alt Hacker NewsWould you describe this product as a whole application suite (blogging, calendar, commerce) plus its own backend infrastructure that is capable of serving these apps to the public internet and functioning offline via ad-hoc wireless peer-to-peer, with a cryptographic layer providing identity, security and censorship resistance, and that runs on phone, laptop or raspberry pi?
Quite ambitious.
Is this an LLM hallucinating? taking a break from coding? or leaking your personal desktop session?
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NitpickLawyer • last Monday at 6:03 AM
> Is this an LLM hallucinating? taking a break from coding? or leaking your personal desktop session?
Ha! In any case, I'm happy to see I'm not the only one compulsively "ls-ing" all over the place in every terminal I open :)
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> leaking your personal desktop session?
I've answered in more detail on the other reply below on the conversation. Thank you for spotting that.
> Would you describe this product as a whole application suite
The rabbit hole goes even further. The reason why callsigns are used is because geogram can happily communicate using radio-waves on walkie-talkies without internet at all. On the previous iterations (before AI) it was sending free SMS using walkie-talkies and satellites (APRS), this current incarnation should soon be doing the same things too. A presentation from two months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_VUSaNw8k
This is a niche app, written for our community in Portugal to connect with each other.