Marry a wealthy heiress with family fortune from some other industry.

They should just give engineers PDWs and call it a day.

this is america. give them AR-15s.

you can trust them with AI code, you can trust them with a full-on rifle

Is anyone aware of where IPFS community discussion is taking place? The forum seems almost dead and the community page has broken discord and matrix links.

Dude they just got shut down and will need to look for new jobs, cut them a tiny bit of slack.

It's a problem for the entire ecosystem that the most expedient thing to do, the thing that we should have sympathy for them picking under a time of stress, is the thing that relies on people who want to communicate with them having a Google account and having that communication intermediated through Google with no alternative. And since the entire point of Shipyard as an organization is to be stewards of the decentralized web software ecosystem, the fact that they're not using decentralized web tech is relevant to their mission and values.

I could (sort of) see why you might get this upset if people were required to have a Google account themselves to submit this Google form, but that's not the case. Who are you to tell an underfunded opensource dev company that just lost their biggest project what tools they should use? That email you hypothetically sent will probably get delivered to an account in their Google Workspace, how on earth is that any different?

I've run into a lot of Google forms for projects that do in fact require me to log in with a Google account in order to submit, which I think might be related to Google detecting that I'm using a VPN and treating the submission as higher-risk. I just have this reflexive assumption that if something is presenting me with a Google form, it's not gonna work unless I log into a Google account on my local machine. Which is ultimately the reason I care about this kind of thing.

It's not their job to cater to your nitpicking. Even if this Google form didn't work over a VPN (which it totally does), you're capable of turning the VPN off if you really want to submit feedback. But it doesn't even sound like you have any feedback, so what's your problem?

I think it's a perfectly valid complaint about the ecosystem at large. Not a criticism of the individuals or of this specific case to be clear, but a broader observation that this isn't how things ought to be according to a certain set of ideals and the question then of why we keep seeing it over and over. Clearly there's some sort of systemic shortcoming that applies to the entire ecosystem.

What exactly is the complaint? They haven't even made that clear is my point.

They were perfectly clear; you're trolling.

The person who creates the form has the option of only allowing Google accounts to respond. It's a per-form setting.

Google Form authors can require login to prevent spam.

Google demands logins if the Form includes any attachments at all.

There is no ecosystem. IPFS is dead. Relatively speaking, nobody’s using it. There’s no strong use case or benefit.

This is the last gasp of a blockchain hype cycle solution that never found its problem.

And I haven't used XMPP for about 20 of them (sadly)

There was a time where both Google Chat (whatever it was called back then I lost track) and Facebook Chat were built on it. So you might have.

Google Talk - and it was an actual federating XMPP server, in contrast to Facebook which merely allowed you to login with an XMPP client.

There was a point where Google and Facebook supported external clients, and then within the same year both Google and Facebook closed up to any external clients, then ultimately ditching XMPP.

It's a shame that we didn't get antitrust enforcement imposing interoperability requirements on them back then.

You're right. I know at least one company used XMPP for things like customer support chat too. So maybe I have. I just mean the last time I used it intentionally was a long time ago before I was worn down futilely trying to convince friends to use it instead of locked down chat apps.

That's fair, no worries.

25 years of independence and, dare I say, irrelevance.

I wasn't aware of the relationship between Shipyard and Protocol Labs but it looks like Protocol Labs spun out maintenance and development of a lot of core IPFS technology to a new company called Shipyard, with the idea of cordoning off what was a cost center to Protocol Labs, and the hope was that Shipyard would be able to find other sources of revenue beyond the services funding they got from Protocol Labs.

I'm personally quite disappointed because I just built an IPFS based system built on top of Kubo that I was hoping would take off. Now this throws future maintenance of Kubo into question.

Yeah just had a power engineer and physicist out for lunch and batteries are the answer (according to them)

This battle of giants is so interesting I can't wait for the next information-filled reply to teach me something new about the batteries vs no batteries battle.

I love how both of you are arguing about what the solution is, yet the problem isn't even clearly defined yet :P

Sure, let me help.

Let P = batteries;

If (P == NP) then both are the answer.

Damn, I should send them a bill for the lunch then!

Curious to hear your take on what the answer is?

I don't think they can change at this point without starting from scratch

What a bunch of wankery from Anthropic. I already use Sol 5.6 for security auditing and it works great, and as a bonus doesn't give verbal vomit every time.

I suspect this will be seen as a mistep by Anthropic in the long run. Including how their own hyperbole led to the US gov adding export controls.

My local library had them so I read through most of his works in high school. My favorite is Ubik which if I remember correctly follows an anti-psychic contractor who dives into the world of his comatose boss' brain after an explosion on a moon base in order to get some important information, which is trying to communicate itself via in-world advertising.

> who dives into the world of his comatose boss' brain

This isn't quite what happens. It's actually left extremely ambiguous what's happening and where they are after the explosion.

Yeah I decided not to Google it and rely on my own fuzzy decades old memory of it, which seemed more PKD-esque