Notices by Gert V 🇵🇸 (gert@social.coop)

@cwebber @eloquence This will take just $30M over three years.

One of the ideas behind p2p computing is load balancing. In some places there may be overcapacity, while elsewhere there is shortfall. So the two can balance each other by using eachother's services. This way it is not always necessary to buy a bigger computer.

#p2p

@cwebber We need symmetry and Big Tech will never ever give it to us even if they promise.

@cwebber Also on how it could have ended up in implementation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25

VC may be established using X.121 addresses. The X.121 address consists of a three-digit data country code (DCC) plus a network digit, together forming the four-digit data network identification code (DNIC), followed by the national terminal number (NTN) of at most ten digits.

@JulianOliver
This is the first release of mbus, a P2P reflector. In the context of disaster response, it could be used by a group of people to talk to eachother. It is so small that multiple instances can be run for different purposes (public or private).

wget voko.citiwise.eu/mbus-dist-0.3.9.tgz

sha256sum mbus-dist-0.3.9.tgz
46cbb0baa249e794c199684b397e2d55d77ca7420e34653d8029001bc0ba1a2d mbus-dist-0.3.9.tgz

#linux #qjs #p2p

@JulianOliver
In a disaster situation when there are no phones or internet, we might be able to set up a wireless access point, even with just a RaspberryPi. But then, without the disservices of Big Tech, how do we communicate?

You need to know who is who on your makeshift network, a pattern called "discovery." Then when you know who to connect with, how do people set up a minimal (group) chat session, even in a terminal, without installing anything.

That's what we're trying to figure out.

@cwebber Fully agree
> I think people want more community-oriented private communication

@ntnsndr The concept of a "group", eg. the old-fashoned mailing list, doesn't seem to exist in the fediverse. The devs say: You can follow hashtags, but that doesn't give a group any control and is mostly a broadcasting function rather than a discussion function.

@ntnsndr It was the year 1993 when the internet changed dramatically, from open to open for business.

@aral
WTF?

EU Commission allows state aid for pan-European cloud project

The EU executive gave the green light to public spending up to €1.2 billion by seven member states for their common research interest project on interoperable cloud and edge computing for multi-providers.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/research-innovation/news/eu-commission-allows-state-aid-for-pan-european-cloud-project/