unique opportunity to move beyond HTML/CSS and they just didnt
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What is the advantage of this over just dropping HTML files onto a USB drive?
Hmm, sounds like a nice tie-in to anonymous USB dead-drop sites and so on. Go connect to a tree somewhere, upload your new .snk files, download any new ones placed there since your last visit :)
Maybe have a Meshtastic solar-powered node feeding new .snk files onto it too, from afar!
I would like to try this. Any accessible way to verify that a USB pen was not infested with malware in between visits?
Give it to your friend first
So this is just a "Manager" for offline websites?
Feels like this is a modern day rehashing of the windows 95 briefcase system.
It’s interesting but I think a distributed internet makes more sense. There’s no reason this couldn’t be folded into that too though. If it disappears off enough peers that it’s done, someone opens up the dead-dropped site and that new peer shares with the others again.
I would be seriously worried about malware on a random USB stick in the wild...
This is really nice, but I don't understand what the willow part really brings, unfortunately
That’s an interesting idea, do I want my website guaranteed to be fully downloaded to someone else’s computer tho lol
It already is, this beats the NSA and OpenAI et. al.
I don’t think there is a file in my Firefox directory that is Google.com but I get your point, that’s cache tho.