Large school, does not allow internet access for children, though slow internet is available in the area a year or so ago. A
content, and media server is present in the school. Now, faster internet is available, but the school admins don't want to enable internet because: - They claim
/...\ heard stories that "somebody got on the internet and did X which resulted in Y" - They want to be able to curate the
content their students have access to. - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new methods of learning. Currently they pay some money to a proprietary
/...\ content vendor but they want to get out that deal gradually with the profusion of freely licensed, high quality learning
content. Village community #2: - Small village, about 30-50 families spread over a mountain slope looking to setup a village network. - The person from the community with whom
Large school, does not allow internet access for children, though slow
> internet is available in the area a year or so ago. A
content, and media
> server is present in the school. Now, faster internet is available, but
> the school admins don't want to enable internet
/...\ somebody got on the internet and did X which resulted in Y"
> - They want to be able to curate the
content their students have access to.
> - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new
> methods of learning. Currently they pay some money
/...\ proprietary
>
content vendor but they want to get out that deal gradually with the
> profusion of freely licensed, high quality learning
content.
>
> Village community #2:
> - Small village, about 30-50 families spread over a mountain slope
> looking to setup a village network
Large school, does not allow internet access for children, though slow
> internet is available in the area a year or so ago. A
content, and media
> server is present in the school. Now, faster internet is available, but
> the school admins don't want to enable internet
/...\ stories that
> "somebody got on the internet and did X which resulted in Y"
> - They want to be able to curate the
content their students have access to.
> - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new
> methods of learning. Currently they pay some money
/...\ proprietary
>
content vendor but they want to get out that deal gradually with the
> profusion of freely licensed, high quality learning
content.
>
> Village community #2:
> - Small village, about 30-50 families spread over a mountain slope
> looking to setup a village network
school, does not allow internet access for children, though slow
> > internet is available in the area a year or so ago. A
content, and
> media
> > server is present in the school. Now, faster internet is
> available, but
> > the school admins
/...\ somebody got on the internet and did X which resulted in Y"
> > - They want to be able to curate the
content their students have
> access to.
> > - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new
> > methods of learning. Currently they
/...\ some money to a proprietary
> >
content vendor but they want to get out that deal gradually with the
> > profusion of freely licensed, high quality learning
content.
> >
> > Village community #2:
> > - Small village, about 30-50 families spread over a mountain slope
repossess it if
> some part of the payment fails?
>
Imagine the ability to sell someone a computer, and be able to remove
contents from it that you deem inappropriate. That's exactly what Amazon
did with books, what Apple does with its hardware, and what Lenovo does when
/...\ software
vendors have a say on what you can do with "your own", legally purchased
items and "intellectual property".
Digital
contents pose different issues than physical objects, and certainly
something must be done to enable
content (and software) producers to receive
fair payment for their work
/...\ delivery.
>
But end-to-end delivery uses a multitude of servers and routers, so it's
just not about who owns the
content. The Internet infrastructure is not
virtual and it actually costs a lot to companies who don't get a dime of
royalty on your software
repossess
> it if some part of the payment fails?
>
Imagine the ability to sell someone a computer, and be able to remove
contents from it that you deem inappropriate. That's exactly what
Amazon did with books, what Apple does with its hardware, and what
Lenovo does when
/...\ software vendors have a
say on what you can do with "your own", legally purchased items and
"intellectual property".
Digital
contents pose different issues than physical objects, and
certainly something must be done to enable
content (and software)
producers to receive fair payment for their work
/...\ delivery.
>
But end-to-end delivery uses a multitude of servers and routers, so it's
just not about who owns the
content. The Internet infrastructure is not
virtual and it actually costs a lot to companies who don't get a dime of
royalty on your software
definitely becomes difficult to discriminate based on
content, but the kind of problems a loss of net neutrality brings in would likely lead to discriminating based on the target domain name (e.g. deals with companies to favor their
content), which encryption doesn't solve
/...\ suitpossum blog (note that it is a blogger blog,
maintained by Google), not because it is a blogger blog but because of its
contents and its reference to 'Five Pillars of Open Source Finance,' which
reminds me a bit of the Book of Five Rings, written by Musashi around
surveillance and
control.
RT>I agree. But the Google, Twitter, and FB (NSA?) server farms don't have
to be privy to the contents of the created material. 'A' who sends content
to 'B' via a server 'S' where the content is 2048-bit end-to-end encrypted,
still
your book-keeping example, Dominic's answer is
better -- SSB isn't really perfect for that. But my
contention
is that a large part of any system is holding the participants
accountable for their activity. If the users operate under
identities within a WoT, you have a lot more
/...\ question here: this
seems to replicate data. Does it protect
against malicious updates too?
It creates a verifiable log only -- the
content of the messages is an application
concern. We're looking at CRDTs to deal with
convergence, but the systemic model for security
is the reputation system.
CRDT
your book-keeping example, Dominic's answer is better -- SSB isn't really perfect for that. But my
contention is that a large part of any system is holding the participants accountable for their activity. If the users operate under identities within a WoT, you have a lot more
/...\ question here: this seems to replicate data. Does it
protect
against malicious updates too?
