gmax
Re:Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop
on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:13PM (#29232094)
a good explainer video for scaling of mass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KSfjv4Oq0
Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:40PM (#23317274)
It may not be that hard to set up things for yourself, have been toying with something like that for messaging https://cweb.gitlab.io/StoneAge.html. The deeper question is how to sustain this kind of products and make them competitive without comparable funding.
Re:Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:37PM (#18888607)
What if everyone had a personal always-on cloud storage like dropbox, or even their ISP, where data is encrypted and access managed via crypto keys exchanged directly between clients so that plaintext never leaves the client. This gets us around devices being offline and NATs. Clients communicate via these always-on cloud stores using them as store and forward network, along the lines of http://cweb-services.com/intro.html
There are challenges like establishing initial connections, or push notifications, but these can hopefully be worked out.
Re:U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger
on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:06PM (#17805867)
Intermediary is not the best word here. What if you could use a storage infrastructure to implemented a protocol for storing and retrieving packets across NAT and disconnected devices. If the role of storage is similar to the raw networks transport via ISP, then it is not more centralized than using an ISP.
Re:U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger
on Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:58AM (#17792688)
Can routing be solved through an intermediary acting like an always-on mailbox? Along the lines of http://cweb-services.com/protocols.html