u/Retrofire - 92 Archived Ruqqus Posts in g/technology

Comment on: Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $30 billion

I would prefer foundaries stay independent

3 16 Jul 2021 18:35 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet

I was just grumpy earlier. I guess it's rather demoralizing and defeatist is all, we need to start building, organizing, not wallowing in it so much

2 09 Jul 2021 06:20 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet

I'm so fucking tired of reading shit like this

2 08 Jul 2021 18:29 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Conservative social networks like Gettr and Parler keep making the same mistake

Stating the obligatory, I believe that the vision of a forum predicated on freedom of speech is not utopian. It's my strongly held belief it's never been executed properly. I refuse to participate in any website with content moderation beyond what is enforced by law. The websites which fell were either destroyed by the mob/oligarchs or the leadership were incompetent and inspired by money. The foundation of this idea couldn't be stronger. There are literally *millions* of Americans desperate for a competent free-speech platform. If the platform prevails with principled leadership it would be a juggernaut rivaling big platforms. Parler's initial skyward ascent proves it. Not one owned by corporate heads like Rumble, not one engineered to enforce a zealots ideological views like Gab, not one which brazenly defeats the purpose of the website like Odysee, or some half-assed knockoff like SaidIt, and honestly, not one that ignores its userbase over and over like Ruqqus.

3 07 Jul 2021 21:14 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: President Donald Trump has joined YouTube competitor Rumble

i wish that i was more optimistic... i hate being such a doomer but the situation is more dire than anyone suspects. i think if there's a single fight worth engaging in wholly it's preserving the first amendment. as soon as the supreme court grants an exception to hate speech the internet dies like nothing ever existed in the first place, it would be instantaneous, intelligence agencies in America already surveil almost everything, they probably have a couple files on me already and I'm still pretty young

1 27 Jun 2021 21:23 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: President Donald Trump has joined YouTube competitor Rumble

Another enemy... *muhahaha*

2 27 Jun 2021 02:56 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: President Donald Trump has joined YouTube competitor Rumble

Their own DNS servers? What about the registry they bought the domain from, which can also revoke the domain license? How about Google, which can blacklist them from almost the entire world population online? I hope they also have their own payment processors too. Hopefully ISP's like Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T also like Rumble. And maybe it would be a wise idea to form their own government to avoid speech regulations online, which are apparently imminent.

7 27 Jun 2021 02:48 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Microsoft unveils new Microsoft Store for Windows 11, lets developers keep all the money

2 9 comments 25 Jun 2021 13:42 u/Retrofire (..) in g/technology

Comment on: “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

We're talking a ridiculous amount of money tho

2 25 Jun 2021 12:57 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

Wow what the actual fuck this is the shit that gives me nightmares ![](https://i.imgur.com/yZdh5Vy_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium) poor bastard, omg... everything is compromised now. Just yesterday my old Imgur account was randomly accessed. Make a backup of your backup, folks

7 25 Jun 2021 12:56 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: This Nuclear-Powered Superyacht Is Longer Than the Titanic and Costs $700 Million | Architectural Digest

ah yes, the reason this private company is developing a lavish superyacht is for "science". uh huh. Is that why VIP guests will be billed $3 million for entry? what a joke. i resent everything about this concept.

7 21 Jun 2021 08:11 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Cybereason: 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

this is something that occurred to me. like, wtf is the point in paying a cyberansom? they still possess the source code, with almost certainty. they can fuck you over 50 hours from now, or 50 years from now i think the solution to this is to not get hacked in the first place. i wonder how hackers reassure their victims that they will actually destroy the code... they need to make money somehow so they must have some method

3 18 Jun 2021 21:03 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: I shouldn't be surprised at how bad Gmail and Youtube are getting but I am

this was the headline on Reuters a few days ago ![](https://i.imgur.com/J56c6hu.png) a year ago i would have agreed, Reuters used to swing slightly left. After the election picked up they started very quickly changing their editorial stances, and the news quickly became "news". The Independent to me is pretty obviously far-left so i guess we disagree there. i would say i know little about the BBC's reporting so i can't really comment on that, but i've seen some things from them recently that make me wonder

3 17 Jun 2021 07:25 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: I shouldn't be surprised at how bad Gmail and Youtube are getting but I am

on my shitty AT&T fliphone today I got I decided to check out the "news" tab. as you would expect, literally every single source was far-left. Reuters, The Independent, The Guardian, NY Times, Politico, USA Today, BBC, and of course dominated by CNN. These are literally the *only* news outlets they decided to include. is this what kids think "news" is now? literally only one extremely polarizing, heavily editorialized perspective. being presented as "truth" and "fact". so much for critical thinking

4 16 Jun 2021 19:44 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: I am fully convinced now that computing is just modern magic.

oh boy another red pill!

