RupertWiser

I tried but hackernews dedupes submissions for posts. The original poster barely got attention with this source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644530

The cryptography privacy pass is based off [1] actually comes from Ecash[2] so we’ve gone full circle.

[1] https://www.petsymposium.org/2018/files/papers/issue3/popets... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash

Howdy friends,

Ben here, one of the co-chairs for the WebView CG. Super chuffed to see this pop up on hackernews today!

For a little context, our group is currently focusing our efforts this year on improving WebView compatibility data. The project is still very young and we’ll keep chipping away at it but please feel free to reach out and engage! You can find the repository here: https://github.com/WebView-CG/Compatibility-Data-Project/tre...

If you’re interested in joining in on the broader community discussions, you can find our group here: https://www.w3.org/community/webview/

I’m currently working hard at keeping a new born alive but will be happy to answer any questions if I can a moment between diapers :)

Looks super cool! Clearly an idea that people want - I built something similar to this almost two year ago [1] but your project is a lot more fleshed out. I like that you actually used websockets instead of my hacky approach of using an http stream.

[1] https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui

Proposal author here

I’m hoping to get back to everyone as soon as possible. I hope you can all appreciate that I’m a human being and this has been a lot!

In the mean time, I wanted to repost my last comment on the GitHub issue thread [1]:

Hey all, we plan to respond to your feedback but I want to be thorough which will take time and it’s the end of a Friday for me. We wanted to give a quick TL;DR:

- This is an early proposal that is subject to change based on feedback.

- The primary goal is to combat user tracking by giving websites a way to maintain anti-abuse protections for their sites without resorting to invasive fingerprinting.

- It’s also an explicit goal to ensure that user agents can browse the web without this proposal [2]

- The proposal doesn’t involve detecting or blocking extensions, so ad-blockers and accessibility tools are out of scope.

- This is not DRM - WEI does not lock down content

- I’m giving everyone a heads up that I’m limiting comments to contributors over the weekend so that I can try to take a breath away from GitHub. I will reopen them after the weekend

[1] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

[2] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

I’m not sure it’s fair if the product ends up making a boat loads of money. Games are high risk but a very lucrative industry.

Just look at how successful football players were in getting a slice of the pie. I’d still consider that a dream job.

This is going to be the year I improve at climbing. I absolutely love the hobby and have done it on and off for years.

I’m at the age demographic where I see a lot of folk feeding into the hustle culture. While I think it’s important to keep the future in mind, I also want to recognise I’ve reached a pretty good point in my life and would like to do something that won’t improve my career in any way.

You can relisten to music. You don’t want to normally rewatch video. I believe this would make the markets significantly different.

One important reason for coding questions I haven’t read in the comments is the need to avoid the interviewer’s personal bias. I’ve seen a lot of people say they can feel someone is a bad interviewer but how do you quantify that? Large corps need to protect themselves.

They also need to make candidates feel like they were tested using the same criteria as other candidates.

Yeah it does, it spawns a new thread with separate state per user.

Not yet, I plan to add support for this ~soonish because it will be harder to add later on.

It’s very much early days though. I didn’t want to go near accessibility until I had standardised the rendering model somewhat.

It also waits to be seen if anyone actually wants to use this besides me.

Ah should probably make this clearer in the README, it then serves this through an http server.

It keeps running your render method and dynamically updates your client.

The first example documents this a bit better: https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/python-live-gui/-/blob/main/exam...

Yeah I should probably replace the screenshot with a gif. Thanks for the feedback!

Hey all, author here.

I had some time off last week so I built a little tool I've been planning on using for a while now.

Thought I'd just comment on my motivations for building this.

I bought a little chromebook tablet to take on holidays. I've been enjoying the experience of using a remote IDE to code on my personal server.

I thought it would be neat if I could quickly make myself GUIs for other utilities on my remote server that get rendered on my chromebook. Doing this like being able to run bash scripts remotely.

I start utility scripts with this tool and then just use ssh port forwarding to view it locally.

