some-username

6 ms·

1.
by some-username 3y ago
Why I find it kind of cute is that those buys (GNS fcfs) are basically meaningless - in a p2p system everyone can just host a service like this.
2.
by some-username 3y ago
I find it kind of cute that they set up this mock-up currency 'kudos' to toy around with it. ( https://demo.taler.net/en/ ) What makes it (more) cute is that you can use it to reserve entries in their GNS first
3.
by some-username 3y ago
Won't the vendors just design their prices in a way that it's economically feasible for them - they just include the transaction costs in the price?
4.
by some-username 3y ago
...and, as quoted by sunshine_reggae, lower transaction costs.
5.
by some-username 3y ago
My understanding here is that the main objective is to break up the MasterCard/Visa duopoly. I guess breaking up duopolies is always a win for the general public, no?
6.
by some-username 3y ago
People should know that 1. it's not based on any kind of blockchain, 2. it's not a currency, it's a payment system which you could use to transfer other currencies (euro, dollar, ...) and 3. unlike most blockchain-based curre
7.
by some-username 4y ago
You might want to have a look at the GNS (GNU Name System): https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.ht... To my understanding, this enable
8.
by some-username 5y ago
There has been a rust-library for signal in the works. I read some discussion on it that made it clear the aim was to develop a proper signal-desktop application. The rust-library has a cli, which is not quite finished. https://g
9.
by some-username 5y ago
I was not surprised that it happens, but I was quite astonished about the extent of it. Also it's nice to have proof and insight.
10.
by some-username 5y ago
You might want to have a look at presage - an implementation in rust: https://github.com/whisperfish/presage
11.
by some-username 6y ago
You can find the main changes over the last version in the first chapter of the specification: https://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/otrv4/-/blob/master/otrv4.md#main-... Quote: - Security level raised to 224 b
12.
by some-username 6y ago
Yes, sure. But that's fine - everyone who wants to have their GNS can design their own DHT. It's still outside of the spec. (Which makes a lot of sense to me.)
13.
by some-username 6y ago
Also from Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed. Not mind bending for someone who spent some time trying to imagine a anarchist society (but still quite enriching), but maybe for others.
14.
by some-username 7y ago
About the same time that "Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570684 ).
15.
by some-username 7y ago
Don't you think that "ideological reasons" can be quite a good reason to do things? Besides, following ideological reasons only means to value certain (other) aspects higher for evaluating the question how good something is.
16.
by some-username 7y ago
If you're interested in contributing: https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html
17.
by some-username 7y ago
Tutorials: Install: https://gnunet.org/en/install.html In a Nutshell usage (wip): https://gnunet.org/en/use.html
18.
by some-username 8y ago
"Physical impossibilities of p2p models" - Although there might be structural limitations, I think they're not too strong. Just because we currently do not have a major p2p network doesn't mean that it's not poss
19.
by some-username 8y ago
Let it run on the router or NAS...
20.
by some-username 8y ago
Yes, cryptocurrencies was one way. (I don't think that it's really complicated.) But on the other hand I don't think that it's really expensive. As in have a RasPi lying around at home that's keeping track of everyt
21.
by some-username 8y ago
The content could live at peers that are online all the time. This could be either your own node or not. If it's not your own node the network has to be designed in a way that the online node does not learn a bit about what it is stori
22.
by some-username 8y ago
I fully agree. The problem is that it's even harder to design something that is fully p2p than something federated. (One thing that tries to be exactly what you want would be https://secushare.org/ But its in a very ve
23.
Pyra-Phone(lists.goldelico.com)
1 points by some-username 9y ago|0 comments
24.
Awesome Rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources(github.com)
2 points by some-username 9y ago|0 comments
25.
by some-username 9y ago
If you're no big company, it's quite hard to build a device that is somewhat free, has current hardware specs and is cheap. There's a small company that is trying to continue the openmoko phones: GolDelico ( http://