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Yes it is sci-fi. It would be cool if we weren't moving towards a tech dystopia. It is a great accessibility feature for people with disabilities, e.g. having visual impairments. It is also a technology that rides well with the concept of 'pervert glasses'. And said glasses are a perfect tool for crony surveillance capitalism. This will help popularize their pervasive introduction in society.

> After all, that's a problem already solved: CLAs for open source.

With CLA's in place contributors usually sign away their copyright, often to get rug-pulled when an open source project reaches a certain maturity and popularity, and the commercial plans are activated by the company behind it. Better look for community-driven projects that come with a DCO [0] instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Origi...

Tangled looks great, and I may consider self-hosting a knot. But what I am curious about, and what I weigh in such decision, is what your business model is. Right now it isn't clear from the website, so I hope you are perhaps willing to share a bit on that here.

> Having >1 viable player in the decentralization of forges would be great.

There are other projects other than Forgejo implementing ForgeFed. Forgejo itself has some federation support but AFAIK not based on ForgeFed. But they have a community contrib project that does.

- https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation

- https://codeberg.org/activitypub-rs/activityforge

- https://frogue.vit.am/~ololduck/Frogue

Gitlab has a community epic to add ActivityPub support, but that needs contributors:

- https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/11247

> That "basically" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Yea. To me Tailwind was to make CSS act predictably for someone who was not an expert and just wanted to make some tweaks in a good expertly-crafted CSS theme design without seeing the strangest unexpected things happening layout-wise.

Mark Rutte, Netherlands, 14 years prime minister, four terms in office. It is hard to say if he represented the general will of the population given that his party, the liberal-right VVD favors the more well-to-do part of the population. I think many voters voted for him as a trustworthy face and friendly, amicable man. Vote for the personality. He was also characterized as Mr Tefal for his ability to make nothing stick to him in terms of criticism, and utterly pragmatic, denouncing vision. As a result the big problems and areas where reform were most needed, were always pushed to the future.

You might say he introduced a kind of populism, where politicians only care about the next election round and their reputation, to the cost of important decision-making and long-term thinking. Unfortunately this is kind of a working strategy, a weakness of democracy, where the current centre-right government is struggling with all the aggravated problems not dealt with in the past, and the voters think "well, perhaps we have to vote VVD again where these problems didn't exist", or vote more right-wing by populism that makes immigration the cause of all problems.

> Which kind of makes sense, I think a lot of Dutch websites have been taken offline.

Europa.eu and all related subdomains were down very early CEST morning. They run Drupal.

Besides AI/LLM the linked data ecosystem struggles with a deep adversion to the technology by the general developer population, dating back from the time when the Semantic Web hype cycle fizzled out. You can see that for instance very clearly on the Fediverse, where the ActivityPub [0] protocol is a W3C linked data based open standard. But ActivityPub can also be plain JSON, and most Fediverse software does not follow real JSON-LD approach. There's a lot of resistance to going the linked data route, being perceived as overly complex. Which is probably a fair assessment too, as the whole set of standards around linked data are large and intricate. As a result of Semantic Web and Linked Data failing to find good adoption, there's a chicken/egg that there's no good tooling to work with the technology and little incentive to create it.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Yes, TransIP is good, but expensive. I always liked their service, when you have questions getting an answer within the hour via their online support interface. But I'm migrating away now (esp. with VPS'es as the prices here are waaay too high). Using OVHCloud now.

I was confused by your mention of "Gleam", but I suppose it is just a generic name, not referring to Gleam [0], the functional programming language, as the latter is an example of a project that focuses on concise and minimalist documentation (btw, its README is just a reference to the website).

[0] https://gleam.run/

(Updated the text as the downvotes indicated people misunderstood what I wrote. I agree about OP's observation)

I know there are some great README's (and other documents) around, that document best-practices or templates for great README's. I found one that looked very useful and would've sworn I starred the repo to find it again in time of need. Alas, can't find it. Anyone has some good resources to point to, to add to this thread?

