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by willscott 2y ago
Bryan touches on an important axes in the question of how to structure decentralized networks in describing sharded search as "too risky to build on today." Designs that a team thinks will be able to scale are going to be differen
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by willscott 2y ago
One of the points that is made is that since the PDS that's being interacted with here is part of a 'Personal Data Server' rather than the Bluesky product, it ends up able to offer infinite free data storage. This seems like
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by willscott 3y ago
https://github.com/djdv/go-filesystem-utils/pull/40 lets you interact with IPFS as an NFS mount
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by willscott 3y ago
This was a fun project. It's good to know that a lot of the north korean consumer technology does propagate at least to the border areas with China, and so has a chance to be archived and kept available into the future.
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by willscott 4y ago
Likewise, the 'essentially the same' drand is a 2017 paper https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/papers/413.pdf and the league of entropy has been running since 2019, so hard to know exactly what
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by willscott 5y ago
I uploaded these a few years back. glad to see people running across them! They came from a DPRK tablet, and it took some reversing work to recover the PDFs. There's a talk about what went into getting them uploaded: https:/&#x2F
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by willscott 6y ago
counterpoint: less disenfranchisement, actions to honor the popular vote at the party and popular vote level (see: super delegates, electoral college, state representation), perturbation of the 2 party system to allow representation of posi
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by willscott 6y ago
It would be super interesting to overlay the scale of efforts like this one that follow publisher licenses with those of scihub that ignore them. The amount of effort we put into curation due to license and the amount of content lost becaus
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by willscott 6y ago
for the last month (v6.6.0 and v6.7.0) libvirt has been released with a new key 453B65310595562855471199CA68BE8010084C9C (first seen:2020-07-20). It hasn't been signed or verified by any other source in libvirt / redhat yet. http
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by willscott 6y ago
it is read-write and shares types with the existing https://github.com/vmware/go-nfs-client for the client side implementation. optimization and testing are ongoing :)
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by willscott 6y ago
V4 has many more things going on (it's stateful, has a much more complicated locking system integrated, and adds some other points of complexity that get better performance). More than I was ready to take on for a first pass :)
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by willscott 6y ago
Most testing has been on a Lan or on the local machine for local VFS use cases. This layer eschews responsibility for multiple concurrent clients for simplicity. No promises you'll get either decent performance or proper cache invalida
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by willscott 6y ago
It defaults to a high port. when mounting, you can pass options to set both NFS and MOUNT port and skip the portmapper.
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by willscott 6y ago
one of the major attractions of the fuse abstraction layer is that once you have fuse you can interact with more exotic file system types without having to deal with new kernel drivers each time. Instead though, you can translate the exotic
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by willscott 6y ago
Wasn't expecting to see this here! This turned out easier than i was expecting it to be. It's nice to be able to mount a VFS without needing privileges on the server side. The main intention for this code is to eventually use it t
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by willscott 6y ago
Censorship / availability is the issue. As you lay out, Sybils can be used to target a specific address / piece of content in an attempt to prevent it from being found. The good news is that there are some pretty mechanical things
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by willscott 6y ago
For BGP partitions / Significant network outage conditions: You may not find content partitioned on the other side of a netsplit from you, but the degraded condition is that you can still query and find content present in the same part
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by willscott 6y ago
The release notes contain a pretty extensive list of what APIs have changed. The path to upgrade the dependencies is probably to run `go get -u <dep>` for the direct dependencies you're including, and then fixing errors that pop
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IPFS 0.5(blog.ipfs.io)
410 points by willscott 6y ago|141 comments
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by willscott 7y ago
IPFS is actually a better fit for this than it might appear. It doesn't pro-actively replicate content, so it isn't like bit torrent where everyone is uploading. Instead, it provides resilience, where the actual location of sci-hu
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by willscott 7y ago
The note on Timeless at the end is very exciting. https://repeatr.io/welcome/what-is-timeless/ explains timeless as a set of tooling for reproducible builds with a broader and more hash-based mandate than what&#x2
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by willscott 7y ago
VLDB also just published a paper on a similar, improved bloom-like data structure "Vacuum Filters: More Space-Efficient and Faster Replacement for Bloom and Cuckoo Filters" http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13&#x2F
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by willscott 7y ago
There are a few reports of Thiel trying to improve his image over the last couple years. Pressure appears to have been applied to suppress the association with his interest in transfusion of blood / being a vampire. https://
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by willscott 8y ago
No mention of Ithkuil, a conlang notable for attempting to maximize efficiency of expressiveness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil
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Oasis confidential smart contract platform opens devnet(medium.com)
37 points by willscott 8y ago|0 comments
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by willscott 8y ago
Hunh? Apache is a more permissive license than MIT. why is Google waiving it's claim to patents on this project a problem for you?
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by willscott 9y ago
This is a very cool use of RIPE Atlas! Note that it's not going to flag many of the censorship apparatus, because they will inject replies only for queries matching their denied patterns. Reversing that list in a useful way remains tri
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by willscott 10y ago
This is a cool side-channel attack that makes use of two nuances in the web. First, the cache storage mechanism in service workers allows a site's javascript to cache a 3rd party request it has loaded through the fetch API. Caches aren
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by willscott 11y ago
Some contextual notes on how this compares to today: * American citizens have been denied access to anything except specially chartered train cars since 2013. * Train service runs daily between Pyongyang and the Chinese border at Dandong. I
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by willscott 11y ago
The researchers put the tools they used and decompiled code on-line: https://github.com/takeshixx/redstar-tools

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