4 10 Jun 2021 18:48 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: I am fully convinced now that computing is just modern magic.

Information Age technology is just harder to understand, imo. A computer can be programmed to do... literally anything. And there is no mechanical components involved. How did the first safety bicycle operate? You could observe the parts moving. The first aircraft mimicked a bird. With computerized systems everything is obscured. Nothing can really be understood by simply using the software. You have to consciously seek out external sources to understand it. I guess a good demonstration of this is shit like Instagram, you have teenage girls that use it their entire lives without understanding what resolution is, what the code that runs it looks like, or even where they are actually *getting* that information from. i think in some ways it's like what mechanics is to me, something completely inexplicable and intricate to the point of being alien i'm a fuckin' wizard!

6 10 Jun 2021 18:47 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: French regulator fines Google €220 million for abusing dominant market position

the more i read, the more i realize that it's been going downhill for a very long time. the oligarchy has its roots back to the 70's. the bureaucracy and ineptitude dates back decades. the deprival of the constitution in policy making dates back to the country's inception. that being said... the last few years have been illuminating for Americans. there is no American within this country, regardless of their political affiliation, that believes everything is OK

3 08 Jun 2021 04:42 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Where Do I Start to Learn?

this is actually really interesting because I've been learning web development and without following any instruction whatsoever or ever seeing this guide I've been following it. I spent the last month learning internet infrastructure, starting to learn HTML/CSS very soon. thx for the link for real

4 07 Jun 2021 06:12 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Google 'diversity head' who posted anti-Semitic comments staying with company

This is Google we're talking about. They are going to fucking lynch him at the Googleplex

3 04 Jun 2021 00:48 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Wikipedia Endowment: The Site Is Rich. Why Is It Fundraising?

Wikipedia is beyond corrupt.

9 31 May 2021 06:40 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Google is releasing Fuchsia OS starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub

IT LIVES!

2 25 May 2021 17:46 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Twitch allowing sorting streamers by gender/race/nationality

remember when Twitch was just a bunch of youngsters screwing around playing video games for fun?

3 23 May 2021 21:06 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Report finds 82% of FCC net neutrality comments were fake - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech

ok... but without some kind of regulation IP's could effortlessly discriminate against broadband traffic. for example, if Comcast sees that you were on https://ruqqus.com/ they could throttle your internet connection. like, seriously, without this government regulation anything you construed as dystopian before would become 100x worse. the only thing stopping these companies from literally removing us from the public internet is net neutrality law. i agree that it concerns me when companies like Google support literally ANYTHING, as they obviously have a vested financial interest, but I believe as advocates of the first amendment, we probably have a personal one

2 07 May 2021 19:33 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Can a top-level domain (gTLD) registry revoke access to a registrant?

3 0 comments 27 Apr 2021 06:14 u/Retrofire (self.technology) in g/technology

Comment on: Free Speech Flag

![](https://i.ruqqus.com/comment/vrpx/_qMpJdK_gtU)

4 13 Apr 2021 04:12 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Introduction to the Encyclosphere

i have very little faith in this initiative tbh

1 08 Apr 2021 20:16 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Intel went full on cringe.

This is exactly why people responded poorly to the Battlefield 6 reveal. Leave our hobby alone. We don't want a political video game medium, it's an opportunity to have fun.

2 28 Mar 2021 19:16 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Free speech friendly video sharing platforms

Thanks for linking gonna upload to all these babies

1 26 Mar 2021 19:37 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Microsoft to buy Discord for about $10 Billion

Corporate America consolidates *more* power, tonight at 11, DOOOOOOM

2 23 Mar 2021 17:20 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Google’s privacy push draws U.S. antitrust scrutiny

Seems like the feds are becoming more hawkish finally. but then again, the corporations own our government, so...

2 19 Mar 2021 18:44 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Google’s privacy push draws U.S. antitrust scrutiny 📦

9 2 comments 19 Mar 2021 00:35 u/Retrofire (..) in g/technology

Comment on: Is there a way to dynamically adjust a url, using some kind of network-gate?

ohhh very cool :) thank you kind sir edit: oh noes. it looks like they need to whitelist domains before using them. and my website domain isn't set up yet, nor is it whitelisted :I but it would work well for most stuff prob edit 2: ok for some reason I created another account and it's working now v( ‘.’ )v edit 3: but it does push you to enroll in a subscription with enough redirects

2 11 Mar 2021 01:44 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Is there a way to dynamically adjust a url, using some kind of network-gate?

thx for helping :) hmmmm very interesting. ya I suppose I could set something like this up myself, using my own domain... so basically how this would work (web-dev retarded atm) is it would ping your DNS, then access your server, request the new url, and then it would send that new url to the users' browser, right?

1 10 Mar 2021 18:15 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Is there a way to dynamically adjust a url, using some kind of network-gate? 📦

10 4 comments 10 Mar 2021 17:56 u/Retrofire (self.technology) in g/technology

Comment on: Andrew Torba from Gab addresses today's apparent hack and downtime

Alright, thanks for explaining. That's extraordinarily confusing 😊

1 09 Mar 2021 10:28 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Andrew Torba from Gab addresses today's apparent hack and downtime

I appreciate your replies. But you keep dodging my main point!! >Let's operate on the "fuck the compass" premise. How can you say that, while simultaneously describing this demographic as the left (denoting the left of the political compass)? It just seems contradictory and like an oversimplification to me, which you appear to detest.

1 09 Mar 2021 10:01 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Andrew Torba from Gab addresses today's apparent hack and downtime

Let's operate on the "fuck the compass" premise. How can you say that, while simultaneously describing this demographic as the *left* (denoting the left of the political compass)? It just seems contradictory and like an oversimplification to me, which you appear to detest. Going along with the premise of liberalism being disconnected from the left-right axiom, you say it pertains predominantly to the concept of *liberty*. Wouldn't that more aptly describe libertarians? I'll be sure to watch the video, thx!!

1 09 Mar 2021 09:48 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Andrew Torba from Gab addresses today's apparent hack and downtime

OK here's my confusion. "Left" theoretically denotes individuals who reside to the *left* on the political compass. You are disregarding the political compass while simultaneously using it. That's a diverse group of individuals. How can you categorize ALL of them as believing in the war on intolerance? Alongside that, you say "leftists" hate classical liberals. But technically I'm a leftist, do I hate myself? *Maybe* But I don't subscribe to their ideology, despite residing within this demographic you describe as "the left" I've always been under the impression that liberalism was inherently to the *left*, too. But taking a step back I would agree that the political compass is useless garbage. Butttt we still use it

1 09 Mar 2021 08:53 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Andrew Torba from Gab addresses today's apparent hack and downtime

i find this methodology very confusing. Isn't "left" just a massive net to describe everyone that falls to the *left* of the arbitrary political compass? How can you define the word "left" as a unique ideology? Isn't liberalism by nature residing to the *left*? I don't get it lol

1 09 Mar 2021 08:17 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Andrew Torba from Gab addresses today's apparent hack and downtime

idk why people just think it's "the right" being crushed here. I'm liberal, there are tons of liberals on Ruqqus. The information war is on any dissent. That includes an increasing number of left-leaning people like me. tbh I'm still confused about how to even describe myself. I'm like half-way to the left, but very far-down (so moreso libertarian I guess?). Point is the opposition to this shit is fairly significant and diverse.

6 09 Mar 2021 08:07 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Gab got hacked again

I was just doing a deep-dive into Hugo, very cool. I guess you're right I don't necessarily need a dynamic website.. at all! Thanks for your advice! Going down the hugo path would probably be easier but I kind of want to learn HTML/CSS tbh. I also want to construct it from the ground up. That being said, something like Apache would be incredibly cost effective for loading a basic static page, which is my intention.

2 09 Mar 2021 07:36 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Gab got hacked again

Any suggestions for developing a small website? Would you suggest writing new websites in Rust? It just seems like these attacks are so sophisticated, and overwhelming.

7 08 Mar 2021 21:36 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Gab got hacked again

true. but it's like the entire world is weighing down on new start-ups. How can any website flourish under these circumstances; In this environment? Torba and Gab are struggling and they are relatively speaking massive. What if they came after Ruqqus? Or hell, Ruqqus a year ago when it was a wee baby? Especially with the massive campaign to deplatform Gab. Banks cutting off their services, PayPal refusing to host them, targeted communities on Reddit (/r/GabWatch) meticulously acting to destroy it. "Build your own platforms" it ain't right. Gab's not struggling because of security issues, Gab is struggling because an absolutely massive mob are trying to eliminate it. If they went after any website with the veracity they go after websites like Gab they would fall too. I'm developing my own website and this terrifies me. I'm not a fucking security consultant. I don't have tons of resources to invest into one either. I just want to speak

39 08 Mar 2021 21:13 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Gab got hacked again

These fucking bastards are relentless. They won't just silence you on their own platforms, they will systematically attack new platforms composed of users that just want to get away from them

22 08 Mar 2021 21:03 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Is Opera the best web browser so far for Linux OS users?

The crypto idea is fucking genius really. That might be the future of advertising. What better way to encourage someone to watch an ad then to give them a tiny cut of the revenue? Whoever came up with that should get a cookie 🍪 maybe a promotion too

1 06 Mar 2021 20:57 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Is Opera the best web browser so far for Linux OS users?

Brave is legendary... Just switched over from the Dissenter fork and it's extraordinary. I actually think it's just straight-up superior to Chrome. It's faster, way more features, more customizability, privacy, no search filtering, etc.

5 06 Mar 2021 07:20 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: BREAKING: Gab's Torba Looking Into 'Buying Our Own Bank' After 4th Bank Ban In 4 Weeks

Something just occurred to me... What if this authoritarian movement happened like 5-10 years ago, as opposed to now.... Wow, we would have been *fucked*. I mean, we still are kind of fucked. But not *totally* fucked. Technologies like IPFS, crypto, alt-tech platforms like Ruqqus & Gab, none of these existed... *Shivers*

8 06 Mar 2021 07:19 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: BREAKING: Gab's Torba Looking Into 'Buying Our Own Bank' After 4th Bank Ban In 4 Weeks

"Just build your own bank" gab: OK! :)

17 06 Mar 2021 06:30 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software

Does this scare anyone else? Not too long ago Fancy Bear (Russian Federation) cracked our entire government communication system open like an egg, then another (far more powerful) state-actor, China, compromises it AGAIN. This is an act of war. Imagine the information that was stolen... How it will be used against the U.S for decades to come.

1 05 Mar 2021 22:09 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: A Private Alternative to Google Maps: DuckDuckGo Maps

Anything to get away from this monster.

1 05 Mar 2021 17:49 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation

I thought they were actually buckling under pressure. hell no, they are accelerating. so they want to centralize all identifiable data on their own servers. this way they can offer a new service to companies looking to pitch personalized ads, they say "oh, well it's better for privacy" cause only they have access, but somehow this act is both anti-competitive while *also* fucking over the customer. Do we really need Google to have even *more* power? This is like some dystopian level shit right here. So in theory this would make Google basically the information broker of the world, only they would have access to it.

1 04 Mar 2021 23:17 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Google won't use other web tracking tools after phasing out cookies

oh fuck, that's terrifying... oh so they want to centralize even more power in Google? jfc

1 04 Mar 2021 23:14 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Google won't use other web tracking tools after phasing out cookies

with aircraft?

1 03 Mar 2021 19:39 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Brave Is Launching a Search Engine to Take On Google

I just went through their entire website and I'm convinced they are the future of browsing now. Especially with the IPFS integration and cypto + stand against censorship.. Apparently the old Mozilla CEO left Mozilla to found Brave, which makes a lot of sense in retrospect.

3 03 Mar 2021 18:13 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Brave Is Launching a Search Engine to Take On Google

I'm genuinely excited about this.

