this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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NSFW, because this is a pattern for him. So, he used to work on Beaker, a Web browser built on top of the Dat/Hypercore DHT. I recall my experience chatting with him and others on IRC. I had been interested because Dat and Beaker were supposedly built with ocap theory, and at the time I was helping to produce a capability-safe object-oriented programming language. Relevant highlights:
Those first two points rhyme with his actions here. The third point is where I think we can see things heading in the future.
Everyone wants to trust the client, until it's time to hand out free bigmacs: https://liberda.nl/weblog/trust-no-client/
Bluesky is currently a wonderful microbiome on a deck on the Titanic, watching that spectacular iceberg over there.
this sounds like absolutely my kind of shit
god though, this dev and their projects all sound like a complete garbage fire
Do you know about Goblins by Spritely Institute? Their CTO is Christine Lemmer-Webber, who was the lead author of the ActivityPub spec.
this looks awesome! I follow Christine on Mastodon but I didn’t know about this