You know, that massive hub of public and private software projects that is the de facto home of open source.
The place owned by the same corporation that just tried to sneak a total surveillance system into the most used operating system by end users and business on the planet.
A couple of years ago I showed that we could start replacing this with a truly #decentralised alternative. See: #p2pgit
The Beta Network has launched and the first wave of testers are up and running. It’s taken a wee while, but we got there, just as David always knew we would. It could never have happened without the steadfast support of the community over the years.
Thanks to you the network has grown from our original 2,000 MaidSafe nodes to over 17,000 nodes and counting, our biggest by some margin.
Autonomi have launched their beta network and rewards program.
Anyone can run nodes and if you want to join the fun, sign up for the second wave of noderunner rewards. Even non-technical folks can do this with any old computer.
Autonomi are launching their beta rewards program tonight (8am GMT) and have opened signups for the second wave of noderunners. Anyone will be able to run nodes, even non-technical folks.
I ask this relatively regularly because I want to keep an eye on the landscape.
I'm a software engineer with a PhD in international criminal law. I am on the lookout for (open source?) projects that are useful to human rights researchers/activists/defenders. I am hoping to contribute as a volunteer software engineer.
If you know of a project like this, please get in touch. If you don't, please boost if you'd like!
@hgrsd#Autonomi is a stand out project, which has stuck to a set of democratising values, rejecting easy choices (such as VC funding) and taking the hard road for eighteen years.
It is now approaching launch and will be an opportunity to create a new generation of privacy and user centred apps. It levels the development playing field to give even individuals the chance to scale world-wide and take on the big centralised platforms without VC funding.
Oooooof. @baldur's take on the Jobs to be Done of modern software development is brutal.
The conclusion is pretty sobering too: that LLMs will become embedded in software development because they truly deliver on this promise of churn, and do it at lower cost than software developers.
Many consider that #p2p contradictory to such use cases as organizations, project teams, tasks, wiki, Jira-like or YouTrack-like software, and other use-cases that require restricted access and support of permissions.
But implementing such things would be a fascinating goal per se.
Sadly I don;t have too much time to spend on that, and I am not a pro in P2P development, just a newbie touching this scope with curiosity in this context.
@koteisaev
You don't necessarily need new skills to build #p2p apps these days.
I'm finishing off a demo app which publishes websites to #Autonomi and also acts as a viewer.
I can't really call it a browser because it is very basic, but it does one thing that the current web tooling doesn't support: you can browse every version of any published website, forever. No link rot!
Using #TauriV2 I can build for desktop and mobile, and have done early testing on Windows, Linux and Android.
Bux is in Texas right now at the Consensus conference waiting to wow the audience. Go @bux!
Currently we're beavering away to get another testnet out of the door, building on the successes of ThisIsNotBetaRewardsNet and knocking off a few rough edges.
We’re particularly keen to get discord bot fully integrated this time round to automate the calculation of nanos for those running nodes.
These stories when #State installs various #spyware such as #pegasus give me not just creepy/eerie feeling.
Such stories questions suitability usage of any electronic device, let it be a linux desktop/laptop or any smartphone, even suc as e/OS equipped, not speaking about standard iOS/Android devices.
And it pushes down motivation for developing any #p2p software as well, just because if your risk model includes government spyware installation on your devices, this is beyond their usage scope.
@koteisaev
I'm hopeful, even confident that #p2p can and will help with device level surveillance such as #Pegasus#spyware one day.
For example, it has been discussed and mitigations proposed on the #Autonomi forum, though not recently. Ideas such as booting from the network using any device, using the secure services it provides and then logging off without leaving traces.
Easier said than done, but something worth assuming for.
@hyde many here are saying people don't care but I don't think that's true. Look deeper.
They resist for many reasons and some are obvious. I've seen reports that most users of Facebook for example wish it didn't invade their privacy but what alternatives do they have and at what cost?
They know that acting on that desire is much harder than succumbing, so they resist in various ways.
I'm hopeful we can change this. It will never be easy but it can be done over time.
If only there was a way to integrate peer to peer payments into federated social media without relying on Stripe and Google... Maybe someday it will be discovered!
We have two new team members First, we are massively pleased that @Shu has agreed to join us to help out with monitoring, observability and visualisation of operations.
Second, we’re delighted to welcome Nic, who joins as product manager. This is an essential role as we move out of the R&D phase into delivery.
Sheesh, Mozilla has really lost their way. Putting ads in the search bar? We already have a search engine that does that, we don't need two running at the same time.
@cuchaz
I mostly use #Brave now (with the shit turned off) because #Firefox was degrading in performance and stability, and became unusable on my cheap mobile. For now that's ok.
That #Mozilla are doing this is very sad. I am though hopeful better days are coming, with new ecosystems based on #p2p that will bypass the enclosure and unleash the next generation of openeness & creativity.
I'm literally working on a demo to publish and browse websites on #Autonomi, so it's not just work thinking.