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Was hoping there was a link to the results - either a search box or some statistics. But hey - free code. Not complaining. Also, if you haven't checked out Bea

Was hoping there was a link to the results - either a search box or some statistics. But hey - free code. Not complaining. Also, if you haven't checked out Beaker Browser now that it's nearing 1.0 - great things are happening. This hasn't been broadcast much - but Beaker now has a built-in editor pane and forking mechanism. It's the best shot I've seen at a 'view source' 2.0. There's been some healthy competition lately forking and editing the default twitter/mastodon clone. (Which is here: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac218436f12fda830/ But forks of it are here: hyper://0e0d1685c3575cf1df94191e14b4ecf068c43bcefee787ffbbed3d1f4666cab4/ and here: hyper://b798b86cc282ae065697f36a2a07072bfa28e5fdfa1d9a8c6fac0f07ff7d6676/.) If you want to learn Javascript, this seems like an amazing way. (Kind of like jsfiddle but for actual apps.)

Malp 6y ago
hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac21 has been giving me a 500
- kickscondor 6y ago
  Somehow your link is truncated. The complete link is: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac218436f12fda830/ (with a '30' at the end)
  - Malp 6y ago
    My bad
koeng 6y ago
Is beaker going to support IPFS?
- anchpop 6y ago
  They used to, but they removed support. It makes sense to focus on just one protocol I think since they're such a lean operation. Also the guy running Beaker seems to be sort of anti-blockchain (describing himself as an "Unblockchain consultant") which might make them biased against it. Also, IPFS urls change when the content they're pointing to changes, which makes them bad for decentralized web stuff. They are working on IPNS to handle this but I don't know what the status is.
  - p4bl0 6y ago
    IPNS has been working for a few years already. Both the dnslink and actual IPNS. However an instance of the IPFS daemon can only serve a single IPNS address. The real problem with IPFS is that hosting a node requires a lot of bandwidth. I regularly tried to self-host an IPFSite but it makes make internet access literally unusable. So I abandoned that idea for good and now I use a free external service for that.
  - momack2 6y ago
    Actually, content-based addresses is really critical for decentralized web stuff - since you can't trust a single source to name data, and instead want many different parties to participate in the same global address space in a secure and trustless manner. Check out the dweb primer for why working with a base-layer built on content addressing is so powerful: https://flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io/decentralized-web-primer/avenues-for-access/lessons/power-of-content-addressing.html https://flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io/decentralized-web-primer/a... IPNS is used by many groups to create a mutable layer over IPFS (it recently got much faster in our 0.5.0 release in April), but you can also use tools like Textile, OrbitDB, or other mutable databases built on IPFS.
    - anchpop 6y ago
      I read that document and it seems to me like everything in there applies to Dat also, which isn't really content-addressed. But if IPNS is fast now it seems like it could be a good replacement.
  - berkes 6y ago
    > which might make them biased against it. How is IPFS related to blockchain? On a technical level that is. AFAIK IPFS is somewhat related to FileCoin which runs on "a blockchain". But not IPFS. Or am I missing something?
    - momack2 6y ago
      Correct, IPFS is not a blockchain - while both are merkle-dags ('directed acyclic graphs' of hash-linked data), blockchains have all nodes sync the state collectively, while IPFS instead shards state across the entire network (such that each node maintains its own filestore).

Malp 6y ago

hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac21 has been giving me a 500

kickscondor 6y ago
Somehow your link is truncated. The complete link is: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac218436f12fda830/ (with a '30' at the end)
- Malp 6y ago
  My bad

koeng 6y ago

Is beaker going to support IPFS?

anchpop 6y ago
They used to, but they removed support. It makes sense to focus on just one protocol I think since they're such a lean operation. Also the guy running Beaker seems to be sort of anti-blockchain (describing himself as an "Unblockchain consultant") which might make them biased against it. Also, IPFS urls change when the content they're pointing to changes, which makes them bad for decentralized web stuff. They are working on IPNS to handle this but I don't know what the status is.
- p4bl0 6y ago
  IPNS has been working for a few years already. Both the dnslink and actual IPNS. However an instance of the IPFS daemon can only serve a single IPNS address. The real problem with IPFS is that hosting a node requires a lot of bandwidth. I regularly tried to self-host an IPFSite but it makes make internet access literally unusable. So I abandoned that idea for good and now I use a free external service for that.
- momack2 6y ago
  Actually, content-based addresses is really critical for decentralized web stuff - since you can't trust a single source to name data, and instead want many different parties to participate in the same global address space in a secure and trustless manner. Check out the dweb primer for why working with a base-layer built on content addressing is so powerful: https://flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io/decentralized-web-primer/avenues-for-access/lessons/power-of-content-addressing.html https://flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io/decentralized-web-primer/a... IPNS is used by many groups to create a mutable layer over IPFS (it recently got much faster in our 0.5.0 release in April), but you can also use tools like Textile, OrbitDB, or other mutable databases built on IPFS.
  - anchpop 6y ago
    I read that document and it seems to me like everything in there applies to Dat also, which isn't really content-addressed. But if IPNS is fast now it seems like it could be a good replacement.
- berkes 6y ago
  > which might make them biased against it. How is IPFS related to blockchain? On a technical level that is. AFAIK IPFS is somewhat related to FileCoin which runs on "a blockchain". But not IPFS. Or am I missing something?
  - momack2 6y ago
    Correct, IPFS is not a blockchain - while both are merkle-dags ('directed acyclic graphs' of hash-linked data), blockchains have all nodes sync the state collectively, while IPFS instead shards state across the entire network (such that each node maintains its own filestore).