It creates a verifiable log only -- the
content of the
messages is an application concern. We're looking at CRDTs
to deal with convergence, but the systemic model for
security is the reputation system
other torrent clients. You need to manually add torrents to the client. We don't want to make the client automatically download popular content, or seed it, or anything like that. The user should decide what to share since the content could be unencrypted and that's potentially dangerous
routed
through a web of trust.
The stated goal is fairly plain: to help users in restrictive locales to
access some known-censored
content, and to do so through trusted nodes
only. In principle there's nothing wrong with this model, and the
software may indeed achieve that goal (given
/...\ sites is an interesting
element in the equation. It fits well within the narrow scope of their
stated goal, but I worry about the
content of that list - in particular,
who manages it exactly? It would appear that there is an ironic
opportunity for censorship at this layer. :/
--
dan (phrawzty
they also know how much data. But that’s all they know. They don’t know the protocol, the port, or the
content of that data. They’re *pretty* blind. I have a suspicion it might be possible to do better than that, to make the blind
/...\ touch of centralisation to solve a
> problem. But if we take into account the importance of metadata
> privacy as well as
content privacy, I suspect that truly blind and
> truly idiotic gods will be very hard to design. A god that knows
> absolutely nothing
centralisation could help to make
ZeroTier more usable, efficient and secure - I just don't think this
paper does anything to support that
contention.
You mention split-brain and internet weather as problems ZeroTier
should cope with, but I'm not sure centralisation will help to solve
those problems
/...\ need a touch of centralisation to solve a
problem. But if we take into account the importance of metadata
privacy as well as
content privacy, I suspect that truly blind and
truly idiotic gods will be very hard to design. A god that knows
absolutely nothing can't contribute
suitpossum blog (note that it is a blogger blog,
maintained by Google), not because it is a blogger blog but because of its
contents and its reference to 'Five Pillars of Open Source Finance,' which
reminds me a bit of the Book of Five Rings, written by Musashi around
Nicholas H.Tollervey [LibreList] Re: [redecentralize] Yesterday's London meet-up 2014-01-15 14:37:29 Hello Holger, Greetings Redecentralizers,
Apologies for the tardy response time on my part, I wanted to do you the
courtesy of thinking about the content of this email rather than simply
dashing something off. Of course, with a young family, I have a chronic
case of too-much
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Cory Doctorow - I didn't realise this but in 1999 he was one of the
three people behind OpenCola (a P2P content sharing/searching product
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencola_%28company%29).
N.
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Anish Mangal [LibreList] Hello! 2015-09-02 22:02:28 working to foster
grassroots learning and education in the remotest corners of the
world. Right now our model of implementation is to have offline
content-loaded servers hosted in schools and villages providing access
to media and collaboration tools. If there is internet connectivity,
the server becomes a gateway
juh [GG] Zeronet and Twister anyone 2016-04-06 22:31:00 blockchain Twitter alternative.
http://twister.net.co/
Zeronet and Twister use implementations of the blockchain technology and
Bittorrent to setup the netwerk and distribute the content.
While Twister is limited to microblogging functionality Zeronet aims to
setup all kind of services and websites.
I would like to hear your comments
work with communities which are rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in schools) and the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks (for an example, see [2][3]). Many times
Torbjörn Johnson [GG] A distributed CDN 2017-03-07 09:43:00 Hello Everyone, Â Want to share with you the launch of a new distributed Content Distribution Network (CDN), primarily intended for video broadcast on demand. It's free to use (View) but requires registration to become a broadcaster. It scales to unlimited viewing hours for free! Broadcasters never upload
transport plugin?
What we need:
A) Our identifiers are self-sealing. That is, they are required to
match some hash of the (initial) content and 4 more predefined meta
data elements. (We need this to prove their correctness; like in
Ricardian Contracts etc.)
So we'd need
Daniel Maher [LibreList] Re: [redecentralize] Blog lisbon? 2014-08-06 11:36:19 particularly interested if you'd be willing to do more coverage of remotestorage
I'd be glad to contribute content pertaining to our efforts here in
Paris too, if that would be acceptable to you. A straightforward PR is
good enough ?
I'll also add some info the wiki
Ross Jones [LibreList] Re: [redecentralize] Blog lisbon? 2014-08-06 11:17:35 particularly interested if you'd be willing to do more coverage of remotestorage
>
> I'd be glad to contribute content pertaining to our efforts here in
> Paris too, if that would be acceptable to you. A straightforward PR is
> good enough ?
>
> I'll also
signature is in these schemes hidden in the process:
as a proof of integrity, we are interested in a hash over the object's
content. This proof should hold even if the secret key was lost or
published.
>
> An item stored in the DHT is a collection
these schemes hidden
> in the process: as a proof of integrity, we are interested in a
> hash over the object's content. This proof should hold even if the
> secret key was lost or published.
>
The drogulus uses public key cryptography (RSA) for signing digital
assets
question here: this seems to replicate data. Does it protect
against malicious updates too? It creates a verifiable log only -- the content of the messages is an application concern. We're looking at CRDTs to deal with convergence, but the systemic model for security is the reputation system
question here: this seems to replicate data. Does it
protect
against malicious updates too?
It creates a verifiable log only -- the content of the
messages is an application concern. We're looking at CRDTs
to deal with convergence, but the systemic model for
security is the reputation system.
CRDT
communities which are rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to
> the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain
> content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in schools) and
> the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks (for an
> example
communities which are rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to
> the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain
> content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in schools) and
> the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks (for an
> example
start today!
> >
>
> This all reminds me of Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" that (allegedly)
> had such a content payment system built in. I believe Xanadu is over 50
> years old and still being worked upon by Ted and volunteers
Paul Frazee [GG] Re: Zeronet and Twister anyone 2016-04-07 10:23:00 zeronet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq/#can-i-use-the-generated-site-addressprivate-key-to-accept-bitcoin-payments The sites are static-files hosted with bit-torrent. The sites are addressed by public keys, which are used to sign content manifests for the site. https://zeronet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq/#how-does-it-work Pretty simple to publish, you just create a directory, sign, and push it to the network https://zeronet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using_zeronet/create_new_site/
Martin [GG] Re: Zeronet and Twister anyone 2016-04-09 06:40:00 database which is synchronized between the hosting peers. Quoting the documentation:Â > ZeroNet counts with a built-in SQL database. This makes content-heavy
site development easy. The DB is also synced with hosting nodes with
incremental updates. This seems to work out well surprisingly. Didn't look
also using SECN (Openwrt) Batman based mesh networking in the
deployments I setup in rural places but still many things are
centralized (name resolution, content serving, dhcp). Would love to
make mesh networking truly decentralized
feross [GG] Re: A distributed CDN 2017-03-08 21:37:00 Torbjorn â c ool project. The hardest part of any initiative like this is to get user adoption. Why will the average content producer put their video on your site vs. YouTube which is easier and has all the viewers and name recognition? That's the hardest part
rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to
> > the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain
> > content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in
> schools) and
> > the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks (for an
> > example
example and start today!
> >
>
> This all reminds me of Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" that (allegedly)
> had such a content payment system built in. I believe Xanadu is over 50
> years old and still being worked upon by Ted and volunteers
like the idea of Bitcoin as a Mediawiki anti-spam plugin, mainly because of the possib
ilities it hints at for micropayments (and online content business models!) with scriptable money. (Hope that didn't sound too Nathan Barley.) Sent from my mobile
On 2 Jan 2014, at 15:41, Eric
club.
I think you can draw a pretty clear line between Google being *forced* to take a short term view -- as they watch indexable content disappear into closed networks, and fewer people wanting/needing to search as things get put in front of them via their networks -- and their deprioritization
This all reminds me of Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" that (allegedly)
>> had such a content payment system built in. I believe Xanadu is over 50
>> years old and still being worked upon by Ted and volunteers
really like the idea of Bitcoin as a Mediawiki anti-spam plugin, mainly because of the possibilities it hints at for micropayments (and online content business models!) with scriptable money. (Hope that didn't sound too Nathan Barley.) Sent from my mobile On 2 Jan 2014, at 15:41, Eric
like the idea of Bitcoin as a Mediawiki anti-spam plugin, mainly because of the possib
ilities it hints at for micropayments (and online content business models!) with scriptable money. (Hope that didn't sound too Nathan Barley.) Sent from my mobile
On 2 Jan 2014, at 15:41, Eric
Ira [LibreList] Re: [redecentralize] Hello! 2015-09-07 08:47:29 working to foster
grassroots learning and education in the remotest corners of the
world. Right now our model of implementation is to have offline
content-loaded servers hosted in schools and villages providing access
to media and collaboration tools. If there is internet connectivity,
the server becomes a gateway
start today!
>>>
>> This all reminds me of Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" that (allegedly)
>> had such a content payment system built in. I believe Xanadu is over 50
>> years old and still being worked upon by Ted and volunteers
start today!
>>>
>> This all reminds me of Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" that (allegedly)
>> had such a content payment system built in. I believe Xanadu is over 50
>> years old and still being worked upon by Ted and volunteers
suitpossum blog (note that it is a blogger blog,
maintained by Google), not because it is a blogger blog but because of its
contents and its reference to 'Five Pillars of Open Source Finance,' which
reminds me a bit of the Book of Five Rings, written by Musashi around
suitpossum blog (note that it is a blogger blog,
maintained by Google), not because it is a blogger blog but because of its
contents and its reference to 'Five Pillars of Open Source Finance,' which
reminds me a bit of the Book of Five Rings, written by Musashi around
suitpossum blog (note that it is a blogger blog,
maintained by Google), not because it is a blogger blog but because of its
contents and its reference to 'Five Pillars of Open Source Finance,' which
reminds me a bit of the Book of Five Rings, written by Musashi around
suitpossum blog (note that it is a blogger blog,
maintained by Google), not because it is a blogger blog but because of its
contents and its reference to 'Five Pillars of Open Source Finance,' which
reminds me a bit of the Book of Five Rings, written by Musashi around