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happyborg

@happyborg@fosstodon.org

Working on #decentralization, #p2p and #dWeb tech, online #privacy and #security, #CopyLeft, #FOSS, #Rust and #autonomi (find me on https://forum.autonomi.community as happybeing).

Note: autonomi was called #SafeNetwork.

Possibly still maintaining #vdash on github.

The #fediverse is a lifeboat, #p2p is the shore.

#nobridge #noaitraining #norobots

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raucao, to ethereum
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Aside from Proof of Stake being inherently insecure and it being inherently impossible to validate the current state from scratch, this is how "everyone can be a validator" is going in :

At current price, the minimum stake to become a validator is equal to ~60K USD.

Now they're discussing raising the maximum to ~3.7M USD, because too many early bag holders want in on the 5% money-printing scam, so the current wait time to become a validator is ~44 days.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/06/19/ethereum-developers-propose-raising-validator-limit-to-2048-ether-from-32-ether/

happyborg,
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@raucao PoS has more than one meaning 😉

jsbarretto, to random
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I used to work for one of only a handful of companies that make to-order manned submarines like this. I was just a software guy but got to see a lot of the engineering & safety analysis done on the entire thing, all the way from the physical things like the pressure hull to stuff like ballast pump designs & electrical system failure modes.

There were always at least 2-3 backup systems for everything that could possibly go wrong. Anything controlled by software always had mechanical overrides.

happyborg,
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@jsbarretto only a few days ago I watched Kursk - The Last Mission, which focuses on the failure to get a rescue sub docked to the Kursk in time to save the 18 survivors trapped inside.

One of the back stories was that the Russian Navy had sold off two of their three rescue subs. So only had one and it wouldn't dock.

One of those subs had been sold to a company using it to take tourists to see the Titanic. 🤦‍♂️

happyborg,
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@jsbarretto especially where water is involved, even moreso sea water, and of course under water.

P.S. I live on a boat. 🤔

When I was a kid I got to visit a guy in Devon who built his own sub and had it in his back garden. I got to get inside and imagine what it would be like.

He did a successful test in the local harbor. It was a big metal gas tank on four big wheels.

When we arrived and asked if we could see it, dad asked "is it yellow?" 😉 but the guy didn't get it. Lovely chap.

happyborg,
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@jsbarretto I've also been inside a British S-class sub (and a partial mock up of a nuclear sub).

So I have first hand knowledge and some understanding of the conditions, all of which makes me glad I'm claustrophobic and would never be able to go to sea in such a vessel. Learning to scuba was a big challenge, many similar problems but fewer failure points and most of them are you!

Even a nuclear sub is tiny and yet movies mostly paint them as enormous spaces inside compared to the reality.

happyborg,
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@jsbarretto Maybe, but it was a long time ago. I remember the guy's back garden (high up with a view I think) and the sub quite well. It looked really well done, solid, well finished and very simple inside with a small oval window pointed down at one end.

He had a newspaper clipping with a photo of the sub driving [sic] into the harbour.

Don't tell me it was your dad! 🤣

happyborg,
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@jsbarretto

Well, my visit would probably be mid 1970's. I'd guess 75 or 76 so that fits.

Wow, how funny.

I always wonder about all the connections we must have with people we meet, but never discover. Or how often we pass close by people we know without seeing them.

We live in an ocean of possibilities but are blind to almost all of them. I guess this is why meditating on things, focusing attention etc are such valuable skills - uncovering things that are staring us in the face.

happyborg, to random
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If you're not a super rich racing driver with a personal chef, maybe what's good for isn't what's good for you. 🤔

drdrmc, to random
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"If we endorse the view that AI is all-powerful, we are endorsing the view that it can alleviate people of responsibility for their actions -- militarily, socioeconomically, whatever," Also points out big tech has been doing this with plain old algorithms for years… https://www.wired.com/story/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-ai-apocalypse/

happyborg,
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@drdrmc there's a big difference between power and responsibility. Look around.

taeluralexis, (edited ) to random

Saw some guy tweet "I dont hire ppl who dye their hair into weird colors" I almost responded but then I reminded myself that my new years resolution wasn't to argue with idiots so I just minded my business lol.

Some of the dopest people I ever met? Technical warriors with colorful hair, tattoos all over, open about their identity and interests, and some of the nicest people ever. They write the sickest Rust tools, doing devops or security or whatever, making OS contributions to the freaking tools he's probably using, could def code circles around that guy. People like that guy are missing out on some of the brightest ppl in tech because he chooses to be limited in his thinking.

happyborg,
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@taeluralexis it's one of the reasons the Nazis failed. Diversity maximises talent, inclusiveness maximises community etc.

thekerker, to reddit
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You know what sucks? Spotify is apparently draining my phone's battery, and normally in situations like this I'd turn to to see if anyone is experiencing similar issues. But since I've deleted my account and effectively blocked the site, that's a no go.

I'll try to find something on or but I'm not too hopeful.

happyborg,
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@thekerker @jimvernon make sure to ask the q and follow up with any experiments and results.

FYI there's a fedi alt to too: @codidact.

Good luck!

happyborg, to Futurology
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Bill: Facebook is abusive, monetizes hate and Zuck insults his users. We should build something that isn't owned by anyone.

Ted: Yo, let's do it.

...

Bill & Ted: Hey, everyone join our fediverse, it's not Facebook, you still need admins but it rocks.

