ianopolous

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by ianopolous 2y ago
Yes, legally requiring open APIs and interop beyond X users is the best way forward. There is some tension with allowing product changes and deprecating old APIs though. Maybe something like mandate versioned APIs, and keep old versions aro
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by ianopolous 2y ago
1. It depends on the time scale. The question is if you can outlive their VC funding. 2. How do you fix the incentives short of fixing capitalism to remove software VCs?
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by ianopolous 2y ago
Very well said. This is the approach we're taking with peergos, paid accounts unless you self host. I wrote some of our thoughts on this here: https://peergos.org/posts/the-social-dilemma
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Welcome to the World of Decentralised Social Media: Peergos(ngi.eu)
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by ianopolous 2y ago
Sure it is: https://peergos.org/posts/decentralized-social-media It is social media where only the end users' devices can decrypt the posts and comments. Then surveillance is not possible. Targeted ads are not pos
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by ianopolous 2y ago
We really need e2ee social media that's designed to protect, not addict people.
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by ianopolous 2y ago
You might be interested in Peergos for the storage and access control part. We have a profile where you can control access (and revoke) to each field individually. E2EE because most people wont want to self host. https://peergos.
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by ianopolous 2y ago
5 hmac-sha256's per signature are slow?
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by ianopolous 2y ago
You can implement S3 V4 signatures in a few hundred lines of code. https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos/blob/master/src/peergos/s...
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by ianopolous 2y ago
That's how we use S3 in Peergos (built on IPFS). You can get S3 to verify the sha256 of a block on write and reject the write if it doesn't match. This means many mutually untrusting users can all write to the same bucket at the s
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by ianopolous 2y ago
https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/8350
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Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography(blog.chromium.org)
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by ianopolous 2y ago
AWS SDK is huge yes, but you can implement an S3 client in 300 lines of Java. https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos/blob/master/src/peergos/s...
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ChatControl Risks False Positives(techcrunch.com)
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That IACR Preprint(scottaaronson.blog)
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by ianopolous 3y ago
The team is great. They do have to work within the mission though.
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by ianopolous 3y ago
But he did set the mission and goals for bluesky, thus determining it's long-term direction. Personally, I think it's the wrong direction in terms of what's best for society. Source - I was one of the first members in the pri
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by ianopolous 3y ago
A good Dropbox alternative is Peergos (founder here). Peergos is an E2EE P2P storage, sharing and application protocol. Fully open source, including the server, self-hostable, no VCs. https://peergos.org
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by ianopolous 3y ago
So you use hardened sha1 in radicle? It would be great to see this in the docs.
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by ianopolous 3y ago
How do you handle the SHA1 breaks in an untrusted p2p setting?
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by ianopolous 3y ago
That's a good question. I don't think I'm including reddit here because those are moderated spaces on a fixed topic. I consider social media more people posting top level things that others can choose to follow directly. So s
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by ianopolous 3y ago
Absolutely. We've pioneered portable identity (and links and data) in a decentralised social web in Peergos: https://peergos.org/posts/decentralized-social-media This is also pull based interestingly, but also has
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by ianopolous 3y ago
We don't use docker ourselves, but there is a docker image: https://github.com/Peergos/web-ui/pkgs/container/web-ui/1561...
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by ianopolous 3y ago
Thank you. We need to blog more - there is a huge backlog of things I want to talk about. Happy to answer any questions you have here.
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by ianopolous 3y ago
We treat the server as an adversary. So everything is chunked an encrypted so the server can't see file data, filenames, file sizes, whether something is a file or dir, who has access to a file, who your friend are etc. Everything is s
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by ianopolous 3y ago
If you're interested in an open source, (including the server) self hostable, E2EE and federated/p2p storage, sharing and app protocol (including calendar, docs etc) who doesn't have VC investors, check out Peergos: https:&#
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by ianopolous 3y ago
To be clear, strong account portability predates Bluesky by ~5 years. Peergos[0], as reviewed by Jay before Bluesky Inc was created, has had this for years: https://book.peergos.org/features/migration.html So they didn
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by ianopolous 3y ago
To be clear, strong account portability predates Bluesky by ~5 years. Peergos[0], as reviewed by Jay before Bluesky Inc was created, has had this for years: https://book.peergos.org/features/migration.html [0] https:&
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by ianopolous 3y ago
We have a FUSE mount in Peergos[0][1] (built on IPFS). It lets you mount any folder read or write (within your access). [0] https://github.com/peergos/peergos [1] https://peergos.org
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by ianopolous 3y ago
I've been hosting my website on Peergos (built on ipfs) for years now (founder here). Peergos solves a lot of the issues with mutable data (also privacy, access control). You can see how fast updates show up from an independent server

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