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Comment Re:Ideologically fueled insanity. (Score 1) 287

Trump won by a landslide?

Are you some kind of RINO trying to hide your TDS so you don't lose all your friends? If you're gonna pretend, at least get your facts right. Trump didn't win by a landslide - that's just a significant margin. Trump's wins are _blowouts_.

2016, Electoral College: 304 vs 227 and Popular Vote 46.1% vs 48.2%
2024, Electoral College: 312 vs 226 and Popular Vote 49.8% vs 48.3%

No one has ever win by such margins before. Biden's pathetic effort was almost shameful:

2020, Electoral College: 306 vs 232 and Popular Vote 51.3% vs 46.8%

We won't ever see anyone win as winningly as Trump did ever again in our lifetimes and we should be thankful.

Even the republican juggernaut, Ronald Reagan, didn't come close:

1980, Electoral College: 489 vs 49 and Popular Vote 50.7% vs 41.0%
1984, Electoral College: 525 vs 13 and Popular Vote 58.8% vs 40.6%

I don't know why you even mention the democrats. They don't matter anymore. They have only 212 representatives out of the total 435? Sad. Only 45 out of 100 senators? Why do they even bother showing up? Their voting base is too illiterate to understand they're being promised nonsense. These guarantees could be realized patently impossible with even a little consideration. As the electorate is too lazy to verify claims and have been trained to disregard discordant news, emotional manipulation easily stokes a selfish outrage and fictional boogeymen fill their nightmares. Now terrified and desperate, they zealously cling to an establishment that only values them for their votes and only occasionally shares their interests by coincidence.

I'm disgusted how eagerly you shit on Trump despite enjoying all the gifts he's graced upon us. He's gone above and beyond delivering everything he promised. We've never been so safe, so wealthy, and so free. /s

Comment Re:Where does the data live? (Score 4, Informative) 26

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Submission + - New Freenet Network Launches With River Group Chat (freenet.org)

Sanity writes: Freenet’s new generation peer-to-peer network is now operational, along with the first application built on the network: a decentralized group chat system called River.

The new version is a complete redesign of the original project, focusing on real-time decentralized applications rather than static content distribution. Applications run as WebAssembly-based contracts across a small-world peer network, allowing software to operate directly on the network without centralized infrastructure.

An introductory video demonstrating the system is available on YouTube.

Slashdot previously covered the reboot of Freenet in 2023 in this article.

Comment Re:Best of luck (Score 5, Insightful) 54

Locutus is primarily designed for decentralization, not anonymity - which will make it less suited to IP theft than various other technologies that are already pervasive, the same is true of a lot of the other "people you don't want to be your early adopters" that you mention. It's definitely a risk for systems like Freenet, but it's a manageable risk.

Comment Re:Nice to see Ian is still at it. (Score 5, Informative) 54

Not quite sure how reality will go for this project at least based on comments here so far

Most of the negative comments so far are from people who I doubt spent 20 seconds looking at our site, so I hope they don't color your judgement. Read through our user manual and form your own opinion.

Of course, the irony of using Youtube and Google Docs for the presentation kind of hurts.

Once there are viable alternatives on Freenet we'll use them.

I remember a few years back thinking how the promise of Freenet was so easy to achieve today between low power computers, cheap storage, and bandwidth... yet we are stuck with what we have.

I think the time is right, which is exactly why I'm doing what I'm doing :)

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

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.

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