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889 sats \ 10 comments \ @k00b 16 Feb tech

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202 sats \ 1 reply \ @026180d3a3 16 Feb

You left out the border. Huge firewall?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @wefofficial fwd 16 Feb

maybe WASM sandboxing, or openbsd security model inspo

100 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b OP 16 Feb

We need another Linus. Someone that would squirrel themselves away building something sufficiently good and differentiated giving them the feedback fuel for a lifetime art project (whoever can do this is an artist imo).

Rather than the browser being an application on TexasOS, I think the OS should in some sense be a browser, only it shouldn't inherit the cruft of the modern web like ChromeOS. Browsers nearly emulate an operating system anyway, only they're built around running remote programs and data too. A lot was written about Nostr being the second web a year ago and maybe that's more plausible than it seems at Nostr's current age.

I'd think it should be an AR-native operating system too given I'm confident enough screens and signals will move as close to human sensors as possible and you'd hope the MVP's release date is compatible with the future it's released in.

Thanks for writing Paul! I'll have to read How to Build a Small Town in Texas soon. I've been into that sort of thing lately.

687 sats \ 1 reply \ @wefofficial fwd 17 Feb

Yeah a browser might be the right move. The problem is that you would want a browser that would be simultaneously MORE capable and yet somehow more secure for working with private / local date and information. Those might be at odds? At the very least I'd love an "app browser" that loads wasm + webgpu apps quickly from urls and can operate on local data (local sqlite dbs, a keychain in a secure enclave, your photos)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 17 Feb

simultaneously MORE capable and yet somehow more secure for working with private / local date and information

I suspect an app browser designed from scratch wouldn't face this dilemma in the same way web browsers do.

219 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car 17 Feb

i have a dev coming to pleblab in march who is building a bitcoin browser, he was the one i told you about who missed the deadline in top builder

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 17 Feb

Yeah that sounds cool. I'm not talking about a web browser with new features though.

I'm talking about establishing a new protocols and software for "browsing" remote applications.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OriginalSize 16 Feb

Loved the inspiration. I imagine there's a community of civil designers that are all over this and could point to the most recent examples of walkable towns that have been built.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @wefofficial fwd 17 Feb

Let me know if you find one in the US! I'd love to visit / move there. I've been in Madeira for the past month and it's absolutely wonderful how walkable Funchal's Old Town is. It's as fun as I hoped, and certainly hope to grow old in a town like this.