Re:News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI s...
by j16sdiz on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:35PM
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> And you don't need 100% of devices to be hosts or routers, 10% at any given time would be more than sufficient.
Except it don't. Route and content takes hours to converge.
Re:News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI s...
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:16PM
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Why?
Re:News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI s...
by __MatrixMan__ on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:33PM
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Is convergence necessary?
If a peer says "hey there's a new version of this" and that peer also has pinned that version, then I can get it from them right now, well before the network converges. Yeah maybe it'll take a few hours for the other side of the planet to get the word, but for most data a couple hours or a couple days is fine. Tolerating latencies was kind of the point of calling it "interplanetary".
What's the use case where I'm on the other side of the planet and I somehow end up with a CID which I can't resolve? How did I get that CID so much faster than content to which it refers?
Is there any reason this has to be true? Probably some majority or significant minority of mobile devices spend some eight hours a day attached to a charger in a place where they have the WiFi password, while the user is asleep. And you don't need 100% of devices to be hosts or routers, 10% at any given time would be more than sufficient.