4 03 Mar 2021 16:40 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Google won't use other web tracking tools after phasing out cookies 📦

6 6 comments 03 Mar 2021 16:38 u/Retrofire (..) in g/technology

Comment on: Gab Faces Financial Blacklisting, Says Efforts to Build 'Free Speech Internet' Won't Be Stopped

What makes Ruqqus unique has nothing to do with its politics... It's the ability to speak. It's such a foreign concept to us now but Ruqqus simulates being in a more primordial environment. For example, being in a forest in 20,000 B.C. There was no centralized authority, no social constraints. It's not like something has been *added*. It's that nothing exists in the first place to regulate conversation. There is no artificial intelligence like bots, just a conversation.. So if you want to call me a faggot you can. And I can call you a cunt back. Big Brother does not exist, nor do the stewards care. I'm pretty down with that. Only way it could get better is if no stewards were necessary in the first place. But such technologies require a creator, unlike life. I'm fairly left-leaning and I've donated a considerable amount. I don't know why I felt compelled to write this comment but w/e

5 03 Mar 2021 08:04 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Amazon ditches app logo after Hitler comparison

What was the internal environment like? I'm curious. What year?? i'd imagine it's pretty hostile right about now

3 02 Mar 2021 21:04 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Reddit removed privacy OptOut settings "to reduce confusion"

I wonder if the response would've been better if they just straight up said "fuck you, no privacy"? Look at this absolute legend in the comments >I don't need Reddit this much. Fuck You This will be my last transmission.

10 25 Feb 2021 19:50 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Fuck you.

I'm degoogling today. I literally marked it on my calendar Make sure to [backup](https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1) all your data though. Google deletes inactive accounts permanently

10 24 Feb 2021 18:23 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Facebook unfriends Australia: news sites go dark in content row | Reuters

have to agree :/ as much as it pains me to agree with anything big tech does. It's quite a concerning exercise of how much power they have though, even over governments

2 18 Feb 2021 11:30 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Facebook unfriends Australia: news sites go dark in content row | Reuters 📦

6 6 comments 18 Feb 2021 09:54 u/Retrofire (..) in g/technology

Comment on: Has anybody used Dissenter browser? It's based on Brave.

I've been using it for the last few weeks. I love it, faster than Chrome too. You can import your bookmarks!

1 12 Feb 2021 19:49 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Microsoft Edge least private browser

Mozilla is no better than any of the others

5 10 Feb 2021 21:16 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: A German man is keeping $60 million in bitcoin from police by never revealing his password

iirc with encrypted services they basically order the defense to disclose the password. If they don't, progressively larger punishments by the court.

2 06 Feb 2021 22:00 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: After a wild week of stocks, you can’t stream most of the biggest Wall Street films

Why not just rent them directly, then? It's not like you get some fancy luxuries on streaming services... like Steam for example. It's just the same thing. Middle man isn't really necessary.. I'm wondering maybe the film industry will start proliferating these films on their own platforms and/or renting services directly. Probably more money for the creators, so lower prices for customers, less frustration, etc. Sorta like Amazon, everyone appreciates an all-consuming platform that hosts everything like the Netflix of 2010. It just never lasts.

2 02 Feb 2021 13:05 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Twitter Employees Reportedly Donated 64 Times More Cash to Biden's Campaign Than to Trump's

Sputnik News is owned by Russian state media. It's sole intention is to sow discord among the American population. I wouldn't give them any views

2 01 Feb 2021 04:24 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

*nice*

4 25 Jan 2021 07:39 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

Their ultimate demise will be their complacency.

13 25 Jan 2021 05:00 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: TikTok Is Watching You – Even If You Don't Have an Account

It's worth mentioning that much (if not all) of this data actually needs to be collected regardless. For example, screen resolution is necessary for scaling, IP address for connecting, network provider for broadband, inputs for navigation. The only thing these social media apps really do ominously is cache all of that data. Collecting it is par for the course of using software

1 24 Jan 2021 04:52 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Biden looks to former Obama staffers, Amazon and Google advisers, for top antitrust roles

I really hope this is wrong.

1 22 Jan 2021 05:23 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia

Did this multinational corporation just threaten the Australian government? We must really be living in the end times I don't know how I feel about the proposed publication tax, but the precedent this sets is concerning

16 22 Jan 2021 03:11 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web

I tried posting it twice and no one up voted :/ I'm starting my own projects soon

2 20 Jan 2021 20:18 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web

Have any suggestions on where to learn more about this stuff? I've been reading deep into internet infrastructure over the last week.

