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Bryan touches on an important axes in the question of how to structure decentralized networks in describing sharded search as "too risky to build on today." Designs that a team thi…

One of the points that is made is that since the PDS that's being interacted with here is part of a 'Personal Data Server' rather than the Bluesky product, it ends up able to offer…

https://github.com/djdv/go-filesystem-utils/pull/40 lets you interact with IPFS as an NFS mount

This was a fun project. It's good to know that a lot of the north korean consumer technology does propagate at least to the border areas with China, and so has a chance to be archi…

Likewise, the 'essentially the same' drand is a 2017 paper https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/papers/413.pdf and the league of entropy has been running since 2019, so hard to …

I uploaded these a few years back. glad to see people running across them! They came from a DPRK tablet, and it took some reversing work to recover the PDFs. There's a talk about w…

counterpoint: less disenfranchisement, actions to honor the popular vote at the party and popular vote level (see: super delegates, electoral college, state representation), pertur…

It would be super interesting to overlay the scale of efforts like this one that follow publisher licenses with those of scihub that ignore them. The amount of effort we put into c…

for the last month (v6.6.0 and v6.7.0) libvirt has been released with a new key 453B65310595562855471199CA68BE8010084C9C (first seen:2020-07-20). It hasn't been signed or verified …

it is read-write and shares types with the existing https://github.com/vmware/go-nfs-client for the client side implementation. optimization and testing are ongoing :)

V4 has many more things going on (it's stateful, has a much more complicated locking system integrated, and adds some other points of complexity that get better performance). More …

Most testing has been on a Lan or on the local machine for local VFS use cases. This layer eschews responsibility for multiple concurrent clients for simplicity. No promises you'll…

It defaults to a high port. when mounting, you can pass options to set both NFS and MOUNT port and skip the portmapper.

one of the major attractions of the fuse abstraction layer is that once you have fuse you can interact with more exotic file system types without having to deal with new kernel dri…

Wasn't expecting to see this here! This turned out easier than i was expecting it to be. It's nice to be able to mount a VFS without needing privileges on the server side. The main…

Censorship / availability is the issue. As you lay out, Sybils can be used to target a specific address / piece of content in an attempt to prevent it from being found. The good ne…

For BGP partitions / Significant network outage conditions: You may not find content partitioned on the other side of a netsplit from you, but the degraded condition is that you ca…

The release notes contain a pretty extensive list of what APIs have changed. The path to upgrade the dependencies is probably to run `go get -u ` for the direct dependencies you're…

IPFS is actually a better fit for this than it might appear. It doesn't pro-actively replicate content, so it isn't like bit torrent where everyone is uploading. Instead, it provid…

The note on Timeless at the end is very exciting. https://repeatr.io/welcome/what-is-timeless/ explains timeless as a set of tooling for reproducible builds with a broader and more…

VLDB also just published a paper on a similar, improved bloom-like data structure "Vacuum Filters: More Space-Efficient and Faster Replacement for Bloom and Cuckoo Filters" http://…

There are a few reports of Thiel trying to improve his image over the last couple years. Pressure appears to have been applied to suppress the association with his interest in tran…

No mention of Ithkuil, a conlang notable for attempting to maximize efficiency of expressiveness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil