#video #toread about #Freenet and services without servers. #decentralization
on 02026-09-22David Reed’s dissertation on #decentralization of naming and synchronization (#concurrency)
on 02026-08-25"Radicle" is another #GitHub alternative similar to Gitea or Gogs or whatever. “Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on #Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.” #decentralization
on 02026-06-25#HN debate on, nominally, whether #Briar is useful in #Iran during the current internet #censorshp blackout, but mostly about random other topics related to #decentralization of #communications such as Meshtastic and Bitchat
on 02026-01-16“Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth.” #radio #decentralization
on 02026-01-06Discussion of #radio #decentralization including #Meshtastic and things called #Reticulum and #Meshcore.
on 02026-01-06discussion of my proposal of #Wikipedia #decentralization
on 02025-11-05#video of surveillance #drones #decentralization to, supposedly, compete with Anduril by strapping an ESP32 to a DJI drone
on 02025-09-22#Bitchat #decentralization testing at a music festival. Mobile internet “as usual” was not working most of the time. Bitchat also didn’t work most of the time, in fact nearly at all. “Kudos to @jack, @calle and other contributors working on the project. I hope my report will provide you valuable info for further work.”
on 02025-08-10#self-hosting and #decentralization forum
on 02025-07-27“The purpose of this list is to track and compare tunneling solutions. This is primarily targeted toward self-hosters and developers who want to do things like exposing a local webserver via a public domain name, with automatic HTTPS, even if behind a NAT or other restricted network.” #decentralization #networking #security #tunnels #privacy #self-hosting
on 02025-07-27Twitter Jack’s #Bitchat protocol white #paper; it “implements a custom mesh networking protocol over #BLE” #Bluetooth #decentralization
on 02025-07-20#Bluesky lacks #decentralization
on 02024-11-03#video on telephone #decentralization with apparently some newly available mesh networking firmware, "Meshtastic" #radio running on #ESP32 hardware: encrypted text-based walkie-talkies using #LoRa on the Heltec WiFi_LoRa_32_V3 board, which has an ESP32-S3FN8 on board. Not low-power, though; half a watt idle! And the firmware is built on PlatformIO. You can flash it via #WebUSB on flasher.meshtastic.org. But it depends on a custom app on your cellphone for its UI, to which it communicates over Bluetooth (or USB serial or Wi-Fi), because the actual board only has two buttons, though it does have a respectable OLED screen which displays incoming text messages. It also needs the cellphone if you’re going to give it GPS. You can also use a browser app which uses your Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to talk to your local devices. The YouTuber reports he got messages through (spottily) at 5km from his 32nd-floor highrise balcony, using the 90-bits-per-second data rate, but at ground level at the beach, only about 150 meters of range, which he blames on the antenna. It can share private keys over QR codes to set up an encrypted channel, but by default doesn’t.
