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Re: Show HN: ORC – Onion Routed Cloud

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Post by herbst »

sp0rkyd0rky wrote: post #29
herbst wrote: post #28

This sounds interesting and got me thinking, i have some high bandwidth storage just sitting around. However i the machine runs on a skylake pentium and docker seems overkill. Is there anything like this that works without docker?

It's not required to run in docker, just there for ease of setup. Check out https://orcproject.github.io/orc/tutorial-install.html

Nice. Seems there is a error tho:

    npm install -g @orcproject/orc
only works as:

    npm install -g orcproject/orc

Re: Show HN: ORC – Onion Routed Cloud

#32

Post by sp0rkyd0rky »

herbst wrote: post #31
sp0rkyd0rky wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not required to run in docker, just there for ease of setup. Check out https://orcproject.github.io/orc/tutorial-install.html

Nice. Seems there is a error tho: npm install -g @orcproject/orc only works as: npm install -g orcproject/orc

Oo! Sorry hasn't been published to npm yet, still prepping for beta. Try `npm install orcproject/orc` to get the latest from master branch on github.

Re: Show HN: ORC – Onion Routed Cloud

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Post by sp0rkyd0rky »

herbst wrote: post #31
sp0rkyd0rky wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not required to run in docker, just there for ease of setup. Check out https://orcproject.github.io/orc/tutorial-install.html

Nice. Seems there is a error tho: npm install -g @orcproject/orc only works as: npm install -g orcproject/orc

Aanndd just saw you did that already.

Re: Show HN: ORC – Onion Routed Cloud

#34

Post by sp0rkyd0rky »

kyledrake wrote: post #27
trevor-e wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yikes, there are a lot of grievances being aired in that thread. To clear up any confusion: Yes, I have forked my work on Storj and have given it to Counterpoint to help raise some money to continue to develop it. Please note that this project is not a competitor to Storj as it is fully distributed, there is no business model (because there are no bridges), and it is managed by a 501c3 organization. Edit: see https:/…

I don't know the Storj project or this situation well, but the timeline of events I've gathered from reading those reddit comments is: - You acquired some "pre-mine" tokens (apparently with no vesting) - You pre-sold those tokens before the fundraiser - You quit the company shortly after - You then proceeded to slander the company on Reddit (something something "radical transparency") - You then forked the company's…

Also I should clarify on the sale of the tokens. This was SJCX, it wasn't a premine, but that token had been trading for years and I held mine for well over a year. I never held any of the tokens that were part of the recent sale.

Re: Show HN: ORC – Onion Routed Cloud

#36

Post by djsumdog »

polle626 wrote: post #16
woodandsteel wrote: post #12

This looks like the opposite of IPFS in terms of what gets stored on your computer if you are part of the network. On IPFS, something gets on your computer only if you decide to let it, and there are blacklists to automatically keep off material you don't want. On ORC, it seems that encrypted pieces of everything get stored, so you can wind up with all sorts of things you don't want, but on the other hand might be ab…

Well, in ORC you get paid for storing things, in IPFS you don't.

Another comparison would be FreeNet, also where you don't get paid anything, but you don't know what's on your particular hard drive either.

With FreeNet though, you can anonymously post and distribute content to others. I didn't see anything on the page or FAQ indicating if you could create a public key/link (like you can with Mega).

Re: Show HN: ORC – Onion Routed Cloud

#38

Post by polle626 »

woodandsteel wrote: post #19
polle626 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So basically it solves all Freenet problems?

Well, from what I understand, Freenet is a total darknet, with things like sites, email, discussion boards, and so on, whereas ORC is focused just on storage. In fact, ORC is riding on top of tor hidden services, which is also a total darknet.

Freenet is not a "total darknet". It is a key-value storage basically. You can have immutable or mutable keys for data, and with these two things you can implement chat, sites, email, whatever. Freenet email does not implement the same protocols the outworld email does, nor can it communicate with outside emails, but since you must access it through a special client (not through you normal email client) it works.
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