You know, that massive hub of public and private software projects that is the de facto home of open source.
The place owned by the same corporation that just tried to sneak a total surveillance system into the most used operating system by end users and business on the planet.
A couple of years ago I showed that we could start replacing this with a truly #decentralised alternative. See: #p2pgit
Autonomi have launched their beta network and rewards program.
Anyone can run nodes and if you want to join the fun, sign up for the second wave of noderunner rewards. Even non-technical folks can do this with any old computer.
Autonomi are launching their beta rewards program tonight (8am GMT) and have opened signups for the second wave of noderunners. Anyone will be able to run nodes, even non-technical folks.
Oooooof. @baldur's take on the Jobs to be Done of modern software development is brutal.
The conclusion is pretty sobering too: that LLMs will become embedded in software development because they truly deliver on this promise of churn, and do it at lower cost than software developers.
@elizayer
I remain hopeful. Products ultimately have to work and when they don't those behind them lose.
Reminds me of Jobs and the Apple Newton, the doomed forerunner to the Apple iPod and ultimately the iPhone. All from Jobs' vision and drive, one an utter failure, like the car 🤷♂️. I can hear someone saying why didn't we just put #LLMs in it... 🤦♂️
#p2p can change this, or at least make a dent as big as #FOSS. Together? 🥳 @jimkreft
Many consider that #p2p contradictory to such use cases as organizations, project teams, tasks, wiki, Jira-like or YouTrack-like software, and other use-cases that require restricted access and support of permissions.
But implementing such things would be a fascinating goal per se.
Sadly I don;t have too much time to spend on that, and I am not a pro in P2P development, just a newbie touching this scope with curiosity in this context.
@koteisaev
You don't necessarily need new skills to build #p2p apps these days.
I'm finishing off a demo app which publishes websites to #Autonomi and also acts as a viewer.
I can't really call it a browser because it is very basic, but it does one thing that the current web tooling doesn't support: you can browse every version of any published website, forever. No link rot!
Using #TauriV2 I can build for desktop and mobile, and have done early testing on Windows, Linux and Android.
These little images and characters, used to express emotions or represent characters and actions, are not always understood in the same way by #everyone. Their interpretation can vary according to #cultural context. 🌍 🌎 🌏
You can easily discern the meaning of each emoji at Jami. Want to know how? Read the article! 😍
These stories when #State installs various #spyware such as #pegasus give me not just creepy/eerie feeling.
Such stories questions suitability usage of any electronic device, let it be a linux desktop/laptop or any smartphone, even suc as e/OS equipped, not speaking about standard iOS/Android devices.
And it pushes down motivation for developing any #p2p software as well, just because if your risk model includes government spyware installation on your devices, this is beyond their usage scope.
@koteisaev
I'm hopeful, even confident that #p2p can and will help with device level surveillance such as #Pegasus#spyware one day.
For example, it has been discussed and mitigations proposed on the #Autonomi forum, though not recently. Ideas such as booting from the network using any device, using the secure services it provides and then logging off without leaving traces.
Easier said than done, but something worth assuming for.
Last December, we launched our #donations campaign to accelerate Jami's progress. Five months later, we want to share with you a summary of our campaign, as stated in our commitment to publish a full report to all donors. 🙂
The entire Jami team would like to warmly thank all contributors.❤️
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If only there was a way to integrate peer to peer payments into federated social media without relying on Stripe and Google... Maybe someday it will be discovered!
Sheesh, Mozilla has really lost their way. Putting ads in the search bar? We already have a search engine that does that, we don't need two running at the same time.
@cuchaz
I mostly use #Brave now (with the shit turned off) because #Firefox was degrading in performance and stability, and became unusable on my cheap mobile. For now that's ok.
That #Mozilla are doing this is very sad. I am though hopeful better days are coming, with new ecosystems based on #p2p that will bypass the enclosure and unleash the next generation of openeness & creativity.
I'm literally working on a demo to publish and browse websites on #Autonomi, so it's not just work thinking.
I'm facilitating the first ever GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) Book Club this Saturday (5/18), open to any and all! 📚🤓🐐
Session #1 is on "Networks, Peers & the Virtual Class," with readings from Yochai Benkler, Richard Barbrook, Michael Bauwens, and others. More session details in the link below. #bookclub#foss#reading#p2p
FilePizza is a free peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser. FilePizza never store anything. Because FilePizza uses WebRTC, file transfers ate always fast, private, and secure.
As a fun little experiment, @damon and I worked together to get a #Mastodon instance up and running that stores media on #IPFS! It was an interesting learning experience.
I don’t think we’re ready to announce anything yet, as this was in service of another project in development. But, there’s an increasing number of ways to host content on an IPFS node service, and tie it back to platforms like Mastodon using an S3-compatible API for Object Storage and some proxying.
This is all pretty rudimentary, but the big-brain realization is that a more robust version could be done by pairing Minio to s3x if we wanted to self-host an IPFS node with those specific features.
@deadsuperhero
I expect more of this, not just re #IPFS but as #p2p systems are happening, storage models will change for the better. #Autonomi is the project I'm most familiar with and they have already talked about this and have partners ready to upload their data. They are not yet revealed, but I wouldn't be surprised if replacing AWS was in there.
I'm working on a demo myself in the area of web publishing and browsing, and am very excited about this whole area, so I wish you luck. @damon
@molly0xfff
One answer to that perennial problem is: don't. Start building with p2p as soon as you can and support those who are building #p2p platforms you might use in future, such as #Autonomi.
@root discord will literally crash my laptop, either app or in browser, sharkey does all the flashy real time action and is smooth as budda #C++#keepFossAlive#p2p#hacker