Verónica's dissertation on #erasure-coding for #decentralization for fault-tolerant peer-to-peer storage systems
on 02023-01-04“With "Storj" DCS (Decentralized Cloud Storage) files aren’t stored in centralized data centers— instead, they're encrypted, split into pieces, and distributed on a global cloud network.” Open-source. #decentralization
on 02022-05-21“How can we build this new Distributed Web?” #decentralization
on 02022-05-21#decentralization #databases #IPFS
on 02021-03-02Andreessen Horowitz’s pro-#Bitcoin propaganda about #decentralization
on 02021-01-24later discussion of #LBRY, flagged into oblivion. #decentralization
on 02021-01-13#Google #censorship of #LBRY #decentralization
on 02021-01-13"PeerTube" apparently handles live streaming now #decentralization
on 02021-01-13Pamela Zave found a bug in the Chord #DHT protocol using #formal-methods and published a fix. #decentralization
on 02019-02-01How #Dat works. #decentralization
on 02019-02-01Software and capital are independent. I think the author is mistaken about some of the key causal relationships here, but their thinking is still interesting. #decentralization
on 02018-11-03#decentralization with Siatech, Zeronet, spee.ch, Substratum, yalls.org, and Tribler (mostly #Bitcoin paid services)
on 02018-11-03the #decentralization piece being discussed
on 02017-10-01another discussion thread about #decentralization of the web
on 02017-10-01#PDF #ebook of 113 pages on #decentralization for #human-rights, covering #Mastodon, #IPFS, and others, though not Scuttlebutt. #toread
on 02017-08-22#Introduction to #git-ssb (#Git using #secure-scuttlebutt for #decentralization)
on 02017-07-31"git-ssb": #Git using #secure-scuttlebutt for #decentralization
on 02017-07-31#Ring is apparently not very stable or usable yet. #decentralization
on 02017-07-29"Ring" is a GNU #decentralization software project; it just hit 1.0
on 02017-07-29an article about Scuttlebutt and other #decentralization of #social-networks #toread
on 02017-05-19Discussion thread on #decentralization of #social-networks
on 02017-05-19#IPFS is adding #pubsub for #decentralization
on 02017-05-19#decentralization #hardware #security: Intel Management Engine (#Intel-ME) and AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP). By Timothy Pearson of Raptor Engineering (?)
on 02017-03-03another discussion thread on #IPFS and #decentralization of the WWW
on 02016-10-23“#decentralization” of the web with StatusNet, XMPP, etc. Mentions Git, Bitcoin, Diaspora*, Freenet, Blockstack, Ethereum, IPFS, the #Dat Project, and the Decentralized Web Summit
on 02016-10-11comment thread on #decentralization of the web
on 02016-10-11Brewster calculates, “A single Decentralized Web Server can serve a million of websites to 4 million users and cost $14,000.” This is based on how the Internet Archive pays US$14000 for its current web servers: 24 cores, 192GB RAM, 36 spinning-rust drives totaling 250TB, with two gigabits of connectivity, all in 4U. Brewster here is suggesting that ISPs and so on could host such “supernodes” in the service of #decentralization of the web. He suggests that such a machine can host about five billion 50-kilobyte files (“web objects”) or about a million web sites and answer more than 100k requests per second, or maybe over a million, although serving only 1800 files per second from the spinning rust. He estimates that you’d need about one such server per four million users (!!!)
on 02016-06-27Discussion of #decentralization with #IPFS
on 02016-02-22Discussion of #PeerTweet includes a list of other #decentralization platform things: Telehash, Toc Messenger, Datt, matrix.org, RemoteStorage, Kinto, Swarm, Replikativ, GunJS, IPFS, secure-scuttlebutt, Twister, and ZeroTier, with a short overview of each one.
on 02016-02-22Western Digital is going to try to sell home servers running ownCloud! #decentralization
on 02015-12-14the plan for diffusing the "IndieWeb" to the population in general. Although it’s a wonderful effort, it won’t work. #decentralization
on 02015-11-16discussion on HN of #IPFS and #decentralization.
on 02015-09-09Neocities is going whole hog on adopting #IPFS for #decentralization.
on 02015-09-09Apparently Microsoft has an “academic search” search engine too now, like Citeseer. This is the page for the IPTPS conference on #decentralization software, which apparently ended in 2011.
on 02015-08-19Derakhshan’s moving call to #decentralization for the web.
on 02015-08-15“#Webtorrent App allows you to launch web apps(SPAs) from webtorrents.” #decentralization #torrent
on 02015-08-10#Matrix is a “set of open APIs for open-federated Instant Messaging (#IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) and Internet of Things (IoT) communication,” with #decentralization. #toread #chat
on 02015-08-08The GNUnet #decentralization system.
on 02015-08-07How to use the #git-annex assistant, like a #Dropbox with #decentralization.
on 02015-08-05MaidSafe is one of the new web with #decentralization efforts.
on 02015-08-05