Freenet is also based on middle-out compression.

No. Trying to push 30TB into Freenet will be interpreted as an attack on the network by other peers and they'll disconnect from your peer.

Freenet is better viewed as a communication medium than a storage medium. Data is prioritized according to demand, somewhat like an LRU cache. You can't upload 30TB and expect the network to preserve it for you.

On liability, running a Freenet peer is more like running network infrastructure that automatically routes and caches other people's traffic than intentionally publishing it. US law explicitly recognizes this distinction in the DMCA's provisions for transitory network communications and system caching. We discuss this in more detail in the FAQ.

You obviously haven't tried Freenet. You can join our room on River and you'll see no spam, no fraud, no hate speech, none of that.

Decentralized doesn't mean unmoderated. Systems built on Freenet can be moderated however their creators and communities want. River is moderated.

The difference is that nobody running one service gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to run.

You're incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

In the case of old-style vaccines, the antigen is not attached to any cells. The only thing that the immune system attacks is the antigen.

For mRNA, you want the mRNA to stay local, since the mechanism has your own cells producing antigen, and those *cells* are attacked. Not an issue with muscle cells.

However,if the mRNA enters the bloodstream, it means that actual organ cells may be the target of the immune response, which in turn causes inflammation. The heart? Myocarditis, pericarditis. The ovaries? Sudden erratic periods. The brain? Brain fog.

This is why there were negative side effects. See: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... - tl;dr is easily read in their conclusion:

"A wide distribution of vaccine mRNA in organs can lead to systemic adverse effects and, therefore, there would be a need in the future to develop lipid nanoparticles allowing targeted delivery of mRNA vaccines in specific cells..."

So no, you absolutely don't want a "generalized response" - at least, not from the underlying mRNA mechanism.

That's not how mRNA vaccines work, or at least, how they were advertised to work. You will not find any cite that indicates that they're supposed to enter the bloodstream. They were supposed to stay at the local site, and produce the antigen at the local site of injection.

See: https://www.cdc.gov/covid/vacc...

It clearly says:

"After vaccination, the mRNA will enter the muscle cells. Once inside, they use the cells' machinery to produce a harmless piece of what is called the spike protein."

Happy to see evidence to the contrary, but I doubt that you'll be able to produce it.

Didn't know that mRNA vax is not even cost effective for the most part.

I forgot one other issue:

* The mRNA has huge variation in how long it's in effect, in addition to how much antigen it produces. Not an issue with "old school" vaccines.

No more mRNA vax for me.

The covid mRNA vaccines are problematic for the following reasons:

* The mRNA does not stay localized (i.e., your arm muscle). It has been shown to travel all over the body. This may be partially related to how injects are administered. If you get an mRNA vax, ask for aspiration before injection to insure that they're not hitting a blood vessel.

* mRNA that arrives in the wrong place can cause significant issues for certain organs. This is likely the explanation for heart inflammation, erratic periods for women, brain fog, etc.

* There is no "off switch" - meaning that the amount of antigen that is produced varies tremendously for each individual. Too much antigen is not a good thing.

I will not touch an mRNA vax again unless and until these types of issues are addressed.

The Wall Street Journal used to be a very good newspaper with a moderately conservative viewpoint and an extreme (some would say nutty) Radical Right editorial page. Now it just exists to provide a veneer of respectability to whatever scheme the hard Radical Right has cooked up to demonize a new Other (or resurrect the demonization of a previous Other) and hoover more money out of the pockets of the median Citizen.

Good point!

Darl McBride used to refer to the "spiffy agent technology" that was going to find the allegedly infringing code, so that particular grift is nothing new.

I am old and my sight grows dim, but I am pretty sure this all happened before the first 0.01 version of Linux was released.

"If you must write a check, he said, try to deliver it in person or take it inside a post office to mail rather than relying on your own mailbox or public drop boxes. "

That was the neighborhood advice going around our area 1-2 years ago. I myself was skeptical that mail theft was going on as I had dealt with the Postal Police when managing an e-commerce site and I knew they are very good at finding things like this. Unfortunately it turned out (1) I was wrong: there was mail theft going on in our neighborhood but (2) everyone else was wrong too: the mail wasn't being stolen from blue boxes; it was being lifted from the bins behind the slot in our postal service center. The perps were eventually caught but it took far longer than I would have thought.

I knew several people in ruraltania who bought into the 3rd generation of raising Vietnamese potbellied pigs. First and second generations made a fair amount of money selling into a rising novelty market; the second generation also made money selling to third generation hopefuls. Third generation breeders lost their shirts of course. Before that it was small farmers in central Ontario who discovered that ginseng grows very well in that climate and soil and that was large, nay HUGE, demand for that root in the PRC. This is perhaps even more germane to the tech example because it takes the first crop of ginseng 7 years to mature, so many many Lake Erie-area farmers saw their early-in neighbors harvesting the crop and the cash - only to see the market flooded and prices crash the year before they were due to harvest.