Looking at the repo, I see this:

    Before using this application, make sure you have
    Appwrite server up and running

Then I looked ad Appwrites website for a while.

Since Appwrite probably did not write all the components (Like a database) themselfes, wouldn't the first thing one wants to know what components make Appwrite? I can not see that info anywhere on the website.

The project uses Appwrite as a backend. Appwrite solved problems like database or real-time. After you have the Appwrite backend ready, you can use CLI commands from README to prepare a project for this specific repo (project).

Regarding the question about components, not sure if I understand. I found out all about Appwrite and its services from documentation on appwrite.io

Components: For example, which database is Appwrite using?

Under the hood? I believe MariaDB, but thankfully, I never had to write a single SQL query. I used Appwrite SDK to do operations like db.getDocument, db.listDocuments, db.createDocument...

If you don't care for which components Appwrite uses, that means you bet on Appwrite being around forever?

Most technologies come and go. So when Appwrite goes away, your applications will fall apart?

I would not trust this.

What I would trust:

A backup medium (SSD or whatever) which only allows writes to empty space. Unless a switch is manually switched from "write" to "update".

In "write" mode, it would only allow writing to empty space.

In "update" mode, it would allow writing everywhere.

I would leave it in "write" mode most of the time. For me, a typical SSD has enough space for years of incremental backups. If I should ever want to delete old backups, I would set it to "update" mode to do that and then set it back to "write" mode.

> A backup medium (SSD or whatever) which only allows writes to empty space. Unless a switch is manually switched from "write" to "update".

Why is your backup medium not encrypted?

> Why is your backup medium not encrypted?

If you lose the key, you lose the backup.

Is this also true for random OS churn etc? Basically when using the SSD as a “persistent cache”

You could probably get a tape to work like this if you can prevent rewinding.

i.e. a log structured file system.

Specifically a WORM. Like Plan 9 had with Fossil and Venti or as in Foundation https://swtch.com/~rsc/papers/fndn/

This is not called XSS.

This is just user generated html on subdomains.

Github does the same on github.io. Everybody can make a theirname.github.io page and alert whatever they like too.

So does Gitlab on yourname.gitlab.io, Wordpress on yourname.wordpress.com etc. It is a common practice.

Agreed.

That's only an issue if this is possible for comments. The current behavior is working as intended I'd say.

Upwork.

I know that many here despise Upwork, but they are wrong.

You will need to build a profile before you can earn higher hourly rates, but then it is great.

Better to invest a few months of your life in building a profile and then be free than to be dependent on others forever.

I don't think crypto would solve this particular issue. Stripe needs the ability to back out of moving money, so there's several settlement periods for different parts of the transaction and ways to appeal transfers retroactively.

I suspect fraudster's are able to wait out this period without detection so they can cash out. If this is the case, then even time locking smart contracts won't help, as the fraudsters just wait out the time period. At that point Stripe would have even less recourse to recover money, as retroactive transfers are not possible at that point.

I could see services such as their debit card offering being abusable too.

They also likely have to worry about things such as predatory recurring payments as those will result in chargebacks which could ultimately fall on Stripe to foot.

Is fraud even possible with crypto?

As I understand it: When A pays B with Bitcoin via the Lightning Network, B can almost instantly be sure that they have the money. There is no way for A or an intermediary to take it back.

Talking about online animation tools ...

Does anybody know a site where one can create "zoom in animations"?

I mean you upload an image, select the point where the animation should zoom in and get a "fly into the image" animation.

I don't know if there's a pre-existing site that will do it, but you could do this with FFmpeg and therefore FFmpeg.wasm. A brief search [1] indicates that it would likely be about the combination of the right filters. Ostensibly, you could put those filter options into the FFmpeg.wasm demo app [2] (scroll down) and get your video out.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54547061/ffmpeg-animatio...

[2]https://ffmpegwasm.netlify.app

There is Product Chart [1], a site by a HN user.

But I think it has the focus more on the user interface than on a broad product index.

[1] https://www.productchart.com

I think a good hedge against the web becoming more and more bureaucratic is to invest in the internet giants like Google and Facebook.

It is such a tailwind for them.

Every piece of regulation you have to comply with gives them an edge over the competition.

Implementing cookie banners or an age verification system costs you the same if you have 1000 users or 1000 million users.

So on a per user basis, these annoyances are a million times cheaper to master for the giants than for a startup.

Is any one of these 8 million here?

I would love to hear what people do with it.

Metamask is the wallet with the lowest barrier to entry for new folks entering the crypto space. Going from no knowledge to having a wallet is much quicker with metamask than hardware wallet.

Its also great for devs deploying contracts on test networks.

I, for one, am able to access sites without disclosing my identity at all.

I paid for a membership to icy.tools the other day entirely with my metamask account and without using any email/phone number at all

I’d be very, very happy if every site in the world had a “connect with metamask” button where I could log in completely anonymously

I'm one of them, used years ago to test some development on the Blockchain and now I use it mainly as wallet for some small holdings that I've in few tokens

I use it to hold a fair amount of my crypto holdings. I personally don't spend crypto particularly often but I have a friend who uses crypto whenever he can, if you go a bit out of your way you can do a lot of your purchases that way. The metamask UX is nice and pancakeswap integration is useful too. Wish it supported Solana.

I imagine the audience crossover between crypto and HN is quite high.

I use it via Firefox.

https://satellite.earth/

Hadn't come across this site before. Very cool and exactly what I'd been looking for. Thanks!

me

i originally used it in 2017 for cryptokitties, now im using it again for degenerate

i bought an urbit planetoid or something

About 40% of all Dollars were created in 2020:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

That chart shows the federal reserve assets, not the total supply of dollars. It's a pretty interesting chart, but it doesn't support the statistic you quoted.

The chart for M1 (currency, demand deposits, and other liquid deposits) looks similar: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1

That's about 30% of all US money supply created in 2020.

I'm sorry, I don't have enough information on what those statistics mean. I'm not sure what that chart measures, but it shows a 4x increase in early 2020 which leads me to think it isn't saying what you think it's saying. While I don't doubt it relates to how the Fed manages the money supply, it doesn't say what you want it to say.

If you are going to sell this point, you need a source that undstands and can break down the subject matter to explain what these charts are measuring and how that relates to the supply of US currency.

The Fed is the only source of Dollars. Banks only produce IOUs.