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by rakoo 4y ago
I typically only use the spec ( https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html ) because it's simple enough, but in case of doubt I guess a third party resource is good. I found https://blog.jse.li/po
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by rakoo 4y ago
I write a bittorrent node. It goes over many topics I'm interested in: potrntially low-level networking, storage, bits and bytes fiddling, concurrency. The protocol is shockingly simple, and the end result is both easily testable and a
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by rakoo 4y ago
So it's our job to use the correct words and tell people what we're really talking about.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Exploitation is at the heart of Capitalism, so I'd rather say Capitalism has worked exactly ad intended for the past 100 years
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by rakoo 4y ago
It's more generic 9p-ish in that it is used to distribute binaries. So you'd use /cvmfs/bin/tar, for example, with support for your specific archive format.
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by rakoo 4y ago
> Web3 means I have all the rights to my data, and ideally, applications can live on beyond their creators. I don't understand how this isn't already solved by existing FLOSS
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by rakoo 4y ago
Bittorrent has clearly shown that p2p can perfectly scale with very little centralization, that is now becoming unneeded. There is an issue with IPFS, not with p2p. My uneducated guess: content in IPFS is split in too small blocks, making t
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by rakoo 4y ago
Using bittorrent in a really decentralized way: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/
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by rakoo 4y ago
If you have a mail account in a company, it is normal to receive company-wide communication
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by rakoo 4y ago
It's probably possible to use ActivityPub to do that. But looking at gargron's messages in this thread, it sounds like Mastodon doesn't want to continue in the "1 instance = 1 community" direction.
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by rakoo 4y ago
It is very interesting that "reply all" is a forbidden action with email. Other mediums have the possibility, sometimes by default, to let messages and replies be visible by everyone not just in the conversation but in the whole w
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by rakoo 4y ago
> Almost none of the things linked there are run by serious isps that are responsible for other peoples' mail in quantities of tens of thousands of inboxes or more. The whole point of self-hosting is precisely so that no entity runs
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by rakoo 4y ago
There is a kernel of truth though. Many communities are organized per instance, so if you want to be part of multiple communities you must register on multiple instances. You can follow an account, but you can't follow an entire insta
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by rakoo 4y ago
It's like patent trolls are a parasitic industry acting against the betterment of society and they should be fought by public instances paid for by everyone
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by rakoo 4y ago
You basically want something closer to an IM UX. Delta chat does this: https://delta.chat/en/ Only issue: Delta Chat doesn't allow to change the subject, so your conversation with someone is going to be a looooong
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by rakoo 4y ago
This was the whole point of blockchains. No one trusts anyone, everyone is in it for themselves only. The Adam Smith model. And it works, if you don't loom at the disastrous environmental impact.
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by rakoo 4y ago
The initial post talks about slashers as some special entities so I was talking about them
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by rakoo 4y ago
Validators only add transactions to the ledger. What I was talking about is the slasher, which makes sure nodes are behaving correctly.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Thanks for the reply ! 1. So if I get it correctly, there is an actor in charge of surveiling the network. There is no financial incentive to do that which means only a few actors will be running a slasher, and thus completely remove all de
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by rakoo 4y ago
Call me a pessimist, but I have stopped assuming rationality of all actors acting to secure a long-term future, especially in the world of cryptocurrencies
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by rakoo 4y ago
Well this is the same as any blockchain: you can't forge a block with a transaction giving yourself money, but you can double spend the same amount to multiple other accounts. Unless something is different with ETH which I don't k
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by rakoo 4y ago
Wow thanks a lot !
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by rakoo 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation! I have a few questions: - how does the punishment work ? Do all nodes see that a malicious actor changed the chain and write the bad ideas in some ledger meaning "these nodes just lost X ETH" ? - But if
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by rakoo 4y ago
No, the constraints is only you serve content . But once the content is distributed, anyone else can also distribute it.
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by rakoo 4y ago
You still have the same constraints: only you can serve content. The solution I'm talking about is bittorrent. The more people watch your content, the less your servers bear load. That is using the internet to its best potential instea
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by rakoo 4y ago
Use bittorrent. Every viewer is also a source. The more people watch, the less your servers are loaded. Bittorrent is built towards "offline" viewing. Try Peertube for a stack that is more built for streaming and has bittorrent sh
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by rakoo 4y ago
Sure, if you place yourself in an arbitrarily hard problem, it takes a lot to solve it. "How we dug a 100m pit without using machines in 2 days" is an incredible feat, but the constraints only serve those who put them. Serving lar
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by rakoo 4y ago
People I want to follow don't have the technical chops to self-host. One can say it's sad, but I think it's worse that one needs technical chops to self-host. Come up with a way for anyone to publish content from their phon
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by rakoo 4y ago
I don't remember if it was Google or Amazon, but there was a quote that basically said "Make it handle 10x traffic as you have now, design so it can be easily refactored for 100x traffic"
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by rakoo 4y ago
"security" is vast and means different things to different people. Email can absolutely be used for with e2e encryption keeping the content of exchanges from external eyes. Email can absolutely not be used for hiding metadata of w

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