By the Web we mean apps for Chromium platform? Because good luck implementing the "standards" now and making any new browser.

Thing most miss about Taler when comparing to Were or Blik:

You can download Taler app, open it, withdraw money from ATM or a friend, without logging in, without even having a bank account or app provided by a bank. Tokens in the Taler wallet are decoupled from current system and cannot be taken away without shutting whole system down. It is the closest to digital cash we have that does not depend on blockchains.

You mean humans stop using written text? No documentation, science papers, todos, longer form async communication, transcription, etc.?

we still use text, only we no longer rely on these awesome vim, emacs, helix advanced features, instead you spit out commands in English, tell what you want to achieve, your AI does it for you, nobody bothers learning these systems

I can only imagine this being said from someone not really using these editors daily, I use Helix, so: "xdjp" becomes "move this line two lines down", "mic" becomes "replace text in current quotes with", "A" becomes "at the and of the line add", no thanks.

The thing I hate with vibed apps the most is zero seconds spend on how things around what is being build are already structured and what problems was already solved, just focusing on shiny result.

`sudo sh scripts/install_debian.sh`, a 583 lines long script, basically now a whole software just to handle the installation of this project on one distribution, seriously? If we vibecode already, just do the normal packaging.

Skeuomorphic design was a solution to teaching the customer how to use the digital product, but I wish we have more of its side effects like shadows, icons that pop and other things that are pleasant for the eye and depth.

I don't know if it's just because it was better or am I just tired of the current white (like #FFFFFF white) backgrounds with everything flat and not connected. I would like my browser tabs to be in the shape of a physical tab in notebooks.

It feels like UI design froze somewhere in the mid-2010s. There are some changes here and there, but it all looks similar and very bland.

I don't know if this is accurate, but I blame Windows 8 and, especially, Windows 10 for popularizing this extremely bland and boring design.

Is there some tool, language or way to early script together inputs and outputs or external programs, with some safety or "proper" (for lack of better word) programming languages but with convenience of Bash (no wrapping like "exec(programname)"?

Perl has been the sysadmin's friend (and enemy) for decades. You can run stuff with backticks and manipulate the results in relative safety.

Honestly, beyond my deGoogled Android smartphone and a GNU/Linux laptop I am looking around for pocketable device between those. Mecha Comet looks like a perfect fit, but it is not released yet.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5

Tool like this exposes big problem with the current shape of the Internet, I believe.

Everything should be possible with just plain netcat and IP stack. Someone asks about NAT holepunching, encryption, static IDs, permissions, etc., yes this is what Internet lacks and why every P2P app reinvents it over and over again.

notabug wontfix; that's the end-to-end principle in action. Bring your own all of that.

Here is another, not so new, idea:

Username is your public key, password is your private key. So we get end to end encryption and account ownership out of the box. Something similar to how .onion addresses work. Needing easy to remember addresses? Build aliases on top of that. Needing server-side automation? Handle trusted server your private key.

Also, almost everyone carry a 24/7 powered and Internet connected device in their pockets. The Internet - network that allows globally sending any data between devices. Maybe with full redesign third-party email servers should be made optional.

I believe we should focus less on how to redesign whole service and build more universal layers instead. First, vsending any data to any machine. Second, optionally remotely accessing our data. Third, mail-like format of data.

Tightly coupling identity to cryptosystems should be entirely dismissed for anything that is supposed to have broad adoption.

First off, these systems always require indefinitely-lived secrets. To rotate keys (or the whole cryptosystem—think future possible quantum computers) is to change identity. Therefore, to change keys is to break the previous identity. Anything that requires users to think about long-term secrets is user hostile and leads to a fragile system.

Second, the economics of pubkey-as-address are untenable. Can you imagine publishing .onion addresses on billboards and business cards, let alone sharing them verbally? Absolutely not.

Unless there’s something I’m missing (please do say), these problems are intractable when you’re dealing with cryptosystem-based identity.

In the end, identity and naming and fundamentally human concerns. If you try to kludge around this with purely technical solutions, all you’ll end up with is a system that doesn’t adequately reflect what identity means to people. Good systems support this (DNS, email); bad systems fight this (cryptocurrency, nostr).

We need more and more varied DNS zones so there's competition between them. And not gTLDs which are just extensions of .us, but zones with genuinely independent administration.

Agreed. DNS is, afaik, the very best naming system we've got. But there's plenty left to do to make it better for human beings. Legally encoded rights to DNS names paired with easy-to-use GUIs for non-technical users would be near the top of my list.

And greater zone diversity like you say too. Kinda related to that, something like increased pinning of non-root DNSSEC keys so that the root isn't so all-powerful.

Edit: s/economics/ergonomics/

"Real" here is very stretched, it is more on the Android than Fedora side, if we measure being "real" Linux as being close to popular desktop distro stack.

It is based on Hallium. And no Flatpak or swappable graphical environments here.

Still cool project.

it is more on Ubuntu side. Fedora is different branch (rpm package system), while Ubuntu is deb package style. Here Ubuntu Touch is using 'click' packages which is basically deb packages. so still more Ubuntu side than Fedora.

in regards of Android: yes it is using ADB as means to flash (like Lineage OS), but in order to change that, you will have to design such system from scratch and that is not easy for community based project like Ubuntu Touch is.