mich-unhosted

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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
fair enough, still, it never hurts to have free software alternatives to commercial software. in installed software, we are already used to having the option to use linux, OpenOffice, mysql, etcetera. in hosted software, currently, the only
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
i can see your point, but there are some differences. the main one is that freenet is anonymous, and unhosted is not. i think unhosted is, if anything, most similar to SMTP: a protocol with which an application, that is inherently 'hosted'
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
you would need decentralized search algorithms. i haven't looked at that much myself, but there are some projects out there that seem interesting. to give an idea: when my friend is logged in, his browser could run algorithms that send me r
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
yes, that's a good point. in cloud services there are at least 3 options, and no monopoly (yet). also, we understand the big value that SaaS if offering people. that's exactly why we want to offer free software alternatives in that area. if
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
it is definitely full of complicated issues, but we have already found solutions for some of them (not all yet). please join our mailing list and help think about the remaining ones. it will at least be interesting to have a place where peo
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
like in PGP, you would use a session key: symmetric encryption of the thread, then encrypt that symmetric key once for every thread- or forum member. you can only add people to this; to remove people from a thread you would need to send the
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
I hadn't even thought of that angle! i guess businesses also have civil rights online. :) and mainly: it might help us bootstrap the ecosystem. thanks! it means we should write the unhosted storage node in AWS, GoogleApps, etc, because that
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
i updated www.unhosted.org/manifesto.html to include some more info on how it works. the code does not claim to be anything more than a proof of concept. As you say, it's a silly 100-line php script, nothing more than that. it is also not
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
> Nice, seeding a cryptographic! PRNG with math.random(). that file is part of the JavaScript Big Numbers library by Tom Wu, which unhosted builds on top of. sorry if that wasn't clear, maybe i should create subdirs to better indicate c
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
Communication between app and unhosted storage node is over HTTP, yes. In the current version. But the unhosted storage node wouldn't care if it's a browser or a desktop app / phone app / tablet app that's talking to it.
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by mich-unhosted 16y ago
We updated the page this links to, but added a link to the previous version for reference.