@cdata this is gold 😍
A thread: Job openings in programming and ops in open source software/research, developing frameworks for distributed applications, working with @cwebber at the Spritely Institute: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109202062994483288
https://toot.cafe/@andrew_chou/109088423048759654 This turned out great. A small browser chatroom in 80 lines, all web APIs (no frameworks). Thanks @andrew_chou!
A lot of people scoff at building 'serious' apps without a framework, but what if it's just that the apps we're building are too big?
Stitch together small, completely disparate applets like into an ecosystem of interoperable tools feels like an approach that's never been fully realised.
@m455 I think there's stuff thay can be done about decentralizing the bootstrapping somewhat. 🤔 E.g saving "stable" ips that get discovered for later bootstrapping, getting dht peers from other devices on your local network, easy to scan qr codes to connect two devices together for dht stuff. Good food for thought, ty
@m455 Fair point about bootstrap nodesc Even though you can technically use any DHT peer too build up your routing table. Most apps have a few hardcoded which can be targets of censorship.
Past that the key/value storage is spread out among all peers participating and values are stored on several peers for redundancy which is as decentralized as you cam get IMO. 😅
@m455 Would you mind elaborating on how DHTs are centralized?
@reconbot The number of times I've had bugs stemming from this fact is honestly emberassing. 😅😅😅
https://MapKnitter.org will be going offline at the end of the month due to lack of funds, which is very sad!
1000s of maps of environmental injustices people have made over the years
And also http://SpectralWorkbench.org too.
database of 200k+ community-contributed open source spectra.
Both will be archived on archive.org
If you want to check and help
http://publiclab.org/mapknitter
http://publiclab.org/spectral-workbench
It's really fucking hard and violent blow for environmental activism and community based open environmental investigation
I really like this way of looking at consensus & the idea of group limits:
"This thinking however, is still built around voting, which is a form of competitive decision-making that is not designed to respect people’s autonomy. Consensus, instead of being a way to convince everyone to agree to the same plan, is a way of exploring what the logical limits of any given group are. If all members of a group cannot agree on a specific action, then it clearly needs to take place outside of that group, if at all."
https://web.archive.org/web/20180222234709/https://www.tangledwilderness.org/life-without-law/
First-ever Gitea pull request from a remote instance!!! 🎉🥳
https://git.exozy.me/Ta180m/Hello-world/pulls/3
I've been waiting for this moment for months now!
The code hasn't been pushed to https://gitea.com/Ta180m/gitea yet since it's incredibly messy, but I'll clean it up tomorrow and also submit a draft pull request to upstream Gitea.
(Technical implementation information: https://gitea.com/Ta180m/gitea/issues/7)
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