A close friend of mine used to work for the EPA until last year. He described it as an organization that formalizes bribes for exceptions, a simple cost of doing business.

But of course, billionaires are so greedy that that wasn’t good enough and they don’t want to pay the bribes anymore.

No, billionaires are above the law.

I’m concerned about the large amount of low quality, vaporware/crypto applications built on IPFS which is the same core technology used here. It’s concerning how many clicks it takes to get technical specs for the underlying work, like libp2p for the network layer, which itself espouses only vague ideas on its main website that seems to focus a lot more on presentation than technical merit. Even the GitHub admits that the spec that most of these apps are relying upon is, well, unspecified.

Your project source downloads and runs an executable. That’s a little bit SUS; it would be much better if you compiled/built this core code as part of your build process, else, it’s not much in the way of source code, no? But, it works. It seems to delegate just fine, and few understand how to actually talk IPFS directly. But, this is the most important part!

I think the biggest tell that IPFS borders on vaporware is that there’s very little discussion about concrete specifications and the main problem faced by all DHTs: how you get your data to actually stay hosted on the network over time. These ideas are not new, and you may be better served building your app on technology that has spent vastly more time understanding the fundamental problems.

https://specs.ipfs.tech/

This is how you write a spec without actually writing a spec. And I’ve written a lot of specs.

https://geti2p.net/spec

This is how you write a spec. Excruciating detail of what actually gets sent over the wire at different levels of the design starting from the very bottom.

Anyway, just my 2c. It’s cool you’ve got functionality at this level and that’s commendable, but I feel it’s built on shoddy foundation of an immature technology. At least it should be easy to migrate to something else in the future as the distributed technology is offload to a separate binary anyway.

Note: Various edits for clarification and to ensure I focus on the code and not the human.

No, sorry. It’s a bribe.

If you’re willing to donate bandwidth, I suggest I2P or a public SyncThing node. My server chews through a terabyte of bandwidth helping people securely access their files. I also run Tor’s Snowflake proxy which helps users reach the network.

I2P is Java. SyncThing and Snowflake are written in Go which means you can’t pull off typical memory corruption attacks in these relatively safe languages, and it’s fairly easy to run them in a container.

I don’t feel like it makes a huge difference for me and I run quite a few servers. It’s mainly the cooling costs in the summer months that run up the bill.

BOINC is great. In its day, you could get an enormous amount of computing power on a shoestring budget thanks to volunteers. It also helped the volunteers feel like they were more a part of something, because they were! I used to have a small server farm crunching numbers for science.

Unfortunately, the landscape has changed. Some projects are still around, but many of the big players have left. Computing power is a lot more accessible now, and the main limitation is time spent analyzing the data rather than the computation itself. Cloud computing can make just about any computation happen fast for a reasonable price without having to own all of that hardware. GPUs have exploded in computation capacity. Just, a lot of factors came together where the need isn’t as great.

With that said, I still run it on one mini PC, but the payoff for having to write your application in a distributed fashion doesn’t have the return on investment that it used to.

It’s not about the money. It’s about hurting people.

Same I just throw it in a desk at work. It’s encrypted anyway.

I hunger to see Tesla turn into a penny stock.

Great work, Canada! Stand strong and tall.

Why is it when I read one of these news articles China always appears to negotiate from a position of strength while Trump sounds like a bumbling idiot?

I don’t even get to see any of that money. Yet, I have to live on a dying planet with the rest of you.

Not doing this would require not being an idiot, which is simply too much to ask of the USA lately.

If the Nazis don’t like you, you’re doing something right.

No honor among thieves.

Robber barons at “work.”

He literally announced on Truth Social now is time to buy right before he announced the change.

There’s no arguing about it. The intent is to manipulate the market to make his friends rich.

The correct feeling is shame. We should be ashamed of this country and its people.

Why stop there? Why not make them 1,000,000%?

Self-destruction or bust.