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by synctext 24d ago
> You can simply attach sats that are worth a couple cents to the content. That is a great point! You can attach real money to messages to prevent spamming. However, this has been tried many times and failed to get mass adoption. Frictio
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by synctext 24d ago
> decentralization of power Insightful! We struggle with containing true decentralised protocols like BGP, Bittorrent, and Bitcoin. Email, RSS, and also Nostr are too simple. The core protocol does not contain any measures against spam,
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Researchers Create Self-Replicating Seedbox in Quest for Decentralized Democracy(torrentfreak.com)
5 points by synctext 3mo ago|1 comments
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by synctext 3mo ago
Yeah, 76cm (30 inch) bore hole drilling with standard oil&grass rig. Fill with unshielded nuclear reactor of novel type: super skinny. Gently lower down until depth of 1 mile is reached. Repeat 1000x for a 1 GWe power plant. What could
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by synctext 7mo ago
New info now online. Elon Musk has now confirmed it is about getting regulatory permission for solar panel deployment. These regulation stop deployment at scale. Its cheaper in the future in space (prediction: in 36 months). He was asked di
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by synctext 8mo ago
Could this be about bypassing government regulation and taxation? Silkroad only needed a tiny server, not 150kW. The Outer Space Treaty (1967) has a loophole. If you launch from international waters (planned by SpaceX) and the equipment is
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by synctext 8mo ago
Indeed, graphene seems capable of .99 of black body radiation limit. Quote: "emissivity higher than 0.99 over a wide range of wavelengths". Article title "Perfect blackbody radiation from a graphene nanostructure" [1]. S
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by synctext 8mo ago
Is the SpaceX thin-foil cooling based on graphene real? Can experts check this out? "SmartIR’s graphene-based radiator launches on SpaceX Falcon 9" [1]. This could be the magic behind this bet on heat radiation through exotic mate
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by synctext 8mo ago
Impressive! We're a university lab and published recommendation algorithms. Never knew that doomscrolling could be this addictive this fast, thnx! Please consider taking an hour and push this to a Github with quick readme. Scientists a
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by synctext 1y ago
How to find a nice SHA1 hash? How do keyword search in this list? Search and discovery of quality are unsolved scientific challenges. Fascinating stuff. At our university lab we've been working on this for 25 years. Building a search e
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by synctext 1y ago
Great initiative! Note Re-Decentralise from 10 years ago with few hundred projects: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet/blob/... This specific format includes details to see which projects
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by synctext 1y ago
This is a difficult project. The blog post seems to hint at reasonable feasibility, this stuff is hard! We build a less ambitious tool in the university lab: "ASTANA: Practical String Deobfuscation for Android Applications Using Progra
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by synctext 1y ago
The MIT NANDA lab seems to have a link rot problem. Their cardinal code repo is also 404. The NANDA Lab also does coding, their publication at AAAI 2025 is titled: "CoDream: Exchanging dreams instead of models for federated aggregation
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by synctext 1y ago
Indeed! Advanced countries will and have blocked apps. For a more extensive discussion on censorship resilient mesh networking, see IETF Internet Standard draft from 2012 [1]. After the Arab Spring there was global hope. Great to see reviva
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by synctext 1y ago
Eurisko is an expert system in LISP from 1983. right? In 2025 this formal logic is replace with stochastic LLM magic. interesting evolution.
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by synctext 1y ago
Impressive! Will you parse the papers in the future? Without citations this is not that usable for professors or scientists in general. The relevance ranking largely depends on showing these older, prominent papers. (from our lab experience
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by synctext 1y ago
Impressive design! Are you assuming bandwidth is free and abundant? Mycoria routers, proxies, Tor exit nodes, and VPNs are difficult to run. There needs to be an global incentive, economy, or private community usually. Our Delft University
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by synctext 2y ago
Less jokey? This great packaging has a critical social media tone for me. Absolutely amazing fun and addictive showing almost dark patterns. For a deep dive: "Ethics of the attention economy: The problem of social media addiction"
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by synctext 2y ago
> The great pseudoscience of this 'computer science' thinking You spelled Nobel-level science wrong. Most of Levin work is not easy to understand or appreciate. Our university lab has been doing cooperative intelligence for dec
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by synctext 2y ago
see e-Beam system Wikipedia page
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by synctext 2y ago
indeed, Tailscale was the first to realise this. We added specific 4G and 5G mobile features. these carrier-grade boxes have often non-random port allocations. "By relying on provider-aware IPv4 range allocations, provider-aware port p
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by synctext 2y ago
This slowly alters the essence of The Internet, due to the permissionless nature of running any self-organising system like Bittorrent and Bitcoin. This is NOT in Android, just isolated Web Apps at desktops at this stage[0]. The "direc
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by synctext 2y ago
> many confounding factors Indeed. May 2022 TechCruch [0] about sexism at workplace: "Privacy watchdogs in Europe are considering a complaint against Apple made by a former employee, Ashley Gjøvik, who alleges the company fired her
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by synctext 2y ago
Indeed! It is never simple. Sexy simplistic CP-SAT constraint programming solver versus containers with deep frozen goods or tons of fireworks. Both need to go into a very special place on the ship. Then soft business requirements, keep a
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by synctext 2y ago
From Your Blog: > No Musk ⇒ No Mars Sputnik 2.0 is near. China AI and chip investments are off the charts. Note that China is scheduled to attempt a Mars sample return mission with Tianwen-3. They are scheduled before any other competing
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by synctext 2y ago
Agreed! Direct distribution will completely re-shape the content landscape, I believe. Probably starting with the most dysfunctional industry of "producing" music. The intermediaries are borderline parasitic there. We now have &qu
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by synctext 2y ago
Indeed! Trust is a precious good in society and economy. In Dec 1960 we "decentralised communication", now called The Internet. Bittorrent decentralised broadcasting, leading to streaming revolution. Bitcoin pioneered decentralise
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by synctext 2y ago
There is no crypto in Tribler. We have something much older then Bitcoin. It's a simple ledger who helped whom in the network. Simple case of earning points by helping others. Economically, its complex. Coin creation is decentralised,
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by synctext 2y ago
Tribler does not include a Tor exit node!
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by synctext 2y ago
Indeed, its not about the tech. Changing the business model is key. It might be hard to re-imagine the content industry without the current monopolists. Linux showed how disruptive an open model can be. See here a description + full impleme

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