noise ratio is higher here. Much higher quality content at the moment. I even see some bots that post the entire article rather than just linking it. I hope that catches on.

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

In my experience, Voyager is still pretty buggy too. For example, try editing a post then go to do anything else after the fact. I always have to restart the whole app when I go to edit a post I made. They have a ton more features than anyone else but there are still tons of bugs.

react native is another layer and lags behind the dev of swift by at least a year. This is a huge problem for new api's like SwiftUI, in my experience. Ps. Native is ALWAYS better than an approximation of native.

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes. Case in point: there are at least 10 Lemmy iOS apps. I'll give you ten guesses on which ones are actually native Swift...

There are a quite a few Android apps in progress too. How many are written in Kotlin?

[–] demesisx@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

To paraphrase Wadler: universal concepts like lambda calculus aren’t invented, they are discovered.

 

I was looking into the prospect of deploying an instance of Lemmy myself. Being an ULTRA nix fanboi (and a Docker-hater), I was immediately struck by how much the process still depends on (and, IMO, is being held hostage by) Docker containers.

Can we (or at least someone more capable and with more free time than I) help the Lemmy community by harnessing the power of nix and flakes to create declarative, reproducible Lemmy scratch-built instance deployment?

I suspect it would be exceptionally easy for some of you out there. If you are a flakes power-user, just think of how much this could help the community (and perhaps awaken a few people to the power of flakes).

ps. if this already exists, please point me in the right direction.

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