Identity is an unsolved problem on the Internet. We’ve allowed email addresses to serve as a proxy for identity for a long time, but they no longer really work. As a result, we’ve lost both our ability to be anonymous and our ability to be known.

I’ve been playing with ideas to help fix this, and I’d like to connect with anyone working on something similar.

I understand your desire for closed source to maintain control of your revenue stream, but I believe that you’ll find most Fediverse folks adverse to closed source. Many associate closed source models with a lack of transparency and a loss of control. A small tool like yours might not run up against that kind of opposition simply because it is small and does not handle a lot of data.

I do like the pay what you want model. It’s helped fund support for open source projects in the past so there shouldn’t be much pushback for that.

Are you sure it’s legit? I have no basis for my opinion, but my gut urges caution.

It will become harder and harder to stay on Win 10. At some point, he’ll hasn’t to upgrade: either to Linux or to Win 11. All the same, it will come easiest if it’s more or less his idea.

Please tell me Nathan pushed The Button during the announcement.

So you’ll need 2 commands: rpm2cpio and cpio.

For example:

rpm2cpio mypackage.rpm | cpio -idmv

For reference, I found this by searching for “unpack RPM”. That led me to this NixCraft article. Several other links had similar info.

I guess I’ve bought my last new car.

Weird. Here’s mine.

The OP looks fine on Voyager. Which Lemmy client are you using?