Comment Re:Germany's an interesting choice (Score 2, Funny) 28
I did "not see" that coming, but I guess I should've. We cannot ignore the Nazi's around.
Comment $99,000 ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. PLEASE REMOVE POST. (Score 5, Informative) 314
Even the company's own PR *back in NOVEMBER* says that $99,000 figure is not true.
A publicity officer with the firm told China Daily on Friday that claims by many internet users that the manufacturing price of each YKJ-1000 missile is only 700,000 yuan ($99,000) "are not true".
Chinese State News: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/...
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.
Comment Re:2023 (Score 1) 26
Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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.
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 no (Score 1) 74
No, "Satoshi" is dead. No clues will be dropped here. No one is going to tell you who he is.
Comment I still have the whale.qt file I downloaded (Score 1) 31
My impression of the slashdot effect from the time was mostly irritation that even though I now had high-speed Internet access, I still had to wait for the site to recover (if it ever did).
Comment ahem.. (Score 0, Troll) 99
Fuck you Steve.
You have no magic but the mods and the users. Better is on the way and the great migration will begin. You rose from the ashes of Digg. This will be no different.
Y'all probably should know better than to double down with devs. Lame.
Comment Re:Decentralized and open - nice idea, but... (Score 3, Informative) 54
The new Freenet is written in Rust.
Comment Re:The new word in replacements (Score 1) 54
lol - same thing with pilots
Comment Re:Nice to see Ian is still at it. (Score 1) 54
Thank you!
Comment Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 54
You're very welcome
Comment Re:Nice to see Ian is still at it. (Score 4, Informative) 54
When the new Freenet is up and running, I think it will be the first system of any kind that could host something like wikipedia, not just the data but the wiki CMS system it's built on. An editable wikipedia, entirely decentralized and very scalable.
Comment Re: Best of luck (Score 4, Informative) 54
I think when the history of the last decade is written, it will be about - in part - the terrible social damage caused by opaque and biased social media algorithms manipulating the public discourse.
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.
