358 sats \ 12 replies \ @siggy47 19 Oct 2022 \ on: Impervious Launches Their P2P Lightning-Enabled Internet Browser bitcoin
I will certainly give this a try, but I do believe there was a lot of fud/skepticism around this project when it was announced at Bitcoin 2022. Can someone fill me in on the perceived issues?
A big issue was the fact that the source code was not public. It appears that is is now though: https://github.com/imperviousai
Would be good to know if the browser can actually be built from the repo, as it should ideally be..
EDIT: am in the process of following the build steps here, all good so far: https://gitpod.io/github.com/imperviousai/imp-browser
I can see now that it's based on Firefox, nice to have a new browser that isn't chromium based
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Failed on the last command:
./mach runError:
0:10.70 /usr/bin/make -f client.mk -j16 -s 0:11.63 Ignoring exception unpickling cache file /home/gitpod/.mozbuild/package-frontend/artifact_url-cache.pickle: FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory') 0:11.64 git: 'cinnabar' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. 0:11.64 Error running mach: 0:11.64 ['--log-no-times', 'artifact', 'install'] 0:11.64 The error occurred in code that was called by the mach command. This is either 0:11.64 a bug in the called code itself or in the way that mach is calling it. 0:11.64 You can invoke |./mach busted| to check if this issue is already on file. If it 0:11.64 isn't, please use |./mach busted file artifact| to report it. If |./mach busted| is 0:11.64 misbehaving, you can also inspect the dependencies of bug 1543241. 0:11.64 If filing a bug, please include the full output of mach, including this error 0:11.64 message. 0:11.64 The details of the failure are as follows: 0:11.64 subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/git', 'cinnabar', 'git2hg', 'beee3527810a14839a05865b1c09fa88a26e15b8', '225d46480b30363c99fb3640a0b0765c11536760', 'b0955bf161eb96cdd475627ae26f0ecdc46a5ddb', '61751feb36cc29ccc1843dac21cb82bb492ffe0e', 'cd8edcc22c8bb66483e98ab4e945e55338a58c3d', '8168cfbde8bf2ada877da067a075315cf90225e8', 'ade9d36134c9b35c6b9fa7b8dbdb960ecd31c5de', '801f19fb12ee2d43186c849de9bc5bc0fb0a0eb8', '73ad91149ca1cd44e3f26f10f461103289f7c21a']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Probably a missing dependency or something obvious / innocuous, but I don't have time to investigate.
If anyone would like to contribute a small but useful PR to the repo, there is a missing carriage return in the README here:
MOZCONFIG=/path/to/imp-browser/brands/impervious/mozconfig ./mach build # start build
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Let us know if you managed to finish the build
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I'd missed this in the log (probably the docs should be updated for this also):
Downloading from https://community-tc.services.mozilla.com/api/index/v1/task/project.git-cinnabar.build.73982476217f027bfc4fc58aeeb912735b92b124.linux.x86_64/artifacts/public/git-cinnabar... 100% To add git-cinnabar to the PATH, edit your shell initialization script, which may be called ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile, and add the following lines: export PATH="/home/gitpod/.mozbuild/git-cinnabar:$PATH" Then restart your shell.
The next error was:
0:00.84 /usr/bin/make -f client.mk -j16 -s 0:01.82 Error running mach: 0:01.82 ['--log-no-times', 'artifact', 'install'] 0:01.82 This is a user error and does not appear to be a bug in mach. 0:01.82 If filing a bug, please include the full output of mach, including this error 0:01.82 message. 0:01.82 The details of the failure are as follows: 0:01.82 mach.util.UserError: Could not list any recent revisions in your clone. Does your clone have git-cinnabar metadata? If not, consider re-cloning using the directions at https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/wiki/Mozilla:-A-git-workflow-for-Gecko-development 0:01.82 File "/workspace/imp-browser/.cache/firefox/104.0/firefox-104.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/artifact_commands.py", line 188, in artifact_install 0:01.82 return artifacts.install_from(source, distdir or command_context.distdir)
These appear to be fairly typical issues when setting up a new build but don't have time right now to keep investigating
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Just paid you 420 sats to get it done ;)
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damn! ok, I reran
./mach bootstrap and got:Would you like to run a few configuration steps to ensure Git is optimally configured? (Yn): Y ================================================================================ Ensuring https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar.git is up to date at /home/gitpod/.mozbuild/git-cinnabar Already up to date. Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. ================================================================================ Downloading from https://community-tc.services.mozilla.com/api/index/v1/task/project.git-cinnabar.build.73982476217f027bfc4fc58aeeb912735b92b124.linux.x86_64/artifacts/public/git-cinnabar... 100% error: No such remote 'origin' Will you be submitting commits to Mozilla? (Yn):
which appears to be a dependency issue. So I tried again with the second option for Firefox (opt 2) and got a new error:
0:06.05 ERROR: Cannot find a wasi sysroot. Please give its location with --with-wasi-sysroot. Or build with --without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries. *** Fix above errors and then restart with "./mach build"
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@ruifm - I will stop here as I just read the licence terms: https://github.com/imperviousai/imp-browser/blob/master/Impervious%20Browser%20Terms%20of%20Service.pdf
- USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS
The Site may invite you to chat, message, conduct audio and/or video calls, share and or collaborative documents, save/or transfer files, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the Site, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, "Contributions").
Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Site and through third-party websites. As such, anyContributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that: The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Site, and other users of the Site to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Site and these Terms of Use
This last paragraph above is the most concerning. Impervious are basically saying they can take your personal data and do what they want with it.
"Private Browser". hah!
- CONTRIBUTION LICENSE
By posting your Contributions to any part of the Site or making Contributions accessible to the Site by linking your account from the Site to any of your social networking accounts, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt(in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. The use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.
This license will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or here after developed, and includes our use of your name, company name, andas applicable, and any of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and personal and commercial images you provide. You waive all moral rights in yourContributions, and you warrant that moral rights have not otherwise been asserted in your Contributions.
I do not consent to my name being associated with any contributions, nor do I wish to "waive all moral rights"!!
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I don't understand. What Contributions and what Site? Is this referring to the web browser itself or something else entirely?
Thanks for doing this.
Just another NSA honeypot yawn.
It can be really really hard to make serious competent security software with NSA injecting it's spy taps everywhere.
When they don't do an early stage open source, be suspicious.
keet.io has been doing the very same garbage too.
They know the people want it, but they want to use it to lull us into a false sense of privacy.
That should be a new expression:
"lull them into a false sense of privacy".
This is why I'm doing this project Indra. And I don't have any fancy funding, just one small private sponsor at the moment. Might get some more help down the track from sponsors but I'm just as likely to stumble into an entrepreneurial opportunity that is part time and lets me do both.
People wonder why Bitcoin scene is so... not very glossy and slick.
It's because big money comes from slimebags and real people have limited budgets.