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Comment · 5 months ago
This is great. I’ve been thinking to set up an HF radio rig to talk to friends and strangers that are real people. Maybe the LLMs flood the internet with enough trash and we go back to more voice comms
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks! I made this change.
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Why does Picard always have to specify temperature preference for his Earl Gray tea? Shouldn’t the super smart AI have learned his preference by now?
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I don’t disagree. RSS has most of these features and was pretty popular 15 years ago.

My point is that key pairs and signed posts is a good primitive if things are to be re homed and retransmitted.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think nostr is better in this regard:

  - The "account" primitive is just a key pair, but you can layer more auth requirements on top of that.
  - All messages are always signed by your key pair end to end.
  - Server admin can't read your DMs or edit your messages.  The worst they can do is see public posts or delete events.
  - You can move your messages between servers with via piped CLI commands.
e.g.:

    echo '["REQ", "my_mirror_request_id", {"pubkey": "mynpubkey"}]' | websocat -n wss://source | jq -c '[.[0,2]]' -M | websocat wss://destination

Anyway I know there are reservations, but ultimately I think it got many of the "account" things right as compared to other fedeverse projects where the "webmaster" is still a big deal. Ideally the server side of things would be unimportant, the clients can offer compelling experiences, and people can create their own internet cul-de-sacs in a more chill way...

Maybe nostr is not "the thing" but it's better than the mastodon paradigm.

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The interleaving of modern day ads really kills the fun here. And everywhere I suppose.
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Similar question: how does it compare to using ClickHouse with http interface (which supports a number of output formats including Arrow and ArrowStream).

It does take a few more commands to start a ClickHouse server, create table and load data in... a friendly loader program could probably get pretty close to Roapi interface.

Both Roapi and Datafusion look very cool! Excited to learn about them.

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