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I certainly experienced this (the vicious try-again cycle) but curious if you have any sources for this?

Couldn't you also just build a bittorrent client that hosts a local webserver to provide http access?

And this does exist! See confluence by anacrolix:

https://github.com/anacrolix/confluence

The idea of simply mounting a filesystem

You can use fuse-btfs [0] for mounting torrents as filesystems! Last I checked it was a fairly mature piece of software so hopefully it doesn’t feel unnatural.

[0] https://github.com/johang/btfs

Very interesting! I wonder if it’s still live and there is any writing on it?

I think the biggest sin of IPFS is not working natively in web browsers—instead, requiring the use of either HTTP gateways or native apps running outside the browser.

And why would you do that? As opposed to, say, distributing via BitTorrent or serving them using a good-old HTTP server?

edit: Not opposed to the idea, just curious what makes you pick IPFS over the existing alternatives.

It slowly was taking off—e.g. Library Genesis on IPFS[0]—but then IPFS introduced Bad Bits Denylist [1] which killed it on arrival.

[0] https://freeread.org/ipfs.html

[1] https://badbits.dwebops.pub/

I don’t think NFTs (should) count: My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Is anyone still (or has anyone ever) used IPFS in production?

I’m not talking about technology demos such as Wikipedia-on-IPFS (which indeed worked and was impressive) but where IPFS is actually being relied on for some functionality.

For macOS and iOS, you can create a profile to configure which DNS server you want to use at all times (including across different Wi-Fi networks and mobile data). See:

https://doh.lvv.me/

That’s what I’ve been using for years and never had any issues with public hotspots.

From "The Pirate Bay down, forever?" (2014)

TPB has become an institution that people just expected to be there. Noone willing to take the technology further. The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code and old design. It never changed except for one thing – the ads. More and more ads was filling the site, and somehow when it felt unimaginable to make these ads more distasteful they somehow ended up even worse.

As a big fan of the KLF I once learned that it’s great to burn great things up. At least then you can quit while you’re on top. I think I left TPB just a little bit after that top, and not when it’s as shitty as it was when it was closed today. It feels good that it might have closed down forever, just a real shame the way it did that. A planned retirement would have given the community time and a way to kick off something new, something better, something faster, something more reliable and with no chance of corrupting itself. Something that had a soul and could retain it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160712155638/http://blog.broke...

Are you referring to Apple Creator Studio?

https://www.apple.com/apple-creator-studio/

I think this HN submission provides little value and a lot more headache to the maintainers of FOSS project (you can already see a lot of brigading in the GitHub comments). IMHO HN shouldn’t allow submissions like this.

For Codeberg Pages you mean?

Social Maps: a user reviews and ratings service for points-of-interest (e.g. cafes) in OpenStreetMap.

I’ve been trying to reduce and eliminate my reliance of the Big Tech and the lack of user reviews and ratings was always a big pain point for me each time I tried to switch away from Google Maps.

I’ve started building a service where users can write reviews and rate “places” (POIs) in OpenStreetMap database, such as a cafe, a museum, or a shop. It’s a quite straightforward CRUD app with bunch of OpenStreetMap-specific features such as logging in with OpenStreetMap and querying places by their OpenStreetMap metadata.

It’s still in active development but it has good docs, a great API reference (including an OpenAPI spec), a demo app with the entire planet imported and queryable, and an early stage Android SDK.

https://app.socialmaps.org/

https://docs.socialmaps.org/

https://codeberg.org/socialmaps

I wonder if it's just Elon realising that xAI can't beat OpenAI and thus deciding to give all his compute capacity to Anthropic instead.

Certainly an interesting day for xAI.

I definitely cringed when Zig moved to Codeberg!

If anything Codeberg’s legal structure (being a non-profit) and vision makes it a lot more aligned with the objectives of free and open source projects than GitHub in the long run (which has always been the case but it’s just abundantly clearer today).

I think “for-profit corporations providing high quality public services for free” was a zero interest-rate phenomenon and never sustainable.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

You can open the link and see it for yourself; what other "verification" do you need?

I wrote SQLite, and I think it should be pronounced "S-Q-L-ite". Like a mineral. But I'm cool with y'all pronouncing it any way you want. :-)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/49656730

So it’s actually not -lite but -ite. =)

So? If the app is using reproducible builds and is also audited not to contain any backdoors, what do networks have to do with it?

How so? Reproducible builds are a thing.

Most of the privacy claims (of all type of apps) are essentially garbage anyway

I think that’s a sweeping generalisation.

The wallets “definitely [look like] someone with some degree of inside info”, said Ben Yorke, formerly a researcher with CoinTelegraph, now building an AI trading platform called Starchild.

Ben Yorke is the only expert I see mentioned in the article, so it'd be a lot more accurate (and a lot less sensational) if The Guardian changed its title to "... says one expert" (but it wouldn't sound as interesting then, would it?).

Eight accounts, all newly created around 21 March, bet a total of nearly $70,000 (£52,000) on there being a ceasefire. They stand to make nearly $820,000 if such a deal is reached before 31 March.

Not to sound privileged but $800k doesn't sound like that much of money for someone that has access to that kind of insider knowledge, especially considering the risks.

All things considered, I feel like the same people could make much bigger bets using trad-fi instruments than Polymarket so I don't understand what's so significant about Polymarket "whales".

In the end people just betting on TACO.

Yet another instance of people jumping to comments based on the title of the submission alone. They don't mention GPL even once in that post...

Unironically, I'd love to have a captcha here for comments and submissions.

They explain it in Private inference [0] if you want to read about it.

[0] https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

If you're interested in "private AI", see Confer [0] by Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Signal private messaging app. They go into more detail in their blog. [1]

[0] https://confer.to/

[1] https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confessions-to-a-data-lake/

only b is worth speaking of. In b, isn't having someone in a position to make a choice much better than no one?

Actually, you're right! I thought the proxy can nominate/decide that any other license can be used in the future (i.e. "licensed under GPLv3 or X" where I can chose X to be anything) but it seems that I was wrong. Re-reading more carefully (emphasis mine):

If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of the GNU Affero General Public License can be used, that proxy’s public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the Program.

So FSF creates the future versions of a specific license the work is under (in this case AGPL) and the "founder" chooses whether to allow its usage or not. That sounds reasonable to me.

Thanks for the pushback!

If you are an individual developer, please don’t do this. I think proxy delegation is best suited to an organisation (ideally to a non-profit) whose lifespan is longer than of a solo developer and more likely to have “checks and balances” that protect all maintainers’ rights vs just you and yours.

If you don’t want to hand FSF a carte blanche regarding your project—perfectly understandable—then pick a “version X only” variant and move on.

I see, I agree with it too. I think that's why many tech projects prefer a "private company owned by a non-profit foundation" structure such as Mozilla and Signal as the examples off the top of my head.