
How can we evolve and deploy web apps without allowing developers or operators to become a “billionaire in the middle”? There are many ways to try to address this challenge and some involve the tec...

Battlefield 4 works
I’m holding off is because I think the Switch 2 will be even better.
You meant steam deck I think?
You can just call it meat-based! It’s a trick we bloodmouths have figured out long ago when calling our chicken soup plant-based so the vegoons eat it without complaining all the time!
Put them back mf
“Don’t regulate our use of coal otherwise we’ll have to fire people” lays off people anyway
The article just links to other peoples source code. Not from the author of the article who supposedly got it working.
They are standing on the shoulders if so many open source projects but I can’t find their source?
Good read
If you use the computer to access a single webpage that’s bookmarked, youtube and ebay, maybe an hour every week at most, expecting them to have to learn a new system and a command line isn’t feasible.
You don’t need to access the command line (nor even the system really) to do browsing. The same browser you use on windows is gonna work on Linux.
The UKs first past the post system should not qualify as democracy
Elon is like 80% of teslas evaluation, what is this “investor” waffling about
50% of signals income (aka donations) go directly to their hosting partners Google and Amazon and the second they don’t have enough donations to pay the bills the messenger will seize working
Case in point
Western people overwhelmingly think animal abuse is wrong yet 90+ percent pays for it through their food choices
Almost every food has enough protein per calorie so if you’re worried about protein, that basically means they are not getting enough calories and you can just pack more.
That website was the fastest loading website I’ve ever visited.
There is actual estrogen in milk from other mammals
Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m simply noting the risk that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.
And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.
I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.
(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)
How can we evolve and deploy web apps without allowing developers or operators to become a “billionaire in the middle”? There are many ways to try to address this challenge and some involve the tec...
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Joined by XMPP-messengers Cheogram and Monocles, and supported by many contributing experts in the background, we are playfully addressing the no-billionaire-platforms challenge with webxdc, a container format and API for “chat-shared web apps”. Technically, webxdc apps are network-sandboxed HTML5 apps and instead of the HTTP protocol they use Peer-to-Peer send/receive APIs implemented by webxdc-capable messengers, rebasing relations between developers and users by saying