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This was actually announced/released last year. It is absolutley fascinating and deserving of HN (IMHO). > Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first
by freedomben 3y ago
This was actually announced/released last year. It is absolutley fascinating and deserving of HN (IMHO).
> Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first, networked application framework.
Website: https://veilid.com/ https://veilid.com/
Overview: https://veilid.com/docs/overview/ https://veilid.com/docs/overview/
Slides from the Defcon presentatino: https://veilid.com/Launch-Slides-Veilid.pdf https://veilid.com/Launch-Slides-Veilid.pdf
Code: https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid
- ganoushoreilly 3y agoDefcon Launch party was fun too!
- smusamashah 3y agoI have seen other similar tools/tech on hn https://briarproject.org/ https://briarproject.org/ https://github.com/berty/berty https://github.com/berty/berty There were 1 or 2 more like these but don't remember there names.
- khimaros 3y agoveilid is meant to be a bit more general purpose than briar or berty, which are primarily chat apps. veilid is more similar to freenet in some sense. note: veilid does not currently support bluetooth transport.
- jszymborski 3y agoI know MaidSAFE started out this way in 2006, but I think the I had a crypto digression https://maidsafe.net/ https://maidsafe.net/
- programmernews3 3y agoIts a crypto grift
- jszymborski 3y agoSadly it looks like it. Wasn't always that way, having started in 2006!
- yellow_lead 3y agoMan, the website really needs to be updated then. I checked over a year ago and it still has this > The code for VeilidChat will be available on Gitlab in the coming weeks.