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by pierat 4y ago
Performance: ugh yes. The GO implementation is a CPU and RAM hog. Basically, you cannot run it on a cheap vps, where you could easily run apache or nginx. There's also significant bandwidth costs from a distributed hash table. That&#x2
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by pierat 4y ago
The counterexample is that some of us (including myself) are digital archivists. I think it's worse in institutionally 'forgetting' via censorship, than to having that media. I also think it would be improper to sell that con
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by pierat 4y ago
I was there doing early testing, way prior to the filecoin offering. The justification for a computer key (which is a base56 sha) was to make every machine a unique node on the network. Note that IPFS also purports to be a multi-network sys
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by pierat 4y ago
If you do use IPFS, then be aware that it has loads of traps you wouldn't expect. 1. A unique computer key identity is created on startup. 2. It announces every network adapter you have to the dHT, including localhost, docker virtual n
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by pierat 4y ago
I would kindly recommend looking into Jellyfin. It's a FLOSS equivalent of Plex. (And unlike Plex, isn't closed source nagware on 'premium features') But the rest I agree with. And to your point, I just found a trove of
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by pierat 4y ago
This is why I set up Jellyfin on my server. I wanted a smattering from like 10 different services. No I'm not paying 120$ a month. So I pirated every last bit. Turns out friends also wanted to watch them so I made my JF instance availa
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by pierat 4y ago
In my experiences, "morality" is used by other people in order to browbeat their choices into you, via peer pressure or shame. Ethics, on the other hand, is a set of self-imposed rules or rules of a group that you wilfully accept