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Actually I thought this was silly, but if your service provider provided and upstream cdn/cache, I think it could work pretty well. So when you are out of servi
by seiferteric 3y ago
Actually I thought this was silly, but if your service provider provided and upstream cdn/cache, I think it could work pretty well. So when you are out of service area, they simply hit the cache.
- crazygringo 3y agoThen there's no reason to have it on your phone in the first place. There's no real difference between a site on a server and a cache on a server from any kind of philosophical decentralization point of view. Just put the thing on the server in the first place and forget about the phone entirely.
- dTal 3y agoThe argument is that control can't be taken away from you, I suppose. I argue in another comment[0] that peer-caching could mitigate unreliability, but that still leaves the question of how you maintain ownership if other entities are allowed to serve it on your behalf. Is it possible to make yourself reliably globally routable without trusting a third party, or needing their permission? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37103721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37103721