loreanvictor

Can We Get More Decentralised Than The Fediverse?

I guess that the [fediverse][fediverse] will be as decentralised as email: a bit, but not that much. Most people will be dependent on a few major hubs, some groups might have their own hubs (e.g. company email servers), personal instances will be pretty rare. This is in contrast to personal blogging, where every Bob can easily host their own (and they often do). I mean that's already implied by the name: fediverse is [a federated universe, not a distributed one][fed-v-dis].

Why does this matter? Well I like not being dependent on one entity, but I would like it much more if I was dependent on no entities at all. In other words, I like to publish my own personal blog and get all the goodies of a social network, without being dependent on other micro-blogging / social content platforms.

So in this writing, I'm going to:

• ❓ Contemplate on why the fediverse gets federated not distributed (spoilers: its push vs pull)
• 🧠 Ideate on how could we get a distri

khalidx

The experience of using Node.JS with TypeScript, ts-node, and ESM is horrible.

There are countless guides of how to integrate them, but none of them seem to work.

Here's what worked for me.

Just add the following files and run npm run dev. You'll be good to go!

package.json

staberas

# This script requires to have some basic Python skills 
# - Install python dependencies (thanks to TitwitMuffbiscuit on reddit) : 
#  pip install nltk beautifulsoup4 googlesearch-python trafilatura wolframalpha
#
#  If you get this error "Resource punkt not found", it's because Punkt sentence tokenizer for Natural Language Toolkit is missing. 
#  Edit the file and add this before 
#  from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize ,
#  it will download the necessary english.pickle:
#  import nltk
#  nltk.download('punkt')

bramus

🚚 The bookmarklet has moved to https://github.com/bramus/mastodon-profile-redirect/

arthurgousset

Crypto Canon

What is this?

It's a simple markdown copy of a16z's crypto canon, so anyone interested can fork this and keep track of their reading.

Original source: https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/

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ramimac

Cloud Security Orienteering: Checklist
by Rami McCarthy
via TL;DR sec

How to orienteer in a cloud environment, dig in to identify the risks that matter, and put together actionable plans that address short, medium, and long term goals.

Based on the Cloud Security Orienteering methodology.

Checklist

0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

LeZuse

Node.js on Apple Silicon

Node Version Manager (https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm) works perfectly across native node installations as well as emulated Rosetta installations. The trick I am using here is to install one LTS version of node under Rosetta and another stable version as native binary.

TODO

• find a way how to run the same node version on both platforms

prologic

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

dopry

// based on https://gist.github.com/Prophet32j/05a2ceda3743b9fd93e98e56a9227309
const fs = require('fs');
const uuid = require('uuid-v4');

const buildMargeInput = (testResults) => {
  let elapsed = buildElapsedTime(testResults.testResults);
  let testSuites = testResults.testResults.map(createSuite);
  var input = {};
  input.stats = {
    suites: testResults.numTotalTestSuites,