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by pfraze 7y ago
The next major release of Beaker (0.9) is going to have a new version of Dat that improves scaling quite a bit. Mafintosh and his team has done some amazing work using trie indexes for much faster reads across the network. Beaker's als
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by pfraze 7y ago
It's not actually RSS, it just uses a very similar model of static files shared off websites.
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by pfraze 7y ago
There's nothing stopping you from extending the JSON schema. We'll probably come up with extension points to make it easier (as subobjects, each declaring their own schema IDs). The format really isn't the interesting questio
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by pfraze 7y ago
Yeah I knew there had been some shots at it, but my google fu couldn't pull up anything solid to point to. I'd love to see if somebody ever tried to "go big" with RSS. EDIT: also the comments RSS is generally comments po
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by pfraze 7y ago
We'll get there! Edit: https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1136710339163238400
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by pfraze 7y ago
It really doesn't become as easy to work with. You still have to wrangle around the RDF "everything is a triple and attributes are URLs" concept, and even if you hid all that away you'd be attempting to gain something as
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by pfraze 7y ago
The main reason I didn't use AP is that it's designed for federated servers and uses a mailboxes network which doesn't fit with Dat & P2P. We may find a way to interop, but it'll require some kind of bridge service,
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by pfraze 7y ago
We're still building out schemas, so I wouldn't rate the protocol based on the current number. I just didn't want to speculatively add a bunch without having the live system to test against. If I thought any of the existing s
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by pfraze 7y ago
> Does Unwalled.Garden automatically pin the content of people you follow, so that their stuff stays online if they aren't? It gets saved locally so you can access it when they're offline. It'll also be possible to instruc
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by pfraze 7y ago
The Beaker browser ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) has dat hosting builtin, and you can use hosting services to keep them online when your device is off ( https://hashbase.io )
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by pfraze 7y ago
It is, but the internals of any filesystem or database will be complex. That doesn't make them difficult to use.
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by pfraze 8y ago
Heh, not totally wrong. I'd also mention that there's an ideological connection to free software. Centralization on the Web means using closed and proprietary software. The decentralization crowd is fairly motivated by that. It&#x
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by pfraze 8y ago
I disagree. We should have conversations about how our software is used, even if it's a divisive topic.
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by pfraze 8y ago
In a dev branch of beaker, I've been playing around with something similar the "Modal Page Actions" idea with a "context bar." It has actions based on what the browser recognizes about the site (stuff like "fol
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by pfraze 8y ago
I can attest that the blog post is accurate, at least for the Dat protocol. We used the BitTorrent mainnet DHT for a while, but results were so bad that we retired it and fell back to our tracker. We're working on the Hyperswarm DHT no
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by pfraze 8y ago
Beaker is fundamentally a builder's tool. Right now, building means programming, and programming means typing- and typing means the desktop! I see mobile as primarily a communication platform, while desktop is for productivity. So, I t
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by pfraze 8y ago
A few developments worth sharing: - This week we managed to get a performance bump by moving the dat stack into its own process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lVBr5BchE&feature=youtu.be - We're working on ident
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by pfraze 8y ago
Are we using NativeScript? Not sure what you're referring to here.
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by pfraze 8y ago
I don't see Beaker as running counter to that idea; we just don't have tooling for that use-case yet. We could handle this mostly in userland: write a service that exports a filesystem API that's compatible with `DatArchive`,
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Why bother with P2P when you still need to guarantee uptime?(pfrazee.hashbase.io)
3 points by pfraze 8y ago|0 comments
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by pfraze 8y ago
> There are few commercial benefits/incentives for a DHT provider and few guarantees p2p tech can give a company requiring an always-on central presence. There are quite a few commercial benefits! It's just that nobody's p
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by pfraze 8y ago
The majority of Hyperswarm's code was written before libp2p. We had been sitting on it and waiting for the right time to deploy. We're not against working/merging with libp2p, but since we do like being able to iterate quickl
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by pfraze 8y ago
I'd be interested to hear other perspectives on this, but I think p2p computing in general got skipped over when the cloud became a thing. DHTs have had steady use in the p2p world though, including with BitTorrent. DHTs are not withou
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by pfraze 8y ago
Hyperswarm is a Kademlia DHT with hole-punching builtin. It's designed to arrange p2p connections. For context as to why you'd want this, when you create a p2p connection (like with WebRTC) you typically need a "signaling ser
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by pfraze 8y ago
Just want to point out that Beaker uses dat, not ipfs, so its sites are pubkey-addressed and therefore mutable.
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by pfraze 8y ago
> We can generates HTTP sites at will (all you need is an IP address); That's not really so easy from a consumer device with a dynamic IP. > - When you talk about pubkeys with coordination, there are obvious problems like the las
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by pfraze 8y ago
Some things in p2p hypermedia (dat) that's not possible with http/s: * You can generate domains freely using pubkeys and without coordinating with other devices, therefore enabling the browser to generate new sites at-will and to
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by pfraze 8y ago
Tara gave a good intro talk at jsconfeu https://youtu.be/rJ_WvfF3FN8
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Wormholes in JavaScript(nearform.com)
2 points by pfraze 8y ago|1 comments
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Dweb: Serving the Web from the Browser with Beaker(hacks.mozilla.org)
2 points by pfraze 8y ago|0 comments

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