Misc

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misc

• socketsupply/treehash — Hash a large file into a tree.
  This makes it possible to verify just a portion of the file, if you know the necessary tree hashes.

• The anthesis web: Anytype raises $13.4M to restore the Internet
  

• Signaling as a Service

A social network like Path attempted to limit your social graph size to the Dunbar number, capping your social capital accumulation potential and capping the distribution of your posts. The exchange, they hoped, was some greater transparency, more genuine self-expression. The anti-Facebook. Unfortunately, as social capital theory might predict, Path did indeed succeed in becoming the anti-Facebook: a network without enough users. Some businesses work best at scale, and if you believe that people want to accumulate social capital as efficiently as possible, putting a bound on how much they can earn is a challenging business model, as dark as that may be.

Deliberately limiting the number of people who can join a network (e.g. by charging a membership fee) creates scarcity which in turns makes the network more interesting. Network membership becomes the signal message.

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• Make RPC calls over a Kademlia based DHT
• Orange Dongle — FREE Voice & Text messaging Anywhere Anytime

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buffer encodings

• 'ascii' - For 7-bit ASCII data only. This encoding is fast and will strip the high bit if set.
• 'utf8' - Multibyte encoded Unicode characters. Many web pages and other document formats use UTF-8.
• 'utf16le' - 2 or 4 bytes, little-endian encoded Unicode characters. Surrogate pairs (U+10000 to U+10FFFF) are supported.
• 'ucs2' - Alias of 'utf16le'.
• 'base64' - Base64 encoding. When creating a Buffer from a string, this encoding will also correctly accept "URL and Filename Safe Alphabet" as specified in RFC4648, Section 5.
• 'latin1' - A way of encoding the Buffer into a one-byte encoded string (as defined by the IANA in RFC1345, page 63, to be the Latin-1 supplement block and C0/C1 control codes).
• 'binary' - Alias for 'latin1'.
• 'hex' - Encode each byte as two hexadecimal characters.

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• devdocs.io — "DevDocs combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface."