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Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2017 10:59:27 UTC Danyl Strype #ShowerThought To achieve full software freedom on the server-side, we need more than source code. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2017 11:01:41 UTC Danyl Strype We need server templates, to help people figure out what to use, and what's realistic to self-host given their current and future resources -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 09:47:11 UTC Danyl Strype @mikegerwitz more like lists of what services are being offered by a server, using what packages, on what hardware (virtual or bare metal) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 11:47:18 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek I like 100% #P2P in theory, but even as an early adopter of rough-as-guts free code software, I see few practical implementations -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 11:48:43 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek #BitTorrent is great, but it's not 100% #P2P either, because using it depends on tracker servers -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 11:50:30 UTC Danyl Strype @mikegerwitz eg what services does the #FSF offer the public and its members? What packages does it use for those? What do those depend on? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 11:52:17 UTC Danyl Strype @mikegerwitz is the #FSF server a PC in the corner of the office or a virtual machine in a datacentre? What specs? What does it cost? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 11:53:31 UTC Danyl Strype @mikegerwitz if orgs like the #FSF and #Riseup.net publish such documentation, it would be easier for other orgs to set up self-hosting -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:16:46 UTC Danyl Strype @kat Citation please? I thought magnet links were just an alternative to .torrent files, AFAIK they still need trackers. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:17:44 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek again, in theory I agree with you that #P2P is the ideal. But developing for a diverse range of devices gets really complicated -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:18:26 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek servers would be much less of a bottleneck if they were a) federated and b) easy to self-host -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:20:02 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek I think there's also a social component to this... -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:20:48 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek Most people tend to live in households (small-scale servers), not hotels (the #STACKS) or one-room apartments (#P2P). -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:40:24 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek we may be arguing at cross purposes. I too am a big fan of federation, but I use "federated" and "P2P" to mean two different things. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:41:53 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek I understand #P2P or "serverless" to mean a mesh network between user devices. "Federation" = user > server > server > user -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:43:23 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek fair enough ;) My point is that just as not everyone wants to do kernel dev, not everyone want to run their own network services. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:44:27 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek the #STACKS are the most obvious evidence of that. But if one in 100 people can learn to self-host their family or friend or org... -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 12:46:05 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek ...then servers cease to be the problematic bottleneck they are now, without completing retooling everything for pure #P2P -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:12:31 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek running a #P2P app on their own PC is running their own network services. Servers mean all your need on your PC is a browser -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:13:00 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek if #BitTorrent is so easy to use, why do web-based streaming servers exist? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:13:28 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek how so? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:21:01 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek I think it's because #PopcornTime requires obtaining extra software and getting it working. Watching streams just needs a browser -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:22:25 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek don't all these same issues apply to the scale difference between the #STACKS and #P2P? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:23:40 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek I think what killed office self-hosting is a lack of #GNU-Linux trained office techs, and a plethora of "cloud" snakeoil salespeople -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:24:44 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek I work with lots of community organisations who grasp the ethics of software freedom, but can't afford commercial free code prices -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:25:44 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek if there was an easy-to-use distro like #FreedomBone or #YUNOHost aimed at small-to-medium organisations, lots more would self-host -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:26:50 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek just like lots more organisations started using #GNU-Linux on the desktop when #Ubuntu made it much easier to do -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:27:51 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek #WebTorrent! http://qttr.at/1y54 -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:28:41 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek the two are effectively inseparable. People's individual actions are constained or emancipated in all sorts of ways by what orgs do -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:31:06 UTC Danyl Strype @xil @rysiek no, #P2P is mesh network between apps running on the end user devices only. Federation is client-server though -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:33:13 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek @xil ISPs in my country either impose monthly data caps, or "reasonable" use conditions and "traffic-shaping" of various kinds -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:34:11 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek @xil this doesn't stop people running normal servers, but severely limits how much they can be used. This is a self-hosting issue -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:35:47 UTC Danyl Strype @rysiek eg the Green party here have policy supporting "open source" in gov, and used to use #CiviCRM, but got sold #NationBuilder -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:36:53 UTC Danyl Strype @xil @rysiek theoretically this is a threat, but I've never come across an example in the wild. Good protocol design and exception-handling? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:42:23 UTC Danyl Strype @xil where would the ports be blocked? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:49:27 UTC Danyl Strype @xil so you're speculating that ISPs would be forced to limit users by either government regulation or business relationships? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:50:14 UTC Danyl Strype @xil otherwise, the only reason I can see for ISPs to limit users is to keep their own upstream costs manageable. Mostly they're on our side -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:51:38 UTC Danyl Strype @xil if everyone started self-hosting using PCs in their own buildings, ISPs would just up connection or traffic prices to compensate -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:52:20 UTC Danyl Strype @xil of course if we replaced corporate ISPs with customer-owned coops, we could protect against any price gouging or user limiting -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:54:45 UTC Danyl Strype @xil the problem with that is most internet stuff is 2-way by design. Port 80 needs both incoming and outgoing packets for a browser to work -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:55:33 UTC Danyl Strype @xil if you can use a web browser on port 80, you can run a webserver on port 80 -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:56:40 UTC Danyl Strype @xil little bit of history, in the 90s corporate firewalls tended to block all ports except for 80 (and maybe a handful of others) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:57:16 UTC Danyl Strype @xil which is why almost all net services became web-based (or "Port 80 pollution" as the greybeards call it) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 13:59:40 UTC Danyl Strype @xil I don't know much about port forwarding, but AFAIK if you haven't blocked port 80 on your machine or your router, it's open -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:01:05 UTC Danyl Strype @xil closed by what? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:08:59 UTC Danyl Strype @xil how do HTTP queries get from your browser to web servers, to ask them to send your PC the page you clicked on? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:10:06 UTC Danyl Strype @xil that's why we need to fight for #NetNeutrality. That way it would be illegal for ISPs to do anything that limits normal net use -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:13:09 UTC Danyl Strype @xil for more info check out http://qttr.at/1y56 -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:16:06 UTC Danyl Strype @xil hmm, my TCP/IP networking knowledge is clearly a bit rusty ;) It has been almost 20 years since I studied it -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:18:05 UTC Danyl Strype @xil my understanding is telecos wanted to be able to charge extra for more reliable packet delivery, which only #FarceBook etc could afford -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:19:48 UTC Danyl Strype @xil but if it's a browser initiates an HTTP request to a webserver, doesn't that need an open port to go out? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:20:43 UTC Danyl Strype @xil the server can't do anything until it gets the request, right? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:24:49 UTC Danyl Strype @kat cool. What about searching for torrents? Still need #TPB for that ;) Although #FrostWire has built-in search (not sure how it works) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:25:56 UTC Danyl Strype @xil so doesn't your browser need port 80 open to send out that initial HTTP request? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:27:06 UTC Danyl Strype @lnxw48a1 @rysiek my Dad's union office used run their own mailserver (on Windows). Now they use Office365 :( -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:35:06 UTC Danyl Strype @xil sounds like you have much more practical experience with this than me. I change nothing on my router or PC firewall -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:39:10 UTC Danyl Strype @bram I can so help with this! Follow up by email and I'll happily help work up a list. Contacts here http://qttr.at/1g9s -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:42:26 UTC Danyl Strype @xil ae, there are corporate interests who want to turn the internet back into network TV. #NetNeutrality must be defended politically -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:44:40 UTC Danyl Strype @kat but I'm hesitant to politicize architecture theories any more than they already are, but I see what you're getting at -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:46:21 UTC Danyl Strype @xil is sounds like we probably don't agree on *why* a free internet is important, but we agree that it is important, so that's something ;P -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:47:50 UTC Danyl Strype @xil I don't want opinions I disagree with to be censored for the same reason I don't want my opinions censored. That's "free speech" -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:49:45 UTC Danyl Strype @xil the technical freedom protects the communication freedom, that's the way I see it ghostDancer likes this. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:56:36 UTC Danyl Strype @xil the net isn't new in that respect. The railways, the postal service, telegram, and then telephone were/ are all international systems -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 14:58:14 UTC Danyl Strype @xil state boundaries have always been permeable membranes, and international cooperation is as old as "nation-states" -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:03:18 UTC Danyl Strype @xil probably the biggest threat right now is the extension of the #STACKS into cars, homes, cities, transport etc -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:03:52 UTC Danyl Strype @xil but there are also huge opportunities for open source communities to partner with neighbourhoods and city government to head them off -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:04:42 UTC Danyl Strype @xil what for? