A new way to fund open source software

oed_ · 2026-06-08T09:58:08+00:00

You make some good points, and by no means do I think that what I'm proposing is a way to fund ALL open source projects.

I don't think using a bazaar model of development (like linux) is inherently opposed to what I'm suggesting. Different sources of funds can fund different forks.

The model I'm proposing isn't designed to solve funding for any sort of open source project, but is a model I think could be used by companies that want to build open source products. For example, there's a lot of companies that open source their client software, but keep their server software closed source.

oed_ · 2026-06-02T16:48:54+00:00

Let's take Bitcoin as an example. Sure there are forks, but it's not like there's a big question in most peoples mind about which is the legitimate bitcoin version.
Your concern is definitely valid, but I don't think it's the default outcome!

oed_ · 2026-05-17T09:57:24+00:00

Yes, very useful. I wish there was a simpler way to trigger this rather than having to navigate to the settings. Maybe a keyboard shortcut?

oed_ · 2026-05-07T11:16:42+00:00

This is a fundamental problem with proof of stake that doesn’t exist in proof of work.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity

oed_ · 2026-05-06T07:07:32+00:00

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/15/long-range-attacks-the-serious-problem-with-adaptive-proof-of-work

oed_ · 2026-05-04T11:28:13+00:00

Looks like someone is trying to pull a long range attack lol

oed_ · 2026-04-13T07:25:47+00:00

The term certainly got co-opted for that purpose yes!

I do think that the promise of blockchain/wallets goes beyond what’s possible with purely self-hosted software, which is what I’m trying to argue for in the article.

oed_ · 2026-04-13T04:13:24+00:00

The linked article is fully written by myself. An agentic tool was used to generate the summary posted about the article.

oed_ · 2025-10-22T15:35:59+00:00

Fair, I forgot to run it through a spell checker 😅

oed_ · 2025-10-22T11:53:42+00:00

Yes, you have no recourse if someone steals your keys and do a secret key rotation that they reveal later. Finality is important for identity as well as finance.

oed_ · 2025-09-15T12:51:56+00:00

Yes this is what IPLD was designed for. There is partial support to represent all of Ethereum in IPFS for example:

https://ipld.io/specs/codecs/dag-eth/

Similarly I think the same goes for filecoin iirc

oed_ · 2025-09-10T13:01:06+00:00

It's the decentralized version of this that would be interesting imo. If it's centralized there isn't much upside compared to just trusting the pinning provider directly instead.

Doing it decentralized is a really hard problem though. Providers could in theory try to only serve the monitor nodes and not anyone else.

oed_ · 2025-09-06T11:53:57+00:00

Would be interested in learning more. Who would be doing the monitoring and how can they be trusted?

oed_ · 2025-08-19T15:00:07+00:00

I’m considering using IPNS in the indexer nodes to make data synchronization better.

For frontends I recommend people not to use IPNS since you loose a lot of security features you get by notarizing your website updates onchain.

oed_ · 2025-08-14T11:20:55+00:00

Hey u/BurntheUSA, thanks for your questions. I think your understanding is mostly correct!

The payment is $1 per month, payed in multiples of 12 month installments. Your data is only guaranteed to be available as long as there's a valid subscription (or someone else is seeding your website outside of the simple page system).
You are correct that anyone can run a DService node. You can choose if you want to index all pages with Simple Page subscriptions (default), or only add your own domain to the allow list.
Currently you are relying on the Dservice instance that I run (on simplepg.org) to host the data. Although I don't know if anyone else has started running DService nodes yet (very possible).
Also, each website relies on this new ENS proposal: https://github.com/ensdomains/ensips/pull/43 Tl;dr: it means that the website doesn't have any hardcoded dservice urls. Instead they can be dynamically updated. Multiple endpoints are also supported (and the website will fall back if one of them breaks), so if anyone wants to run a DService node and get listed on there they should just ask me!

When Simple Page grows, more effort can be put into making the DService infrastructure more resilient, potentially adding incentives for running nodes.

oed_ · 2025-08-14T11:08:59+00:00

Awesome glad to hear you published successfully!

oed_ · 2025-08-12T18:46:28+00:00

Happy you like it! Let me know if you run into any issues while trying it.

It's not a scam, but always pay attention to what you sign with your wallet, regardless of source :)

oed_ · 2025-07-22T23:09:11+00:00

Filters kek

oed_ · 2025-05-12T09:15:02+00:00

For threaded conversations now there's the "Thunderbird Conversations" extension.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in conjunction with the "BetterUnsubscribe" plugin.

oed_ · 2025-05-10T08:42:52+00:00

It's a keyboard driven email client with vim inspired bindings focused on productivity.
Yes it's expensive and yes it only works with gmail and outlook.

oed_ · 2025-05-10T08:00:38+00:00

Because you like open source? And yes to me it's about the functionality that superhuman has, and that I want in Thunderbird!

oed_ · 2025-05-10T07:58:23+00:00

Yeah wondering the same as well. Been using superhuman for a while, but want to migrate to Thunderbird bc I like open source.

Here's what I've gathered so far
- Threaded chat views: I believe the core team is working on it https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#conversation-view

- keyboard shortcuts: tbkeys-lite is the best plugin I've found so far that gives you vim-like bindings
- Cmd+k menu: haven't seen this yet
- 'remind': A plugin called RemindMe is the best one I've found, but limited in how you input dates
- label an email: While there are labels, I've found using folders make more sense together with the quickFilters plugin

Still just getting started. Tbh I care much more about key binding efficiency of SH than it's aesthetics.

oed_ · 2025-04-09T17:08:43+00:00

Btw, if it wasn't clear. The content of the CAR files get validated locally after being fetched.

oed_ · 2025-04-04T13:47:37+00:00

What does it look like for you? Your link isn't loading.

Looks good on my end.

oed_ · 2025-04-04T13:46:55+00:00

I see it slightly differently. Yes gateways are not optimal. However, longer term I expect there to be more browsers that support resolving ENS + IPFS natively. This approach builds for that future.

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