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Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208 Happy to answer any questions, as usual. So
by rolleiflex 8y ago
Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208
Happy to answer any questions, as usual.
Source code is here: https://github.com/nehbit/aether https://github.com/nehbit/aether (I’ll update it with the latest release as soon as I can clean it up)
- wierdaaron 8y agoHow big is the local cache of the network on each client device?
- rolleiflex 8y agoAbout 9mb as of now. Of course, the compiled graph is larger. If you want full text search, that has its own index that takes space as well. But that last one is optional.
- jka 8y agoLooks like a very simple and clean user experience, definitely curious to try this out. Is encryption between peers currently supported and/or planned?
- rolleiflex 8y agoYes - it’s encrypted-only. It does not allow any plaintext communication. The way nodes talk to each other is plain old HTTPS (TLS v1.2). So I’m definitely not inventing my own crypto here, I’ve tried very hard to avoid that. The content on a node is public though, so this is transport encryption.
- hyeonwho4 8y agoIs data saved to disk encrypted? Can you plausibly state that what I have been reading is invisible to a computer repair shop? Can I plausibly state that there are no links to (child) porn searchable on my disks?
- ubercow13 8y agoHow would you read the content if it was encrypted?
- hanniabu 8y agoYou'd probably have to require the peers to be online for a post to be visible by requesting the description key from the creator.
- ubercow13 8y agoThe creator is intentionally not knowable. The idea is that every client has a copy of all public data so hiding it from the computer technician seems like a pointless objective.
- DanBC 8y ago> so hiding it from the computer technician seems like a pointless objective. Scary in jurisdictions where possession is a strict liability offence.
- jka 8y agoGreat to hear, thanks! :)
- nickysielicki 8y agoHow bandwidth-hungry is it? Is it feasible that someday I could participate in the network from my cell phone?
- rolleiflex 8y agoIt doesn’t appear to be very bandwidth hungry so far. Of course we’ll see, but I’m more optimistic for that than I used to be when I first launched it in December.
- kemonocode 8y agoAny particular reason for the license choice? AGPL may create some friction with potential contributors. Is it related to the business offering?