Gun: The P2P database for freedom fighters

by ljlolel • 6 years ago

42 13 6 years ago

f4302• 6 years ago

I briefly used this but ended up giving up because it was hard to debug. Like all I wanted was a simple FIFO queue but that proved to be quite a challenge. I'm not sure if things changed since 2019 but that was my last crack at building a p2p app.

Support from dev is fantastic and is very active, I just wish it worked for my case, I think it has potential still.

rdbell• 6 years ago

For security purposes, we recommend you include these dependencies with your app, rather than trusting a public CDN. (Although we do love jsDelivr! It is free, open source, and give us download stats!)

Isn't this the point of subresource integrity?

nitrogen• 6 years ago

Public CDNs can still gather stats and set cookies.

medecau• 6 years ago

re. cookies - only for browsers that accept 3rd party cookies

which seems to be the default for the major ones

pii• 6 years ago

Isn't it a bit tone deaf to post this project right now?

Aeolun• 6 years ago

I was wondering what this had to do with the situation in the US, as well as with guns, until I was halfway down the page.

tetrisgm• 6 years ago

Not impressed with turning the ban on Parler into a marketing opportunity.

Especially if this is to cater to so called “freedom fighters“ who committed treason.

Back to tech: wouldn’t it make more sense for these people to migrate to Mastodon? After all, it’s Twitter they’ll miss.

bencollier49• 6 years ago

It seems rather counterproductive to call something like this "Gun". It's like they're asking for censorship of source repositories.

I see today that the app stores have banned the Parler app. A cesspit, yes (so is Twitter), but it'll be personal hardware next, and along with that will come "signed code only", with a restriction to the source libraries which the hardware vendor has approved, because otherwise we get terrorists arranging insurrections and building their own drones, right?

The name of this thing seems to be playing into that narrative. "You don't need general purpose computing unless you're doing something wrong".

curtisblaine• 6 years ago

So you're saying they should self censor before someone censors them?

colinb• 6 years ago

What? You mean like nearly everyone does all the time? I guess the exceptions being those with mental illness.

panarky• 6 years ago

Great example of the slippery slope logical fallacy.

f4302• 6 years ago

it's like how some people felt that Amen was too patriarchal and came up with Awomen

I bet he didn't even click the link. Just saw the headline and made his call.

lol

DemocracyFTW• 6 years ago

I have come here to state that the very name of this piece of software to me is offensive to the degree that I have never from my first perceiving it years ago to this day even remotely considered using it or even read its docs. The insensibility of it popping up in times like these and branding itself with the words "freedom fighters" is staggering and disturbing. I want to encourage the community to make it clear to the owners of said software in no uncertain terms that their frivolous use of words is at best immature and unreflected, that the continued use of even metaphorical language like "gun[s] for fighters" will be seen as a glorification of violence, and has no place among people whose endeavor is the peaceful, democratic exchange of ideas.

Gun: The P2P database for freedom fighters

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