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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/muji_tmpfs; my proof: https://keybase.io/muji_tmpfs/sigs/_sKVH2K4C9t3e4F2lnSf5ocsdtndQaKupyyXtQxM7Xw ]

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Comment · 3 months ago

You have completely misused and re-purposed this term. The common interpretation is that the software will continue to function without an internet connection which is not the case for your product.

You should choose different language.

Comment · 4 months ago

I think local-first password managers are the way forward. Big tech companies already have way too much power and having them mediate our most important data is a bad precedent to set.

I like that you made this P2P, I designed one that sits on top of sqlite and is 100% local first but is not P2P, take a look if you are interested in some prior art in this space:

https://saveoursecrets.com/

I decided to go with native apps all the way, Rust backend and Flutter front-end but kind of regret it now with how the Play/App stores are such a hassle to work with.

Comment · 8 months ago

I had an almost identical experience about 20 years ago too. I imagine they are still just as bad.

I think it is highly likely the wealth of the PayPal mafia founders is partly derived from this theft.

Comment · 8 months ago

You should look at the native messaging API, it does what you need for bi-ditectional communication between extension and local app.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

Comment · 8 months ago

We care about this porblem and are actively working on it, like the OP we also settled on shamirs secret sharing with a time lock mechanism.

However, there is still the issue of the service provider going offline or out of business which we don't have a solution for yet.

We have started with a good password manager and will be adding digital inheritance/social recovery soon! [0]

Take a look, thoughts and feedback welcome.

[0]: https://saveoursecrets.com

Comment · 11 months ago

This is a very cool experiment, even if the board doesn't end up being that practical (the antenna hack is going to be an ongoing issue I think) your documentation looks great at a glance!

Comment · 1 year ago

I am totally sold on local first apps. I think the recent enshitification of many services (which is also inevitable for the new wave of AI services) plus the inherent privacy risks with allowing third parties access to our personal data is no longer a trade-off I am willing to make.

I set up a little Pi NAS and have moved all my git repositories there thanks to gitea (I still mirror to github for community interaction) and am gradually migrating everything to be stored locally with encrypted cloud backups.

I've also been working on a local-first, open-source, eventually consistent password manager[0] (using last write wins) for the last 3 years as I can't think of anything more important that we should have control over.

It will be hard for local-first to become more commonplace as SaaS and cloud has become so entrenched but I will keep forging towards a future where we take back ownership of our personal data.

[0]: https://saveoursecrets.com/

Comment · 1 year ago

Agreed, more than time to revisit. I have stopped using npm entirely because of their cavalier attitude to security.

Code signing could and should have been implemented years ago. It's not a panacea but just part of defense in depth.

I can't trust npm whatsoever to do the right thing at this point.

Comment · 1 year ago

I disagree, I think most of these opinions I see about CSS are from people that haven't taken the time to learn it and particularly to understand the cascade.

Many years ago I did a very deep dive into the CSS specs as I was researching for a new implementation and it struck me as well designed for its purpose of separating style from the semantics of markup.

Comment · 1 year ago

Hey, I went to take a look at Obscura and I like the ideas but I can't find the source code.

You are making some bold claims but without the source I can't verify those claims.

Any plans to open-source it?

Comment · 1 year ago

This is nonsense. By your logic me and the majority of people using Signal are criminals.

As the other commenter mentioned please provide proof for these hyperbolic claims.

Comment · 1 year ago

I have used this as well as many of the other lower-level db drivers (which don't check your SQL at compile time) and I can say I much prefer the latter.

My issues with SQLx when I first tried it were that it was really awkward (nigh impossible) to abstract away the underlying DB backend, I expect those issues are fixed now but for some simple apps it's nice to be able to start with SQLite and then switch out with postgres.

Then I wanted to dockerize an SQLx app at one point and it all becomes a hassle as you need postgres running at compile time and trying to integrate with docker compose was a real chore.

Now I don't use SQLx at all. I recommend other libraries like sqlite[1] or postgres[2] instead.

SQLx is a nice idea but too cumbersome in my experience.

[1]: https://docs.rs/sqlite/latest/sqlite/ [2]: https://docs.rs/postgres/latest/postgres/

Comment · 1 year ago

Interesting as I was researching this recently and certainly not impressed with the quality of the Readability implementations in various languages. Although Readability.js was clearly the best, it being Javascript didn't suit my project.

In the end I found the python trifatura library to extract the best quality content with accurate meta data.

You might want to compare your implementation to trifatura to see if there is room for improvement.

Comment · 1 year ago

This is very interesting, are there any examples of interacting with LLMs? If the queries are compiled and loaded into the database ahead of time the pattern of asking an LLM to generate a query from a natural language request seems difficult because current LLMs aren't going to know your query language yet and compiling each query for each prompt would add unnecessary overhead.

Comment · 1 year ago

As somebody with a wooden house and the feeling to learn carpentry and spend less time programming I think this is brilliant. Combining minimal design with a hacker and DIY ethos is brilliant. Kudos, bookmarked; hope I can find the time to tinker with the designs.