Followup question: is there a company that is not part of the new lighting cartel making screws-in bulbs that actually last 10+ years?

Anyone try Peergos ?

The question is why is this the case? The simple answer is p2p solutions struggle with asynchronous communications due to variable uptime of consumer devices. That said, that can be overcome by various means.

Establishing a user base for any communications platform is a challenge, largely adoption is driven by user experience and project narrative. There is no reason a p2p project couldn’t meet these criteria, they have before many times for file-sharing.

In fact, I think a self-hosted cloud storage solution with a communications platform built on it could be a great way to get a network of this type established. I know various file-sharing platforms like Soulseek have had these features, but I wonder if you slapped a WhatsApp clone UI onto it and push it as “own and share your files securely, no one you don’t specifically share the file with ever holds the files” if that wouldn’t pick up some steam.

Sadly Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol is abandonware, as is it’s more scalable but far less tested successor PZP

The p2p social approach seems so necessary, but projects that actually implement it are fraught with challenges it seems.

Does the BW-16D1HT offer good performance for 4kbluray playback as well as ripping? Looking at it it seems price competitive with the stand-alone players, and if it is good it would make financial sense to buy a dedicated pc and enclosure as an alternative to stand-alone player assuming it can drive HDR and Atmos

If you want to see a lot of real fossils directly, no replicas, go to Dinosaur National Monument and check out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A huge wall of fossils still in their stone matrix.

Most Oil and Gas reserves remaining in the US are on public land, as is the massive lithium deposit just discovered in southeastern Oregon. Then there are the seabed polymetalic nodules that will be mined sooner or later. There are plenty of opportunities to nationalize natural resources, what is lacking is political will.

If I’m reading(skimming) the documentation right, it seems like anyone who can pass the challenge can download the full node and see the full record of interactions. IPFS is not a perfect privacy network, so user accounts can in theory be traced back.

So basically as with Fedi instances it is fully on the Node host to set who can get in based on the challenge, and what is hosted there is their liability. Only difference is Plebbit allows any user to spin up a new instance/community node ad-hoc and they aren’t responsible for maintaining infrastructure beyond what is required seed the nodes they host.

Is that right? I’m not sure but hopefully someone better in the know will correct me if not.

I’m ok with both, but prefer co-ops because the members get direct voting on large decisions by default, rather than a proxy vote via an appointed government worker who answers to the municipal government.

That said, there is no reason these can’t be one and the same, the local government could fund the establishment of a regional co-op and maintain audit and some other limited authority over it.

I also support long-distance fiber infrastructure being built and maintained by worker’s co-ops that would then get paid for service by the regional ISPs. Worker members would be highly motivated to maintain good uptime, and hiring/training members who live local to the fiber lines in remote regions would be possible with the incentive of worker ownership. Once built it is a long term maintenance and security business with steady return, perfect for a worker’s co-op that could be financed with private capital at decent ROI.

ISPs should be regional users cooperatives everywhere. Rural areas in the US have local ISPs structured this way, but corporate ISPs have been trying to use regulation to make them illegal in normal service areas, which is disgusting.

I predict that point to point private fiber (currently used by high speed traders) will become more and more prevalent as issues with AI impersonation and spoofing become more prevalent, we should use this infrastructure drive to push linking co-op and public mesh networks using the same long-run conduit.

Nice! Thanks for posting this. Does it run on all wifi bands? Is there provision for mesh extension by wired Intranet?

Thanks, that is very clear

Does Delta Chat / Arcane Chat suffer from the same vulnerability?

https://arcanechat.me/ https://delta.chat/en/

Seems pretty out of date compared to main branch

Looks like the F-Droid link just goes to the main ArcaneChat page. What are the advantages vs ArcaneChat?

Yes, I’m just pointing out that phones aren’t terrible at acting as servers, it’s a generational issue.

I’m definitely going to give this a try when I replace my current phone next year.

usbc solved a lot of the connector issues, so long as you can get a hub to play nice with Linux drivers.

Thinking about implementation, it seems like tooltips would be a great way to handle this. Linking out from the tool tips to some kind of more comprehensive outside IT/cybersecurity resource would be a good bonus. Tool tip text generated by llm could take some of the heavy lifting.

As a non-coder interested in self hosting and somewhat aware of cybersecurity, this is the most relevant take for me.

An application that facilitates safe self-hosting of many different service is great, however for it to be actually safe and useful it must either be a cybersecurity service keeping up with the pace of threats (which is essentially the corporate closed source model) or from the ground up be an educational platform as much as an application. Documentation needs to not only be comprehensive, but also self-explanitory to a non-technical audience. It is not enough to state that a setting or feature exists, it must also be made clear why it should be used and what the consequences of different configurations are.

This approach is almost never done effectively by FOSS projects unfortunately. Fortunately I think we are at the point where it is completely feasible for this type of educational approach to be fully replicable and adaptable from a creative commons source to the specific content structure of the application user manual using LLMs (local ones). The big question is, what is the trusted commons source of this information? I suppose there are MIT and other top university courses published for open use online that could serve as the source material, but it seems like there is likely a better formatted “IT User Guide Wiki” and “Cybersecurity Risk and Exploit Alert List” with frequent updates out there that I’m not aware of, perhaps the annals of various cybersecurity and IT associations?

Anyway I’m aware this is basically calling for another big FOSS project to build a modular documentation generator, but man would it help a lot of these projects be viable for a wider audience and build a more literate public.

awesome! glad to see it.