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Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by rmrfstar »

Maakuth wrote: post #106
rmrfstar wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I was going to do this in a weekend, I would avoid the NAS device. "The ecosystem is moving", availability, etc. Build a simple system around "content groups", something that people will put in the same mental category as "group chats". Each "content group" has a LUKS encrypted filesystem somewhere in the cloud. Keys are exchanged using Megolm and Matrix rooms. The filesystems are mounted via sshfs and decrypted l…

I mostly like your idea, but filesystems are probably the wrong abstraction for this - concurrency when writes are ongoing is difficult and corruption will likely result. How about something like S3, overlaid with rclone's encryption: https://rclone.org/crypt ? The rest of the system could work like you described, exchanging keys via Matrix.

Wow, rclone is very cool! Works with 50 different storage providers.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by spurgu »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #46
k33n wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made a similar comment. Both will be flagged and removed soon. If there's one thing HN hates, it's people who don't hate Trump. It's sort of ironic that this article purports to be "anti establishment" and then parrots a the most establishment-friendly talking point imaginable.

I downvoted you, but I don’t hate you or your ideas. I just disagree with them.

That's not what downvotes are for (unless you're on Reddit). Downvotes are for wrong or misleading comments. If something is against the rules it can be downvoted and flagged. If you disagree, just move on, ignore the comment. If you support/like a comment, upvote it.

This is at least how I see it on HN.

Edit: Downvoted, sigh.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by spurgu »

k33n wrote: post #80
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you assume hating on Trump is the exclusive domain of simpletons?

Because Trump hate was literally spoon-fed to you. There's not a single rabid Trump hater who hated him before 2016. Ad spend is a heck of a thing. The simpletons can be made to hate or love anyone. It's just PR, and you fell for it.

I couldn't really care less about Trump before he was elected. And mind you I'm from Europe. That said once he became president it quickly became apparent what a danger he presented not only to the US but also to the rest of the world. I'm seeing political echoes all around Europe. Not looking forward to seeing claims of election fraud here in a year or two... and this is just the most recent outrageous thing he's done.

His whole political career has been full of facepalming moments. He is not fit to be a businessman (he's failed at it miserably) and definitely not to lead a country and I'm shocked to see anyone who doesn't realize that. I don't care if the US is run by a republican or a democrat, just let it not be an illiterate moron.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by spurgu »

cxf12 wrote: post #48
spurgu wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably going to (and should) be downvoted as well, but... while I respect republican/conservative views, how can you not see that this moron is the epitome of a shitty wannabe dictator? He's used all his power to try to falsely prove that the election was a fraud (while building up for it all summer), and failing miserably at it. He would definitely try any other viable means if could. I don't even know what his ac…

Read the Trump administrations policy views at whitehouse.gov It's right there in the open.

Do you honestly believe he's written a single line of it himself? Those are the policies written by the party. He doesn't really care as long as people love, support and praise him.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by bullen »

Triv888 wrote: post #97
bullen wrote: post #89

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Not yet, I'm busy making a 3D MMO engine/game from scratch: http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449 Also hesitating between Java and C for the reference implementation. Also waiting for better hardware: LoRa is too closed and Zero uses too much energy! The radio + screen + controls PCB should be one HAT. No point in using a IPS screen that small, better would be a persistent state screen like memory LC…

https://revspace.nl/DecodingLora

I know how LoRa works, I just don't have the money to make my own open-source version at a price that could be affordable!

The problem specifically is that on some chips you cannot control the frequency hopping manually!

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by kubanczyk »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #25

It's not just that corporations own a lot of the physical infrastructure. Another factor is that humans as a group tend to force other humans to commercialize what they do, even if they expressly don't want to do that and would rather publish it without ads, without paywalls, without subscriptions, etc. We do a poor job of making it possible for people who create open source and people who create free content to get…

The elephant in the room (or even a mammoth?) is the social status. If it's not at the center of the analysis, the predictions will be flawed and the actions will drive you in circles.

