=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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Picture this: IRC with images
end to end encrypted, stored only locally in txt and png files on each
participant's computers, and... that's it. that's literally it. the perfect
communication application.
everyone's "username" is just their public key and a custom label is assigned
to them locally
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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this is what I got so far for a messaging client that uses SSH
... so you need someone's public key in order to talk to them
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techbros really wanted to automate IRC so they didn't have to rely on the
community knowing and trusting them to remember the commands to make docker
containers for their react frameworks
and like... yeah I use chatGPT too, because that way I can get what I need
without bothering anyone (you aren't bothering people who get off on helping
others when you ask for help)
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someone should make an application that runs locally and keeps track of every
post, comment, picture, etc that you ever made on the internet. Then, if any
of them are ever deleted, it notifies you so you can stop using whatever
service mishandled the data that you trusted them to safeguard.
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I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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does anyone know of a software that lets me push a keybind and enter an input
configuration where after each keypress it inserts the [enter] key? I think
it'd be useful to design chat applications that could parse long strings of
text supplied bit-by-bit as a stream.
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With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person
might see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public
forum with their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where
they currently were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of
their comment, meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that
region.
Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their
words with whoever would listen.
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social media network that's just a private git repo that downloads all the
posts / comments / pictures / whatever from your friends and can be viewed in
a web-browser by navigating the filesystem? people "get" firefox
ideally where everyone mirrors the repo on their own systems, and each person
gets like 10gb or whatever of space.
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alternatively, when you initiate an SSH session it sends you a randomized
public key whose private key is the password that you need to login. By
decrypting the string of text it sent you and sending it back (plus the
password at the end or whatever) you can ensure secure authentication without
bothering with the passwordless keys which are wayyyyyy more trouble than
they're worth and lack the "something you know" authentication method.
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hi does anyone know of an app that non tech people could use that's like
"signal but organized like discord" with channels and threads and such?
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@user-1655
maybe the user could tell their client what fields to expect and how to
present them (like, a field called "memes" would be presented as a picture in
this panel, a field called "rants" would be passed to a word-cloud function
that extracts the most common 6+ letter words so you can tell at a glance what
the rant is about, this other field could be for calendar invites (plain text
of course, but interpreted by the calendar program) etc)
plus, if it's encrypted with PGP keys by default, there'd be few security
concerns. Unless your friend got hacked, or you got hacked, but, well... make
sure everything's sandboxed and don't do any remote code execution and you're
good, right?
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@user-1037
Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
(i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible
to not hurt anyone)
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@user-1564
I love the concept of this! Maybe if HTTP is too complex, you could try
another simpler server? I don't know the complexity of the programs I use
every day, but I'm sure there's one that's very simple. Even just a simple IRC
style chat server that just... sends text from person A to person B depending
on their username (like a glorified Router or Switch)
Reminded of this video tbh...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY
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Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
they know how to use it
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setting up an SSH server is like a rite of passage for Linux administrators
(notice I didn't say users, you can't use linux, only administer it)
... I'm having trouble with my rites >.>
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LLM training data that's been encrypted in such a way that it preserves
symantic meaning, while also allowing for secrecy and unique customization
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Here's an open source replacement idea for the "friendfinder" functionality in
Facebook:
Everyone has a secret code, and a public code. The secret code is kept locked
away on their hard drive and is probably automatically encrypted itself. The
public code is known by Facebook (or whichever mutual hosting platform people
want to use) but in order to connect with someone you send them a public
friend request and then they'll send you a second, auto-generated public code
which is their real username. Essentially obfuscating the connection process
by using a public middleman as an intermediary before exchanging more secure
connection protocols. Like giving someone your phone number that you met in a
bar, or your telegram handle if you met online.
Then, from that point on, every message includes a hidden portion at the
bottom which is the new address you should send the next message to. This is
all TCP style btw, not UDP.
These "addresses" could literally be ipv6 addresses and port numbers. There's
enough such that every message sent for the next thousand years would fit in
the allowable address space.
Why do we even need middle-men again for messaging applications? Oh right
because users are too dumb to install said application. Well... Tough shit,
stop being lazy. Computers are easy if you have a good teacher.
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"but... why?"
portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
radial-style keyboard)
[this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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@user-192
I feel like SSH keys to log into every website should be a standard
or something similar
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BRB, if you want to talk to yourselfs, I recommend opening a port in your
router and exchanging HTTP packets that create messages on each other's
computers. Can be done in a couple hundred lines of C code that can be 90%
premade or auto-generated. Then, once it's made, you don't have to think about
it again because it's so simple. It's not trying to scale, it's just...
designed for a small, focused, human oriented mindset.\
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I think all software should have config files
or accept as many command line arguments as necessary to achieve all the
functionality of a config file without requiring a standardized setup
or accept a config file as a command line argument, to allow for multiple
different implementations
or whatever you can throw together in your spare time because software is
either open source or it hates you.
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