We have a principal engineer on our team that is pushing this sort of style, hard.
It’s essentially obfuscation, no one else on the team can really review, nevermind understand and maintain what they write. It’s all just functional abstractions on top of abstractions, every little thing is a function, even property/field access is extracted out to a function instead of just… Using dot notation like a normal person.
You might not necessarily have to fork BitTorrent and instead if you have your own protocol for grouping and breaking the data into manageable chunks of a particular size and each one of those represents an actual full torrent. Then you won’t necessarily have to worry about completion levels on those torrents and you can rely on the protocol to do its thing.
Instead of trying to modify the protocol modify the process that you wish to use protocol with.
Let this be a lesson to write down any fake data you enter into accounts.
My keepass entries maintain all the fake form into for each account, makes it possible to move forward in instances just like this.
Oh for sure, that’s quite reasonable, though at some point you just move towards re-creating BitTorrent, which will be the actual effect you want.
You could build an appliance on top of the protocol that enables the distributed storage, that might actually be pretty reasonable 🤔
Ofc you will need your own protocols to break the data up into manageable parts, chunked in a same way, and make it capable of being removed from the network or at least made inaccessible for dmca claims. Things that is completely preventing the internet archive from being too much of a target from government entities.
The actual volume of data is kind of insane for distribution. You start running into many scale problems.
At ~70PB of storage, assumed redundant as well. And at ~$15/TB JUST for HDDs alone, you’re talking $2.1 million in just hard drives.
Installation, hardware, and facility costs will at least pentuple that number, if we’re being crazy conservative. Making the cost to stand up an archive $10.5 million?
During this process I found out that their finances are public and there is more reliable information out there:
The cost to store the data and run the archive is a whopping $36mill/y at the moment.
Which if you consider what they do is incredibly cheap. And easily fundable by even a small municipality never mind a large Nation.
And funded by who?
It’s nice to say that it should be decentralized, but who is funding the development of that? Are you donating to IA?
Always has been.
Right beside the fact that their monetary model relies on user activity tracking. Yet they advertise privacy.
A browser that had a seemingly unlimited budget for advertising before it even had users is suspicious as hell.
I’ve never trusted brave.
Even better, it’s now a nice database of who companies and governments can go after when they want or need to!
Let’s not mention the abysmal performance for servers. Making it largely infeasible to scale.
It’s not the solution, not even remotely close, unfortunately.
Except that relay nodes often get out onto proxy lists.
Which means you now get to solve capchas for absoluty f-ing everything now.
How’s the FCC going to prepare for anything when it’s being gutted?
PAID ONLY BY A RELATED FOR-PROFIT
Conveniently missed note above ☝️
The remainder of the executive team is paid what appears to be a fairly reasonable salary for the industry, low even.
The biggest cost ($6mill) is paid by the for profit Mozilla corporation.
Browser development is crazy hard, and expensive, work. Mozilla has honestly done a TON with the resources at hand. Google over here spending hundreds of millions for Chrome
It just sucks that they are seeing financial pressures that drive them into the profit corner.
Turns out when you gotta choose between going defunct and selling ad space, selling ad space wins.
Also turns out that drying up donations for privacy protecting browsers means there is less demand for it, and less money to fund it.
The majority cost of Firefox is engineering salaries.
Eventually something has to give, and this is it.
Hell, even worse, crying in the lost information. Discord is a black hole where community knowledge goes to die.
It’s the worst.
I don’t see it on the app store to remove anymore
Chrome* or Chromium based browsers*
Cool, lots of information provided!
After nearly a year of Kagi. It’s actually painful when I’m on a device with just Google.
Would recommend if you are a knowledge worker or researcher, or just in a technical field.
Lemmy users very biased link to article that isn’t nearly as biased as they are purposefully biasing.
Maybe this community needs stricter posting guidelines to avoid this sort of drivel?
Well, this is in JS to be clear
Instead of
const name = user.nameIt’s
const userToName(user) => user.name;const name = userToName(user);Ad nauseum.