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Daniel Lakeland@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org (2026-10-19 22:28:20)
@dthompson
At a high level. What is OCapN?

Every time I hear about this stuff its at too low of a level. What sorts of things is it supposed to enable?
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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-19 23:04:00)
@dlakelan The tl;dr is that OCapN is a secure RPC protocol. It's notable in that it uses the capability security model and is naturally asynchronous. Does this help?

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Daniel Lakeland@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org (2026-10-19 23:11:07)
@dthompson
It does help, makes it clear its a pretty general tech. What's the theory for where its supposed to be applied? Like, if it were mature and fully usable right now, what would be a decent example application you'd expect someone to want to build with it?