The pieces of paper with "five dollars" printed on them, and the ways they travel between wallets (aka "the System"), form a very thin layer over the reality of social status (and other more intricate machinery between our collective pairs of ears). There are not many things that can be corrected inside that thin layer, there is about 5000 years of history of innovation in this field already.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by AntiImperialist »

spurgu wrote: post #113
k33n wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Trump hate was literally spoon-fed to you. There's not a single rabid Trump hater who hated him before 2016. Ad spend is a heck of a thing. The simpletons can be made to hate or love anyone. It's just PR, and you fell for it.

I couldn't really care less about Trump before he was elected. And mind you I'm from Europe. That said once he became president it quickly became apparent what a danger he presented not only to the US but also to the rest of the world. I'm seeing political echoes all around Europe. Not looking forward to seeing claims of election fraud here in a year or two... and this is just the most recent outrageous thing he's do…

>That said once he became president it quickly became apparent what a danger he presented not only to the US but also to the rest of the world.

You do realize that all the things you're saying is just spoon-fed garbage that everyone around the world who's exposed to the same PR material would also say, right?

There are many levels of anti-Trump PR material. The political strategists have to try to advertise to various intellectual levels and various kinds of people. The things you are espousing is from the lowest level that is designed to cater to wide variety of lowest information voters.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by buildanduse »

dnautics wrote: post #78

Perhaps this is self-serving of me, since I want to build a product like this, but: I think honestly the problem is that these systems are not consumer-oriented products. I think there is a real desire by people to not have to live as rentiers in the digital marketplace, but there are not really products that cater to that. IMO There's a place for something that merges a NAS, with some sort of overlay over current IP…

Hey dnautics - we just launched the alpha of dDrive - a consumer level storage system implemented on top of the Diode Network - https://support.diode.io/article/irhluyq82j. No promiscuous replication, all peer-based, so availability is solid. Many similar applications are easily enabled with Diode tech.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by buildanduse »

rmrfstar wrote: post #94
dnautics wrote: post #78

Perhaps this is self-serving of me, since I want to build a product like this, but: I think honestly the problem is that these systems are not consumer-oriented products. I think there is a real desire by people to not have to live as rentiers in the digital marketplace, but there are not really products that cater to that. IMO There's a place for something that merges a NAS, with some sort of overlay over current IP…

If I was going to do this in a weekend, I would avoid the NAS device. "The ecosystem is moving", availability, etc. Build a simple system around "content groups", something that people will put in the same mental category as "group chats". Each "content group" has a LUKS encrypted filesystem somewhere in the cloud. Keys are exchanged using Megolm and Matrix rooms. The filesystems are mounted via sshfs and decrypted l…

I think more and more people are caring if their life story is recorded, but the majority are not there yet. And, for the folks who care, there are no viable places to turn. It is a driving force behind Diode (diode.io) - most of our tech is open source and we are looking for collaborators who want to grow local and connect global.

Re: Winning back the Internet by building our own

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Post by buildanduse »

Nbox9 wrote: post #90
dnautics wrote: post #78

Perhaps this is self-serving of me, since I want to build a product like this, but: I think honestly the problem is that these systems are not consumer-oriented products. I think there is a real desire by people to not have to live as rentiers in the digital marketplace, but there are not really products that cater to that. IMO There's a place for something that merges a NAS, with some sort of overlay over current IP…

Have you looked at Western Digital’s My Cloud? It’s more or less what you described.

For storage, My Cloud and other centralized systems (e.g. QNAP and Synology offerings) give some usability, but they are limited to storage and still use a central server. We are trying to get Diode tech widely adopted - it is a network that enables N to N private, fully trustless, tunnels. We implemented dDrive (https://support.diode.io/article/irhluyq82j) over it (in Alpha) that can map any storage (laptop, server, NAS, etc...) so that peers can privately access, or so that you can easily share files without having to use centralized storage / email. Telegram group at https://t.me/diode_chain.
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