Arkham House used to do absurdly small print runs-- 5000 copies. Sometimes they'd reprint them, sometimes not. Some of them have made their way to the Intenet archive, but the actual books are collector's items.

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.

Ah yes, the big payout from being a high profile slashdot poster... who can resist is allure.

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?...

But the cost of having gas stations every few blocks.. the cost to real estate of not being able to use that land after the tanks are out of spec without huge investment in refurbishment and cleanup... and the cost of shipping trucks full of heavy volatile liquids all over the country is a non issue because its a familiar cost that you can't possibly imagine living without.

Parking lots are gold mines, adding charging at the rate that it's being used is only to the benefit of the owner... once the initial install is paid off it yet another profit center for one of the most profitable real estate investments you can make.

but that has nothing to do with the question you asked.

and the TCO for electrics regularly comes out lower than gas cars over the long haul but you just want to be contrarian because it makes you feel smart. My car was not significantly more expensive than a comparable ICE vehicle and the cost of maintenance has been far lower and my cost of operation per mile is also far lower. But knowing that doesn't make you feel superior so I'm sure you will ignore it.

yeah because there is not tax on gasoline. you sure did convince me.

Actually the municipal chargers are cheaper than the one I have at home by a few cents because they get a better deal on their electricity than I do... except at night when I get a special metered rate that saves me a few cents over a municipality. The point is, this isn't costing money. The install is not expensive and it pays for itself, all be it slowly, as people take advantage of the utility provided by the government.

but you are dumb as a rock and can't possibly understand how shit is funded.

Then I charge the next place I go. local trips aren't draining your battery heavily... locally I get a lot of trips before I even think about charging. Also the whole point of my post is that we should be installing a lot more level 2 chargers around at destinations which would solve this problem but its easier for you to ignore that.

I don't have to freak out when I don't find a charger at my destination but if you use them whenever they are available the number of times you would need to high speed charge (assuming no charger at home) would be pretty minor.