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      squarism avatar squarism 1 month ago | on: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?

      A keybase rewrite

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        icy avatar icy 1 month ago | on: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?

        there’s keyoxide.io that appears to do similar things but to be honest, i never really saw the value proposition in keybase

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          squarism avatar squarism 1 month ago | on: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?

          To me, it was the best example of circle of trust. It was able to pull in many identity sources and delegate the trust decision to you, per relationship. Then, when that was established, you could do encrypted chat etc. From my perspective, it was working as intended and was unique as a meta-type thing. I hadn’t heard of keyoxide, thx.

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            icy avatar icy 1 month ago | on: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?

            Oops, it’s keyoxide.org apparently!

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            ebel avatar ebel 1 month ago | on: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?

            i never really saw the value proposition in keybase

            IIRC I believe keybase came about after Edward Snowdon was trying to leak documents to journalists via GPG encrypted email. He knew the Twitter handles of the journalists but didn’t know the GPG key fingerprint. He got one journalists to tweet their GPG key fingerprint and he could go from there.

            So someone made a good way link your GPG key to twitter.

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          ebel avatar ebel 9 years ago | on: Postgres: The Nice Bits

          As of recently you can add PostGIS columns in a more SQL like manner. Their example could be entered as:

          CREATE TABLE tube_stations (
    id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    name TEXT NOT NULL,
    tube_stations geometry(Point, 4326)
);