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by synctext 2y ago
Tribler does not include a Tor exit node!
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by synctext 2y ago
Indeed, its not about the tech. Changing the business model is key. It might be hard to re-imagine the content industry without the current monopolists. Linux showed how disruptive an open model can be. See here a description + full impleme
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by synctext 2y ago
We love to have more help! Hardest part is debugging. So running Tribler and reporting bug in Github. We are in desperate need of Win/Mac/Linux users which will help us with reproduce bugs. One time we found bugs in Python Async I
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by synctext 2y ago
We simply iterate on Linux and Wikipedia work. The principle we hope will work is to out-compete abusive platforms. Textbooks say capitalism requires realistic future profit and growth. The goal is to show Wall Street that profitability of
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by synctext 2y ago
Yes, you can do end-to-end encrypted hidden seeding. See technical docs (slightly outdated) [1]. Everything in Python was too slow. With Rust implementation we get 10x the speed, 160 Mbit/s anon tunneling. [1] https://github
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by synctext 2y ago
Glad to hear it! Indeed, most platforms have a central point of failure somewhere. Note that Bittorrent swarms never get overloaded, we use that same technique: extreme decentralisation. With increased load that website, discovery server, o
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by synctext 2y ago
Whistleblowing documentary spreading in Europe or upper Americas might go OK with solid operational measures such as open wifi war driving, etc. China, Russia, etc: nope.
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thnx Qem for you enduring patience! We're now multiplexing everything on 1 port. If you use our Tor-like decentralised onion routing feature that works. Sadly, in normal mode we need two forwarded ports. Both Libtorrent download lib an
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by synctext 2y ago
Tribler founding professor here, AMA. 2x on HN frontpage! Most attention we had during 18 years of coding.
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Our university is cycling distance from Amsterdam, everything is legal there. But more seriously, it is indeed difficult to work on CyberPunk 2.0 topics within a university. Solid question! As an academic you critically rely on incoming gra
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by synctext 2y ago
Magnetico is pioneering work. Very simple, very effective. However, with a single 1 Gbps VPS you can take it down. Simply spam at full speed and switch VPN reguarly. Same for Bitmagnet. Usenet, email and now Mastodon show that you need a tr
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yes! Spam is real and every stranger could be a spammer. Decentralised trust is the cornerstone of our work. Big topic 25 years ago around the Pagerank patent time. Now we are one of the last remaining academic teams on this topic. We deplo
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by synctext 2y ago
Tribler founding professor here, AMA. repo stuff: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki#current-items-under-...
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by synctext 3y ago
32 pages of legal details to induce solid sleep: https://torrentfreak.com/images/cox-opinion.pdf "We affirm the jury’s finding of willful contributory infringement. But we reverse the vicarious liability verdict a
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by synctext 3y ago
Impressive 20 year project by one key developer. See 20 year post in German by YaCy founder: https://community.searchlab.eu/t/yacy-vor-20-jahren/1543
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by synctext 3y ago
Or to generalise: 'Eat your own dogfood' Scientific version with nuance of why it might be a bad practice in cases: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2006/03/s3005/13rR...
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by synctext 3y ago
> needs to be some servers available to facilitate the holepunching Not needed. Other phones can help you determine connectable ports. You can create a phone-to-phone overlay and even puncture carrier-grade NATs. See our birthday paradox
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by synctext 3y ago
Very impressive engineering work. Their custom-manufactured hardware must have taken years to develop. All on a non-commercial university low-budget. Energy saving gains are very impressive. This brings back fond memories of failures and (s
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by synctext 3y ago
Here are 63 slowly explaining this system: https://eh17.easterhegg.eu/Fahrplan/system/event_attachments... Quinte neat. It simply using open source to preserve the existing financial players. Financial intermediar
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by synctext 3y ago
> vigorously defending online speech and more aggressively policing content on the platform It goes beyond content moderation. Please remember the root cause of failure: fraudulent bots to push lies. More fake humans exist on Facebook th
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by synctext 3y ago
Tribler developer here. The "Trust framework" that everybody is after: lightness of tit-for-tat with little overhead. With trust that actually can make The Internet a nice place again! Curation is indeed the problem discovered by
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by synctext 3y ago
Indeed very half-baked. This must be quite an insult to the inventor of fully decentralised AI. In 2012 Prof. Jelasity invented gradient mining with SGD, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.1396 Works reasonably well, you proba
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by synctext 3y ago
> There didn't seem to be a call to arms then. The first time I heard about it was September 1, and it was this, you know, like, whoops, we've got a problem. They seem to have significant problems. Its broader then "not di
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by synctext 3y ago
Lets take the bait Internet! 2017 Debunk of this story: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alien-mummy-peru/ Technical DNA report of 24 pages with awesome URL: https://www.the-alien-project.com/wp-c
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> Apple silicone with its unified memory architecture, GPU and Neural cores is very well placed for local LLMs. Yes, university research from 2011 already showed a privacy focused design to machine learning[1]. But will this be private o
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> going to make an impact in AI/LLMs This seems to be made for mass parallelism. Question: Would this scale to 100 million of collaborating 4G/5G smartphones? We have operational federated learning code and decentralised learni
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Thnx for writing! In academia we're getting the next step operational: training on Android. Any advise for us what to watch out for? Obviously you need a bit of patience and lots of volunteer devices. With unsupervised continuous learn
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by synctext 4y ago
Fascinating material, significant progress in learn-to-rank and semantic clustering lately. For those who want to dive deeper, state-of-the-art decentralised learning from academia: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12530 &qu
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The Universal Trust Machine(arxiv.org)
5 points by synctext 4y ago|1 comments
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by synctext 4y ago
A survey on the Web3 path towards enabling long term digital cooperation through decentralised trust

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