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Comment Re:Terrible name choice and marketspeak "info" (Score 5, Informative) 54

by Sanity on Saturday May 20, 2023 @11:48PM (#63538695) Attached to: Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

Wish you'd explained how you match or differ from the only other similar tool I know of (Ethereum, right?). Or is this for a different purpose than "running work on computers I don't manage, and being able to pay fairly"? Doesn't matter how good a hammer you have if we don't need to nail things.

You're being surprisingly judgmental when it doesn't seem like you even read the first few paragraphs on the website about it, let alone the other available documentation.

We're still early but we already have a user manual that goes into quite a bit of detail, if you'd like to take a look and if you still have questions I'd be happy to answer.

Submission + - Freenet 2023: A drop-in decentralized replacement for the world wide web

Submitted by Sanity on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:08AM

Sanity writes: Freenet, a familiar name to Slashdot readers for over 23 years, has undergone a radical transformation: Freenet 2023, or "Locutus". While the original Freenet was like a decentralized hard drive, the new Freenet is like a full decentralized computer, allowing the creation of entirely decentralized services like messaging, group chat, search, social networking, among others. The new Freenet is implemented in Rust and designed for efficiency, flexibility, and transparency to the end user.

Submission + - SPAM: Symlinks Considered Harmful 1

Submitted by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:40PM

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: My talk at the Storage Network Industry Association — Storage Developers Conference 2022.

Why Berkeley invented POSIX symlinks are a *terrible* idea, and should be eliminated.

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Submission + - SambaXP 2022 talk videos posted

Submitted by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Monday June 13, 2022 @04:34PM

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: All the talks from the SambaXP 2022 conference are now available to view on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/playli...

Comment Re:What difference does it make? (Score 1) 105

by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:27PM (#62477158) Attached to: Microsoft Is Disabling SMB1 File-Sharing Protocol in Windows 11 Home

No, you can't downgrade SMB3.1.1 to any lower protocol with a MITM attack. That was one of the fixes in SMB3.1.1.

Google "Pre-authentication integrity in SMB 3.1.1"

https://interopevents.blob.cor...

Comment Re:What difference does it make? (Score 1) 105

by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:29PM (#62470492) Attached to: Microsoft Is Disabling SMB1 File-Sharing Protocol in Windows 11 Home

SMB3 can't be downgraded or compromised by dictionary attack.

Comment Re:This is overdue (Score 1) 105

by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Friday April 22, 2022 @06:04PM (#62470318) Attached to: Microsoft Is Disabling SMB1 File-Sharing Protocol in Windows 11 Home

SMB3 actually *is* safer, due to the cryptographic protection meaning you can't MITM downgrade it.

Comment Re:Obsolescence Now! (Score 2) 105

by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:54PM (#62470260) Attached to: Microsoft Is Disabling SMB1 File-Sharing Protocol in Windows 11 Home

No, Synology and QNAP are active bug reporters to the Samba project. I fix bugs for them both on a regular basis. Funnily enough, the Apple client engineers are also very active Samba bug reporters :-).

Submission + - SMB1 can now be removed from the Samba server code. (samba.org)

Submitted by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:49PM

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: Just wanted to let everyone know about a milestone in coding achieved by David Mulder from SuSE.

David reconfigured our codebase to allow the SMB1 code inside smbd to be removed using an option at configure time !

Submission + - SPAM: Performance comparison between Linux in-kernel SMB server and Samba.

Submitted by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:21PM

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: "ksmbd" is a new Linux kernel module which implements an SMB server. It's aimed at being low overhead, low footprint, performant fileserver covering many basic use-cases.

ksmbd claims performance improvements on a wide range of benchmarks: the graphs on this page show a doubling of performance on some tests.

Clearly, those number are impressive, but at the same time recent improvements in Samba's IO performance put this into perspective: by leveraging the new "io_uring" Linux API Samba is able to provide roughly 10x the throughput compared to ksmbd.

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Comment Re:More links.. (Score 1) 65

by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:42PM (#61908613) Attached to: Software Freedom Conservancy Sues Vizio for GPL Violations

Have you actually *read* the GPLv2 ? I'm assuming not based on your statement. The GPLv2 text is here:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/o...

Please note the following statement copied *DIRECTLY FROM THE TEXT ABOVE*:

"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."

Please note the last sentence containing the words: "plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."

Thanks for your reading comprehension.

Comment More links.. (Score 5, Informative) 65

by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:36PM (#61907825) Attached to: Software Freedom Conservancy Sues Vizio for GPL Violations

I didn't have these handy when I posted this originally.

PDF of the full legal complaint. It's really nicely written (IMHO) and IANAL of course :-).

https://sfconservancy.org/docs...

Press kit:

https://shoestring.agency/wp-c...

Really nice non-technical write up from sjvn (yeah I know /. is a technical crowd, but it's nice to be able to have something to use to explain to non-technical friends):

https://www.zdnet.com/article/...

Submission + - Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Visio (sfconservancy.org)

Submitted by Jeremy Allison - Sam on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:30PM

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: Software Freedom Conservancy announced today it has filed a lawsuit against Vizio Inc. for what it calls repeated failures to fulfill even the basic requirements of the General Public License (GPL).

The lawsuit alleges that Vizio’s TV products, built on its SmartCast system, contain software that Vizio unfairly appropriated from a community of developers who intended consumers to have very specific rights to modify, improve, share, and reinstall modified versions of the software.

Comment Is Waymo for real? (Score 1) 185

by Bruce Perens on Monday January 25, 2021 @04:15PM (#60990518) Attached to: Waymo CEO Dismisses Tesla Self-Driving Plan: 'This is Not How It Works'

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

Comment Remote driver != "no driver" (Score 1) 185

by Bruce Perens on Monday January 25, 2021 @04:13PM (#60990508) Attached to: Waymo CEO Dismisses Tesla Self-Driving Plan: 'This is Not How It Works'

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

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