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.

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?...

If you have a kid under 18, unknown caller from local area code could be an emergency from their school, daycare, or a random person.

Now what I have taken to is just immediately hanging up on unknowns the first time they call. If it is a legitimate real human, I hope they will think it was a phone glitch and call back right away.

Free phone calls are a scourge on civilization and civilized behavior. It should cost $0.05 complete a call to a USA phone number. The cost would put the scammers out of business immediately.

$0.05 per call would be no real burden on any legitimate use. (And no, I'm not sympathetic to the "legitimate" political callers, surveys, "legitimate" sales, or "charities.")

10 years ago, social media was exciting. Social media let you see content from people you cared about. Then came "influencers" and now comes AI-generated junk. Multi-billion-dollar businesses now depend on history not repeating itself.

In my great grandparents era, getting a letter in the mail was exciting. Then came bills and marketing junk mail.

In the 1960/70s, CB radio was exciting; then it turned into a cesspool.

40 years ago, getting a phone call was exciting. Then came free international calls and junk robo calls, and now people don't even answer the phone.

35 years ago, usenet was exciting, then came spam, 1990's-era "me too" posts, and AOL users. And usenet became useless.

30 years ago, email was exciting. Then came "legitimate" marketing mails and illegitimate spam, and email is nearly useless and certainly not fun.

Your passkey is bound to one or more physical devices, like a phone, such that without the device you are screwed, right? Where you still have to either have a biometric read or enter a password/pin, right? So it's really no better than those dongles we used to carry around in the 90s that generated a new code every minute?

If everything is protected by passkeys, how do I get my life back if I'm traveling, have to evacuate my hotel due to a fire and am on the street with nothing but the clothes on my back? Or if I'm mugged by a criminal or the government and lose all of my electronics?

No, these items are a realization that 21st century knowledge work is different from 19th century factory work.

The entire 20th-century workday structure seemed to have been built around 1800s industrial-revolution factory jobs with some "work-life balance" features added in later: 8-hour workday, 5-day workweek, paid vacation days, etc. But that's not the only work model. Half of my grandparents were farmers. 3/4ths of my great-grandparents were farmers. They were home when their kids came home from school and had flexibility to do things during weekdays or take a break between tasks.

"Paying people for not working" is also a 19th century factory concept where work got done at a point-location in the factory. Or where most 19th/20th century knowledge work got done at a point location on site -- e.g., a drafting table or laboratory. Even RTO champions realize that much of the knowledge work gets done during the coffee breaks, or lunch, or in the parking lot. Or, even for in-office workers, thinking about work during the commute or at home.

Remote work creates real challenges, including development of junior employees and company culture. The 5-day workweek and 8-hour workday created challenges too. But creative solutions to those challenges are more likely to succeed than trying to drive workers back to a work model based on the pre-PC, pre-network mid 20th century office.

Store bought mass-produced bread: yes
Bread baked in the store: maybe?

But under some definitions, even homemade bread made of nothing but flour, salt, water, yeast is considered "ultra processed."

I could probably name 100 American billionaires without Google or any other resource. Balmer, Bezos, Brin, Buffett, . . .

Not to mention that implementing a wealth tax in even one country, let alone globally, is a logistical and bookkeeping nightmare. The only beneficiaries would be the accountants and lawyers working for both the wealthy and the government.

Even for a highly fungible asset class like publicly-traded stocks, can you imagine the effect on the stock market and economy if large holders of public companies had to dump 2% of their shares every year to pay tax? Not to mention asset classes like factories, land, and artwork.

-Obsession with having the absolute latest software update at the expense of testing time and quality control.

-"Security" bloatware that causes more problems than it protects against.

-Large organizations that could reasonably provide functions on-premises moving every function and service to the cloud with real-time dependence on third parties. It's one thing to buy software from a third party and run/update it locally. It's another to rely completely on that third party being up and managing their own updates.