The fun bit is the application itself is then just written in python.

There are some similar alternatives[1] but I wanted to be able to write GUI elements like ImGUI so I decided to build my own tool in the end.

I just wrote it in python because that's what I've been using at work lately.

[1] https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews#python

If you want an alternative to Wordpress, I’ve had success running a simple kotlin script that converts google docs into webpages.

Here’s the hackernews discussion around that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23134101

This is the code I run in a cron job: https://gitlab.com/BenWiser/googledocsblog

You do however need a server and your own domain.

Do you know about .git/info/exclude? It only exists in your local git file so it isn’t shared with a remote repo and achieves this same purpose.

I can hear people asking: “Isn’t it a bit early to predict that, given that we’ve only seen two products?” It’s a very fair question. But it definitely seems like a first step — to me, the Mac Studio line is a clear successor to Apple’s iMac Pro.

I was under the impression that apple is planning on releasing one more M1 device and that could be the iMac Pro [1]. This article feels quite hollow to me.

[1] https://youtu.be/CMm7UZKtGNk

Interesting! So does safari have different storage rules depending on where the web app is accessed from? Are there docs detailing what else might operate differently? I wonder how many web devs test their apps under the different constraints.

I will add that I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to turn the web app I initially had into a mobile app with Ionic.

Who controls the unencrypted video?

What’s the purpose? You still need a centralised store for your unencrypted video. Why would this be preferable to having a database?

I've been using this approach for my blog and I've been loving it :) Seems like Google Docs for blogs is a bit of a golden ticket to the front page on hackernews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23134101).

I'm a bit hesitant about using an external service for something like this however. I just have a cronjob running on the server I use for my website and that's worked out pretty well.

I disagree with this. I’d like to take a step back and even ask what a bad emotion really even means? That sounds a bit hand wavy.

I like to get endorphins. I like that the field I chose as a career can give me that when I feel like I did something well. I think an argument goes into pretty vague territory if one tries to argue that it’s more “good” when you get a nice feeling from helping others instead of feeling nice from your own work.

I'm very excited for the multi gesture track pad support. It's such a small change but I just haven't been able to find good support for this outside of Mac OS.

I'm tempted to install this version the second they hit their first release candidate for that feature alone.

I don't like to call myself a software engineer just because of how contentious the term is. But I will admit that I do feel somewhat more precise at my current job than I was at my previous.

I used to work in an agency and we would charge by the hour so you needed to find a safe space between speed and safety. I wrote some nice, and some not so nice code there.

I now work at a much larger company and the environment is vastly different. We focus heavily on metrics, are very careful with testing, make sure to design design components, security reviews, and have plenty of documentation.

I really do wish software engineering could be used as the term to identify this kind of environment where it's not just about the code, but about all the stuff you do around code to ensure it's safe.

I kept reading waiting for the author to address man in the middle attacks but no mention. This adds no additional security. You can easily provide your own keys or JavaScript and completely bypass this.

Like others have suggested, I get the impression this system is assuming TLS will work and perhaps isn’t trusting the server the password ends up on.

What a wonderful resource! Thanks for documenting this. I should probably follow your example and do the same.

Totally get this from a business perspective but speaking for myself, I was actually far more interested in seeing the new chip in the iPad. I have no doubt that the iPhone 12 will be another confident black rectangle. Having usb c and the stronger processor work its way down the price points was far more exciting of an announcement for me. I don’t really ever find myself yearning for a stronger CPU on my iPhone XR but if Apple is serious about replacing PCs with iPads, it seems like having strong chips in their cheaper models is a great position to fight from.

Feels so smooth on my iPhone. I’m aware these phones have pretty killer SOCs but I couldn’t have imagined running this on something that fits in my pocket 15 years ago.

For mindless browsing when you’re trying to fill a few minutes, I’m quite a fan of Mix [1]. I believe this used to be stumbleupon. You simply enter your interests and it keeps suggesting related content.

[1] https://community.mix.com/blog/2019/2/27/introducing-the-mix...