Do you know of any documentation to get SSB bootstrapped? I tried several times, but I hit a wall of not being able to find any active communities, plus there were old-style, technically obsolete communities and new-style communities, and half the available documentation referred to each, so it was impossible to figure out what to do.
I find it fascinating to read about, but it seems to have a steep and very slippery social hill to climb before the technical parts of the network do anything.
There is a guy on Twitch that is playing a Crusader Kings 3 game where (some of the) NPC characters are "played" by chatgpt, in that he gave instructions to it regarding what traits the character has, and has conversations in English with it. And somehow translates the results into the game, probably using some sort of a mod.
I don't remember the details, as I've only watched for a few minutes and found the whole thing boring, but he seems to have been going at it for a few weeks now, so it's probably working on some level.
It's got a Search section for looking up new apps, and an Updates section for maintaining already installed ones. There's nothing else I need nor want from an "appstore".
The only gripe I have is that screenshots on individual apps pages can sometimes be slow to download, but that gripe is so small I'm looking at it through a microscope. :)
Or make the "turned off" state block all traffic, just like closing a water valve, or a road gate. I never understood why network firewalls did not default to this.
Thanks. I'm aware of most, if not all, these alternatives as I've spent some time a few years ago researching them before sending a proposal @ NLnet for funding in this space.
I should have said P2P in my comment instead of decentralized, as the broader term captures the concept of federated as well.
Those type of people live and work in the browser. Everything's a PWA. Little to no native app use. Like to manage apps (windows) by browser tab management instead of OS management. At least it's consistent across devices!
I'd consider doing that if I could rely on the browser not losing state after OS restart, browser restart, unexpected forced browser restart because of some autoupdate bullshit, accidental refresh, automatic unloading of tabs, badly thought-out shortcut for closing the browser window, unexpected update of the web page/PWA into which I typed something, accidental cookie wipe, certificate expiry, lack of reliable form of local storage[0], and a bunch of other things that make me consider everything in the browser ephemeral unless stored on a server.
(I'm not a browser fan, but even in my weaker moments, this one thing is what stops me from fully embracing living in browser.)
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[0] - AFAIK there's still nothing in the browser one could reliably use to get the equivalent of persisting data to a hard drive. There's like 5 different mechanisms that could allow it, if you could rely on any of them, and of course none of them are user-inspectable except through dev tools.
But literally everything you describe is worse outside of the browser.
My browser does a better job of retaining state than most of my apps. My desktop apps have clunkier auto-update than my browser. My browser apps auto-save to the cloud, my desktop ones often don't auto-save at all.
I'm talking strictly client side. I literally said "unless stored on a server", and let me remind everyone that "cloud" just means other people's computers.
(Also that "serverless" really means "there actually is a server, but you don't get to manage it".)
Desktop apps can save files and read files. That alone puts them miles ahead of any purely client-side app. As for convenience, most apps today auto-save stuff when you're not looking, but lack of that feature isn't a big deal for me - I started using computers some 25 years ago, so I habitually press "CTRL+S" every couple seconds without even realizing it.
I can't tell if this comment is aimed at reds or blues...
Both sides are guilty of not being nice to the otherside, and calling them scum. That seems to be the problem right now, we've stopped listening to each other.
In an attempt to try to listen: what I read from this in response to "be nice to people different from you, otherwise you're a scum":
"I believe our differences are merely political , and that I should not suffer any opprobrium for my political positions. If I do suffer insults for my positions, that intolerance is problematic".
I generally agree with your view that we should not be vilifying each other over political differences. The disconnect, I think, comes from one side asserting that all positions are merely political, and therefore up for debate, while the other feels that some positions are beyond reproach. An alternative of the above then becomes:
"I believe acceptance/rejection of $OUTGROUP is a mere political difference, and that I should not suffer any opprobrium for my rejection of the outgroup, or my political support of platforms that include rejection of $OUTGROUP as an explicit or implicit plank. If I do suffer insults for my position, it's that intolerance that's the problem, not my merely political views on $OUTGROUP".
which feels less generous to write, but closer to how I read it.
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