Fedi Admins: Facebook / want to be let in, let's wait and see if they're nice.

Me: 🤦‍♂️ 🤯

Many on @fosstodon: Good call admins, we like your approach because you are good people.

Me: fedi is the lifeboat but p2p will be the shore.

pietercolpaert, to random
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Auch, the weather forecast website of Belgium is down (context: upcoming thunder and lightning). How could they not have predicted this spike in interest? 😅

happyborg,
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@pietercolpaert shocking 🌩️

ianbetteridge, to random
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    happyborg,
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    @ianbetteridge that is true but communities are not uniform. I'm on an instance that is taking a wait and see attitude which I strongly disagree with. This illustrates two things.

    The fediverse is not a democracy and individuals are still dominated by an elite. A good natured elite, but IMO, misguided and leading lambs to the slaughter. Time will tell, but why the fuck take that risk? 🤷‍♂️

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    happyborg,
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    @ianbetteridge
    Secondly, it shows that fedi, while a step in the right direction, retains the weaknesses of a server/service model. It is vulnerable, and we know Meta will try and I expect, will find a way to screw it.

    TL;DR: The fedi is the lifeboat, but p2p will be the shore.

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    happyborg,
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    @ngo @ianbetteridge
    I'm not hung up on democracy. I'm pointing out that instances are dictatorships and even 'voting' with my feet really has no influence as Kev implied in wishing me luck.

    I bear no malice and TBH this is exactly what I expect. It is the reason corporations can behave the way they do. They are the 'AI' that has learned how to exploit human weaknesses at scale, to the point where they are increasingly in control of the systems of governance and even thought. 🤷‍♂️

    happyborg,
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    @ngo @ianbetteridge thanks but moving has no influence so I will in fact have less by doing so (migration loses followers, post history and takes time at from productive activities).

    So I'm going to stay having considered the bigger picture.

    All the let's see our it will hurt Meta more takes are extremely irritating but I will cope. 🤷‍♂️

    "Hitler and friends want to join our club, so let's see how it goes." 🤔

    happyborg, to internet
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    The issue with is not Facebook accessing what is public data FFS 🤦‍♂️

    Why ''s admins focus on that leaves me very confused.

    The issue is that are who they are and there is no way we should wait to see their play before shutting them out.

    This is why I believe...

    Fedi is a lifeboat but p2p will be the shore.

    So long as we let people, even smart ones with good intentions, have power over us, they will screw up.

    I'm looking for an instance that will pre-block.

    fosstodon, to random
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    Here's our position on the "Facebook joining the Fedi" mess...

    https://hub.fosstodon.org/facebook-fosstodon-fedi

    happyborg,
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    @fosstodon this completely missed the point.

    It doesn't matter if some, many or even most, misguidedly flagged privacy concerns.

    What matters is who Meta are, not what they do when they are allowed in.

    They should not be a part of something that was created as a response to their abusive, sociopathic and damaging business model. That admins think the folks who came here should "wait and see", is ridiculous IMO.

    So I'm looking for instances that will block Meta right away.

    Suggestions?

    happyborg,
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    @kev @fosstodon You too Kev.

    jsbarretto, to random
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    So, here's an interesting problem to nerd-snipe y'all.

    Let's say you have a distributed p2p network, akin to IPFS, used for storing files.

    Everything is content-addressed (i.e: you hash some data and that's now its 'ID' that you use to look it up in the network).

    Most files are too big to upload as single pieces of data, so you split them up into chunks, upload reach chunk, and then upload some sort of 'index' file that just lists the IDs of each of the chunks.

    (1/2)

    happyborg,
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    @jsbarretto might be interesting to compare with SN 'self encryption '. Different goals maybe but interesting to critique each against the other.

    Maybe not before you've explored your own ideas though.

    I think it is described well in https://primer.safenetwork.org

    See links at the end of S6. Much of the primer needs updating as the design has since changed (eg no longer use sections or node age) but anything on self encryption and chunks should be up to date.

    happyborg,
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    @jsbarretto I think it's a balanced approach and there will still be enormous deduplication affects in a global storage system (no file, video, mp3, gif, PDF etc stored more than once).

    Compression before encryption also saves space.

    And encrypting all chunks, even public data makes it hard to know what data is stored in a node (to target the owner) or is flowing across the network. That's is good for privacy and anti-surveillance/censorship.

    As I said, different goals.

    happyborg,
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    @jsbarretto I don't know how SN above this but that is what it does. No file is stored more than once.

    happyborg,
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    @jsbarretto SN does both, but encrypting everything protects those providing storage as well as the content of private data.

    stux, to random
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    I'm gonna try to clear up a few things

    Meta is not gonna buy Mastodon or any server, this is based on absolutely nothing and untrue.

    Yes, some of us indeed got contacted by Meta/Insta because they are working on a new social platform (this was in the news) and they are looking into joining the Fediverse (Mark Zuckerberg also told this in the recent podcast)

    SO.

    This contact was about a "heads-up" for a potential big platform to join the network and not for a "take over".

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    happyborg,
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    @stux so ’king naive. It's as if Facebook/meta have no history.

    Fedi was created in response to their abuses and the business models that they epitomise. No way should we have anything to do with them.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Choosing a Mastodon instance is easy once you understand each instance’s values, customs, belief systems, and inter-instance alliances and feuds dating back 1,000 years.

    happyborg,
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    @MissingThePt

    👆 Fedi is the lifeboat, p2p will be the shore.

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