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coldstartops

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About coldstartops

Building encrypted P2P file systems. https://keibidrop.com

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    Comment #49240958

    KeibiDrop: A Peer to Peer Network latency hiding filesystem: You can work on shared files instantly without uploading or downloading them. 1 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/w…

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    Comment #48931942

    I went full meme, and stacked like 3 level of generators on top of eachother. Level 1: A basic generator does the same stuff: Raw Structs to SoA + Wire Codecs + Bitfields to not wa…

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    Comment #48927473

    > What is driving us towards these tools? Why did your group use the AI, how would you answer the Conclusion questions? As an anectdote: I like low-fi punk music because of the ene…

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    Comment #48890055

    Hi ogig, funilly enough I was also running this boids experiment a few months ago. Managed to get around 8k at 60 fps on 1 thread on my cpu, using golang. My goal for this experime…

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    Comment #48889860

    Two weeks ago presented current state of KEIBIDROP at Pass The SALT 2026, and now I am planning the push for the next version 0.4.0. KEIBIDROP: Makes remote files appear as local (…

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    Comment #48837373

    I think OPs mantra is "Scrape. Automate. Scale." It feels like people who consent to this "passive" income, do not understand what they consent to. The business model seems grey to…

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    Comment #48828441

    I am curious if I got it right, but the business of the company is providing exit nodes for AI bots/ strangers via peoples residential IP's? This is my impression from accessing th…

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    Comment #48802854

    Got a Bachelor + Master, best investment in my life (in terms of time, as I did not pay for education, EU and such). Job stuff not much related with stuff learned in school, someti…

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    Comment #48780522

    I did not measure agents, but lets take the following example: Assume you have a 10 GB blu ray movie that you want to watch without waiting for upload/ donwload time. Maybe you hos…

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    Comment #48780398

    I just had a talk (power-rushed a bit) yesterday at Pass The SALT 2026 talking about (my version of) latency hiding filesystems in userspace over the network. My benchmarks, setups…

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    Comment #48669167

    I see nothing wrong with something probabilistic. I think it is all about offsetting the risk and reducing the odds of bad outcomes. There is this concept of Defence in Depth, thus…

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    Comment #48635550

    Couldn't run your benchmarks, as I did not create an account, and a bit of a different beast that I am comparing against (P2P distributed filesystem), but these are my numbers and …

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    Comment #48634099

    I am curious, how do you handle latency issues for on demand access? I saw you use FUSE (and FSKit), and from my experience it is pain to make filesystems in userspace work on-dema…

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    Comment #48617057

    Google hits 50% IPv6, very good for accessing websites. But my TP-Link router blocks by default inbound IPv6 connections, without any option to configure it, still bad for pure IPv…

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    Comment #48539251

    KEIBIDROP: Peer to Peer Instant file sharing https://keibidrop.com https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop/ It leverages virtual mount points to make file metadata available between…

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    Comment #48409609

    Highly recommend. The exampels are in c/c++ and the same concepts can be ported to other languages like golang. My favorite part of it is Chapter 2 the bit manipulation tricks.

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    Comment #48132155

    Nice! Now the question is: How many classic Reynolds boids can you run on 1 CPU at 60FPS, without using any go routines? I managed to get around 8192 using Serge Skoredin's approac…

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    Comment #48094597

    Let me know how it goes, or frustrations. I admit that currently it is not the most friendly UX. And found out a bug that if no direct P2P possible, it fails to fallback to the STU…

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    Comment #48092472

    Stream on-demand files between your devices. WAN, LAN, Direct IPV6, cross platform, pqc. https://keibidrop.com/ repo: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop

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    Comment #48072363

    It is possible. I tell to use cli app, and for the agent to ad timer and check the status once in a while. Especially if there is something with a long wait. Also if it can run som…

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    Comment #48072341

    I treat the low level tasks as building blocks. You need a grasp and understanding of what is possible with them, but you do not need to remember the exact byte order and syntax. I…

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    Comment #48072226

    Here is a public project. https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop It took me 2 years ago around 2k hours to build a cross platform FUSE vault, without using AI assisted tools. The p…

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    Comment #48007938

    I've been through Introduction to Modern Cryptography by Katz and Lindell. Can recommend, as it starts with Caesars cipher, one time pads, and builds towards modern cryptography.

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    Comment #47953796

    I will add this on the roadmap. At the moment I am trying to add persistent identity, as by default it is ephemeral. But I warn you, there are still some kinks. Only 75% pjdfstest …

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    Comment #47953708

    I tried to explain here the differences, and where it fits in the gap of file transfer tools, also on the blog got some benchmarks and how they where setup. https://keibisoft.com/t…