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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. ★ STMAN ★  🏳️‍🌈‏ @stmanfr 17 Mar 2016

      #Twister and #YaCy are 100% decentralized, P2P, cyphered & crypto-anarchist. Adopting & supporting them is a huge step against the Empire.

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    2. Diani Barreto‏ @deCespedes 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @stmanfr

      @stmanfr cc @wiretapped @aral what do yout think of Twister?

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. ★ STMAN ★  🏳️‍🌈‏ @stmanfr 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @deCespedes

      @deCespedes It's great. It's the twitter killer. It's still in beta, a few things are still missing, but it's great. @wiretapped @aral

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Leif Ryge‏ @wiretapped 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @stmanfr

      Leif Ryge Retweeted Leif Ryge

      @stmanfr @deCespedes @aral unfortunately #Twister's blockchain isn't actually decentralized, has an admin override:https://twitter.com/wiretapped/status/661107443326451713 …

      Leif Ryge added,

      Leif Ryge @wiretapped
      @niko_gramophon @zooko @arthuredelstein sadly #softcheckpoints make its PoW a waste of time: https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core/blob/9a5d0cc45c095dc5bb735427713fcccacf3454ce/src/softcheckpoint.cpp#L37 … http://twister.net.co/?p=245 
      3 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
    5. Leif Ryge‏ @wiretapped 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @wiretapped

      @stmanfr @deCespedes @aral I think SSBC Patchwork looks like a promising Twitter replacement https://ssbc.github.io/patchwork/ 

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    6. Leif Ryge‏ @wiretapped 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @wiretapped

      @stmanfr @deCespedes @aral what things like this need imo is a web gateway. i want to publish on the web to readers without special software

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Leif Ryge‏ @wiretapped 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @wiretapped

      @stmanfr @deCespedes @aral also should function as a twitter client so that it is strictly more than twitter, including all of its content

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Evan Booth‏Verified account @evanbooth 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @wiretapped

      @wiretapped @stmanfr @deCespedes @aral why on earth does this require node v5.3.x?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Leif Ryge‏ @wiretapped 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @evanbooth

      @evanbooth @stmanfr @deCespedes @aral no idea, maybe @pfrazee or @dominictarr can answer that?

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    10. Paul Frazee ✌️‏ @pfrazee 19 Mar 2016
      Replying to @wiretapped

      @wiretapped @evanbooth @stmanfr @deCespedes @aral @dominictarr There's an Electron version of the app, and electron is pegged on latest node

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @pfrazee

      @pfrazee Electron is entirely inaccessible. +@wiretapped @evanbooth @stmanfr @deCespedes @dominictarr

      1:31 AM - 20 Mar 2016
      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. Evan Booth‏Verified account @evanbooth 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @aral

          @aral did you give a talk at FlashForward in Seattle about a billion years ago?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @evanbooth

          @evanbooth Yep

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Evan Booth‏Verified account @evanbooth 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @aral

          @aral as I recall, I think the con kinda liked it

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @evanbooth

          @evanbooth I don’t remember being booed out so probably ;)

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Evan Booth‏Verified account @evanbooth 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @aral

          @aral ahh, my allusion to Deep Blue Something lyrics was sufficiently subtle ;)

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. End of conversation
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        2. Leif Ryge‏ @wiretapped 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @aral

          @aral also optional. are you still building stuff that only runs on Apple hardware? @pfrazee @evanbooth @stmanfr @deCespedes @dominictarr

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @wiretapped

          @wiretapped Yep. Cross-platform != “reaching a large audience” if nobody uses it.+@pfrazee @evanbooth @stmanfr @deCespedes @dominictarr

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Dominic Tarr‏ @dominictarr 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @aral

          @aral @wiretapped @pfrazee hey this isn't productive. Even if we are competing on one level, we are cooperating to solve the bigger problem

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        5. Dominic Tarr‏ @dominictarr 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @dominictarr

          @dominictarr @aral @wiretapped @pfrazee but that wouldn't work if we made all the same technology decisions

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        6. End of conversation

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