ChristianBundy

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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Darius is great! I love to see that recommended. One of my favorite visions for the future of the internet, Zach Mandeville's modular essay The Future Will be Technical: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-w
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Yeah, it seems like they're using "P2P" to mean "federated", which is backward. I'm surprised that they didn't think to include Secure Scuttlebutt in their paper. Disclaimer: I work on Patchwork and SSB in
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Protocols like Secure Scuttlebutt provide decentralization without any cryptocurrencies or global blockchains. It's a bit of a wild west, but I don't think that's a bad thing.
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The performance problem is hard, but we have lots of active experiments that I'm optimistic about. Implementations in Golang and Rust, a handful of great database experiments (even simple stuff like Sqlite), and a bunch of people who a
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Yeah, none of us are very happy about that. It's a quirk of the main feed encoding type, but there are other feed types (e.g. Gabby-Grove) that are major improvements. Right now the main hurdle is just adding support for more feed type
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
If you're interested in joining an existing group of folks who are already working on this: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ Feel free to email me if you'd like an invite to the network.
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
If you're using Mastodon or email you need a server with a public IP address, which most people don't have. Distributed solutions like Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) don't require that, so you can pass messages via any available re
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that Secure Scuttlebutt uses a signature chain, which provides many benefits of conventional blockchains without forcing a consensus (which is the part that requires "mining"). My experience with SSB has
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
> Secure Scuttlebutt (not a fan, but it's much better than AP) If you have any specific feedback about which improvements are most important to you, I'd love to hear it. It's hard to see things with fresh eyes after you&#x
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Patchbay is an interface for Secure Scuttlebutt. Secure Scuttlebutt is a P2P pubsub system for sending files, messages (chat/notifications), and everything else you can implement with pubsub-like systems. I think it's just confusi
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> Basically if you have an environment where a bad actor has to pay money, steal someone's identity, and takes awhile before they can even verify their attack has been successful - you'll cover a huge chunk of the attack surfac
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
After about two seconds of video the page turns all white. Not sure what's up with the page, maybe they're triggering my ad blocker (Firefox Tracking Protection + uBlock Origin)?
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> I think it mostly has to do with other people's insecurities. If I say something like, "veganism is unhealthy" (because of lack of B12... yes I'm aware there are nuances), some vegans interpret that as a statement o
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Thank you!
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> murder drug dealing aggravated assault rape possession of a deadly weapon Without punctuation, this sounds like a ridiculously specific and esoteric crime.
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
> I think there's truly a legal nuance to who owns what (especially when a lot of folks are currently renting their phones from their device manufacturers or service providers). If you send me a webpage full of advertisements, I&#x2
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Or having an Instagram account, apparently. You can view the first few images without being logged in, but once you scroll down a few rows you get a login prompt that you can't close. Maybe OP also posts their art somewhere else?
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
> What those people really need is to have their opinions challenged by outsiders. That used to happen more on the early internet. This is your opinion, please don't present it as fact. Feel free to spend your own time deradicalizin
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Voat is a breeding ground and gathering place for white supremacists. A small selection of the top posts on Voat right now: - "jew politician calls for war on whites" -> http://magaimg.net/img/9f2p.png - &
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Maybe some over-zealous shortcut handler that's preventing keystroke events from bubbling up? It's interesting that shift-b produces "B" but just b with caps-lock doesn't produce any characters.
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Signal is open source. Are you thinking of Telegram?
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Maybe, but a cooperatively owned and managed business would have complete interest in its members and their values.
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All centralized, too. :(
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To be fair, this seems like an illustration of GP's point: > complex corner-cases that only a a very tech-savvy user could generate in the first place I agree that an init system should work on complex corner-cases, but systemd re
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Could you add some more info on which process isn't actually used, or links to resources that discuss it? I'm not familiar with the state of the art of desalination.
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Good point. In my experience an air conditioner is something that you use when you're home, so turning it off remotely doesn't make any sense, but I suppose other people might AC their house while they're gone all day?
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Very cool. I'm curious to see how this compares to SSB.
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That doesn't answer the question: why does that require internet access?
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Currently working on this with Secure Scuttlebutt, FWIW.
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by ChristianBundy 7y ago
This makes a lot of sense, thanks for taking the time to explain.

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