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I'm a programmer, and know very little about art (sadly).

The picture in the background here is very beautiful. Someone who makes that kind of thing, how do they do it? How do they chose colours, and how would they go about making the shapes actually appear on a screen?

What happens if someone built a service based on it? Should they never trust browsers keeping alive even the shitty (in comparison to free and standardised HTTP/2) features? What's great about the web is that now 20 year old services still are working in the latest runtimes (browsers).

Reading this, and other recent events, gives me the realisation that we need the successor of UNIX. Nowadays, everything runs UNIX. My iPhone, Android, my Mac, my Ubuntu laptop, my Debian or BSD server, even my e-reader runs some Linux.

On recent systems like iOS & Android applications run pretty isolated. You can't read and write the whole file system (afaik), and you need to have the user tap "yes" to use many system API's (like microphone, camera, etc).

Using UNIX for a desktop computer, you don't really utilise the user system. Everything I run is either as my own user, or as root (when adding/remove packages or doing system updates). Otherwise, it's a singe user system. So any program I run can read all permanent data stored by other programs in my home directory. In effect, all programs have 100% access (except for changing system settings, but why would they care when there is only one user to own?

When I encrypt my drive, I encrypt it all but also unlock it all when logging in. It's inherent to the system that my whole home dir is open when using (except for things I encrypt manually, like GPG mail or other user land things). Defaults matter. That's why Ross's documents were readable to the American government.

I think we need a new OS to take over after UNIX. One that is built up of sandboxed modules. Where each program gets it's own file system, where they can do whatever they want. That file system is, if I wish, encrypted until I chose to open it. It could be encrypted with a public key system, so I can have many FS's opened with one key, or derive keys from a master key.

These small systems could even be virtual machines, I can't say anything about the eventual overhead that would bring.

In short, UNIX is bad because the file system is bound to my user, and anything my user runs has 100% access to everything else I run. The user system is nice, but not practical. If it was, Ross would be a free man.

They say it's "React-like", but afaik it doesn't do the cool things with a virtual dom? What's cool about React is how it doesn't write to the DOM all the time, only when there is a diff. Does Riot do that? If not, thanks but it doesn't compete with React.

Also, does it render to string?

What mining does in Bitcoin is to generate consensus, so that everyone agrees on the financial history, which === keeping track of what public key owns what amount.

The actual hashes are pretty worthless, but that's the service mining is providing. Personally, I think it's kinda worthless to build a bunch of skyscraper on perfectly fine land just to fill with people working for some bank, just to keep my $ secure. For my intents and purposes, having a bank company (with employees, offices, leaders who get compensated like kings, etc) is a bigger waste that I can't wait to get rid of. Same with my VISA debit card, employing thousands just to let me access my money. Also charging a 3% fee on every transaction.

If only there was some kind of network of computer programs that could replace those people...

Well, Riot is pretty old... This is a major upgrade, and as such font-page-worthy I'd say.

Wouldn't Paypal be the first proprietary mover of sending money over IP, and Bitcoin being like SMTP/POP/IMAP/whatever? Or maybe I misunderstood something

A torrent index that I can view thru an emacs mode would be the most useful. If the data format is just a text tile with each torrent taking one line would be amazing. It would be long, but it's just text so memory consumption is negligible. Kinda same style as Org-mode, I imagine.

You could just search like usual, open a magnet with Return, click 'c' for it's comments. When opening the file, the mode would check for seeders/leechers and display it inline.

Does archive.org let you download dumps of all of their data? If they make a weekly torrent containing their whole data-set it would be easily immortalised...

Congrats on the kid & move to 中目黒！

I thought the same, and made a Cordova/Angular app. It was a mistake. Don't go there! It's easier to learn the native languages/sdk than to debug that mess.

Also, cocoa touch is nicer than any web framework you've ever used.

I wouldn't call Xmonad a window manager, but just a thin wrapper around X11 (C?) that happens to be written in haskell.