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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Re: HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Post by bombcar »

dmos62 wrote: post #6
jgtrosh wrote: post #2

I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals). The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere? I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and…

Radicle is pretty cool. > Radicle’s Collaborative Objects (COBs) provide Radicle’s social primitive. This enables features such as issues, discussions and code review to be implemented as Git objects. Developers can extend Radicle’s capabilities to build any kind of collaboration flow they see fit.

I was just wondering in another thread how much you could do storing things in git itself.

Re: HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Post by Skinney »

hobofan wrote: post #27
Skinney wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The load will be spread across the network, but I guess the main benefit is that everything continues working even though HardenedBSDs official seed is down. Every user has their own node, and everyone's node talks to several seed nodes. Even if the official HardenedBSD seed is down, there's still going to be another node to sync with.

Does that actually work out in practice? Do you/someone here have experience with that in Radicle? IPFS in theory has a similar model, but in practice I've mostly found that if the original seeder goes away, at least part of a dataset becomes inaccessible.

I'm not doing anything huge, but my local radicle node is connected to ten other nodes at present, one of which is my own hetzner-hosted seed. Even if half of these go down, I still have full access to all the repos I follow.

Re: HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Post by DANmode »

sunshine-o wrote: post #11

Radicle is a legit project that has been around for at least 5 years trying to solve a pretty hard problem. With the awareness of the dangers of Github growing they could really start gaining traction but from what I understand they still have a big problem: you can host a node, the web UI and create repos, link it to your website but it will be hard for people to find your project and code. You are on the internet,…

> maybe it is not Radicle role to provide the front door and code search infrastructure

Why would it be? =]

Re: HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Post by esseph »

fhn wrote: post #30
SoftTalker wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I've ever searched for anything on github. I always follow a link.

that's something you tell your interviewer

Seems silly. I sure wouldn't not hire someone because of that. Might as well be concerned they have a green toothbrush instead of a blue.

Re: HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Post by kernalix7 »

Codeberg / Forgejo are also out there as less radical alternatives, so the choice space isn't binary. But the discoverability gap is real, and so is the loss of all the surrounding infrastructure people don't always think about. CI runners, release hosting, container registry, security advisories. You can replace each of those individually, but doing it all at once is a significant maintenance burden for projects with limited maintainer time.

Re: HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Post by h4kunamata »

csomar wrote: post #3

This is what I am getting > Could not connect to rad.hardenedbsd.org The node may be offline or the address may be incorrect. Select a different node to continue.

That is a bad architecture then, it should be able to identify the node is offline on its own, and connect to the next node available, either by region or speed.
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