inmysocks (version: awoo) @inmysocks@awoo.space

and now, same douche, is pushing to follow the progressive web app standards because 'otherwise the available technologies won't be available to us'....

Somehow not fitting googles standards now mean that browser caches and the like aren't available to you?

This guy has to just be fucking with me.

also, progressive web apps certainly feel like a Trojan horse that is there to help move people from having any local applications to using applications that are purely on remote servers like chromebooks

this same douche keeps harping about how we can just make a progressive web app because they use localStorage which means we can save whatever we want to the local file system.

This is after me explaining multiple times that localStorage is not the same as file system access, it is a browser cache with some makeup on it.

And the 30 seconds later he says 'what do you have against progressive web apps? They would let us access the file system!'

CORS headers seem counter productive to me.

The browser doesn't allow cross-origin requests for security.

But there are times when you want to be able to do cross-origin things.

CORS to the rescue. But instead of going with the whole 'security' thing where your browser would determine if cross origin things are allowed, the remote server gets to tell your browser that it is allowed.

'Don't talk to strangers, unless the stranger says it is ok, then they can do whatever they want'

*ahem*

WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE ANY SITUATION WHERE A FUNCTION CAN HAVE AN INTERNAL STATE YOU FLAMING DOUCHE BISCUIT???

In case you are wondering:

Setting a default function parameter to a mutable value means that the default parameter changes for every function call if the parameter gets changed inside the function.

I remember reading that before, but it was still 2 hours of my life

I think that a lot of the privacy and security problems with DHTs are made much simpler if you just don't assume a global DHT.

There are plenty of uses for resilient meshes with a distributed data store.

The more I look at how the back-end works the more I want to make a c++ version of pouchdb so bindings into other languages like python work better.

LevelDB already does most of the heavy lifting.

Some npm modules really confuse me.

One is a wrapper on the core crypto library. In the sense of:

module.exports = require('crypto')

and one is a wrapper on a single one-line function that just calls a function in another library with the same arguments it is passed.

This seems gratuitous.

I should post on this account about tech stuff more than I do.

I don't mind when people don't understand how to use something I made, it just means I need to either make better documentation or make it simpler.

when someone describes their problem in terms of something on the backend, is completely wrong about it and they actually have some interface problem then ignore me when I explain what the problem actually is and continues to refer to it that way and tells other people that is the problem, that means they are a jackass.

On our walk today javert was making faces at me.

Also I finally saw one of the neighbor kittens, they will come into the courtyard but they run away as soon as they hear anyone so I only ever saw tails running away before.

#Mastodogs #cats

We have cut aluminium.

It turns out it was easier to just use the dht-rpc node module, which is a lower level module that hyperswarm is build on top of, than to use hyperswarm directly.

It was still very useful because it gave a working example of how to use the more basic dht, but I think that my goals and the goals of the developers of hyperswarm are too different in this case.

Well, the connection part is DHT based, it is also going to be a big part of the privacy and security aspects of it.

After the connections are made the DHT doesn't really matter for the p2p stuff.

The revamp of Dodo may actually be doing something! I may have a DHT based chat room type thing that doesn't completely not work.

PouchDB has replaced SQLite as my go to lightweight database, at least for node projects.