I regularly think about this essay about the evolution of #centralization in computing. It focuses on businesses and research, but I have a feeling that the next stage of #decentralization will happen via the general public.
We don't have to rely on energy-hungry, leak-prone servers to run 24/7 to do our basic tasks. We need more local-first computing.
If you're still using their products by then, you have definitely given up digital sovereignty and you're happy to embrace the possibility of industrial #espionage by US companies.
It would definitely improve the situation a lot when parts of the large amount of money that is transferred to #Microsoft now finds its way to alternative #FOSS#Groupware solutions.
"If you just imagine teleporting yourself back to 1970, and somone who was looking forward to the PC revolution - which was going to happen in just a few years - was like 'alright, we're not going to have entire rooms full of computer stuff anymore, and you're not going to have a mainframe that you connect to to do everything. Everything's going to work on these little boxes people have in their home'."
"We Need To Rewild The Internet" https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ "Information and decision-making power now flowed straight to the top. Decades later when the first crop was felled, vast fortunes were made, tree by standardized tree. The clear-felled forests were replanted, ready to extend the boom. Readers of the American political anthropologist of anarchy and order, James C. Scott, know what happened next."
We have a new testnet out, following successful poking at the recent alpha network. Thanks to all those who have tried it so far.
And we are pleased to say the node manager is performing well now, so we advise that as the default way of deploying nodes as it provides several additional controls, particularly with regard to upgrading.
Welcome to our first attempt to have a couple of testnets running in parallel!
Here we have an alpha network, where we want to verify changes before we do a full release that would be compatible with the existing network.
This is not expected to be a wildly long testnet. But participation here will help iron out any potential issues as/when we release new code compatible with BasicEconomyTweaks.
Thanks as usual to the noble testers our first Technical Beta Network is still going good guns, and is proving as stable as we’ve come to expect.
We have a new separate testnet to test potential changes over here. This will run alongside the stable beta network and allow us to test out ideas without having to bring the beta down.
Major progress on my first Autonomi demo app today. I'm sooo happy 😄
This proves that all the tricky but essential parts work together, so now I can add features and improve the operation knowing that effort won't be wasted.
It also already shows that we can build cross platform apps (desktop and mobile) with a web front end that use the #Autonomi#Rust APIs using #Tauri and your web framework of choice. Which for me is #Svelte
With Bbbadnet highlighting some of our bad node detection as… overzealous, and also tipping up an issue with the faucet (and restarting the faucet), we’ve made tweaks to improve pricing economics too.
Come and join us😎
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There's a new testnet up now we’ve squashed some BadNode detection issues. This testnet adds in some basic detection of anomalous node behaviours, and aims to keep the network’s routing tables nice and tidy and neat.
Beyond that, the team has been continuing to push forward across many fronts!
The latest testnet adds basic bad node detection, as well as fixed some issues from node startups in the previous testnet.
On top of this, we’ve tweaked the storage pricing algorithm to increase more over time to see what impact this has on node storage/hypothetical demand.
Autonomi is the new name for the Safe Network. Download the new white paper that explains the whys and wherefores. Or if that's too much, there's a 40 second video too 😎
I'm a little late to this, but I feel the need to mention it because I feel like these people are just going to move to Telegram, if they already haven't.
Telegram is NOT a better alternative to Discord. It asks for your phone number (huge red flag), lies about being end-to-end encrypted (encryption is done server-side), is centralized, and not entirely FOSS (server-side software is closed source). Look into decentralized/self-hosted solutions instead.
I personally recommend hosting an XMPP server. Install an XMPP server stack that supports multi-user-chats and host your discussions there. With XMPP, you can sign up for an account on any server and talk to anyone, including people from other servers. There are even modernized web-clients like Movim which make it more user friendly.
For private/direct messages, you can also end-to-end encrypt them using OMEMO. Just don't use them for public MUCs or you will end up having problems. You really don't need to encrypt a public chat anyway.
If you need help running an XMPP server, Mental Outlaw made a video on it.
#Decentralization#Privacy#DataProtection#Solid: ""From the beginning, I always meant for the web to be a platform for creativity and collaboration," says Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web.
"The first decade of the web lived up to that promise, but that's not what we've seen in the last 20 years or so."
Sir Tim says a particular problem is the way personal data is handled. When you log in and store data in a website, it can only be used within that website.
But an open source software project, called Solid, is designed to reverse that situation.
The idea of Solid is that people have a private data store, and they get to choose which organisations can access it, for what purpose, and for how long.
Called a Personal Online Data Store, or Pod, it gives users control over their data, and the freedom to combine it or share it between applications.
Sir Tim is co-founder of Inrupt, a company that provides Solid-based technologies. He says using the technology would mean that data storage would be "centred around people, instead of around apps".