2 20 Jan 2021 07:11 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media

yes, it does unfortunately.

1 20 Jan 2021 04:15 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media 📦

24 7 comments 19 Jan 2021 17:42 u/Retrofire (..) in g/technology

Comment on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web

I think that right now IPFS has a very specific usage scenario. Mostly for shared databases or blogs for specific communities. But don't you see the potential of perpetuity with IPFS? Since websites are hosted among countless sources, it makes them way more resistant to data loss. That's something that I found really alluring, as someone who cares about history.

3 19 Jan 2021 17:30 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web

ohhhh spicy ;) that's awesome

1 19 Jan 2021 17:26 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web

I wish I knew enough to answer that question. I just learned about IPFS a few days ago lol. Just from what I've read, IPFS is way more ambitious than being a peer-to-peer discussion platform. IPFS is supposed to replace (or complement) HTTP. It's designed to be more efficient, since it distributes packets from countless different locations simultaneously. It's decentralized for the explicit purpose of contravening government control. IPFS from my shallow understanding is supposed to revolutionize the internet.

6 19 Jan 2021 05:01 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web

I think these technologies are the bedrock of "doing" instead of "thinking" about recent authoritarian trends. The sooner platforms exist that use this technology, the sooner we will be out of this storm. I'm really excited about starting to use it! Is it true that IPFS is mostly designed for static webpages? I found that kind of concerning because we all know the websites that really *need* to be decentralized are all dynamic (like social media)

7 19 Jan 2021 03:42 u/Retrofire in g/technology

HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web 📦

24 16 comments 19 Jan 2021 03:01 u/Retrofire (..) in g/technology

Comment on: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries

Just started using DuckDuckGo + Dissenter. Name a more perfect duo. Being able to navigate the internet without search filtering and data harvesting is amazzzing. Also way faster because of all the bs being blocked

9 14 Jan 2021 18:53 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Intel Is Dying, And We Can’t Save It

Seeing this article's title kind of shocked me. Just a few years ago we were discussing how they have an absolute monopoly over the semiconductor industry, and they did... You have to imagine those thousands of computer engineers at Intel are doing *something* but we certainly haven't seen it

4 14 Jan 2021 06:17 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Facebook is buying ads for its Messenger app to display when users search for "Signal"

Hopefully not for much longer

6 11 Jan 2021 01:24 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Facebook is buying ads for its Messenger app to display when users search for "Signal"

Big tech are feeling a little uneasy recently, huh?

9 11 Jan 2021 01:10 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Microsoft planning for significant UI changes to Windows - The Verge

Office has such a sexy interface. First time I saw it I was genuinely surprised. I just assumed they would screw it up somehow haha but UI design for me has been kind of hit-or-miss recently imo. everyone keeps copying Google's material design fad, which I'm not very fond of i hope Microsoft treads their own ground

5 05 Jan 2021 05:26 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Microsoft planning for significant UI changes to Windows - The Verge

I'm kind of cynical. Google's "UI improvements" literally made me stop using many of their products, I hated them that much. Hopefully Microsoft doesn't butcher my PC's operating system. Because I actually like the aesthetic design of Windows 10 already.

4 05 Jan 2021 05:21 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Bitcoin tops $34,000 as record rally continues - BBC News

Are there any really good resources for learning about Bitcoin (and digital currency in general)? I'm not looking to invest or anything. Or even use it. Just interested in this phenomenon

4 04 Jan 2021 11:00 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm - The New York Times

The Russian incursion was only detected because a *private organization* detected it, the combined might of our federal defense system failed to identify the worst security breach in American history. Perhaps they never would have — without FireEye. What are they doing with our taxes? Where is the federal response? Does our government even function anymore? We put money in the pot for the preeminent expectation of defense.

2 04 Jan 2021 09:51 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Graphic of the technocrats?

Lots of claims, no citations just sayin'

2 13 Dec 2020 05:34 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Urgent: EARN IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Unfortunately, this is inevitable. It's an effort by the majority at this point. People want websites like Facebook/Twitter/Instagram held accountable for their user's behavior. This will inevitably result in censorship.

2 03 Oct 2020 18:46 u/Retrofire in g/technology

Comment on: Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”

Why does Cloudflare effectively have a monopoly on this service?

1 21 Jul 2020 21:41 u/Retrofire in g/technology