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:10:16 UTC Danyl Strype @xil nah, "decentralized" just means "not centralized", it doesn't mean "not networked" -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:11:22 UTC Danyl Strype @xil the web is decentralized. If all websites had to be hosted on one giant server it would be centralized -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:11:59 UTC Danyl Strype @xil there are projects to set up local mesh networks, but as a supplement to the global net, not a replacement for it -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:14:38 UTC Danyl Strype @xil censorship is bad, but Milo is disappointing excuse for a human being, and the guy who wrote this article is full of shit -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:17:39 UTC Danyl Strype @xil hmm. Local mesh networks use wireless towers, sometimes with no backhaul to the internet, so folks can chat and share locally -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:18:42 UTC Danyl Strype @xil but because of IPv4 (limited address space), lots of people are on large networks with only one IP, especially corporate networks -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:19:46 UTC Danyl Strype @xil Basically, yeah. Australia has some pretty shitty net censorship laws. The domain registrar is based there and has to abide by them. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:21:01 UTC Danyl Strype @xil our house has only one IP address, shared by 4 residents and anyone else who uses the net here. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:21:30 UTC Danyl Strype @xil legally, the person whose name is on the account is liable for anything that it gets used for -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:22:26 UTC Danyl Strype @xil no, totally separate thing. I brought them up in relation to defining what "decentralized" does and doesn't usually mean -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:23:45 UTC Danyl Strype @xil we could probably get that. I know you can pay extra here for a fixed IP (AFAIK we are still on a dynamic IP) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:24:24 UTC Danyl Strype @xil which was probably one of the reasons they used to block all the ports they didn't absolutely have to keep open ;) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:34:08 UTC Danyl Strype @xil I guess it's like the relationship between Amazon and public libraries. Technically they compete to supply the same thing but... -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:35:06 UTC Danyl Strype @xil ...ISPs and wireless mesh exist on such different scales, and with such different motivations, that they don't really clash (yet) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:35:47 UTC Danyl Strype @xil if a global, community-run wireless network like the #FreeNetworkFoundation became viable, that would be a different story -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:36:31 UTC Danyl Strype @xil it would be great for #NetNeutrality, but as big a threat to commercial ISPs as file-sharing has been to media companies -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:37:41 UTC Danyl Strype @bram just quickly, it's not just the packages, it's having them working out-of-the-box, with easy wizards for configuration etc -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 15:38:28 UTC Danyl Strype @bram one org I work with has about 500 members, and 1 tech guy, who gets about $200 year. They can't afford complicated ;) -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 10:42:46 UTC Danyl Strype @bram thanks, I have to admit testing #YUNOHost hasn't got to the top of the TODO list yet. Definitely email me so I can follow up -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 10:43:53 UTC Danyl Strype @bram I' want to start self-hosting some services for http://qttr.at/1y2j, and I intend to test #YUNOHost, #FreedomBone, and #FreedomBox -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 10:46:05 UTC Danyl Strype @bram another thing is clear advice about stuff like when it's practical to use #YUNOHost on bare metal in the office vs. in a datacentre -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 11:33:46 UTC Danyl Strype @bram #interrnetcu.be looks like it's aiming for a similar result to the #FreedomBox or running #FreedomBone on a #Beaglebone. Tried them? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 11:34:44 UTC Danyl Strype @bram if so, how would you say #YUNOHost compares to them, both pros and cons? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 11:36:29 UTC Danyl Strype @bram thanks. If it's better for you, flick that link on to another project member who's more email based, but we can keep chatting here too -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 11:38:01 UTC Danyl Strype @bram any documentation on the @federationfdn I can browse? Sounds like a great project! -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 11:39:45 UTC Danyl Strype @bram so where does being part of #YUNOHost fit in with your @federationfdn /#Internetcu.be work? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 11:48:25 UTC Danyl Strype @bram ok so, #YUNOHost is the distribution that runs under the hood of an #internetcu.be? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 11:56:39 UTC Danyl Strype @bram how many in total for #YUNOHost do you think? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 12:17:46 UTC Danyl Strype @bram something akin to the instance maps and scale visualizations people have done for the #Fediverse and #Federation? -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 12:44:13 UTC Danyl Strype @bram mutual backup buddies and shared but group private analytics would be fantastic! -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 12:49:09 UTC Danyl Strype @bram sorry, that's just what I thought you meant by "friends monitor each other". -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 08:37:49 UTC Danyl Strype @bram what sort of skills would people need to help with the #YUNOHost project?
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