Update: Found some related HN threads (omitted link-rotted submissions).

- I'd like to review your README https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842191 (91 comments)

- Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006740 (65 comments)

- Readme Driven Development https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627246 (57 comments)

I would love to see support for wasm and wasi.

I remember in Visual Studio putting a breakpoint on a line, running the execution cursor over it step by step and seeing all variable values that are in scope change in real time. Then being able to drag the cursor back to somewhere before the breakpoint, and edit any value to see if stepping through yields better outcomes. Quite powerful and delightful that.

> The old-school dynamos

I recently bought a dynamo from what should be a good brand (dunno the name off the top of my head). Cost about 45 Euro's, not cheap. Just after a couple weeks, whenever I cycle through the rain my dynamo wheel would slip and I'd be fully without light. I thought it was not properly pressing the rubber of the tire. But I found that the wheel was just cheap plastic garbage, totally worn flat already. I guess capitalism flew by, enshittifying once more what was once good.

The old-school dynamo's were undestroyable iron casings, with an iron wheel with deep grooves. Now I am looking if I can find one of those again, to last me a lifetime.

I wonder. Had any privatisation in NL any net benefits for the population? Not talking shareholder revenues.

> Tough words, that's the worse we may expect from the US gov realistically.

Trade wars and sanctions can get very nasty too. I don't know about Canada, but most of the EU runs on US Big Tech to name just one sensitive sector.

The context in the podcast was that EU was too picky in their reform criteria for inclusion for current candidates on the European continent, but that Canada as a modern country would sail past and pass the exam. The ease with which these experts concluded it would make sense for Canada to join struck me, because impact on geopolitical relationship with US was imho too easily overlooked. It is a sentiment I hear more often now, in the news.

The other day in a Dutch geopolitics podcast (Boekestijn en de Wijk) it was mentioned that if there's one country that could be added to the EU "at the stroke of a pen", it would be Canada. In terms of state of the democracy, shared values, etc. And I agree with that perspective. But at the same time I thought that if there's one way to get into conflict with the current US administration - who declared EU their only adversary in the US National Security Plan - this is it. It would be like a mirror image of Russia feeling encroached by NATO, but then in the Western hemisphere. And perhaps a red cloth invitation to the frothing bull(ies) of the Trump administration to invade their neighbor.

So often when something launches, these are missing. And it always really surprises me. People apparently just sign up for such services, but I would want to know these details in advance before doing so.

Trust and trustworthiness. Trust is very hard to win back, once its gone. Trustworthiness makes you willing to rely on a partner. Trustworthiness only builds very slowly over prolonged periods of time, by consistently not betraying ones trust.

Some nice Object Capability technologies not mentioned in the Wikipedia article:

https://capnproto.org (used by Cloudflare)

https://spritely.institute/goblins (with wasm support via Hoot)

https://ocapn.org (where things come together in a future open standard)

DNS managed by the United Nations.

In the Netherlands the cradle to cradle hype of some years ago has created a paper reality where waste is turned magically into building material and can thus be effectively dumped anywhere in the environment.

Nice saying. If in the prediction "given [intricate analysis] the whole [shebang] goes [bust] at [date]", only the [date] turns out to be wrong, I'd say it is still a valuable prediction however, though it was wrong.

Exactly. Thus regulation and enforcement.

Matrix works fine for the friend to friend, small community things. Discourse forums too. Use Signal for family and friends, perhaps work. Fediverse and Atmosphere (Bluesky) for your microblog needs, and RSS to keep track of blogs.

I think in the Netherlands the general rule is to tip up to 10% depending how good the service was, unless it was excellent and you go higher. When drinking a couple coffees in a restaurant it is okay to tip with a single Euro for good service, even if that doesn't amount to 10%.

He's just running a kleptocracy, and doing so reasonably well.

Also worth adding to the article: SQLite as your application file format [0].

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html