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omgitsjo t1_iw7m69w wrote
Reply to comment by shanoshamanizum in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
Gotcha'. Isn't PeerID just a hash of a public key? It's pretty trivial to generate a bunch of those and self-confirm, no?
shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7kk5k wrote
Reply to comment by omgitsjo in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
No, you are anonymous to the app but not to the underlying network of IPFS where you are pseudo-anonymous. The app uses the peerID, encrypts a portion of it and uses that as identifier.
omgitsjo t1_iw7k5hr wrote
Reply to Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
How does one prevent self-confirmation? If it's anonymous, can I confirm myself a dozen times?
shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7gnxi wrote
Reply to comment by antonyjr0 in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
Yep, it's really just a fun game/simulation rather than an app to be used as a social media.
antonyjr0 t1_iw7gb1r wrote
Reply to comment by shanoshamanizum in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
It seems like you are using IPFS which is p2p which is good but I would still prefer Mastodon since its Federated. Any p2p app leaks IPs of all those who share the data which is really bad for anonymous journalism. With mastodon you can host a instance in a country where they don't sell you out.
But still your app is cool and strive to improve it. Maybe make it Federated.
shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7f5l2 wrote
Reply to comment by antonyjr0 in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
It still has admins and servers because it's not p2p and flat. Also Cyber Witness is focused on directly witnessed news only. Other than that of course we can have as many as we like with variations. The whole point of diversity.
antonyjr0 t1_iw7elp8 wrote
Reply to comment by shanoshamanizum in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
Yeah I agree open source projects are better with respect to privacy but we already have technology similar to this. If you don't like Twitter then go for Mastodon.
shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7dxri wrote
Reply to comment by antonyjr0 in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
The biggest one - no one owns it. All people host it. No censorship, no ads, no paywalls, no surveillance, no curation, no algorithms, the list goes on...
antonyjr0 t1_iw7csyt wrote
Reply to comment by shanoshamanizum in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
So no way better than a centralized or traditional news. Then what's the advantage in this. We already have twitter, and retweet which seems like the confirmation step.
shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7b2of wrote
Reply to comment by antonyjr0 in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
There is no concept of validation and invalidation of news in the simulator. A rumor changes its status to news on 2 confirmations but after that it's up to you to decide based on number of confirmations how real it is.
antonyjr0 t1_iw79wpb wrote
Reply to Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
So you only need to pay/have 10 people to make a fake news? (What happens if you have 100 people to invalidate a real news)
The concept seems very interesting but the execution is not up to mark.
shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw6puii wrote
Reply to comment by ivanmoony in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
Of course. The more confirmations and details aggregated the higher the chance it's real.
ivanmoony t1_iw6pp4m wrote
Reply to Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
Can witnesses lie?
FudgeeO98 t1_iv9fprs wrote
Reply to comment by WorkingMuscle11 in I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
i will definitely try it when I get home later this week! I'll let you know if it works!
WorkingMuscle11 OP t1_iv9digq wrote
Reply to comment by FudgeeO98 in I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
yes! If you use feh it should center the earth on your monitor. Didn't test it on ultrawide screens thoug.
FudgeeO98 t1_iv99mkx wrote
Reply to I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
think it's compatible with ultrawide screen (5120x1400)?
mrcaptncrunch t1_iv76k93 wrote
Reply to I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
It uses a third party app to change the background image.
On Mac I’ve done this in the past with
defaults write com.apple.desktop Background '{defaults = {ImageFilePath = "$PathToImage"; };}';
llagerlof t1_iv736y6 wrote
Reply to I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
What a coincidence. Last week I wrote a script to update my gnome background image once a day from APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day).
Didn't put on GH, though.
_KnowNothingGuy_ t1_iv6c9as wrote
Reply to comment by pegasus_527 in I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
Hey , this script was not present in the repo when I made that comment. Good to see that they have included shell script.
pegasus_527 t1_iv66t9c wrote
Reply to comment by _KnowNothingGuy_ in I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
The install.sh script includes crontab setup. Why should it bundle its own scheduler when there’s a perfectly fine one included on the OS?
_KnowNothingGuy_ t1_iv5iiub wrote
Reply to I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
And also the title is misleading, script only changes the background image. Cron job or scheduler is needed to do a periodic run/update of bg.
_KnowNothingGuy_ t1_iv5ibrz wrote
Reply to I wrote a script to periodically change my Desktop background to live satellite images! Supports EVERY publicly available earthbound satellite and some solar ones too! by WorkingMuscle11
Which OSs does this script support?
-eschguy- t1_iuig60s wrote
Reply to Put calibre ebook library online - a minimalist PHP content server for calibre by casualwriter-hk
Is there a reason to use this over Calibre-Web?
shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7ndsh wrote
Reply to comment by omgitsjo in Decentralized mass media alternative where you can be an independent reporter or a witness by shanoshamanizum
Yeah of course. Not from the app though.