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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by brabel »

jhardy54 wrote: post #298
_dh54 wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The funny part is that this is the bio in Mozilla’s twitter: “We work to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to all.” I guess by “all” they mean only people with political opinions they support.

In case you're unfamiliar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Unfortunately part of making things "open and accessible to all" means revoking access to people who would weaponize the internet to contradict those goals. A tolerant society means no tolerance for terrorists.

Wonderful sentence in this link:

"But we should claim the right to suppress them (intolerant philosophies) if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols."

How relevant to our age... and this appears in a treatise by philosopher Karl Popper from 1945, who attributed the paradox to Plato's defense of "benevolent despotism"... i.e. the discussion is as old as civilisation itself!

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by Daho0n »

killingtime74 wrote: post #127
Legion wrote: post #111

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I think the person's point is that Mozilla is making a complete browser, rendering engine and all, while Brave is basically a shell of stuff on top of Chromium/Blink.

I don’t think the customer cares as long as you can use it

Those that care enough about privacy to use TOR and IPFS likely care very much about using a browser made by Google. De-googling Chrome is like removing telemetry from Windows 10 over installing and running Linux: For some it's great while others wont touch it no matter how much work is put into making it "safe" (and IMHO Chrome variants are at most "safe").

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by Daho0n »

jjcon wrote: post #136
tarruda wrote: post #65

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It is easier for Brave to deliver new features when the biggest work is done by Chrome team.

> It is easier for Brave to deliver new features when the biggest work is done by Chrome team. Do you think Mozilla will ever switch to chromium? It is the linux of the web - would be nice if they could finally focus and stop dressing up their dead horse.

Would you like "the linux for the web" to join "the iOS for the web"?

Such hyperbole.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by Daho0n »

electriclove wrote: post #316
abdulmuhaimin wrote: post #238

Brave is becoming more and more compelling. How I wish they develop their own engine(I know, tough task), or at least use Firefox's. Chromium based browser is really a deal breaker for me

Why is a Chromium based browser a deal breaker?

Not OP but for me it is a deal breaker too. On-top of the privacy issues with most variants Chrome is also the new Internet Explorer, monoculture and forced "standards" and all. Firefox would have to become really bad for me to even consider switching and, again IMHO, Firefox is also better than most critics say it is. Every time I see a critic of FF I have a hard time taking it seriously as most are hyperbole or FUD. Like "it uses x GB RAM!" and I look in Task manager and see it uses way way less*. It seems it has become hip to attack Mozilla and Firefox all the while using Chrome, Gmail and Google search (or if really hip all of these except DDG instead of Google search).

* Atm. on my PC Firefox with 3 sites open and 10 add-ons installed (Including adblocker, decentraleyes and containers) uses 630,5MB RAM and 0 - 0,3% (of a very old I7) CPU.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by samoa42 »

aloisdg wrote: post #365
feross wrote: post #170

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Also, they integrate my WebTorrent project ( https://webtorrent.io ) so that .torrent files and magnet: links just work out-of-the-box. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035025231-Wha...

Opera used to support torrents out of the box back in 2006. Good old days.

was going to say this.

amazing what can be forgotten and reinvented in an industry moving in circles.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by VoxPelli »

Acrobatic_Road wrote: post #327
VoxPelli wrote: post #157

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Just a note that it's nowadays not `dat:` but `hyper:`, a rename of the protocol, that's used by Beaker: https://hypercore-protocol.org/

I know they renamed it, but something inside me want me to keep saying dat. It's familiar.

Same here, and it’s more specific than “hyper”

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by gadders »

drak0n1c wrote: post #375
gadders wrote: post #356

"Hey, check out this cool image of a van Gogh painting I found. It's at ipfs://bafybeiemxf5abjwjbikoz4mc3a3dla6ual3jsgpdr4cjr3oz3evfyavhwq/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh.html" I think they need to work on making these urls human readable.

That's what IPNS is doing, which is like DNS for IPFS. Another comment mentioned this example: ipns://kickscondor.com

In that case then, this sounds pretty cool.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by imtringued »

jhardy54 wrote: post #298
_dh54 wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The funny part is that this is the bio in Mozilla’s twitter: “We work to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to all.” I guess by “all” they mean only people with political opinions they support.

In case you're unfamiliar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Unfortunately part of making things "open and accessible to all" means revoking access to people who would weaponize the internet to contradict those goals. A tolerant society means no tolerance for terrorists.

Well, in the case of violence it is quite easy to pass judgement and just lock them up. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to those terrorists. Even if they only talk bullshit you should at least try to understand why they became terrorists or else you will just declare more and more people as terrorists because it is the easy way out.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by StavrosK »

krspykrm wrote: post #144
fabianhjr wrote: post #139

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I see less than 1% cpu usage and 200mb memory usage and 4% spikes while serving my personal website or fetching an IPFS resource. (Though on a Linux system I also modified the low water setting up to 1000 peers and the high water setting to 2000 peers)

Yeah I just tried downloading the latest version and it looks much better now. I remember I tried ~3 years ago or so and it was horribly inefficient, so I deleted it, then gave it another shot around a year ago and came to the same conclusion. But yes, from running it ~10 minutes just now, it looks quite reasonable.

Yeah, they did improve it recently (within the past year or so). I see that Brave uses a gateway by default, I guess that's good for adoption but bad for decentralization. Then again, users don't care about decentralization as much as they care about convenience, so that's a good first step.
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