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So cannot wait for GNUtella (and its floating peer-to-peer cloud concept) to come back but retrofitted with Signal protocol.

omeid2 2y ago
The problem with GNU and Gnome is, to put it in the words of Steve jobs about Microsoft, "lack taste". They are too distant from the mainstream to cater to them. postnote: this comment was Authored on Firefox under Wayland running on Linux 6.
- doublepg23 2y ago
  I don’t think Gnutella is related to the GNU Project or GNOME in any way. It was initially going to be GPLd but I don’t think that came to pass. As far as the mainstream I believe Gnutella, the protocol, had massive success with the LimeWire client.
  - egberts1 2y ago
    Gtk-GNUtella is a GPL license. https://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.io/#:~:text=gtk%2Dgnutella%20is%20free%20open,it%20run%20unattended%20for%20days https://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.io/#:~:text=gtk%2Dgnutella%....
- neop1x 2y ago
  >> words of Steve jobs about Microsoft, "lack taste". They are too distant from the mainstream to cater to them. Yeah, that's why Windows has been by far the most used OS by the mainstream
  - omeid2 2y ago
    2015 called and want their stats back. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-202401 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-20...
arlcode 2y ago
It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology. Laws can be ammended faster than implementations.
- logicchains 2y ago
  >It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology. It's extremely possible to solve political issues using technology. If you consider the government infringing people's right to put whatever substance they want into their body to be a political issue, it's been pretty much entirely solved by crypto and darknet markets for drugs.
  - immibis 2y ago
    Which are technical aspects of a fundamentally social problem. It's not the market platform itself that dodged the government - it's the people on the market.
- effie 2y ago
  Solving the political issue is a different matter and very ambitious. Meanwhile, tech mitigation would be nice.
- Hizonner 2y ago
  > It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology. True. > Laws can be ammended faster than implementations. Really, really false.
vaylian 2y ago
You are missing the point. Us hackers will always find ways to circumvent the surveillance. But the rest of the population is not that fortunate. A solution has to include general awareness and mobilization of the non-tech population against this law.

omeid2 2y ago

The problem with GNU and Gnome is, to put it in the words of Steve jobs about Microsoft, "lack taste". They are too distant from the mainstream to cater to them. postnote: this comment was Authored on Firefox under Wayland running on Linux 6.

doublepg23 2y ago
I don’t think Gnutella is related to the GNU Project or GNOME in any way. It was initially going to be GPLd but I don’t think that came to pass. As far as the mainstream I believe Gnutella, the protocol, had massive success with the LimeWire client.
- egberts1 2y ago
  Gtk-GNUtella is a GPL license. https://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.io/#:~:text=gtk%2Dgnutella%20is%20free%20open,it%20run%20unattended%20for%20days https://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.io/#:~:text=gtk%2Dgnutella%....
neop1x 2y ago
>> words of Steve jobs about Microsoft, "lack taste". They are too distant from the mainstream to cater to them. Yeah, that's why Windows has been by far the most used OS by the mainstream
- omeid2 2y ago
  2015 called and want their stats back. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-202401 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-20...

arlcode 2y ago

It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology. Laws can be ammended faster than implementations.

logicchains 2y ago
>It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology. It's extremely possible to solve political issues using technology. If you consider the government infringing people's right to put whatever substance they want into their body to be a political issue, it's been pretty much entirely solved by crypto and darknet markets for drugs.
- immibis 2y ago
  Which are technical aspects of a fundamentally social problem. It's not the market platform itself that dodged the government - it's the people on the market.
effie 2y ago
Solving the political issue is a different matter and very ambitious. Meanwhile, tech mitigation would be nice.
Hizonner 2y ago
> It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology. True. > Laws can be ammended faster than implementations. Really, really false.

vaylian 2y ago

You are missing the point. Us hackers will always find ways to circumvent the surveillance. But the rest of the population is not that fortunate. A solution has to include general awareness and mobilization of the non-tech population against this law.