The normal servers run a mix of RHEL and Alma Linux, Alma chosen over Rocky because of better patching record for security issues and some other things.

For the control systems that are ancient CPUs in expensive embedded boxes, Alma and Rocky have the same issue as RHEL in not having working support for older CPUs.

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.

Always nice to meet someone who considers me a kid.

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And text responses too.

"But wait, there's more!"

Principle of Oddmatches. If you have a million samples, you can expect to find one-in-a-million incidents.

So I gave this story no credence until The Atlantic denied it.

It's interesting how these multi-billion-dollar AI companies all have such remarkably terrible UI.

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.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In ATSC8VSB 0.5% of the power is in the pilot tone, the rest is spread over the entire bandwidth as subcarriers. Analog TV put 70% of the signal into the single frequency of the carrier. Add in doppler shifts from planet rotation and the perspective from space of seeing all stations on all the channels, and you would be left with a sight rise in the background noise, not a detectable signal.

An average lightning bolt generates 1 megawatt of radio frequency energy. The earth has 40 million lightning bolts a day. This planet has 500 times that many. That is a lot more energy than any radio signal man has ever created. I'd guess more than man has created in 100+ years!

In our experience of a single planet, we can see a greater reason. We have passed the peak of our detectability to outside civilizations. While we still radiate some narrow band signals, there are fewer than there were a few decades ago. The first world countries no longer beam out carrier based television signals. The current methods of TV transmission would be undetectable without prior knowledge of the details of the modulation methods. Our navigation no longer uses the powerful narrow band LORAN, the replacement satellite based systems would also be undetectable. Sure, a hundred-odd years past the invention of radio we still send narrow band AM/FM broadcast radio signals, but will they be there in a hundred years? If this is a typical trajectory for technology, there might only be a couple hundred years, of the 3 billion plus year history of life, when earth would have a detectable radio signature.