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Reinventing Smalltalk from first principle



Usually thats the job of the Distro maintainers, your job is to provide a .tar.gz site on your website, the distro maintainers are responsible for publishing your app on their distro's.


This doesn't really scale, and it doesn't really solve the problem for your (potential) users to wash your hands of software delivery like this.


I mean thats the whole philosophy of Linux distros, anyone can create a Linux distro but the job they then take on is maintaining their own distribution of packages. I'm not saying your wrong; I'm just saying that is the what a Linux distribution _is_.


Are they reinventing https://sshx.io/ ?


I'm glad that Firefox is catching up, but they still have a lot of catching up to do compared to Arc/Zen. You got people out there like xe-darc innovating on putting Docker containers in your browser, and Firefox is just getting preview support for built in profiles.


What on earth is the use case for a docker container in a browser?


I belive it also goes into the larger Wormblossom Willow project where there will be an online component, so that you can distribute stuff either online or via USB, building a sensorship-resistant protocol that works both online and offline.


> sensorship-resistant protocol that works both online and offline

I think with the authoritarian and dystopian crackdown on parts of the Internet where people express opinions, this will be a key driver. It reminds me of Cuba's "El Paquete" system. I find it ironic that a system developed to circumvent state oppression should now find a potential use case in our allegedly civilised countries.


I've been building something similare, but on Datalog instead of Prolog: https://github.com/theknarf-experiments/flow-md


I wish it was available in my country.


there are re-shipping services that will re-ship the item to you for an extra fee. The fee can be quite high though.


Why not just rewrite the networking part of gitoxide with an agent? Wouldn't gitoxide already be 90% there for your usecase? Why slopfork all of git?


Some doors can be designed with a large push handle to unlatch from the inside while still being closed from the outside. Allowing people on the inside to escape out but not the other way around.


May I introduce you to Deviant Ollam's talks? You can fish a wire under the door and use it to push the inner push handle.


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