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Perhaps it’s time to return to DNS’s original distributed design.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
Registrations are now re-opened for #distribits2025, taking place 23-24 October!
https://www.distribits.live/news/2025-distribits-registration-open/
Join us in person (spots are limited) or remotely - sign up now at https://www.distribits.live/.
Please note: The call for contributions is closed
The #hackathon is full, but you can ask to join the waitlist in your registration form
@datalad #gitannex #distributed #data #opendata #rdm #tech #open_source_software #conference
aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport https://lobste.rs/s/9wf7sc #distributed
https://github.com/aeron-io/aeron
"The power plant of the future isn't a smokestack. It's all around your home." - Futurist Jim Carroll
The global energy grid is in the midst of its most profound transformation in a century.
For decades, our model has been simple: massive, centralized power stations push electricity in one direction to passive consumers. That era is decisively ending. We are witnessing a fundamental shift from a one-way delivery monologue to a multi-directional energy grid. The power plant of the future is no longer a distant smokestack; it's the solar panels on your roof, the battery in your garage, and the smart devices throughout your home.
I must admit, it's kind of bizarre writing about this right now because the trend is real, and yet one nation is busy turning its back on the reality of the trend (and many other things.)
So let's consider this from a global perspective!
This evolution toward intelligent, multi-directional networks represents a critical inflection point over the next five years. It’s a transition creating enormous business opportunities that extend far beyond simple hardware to encompass sophisticated, data-driven services. Here's a PDF that explores it.
https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend7-EnergyDecentralization.pdf
Essentially, it's being a centralized grid, to a decentralized, distributed grid, with millions of energy inputs.
So what's it all about? Continuing on the energy theme from yesterday, this transformation isn't happening by accident. It's being propelled by three powerful, interconnected forces I call the "Three Ds":
Decarbonization: Despite some areas with political pushback, the world is aggressively shifting from fossil fuels to renewables.
Decentralization: Energy is now being generated, stored, and managed closer to where it's consumed. This gives rise to the "prosumer"—an active participant who both produces and consumes energy.
Digitalization: We're embedding intelligence into the network. Smart meters, IoT sensors, and advanced software are creating a responsive, "aware" grid where electricity and data flow in both directions.
The shift is pretty profound. In the old paradigm, you were a passive consumer with little control. Energy got sent to you. The new reality empowers you as a "prosumer." in which you contribute your energy when available.
Think of it this way - various groups right now are building smart home thermostats that manage your batteries and power generation - and become the next billion-dollar industry by doing so.
**#Decentralization** **#Energy** **#Grid** **#Solar** **#Microgrids** **#Innovation** **#Prosumer** **#Batteries** **#Future** **#Distributed**
Rapid Prototyping a Safe, Logless Reconfiguration Protocol for MongoDB with TLA+ https://lobste.rs/s/teixnn #distributed #formalmethods
https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/technical/rapid-prototyping-safe-logless-reconfiguration-protocol-mongodb-tla-plus
https://www.europesays.com/uk/134910/ Calgo Launches Mobile App to Support Distributed AI Computing Using Idle Device Resources #AI #app #Calgo #Computing #Device #Distributed #Idle #launches #Mobile #Resources #support #Technology #to #UK #UnitedKingdom #using
→ How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-brain-is-like-a-murmuration-of-starlings
“The core idea of emergence inspired me to develop the concept I call the entangled brain: the need to understand the brain as an interactionally complex system where functions emerge from distributed, overlapping networks of regions rather than being localised to specific areas.”
“Several days on, the cause of #Europe’s biggest #blackout in two decades is still being investigated. Spain’s grid operator, #RedEléctrica, says a loss of generation in the country’s south-west led to a sudden cascade of failures.
What tripped off, why, and how this escalated so dramatically is unclear.
But the fact that an entire peninsula could be plunged into #darkness in a matter of seconds has caused alarm around the world, raising urgent questions about the stability of #EnergyUInfrastructure at a time when many countries are switching to low carbon #electricity instead of burning fossil fuels”
“Our power systems were conceived for an era of centralised, predictable generation,” says #XavierDaval, chair of France’s #renewable energy trade association #SOLERSER. “But the emerging electric world is #distributed, #digital, and #adaptive. This is not a glitch to patch — it’s a #paradigm that must be rethought.”
<https://archive.md/JOyS3> / <https://www.ft.com/content/3b807eff-fdaf-49f6-9611-00c4ff992a43> (paywall)
#iden Quick-start verified: Creating and sourcing the #python and #rust virtual environments to compile and install, generating an identity, starting the pad manager, and how to import the library in a #jupyter notebook ready to write and read and poke at the test node.
https://github.com/stevenaleach/iden/blob/main/quickstart.md
I think I finally have this thing complete - the paper is live hosted on a little test node, also lives as README.md on the GitHub.
https://idens.net/iden://z1HRUsTNcYMkN5WPm9s1YjGaLUVs58RVRHPjBrV1kYwdAJ.642/pub
https://www.europesays.com/1992208/ How $5 could change New Zealand #100 #5 #change #could #distributed #Food #how #kiwiharvest #million #new #NewZealand #over #rescued #zealand
git-withme - Peer-to-peer, encrypted, ephemeral Git collaboration (git daemon with encryption)
https://git.sr.ht/~meejah/git-withme
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://git.sr.ht/~meejah/git-withme
I hugely prefer git send-email because I prefer truly #distributed nature of Git. And no, I will believe in #ForgFed when I see actual federated PR being merged, and I am not holding my breath.
So far, @sir has it right in https://is.gd/tqsJYV
What is the AT Protocol?
Wikipedia: “The #ATProtocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol, pronounced "@ protocol" and commonly shortened to ATProto) is a protocol and #OpenStandard for #distributed #socialNetworking services. It is under development by #BlueskySocial #PBC, a public benefit corporation originally created as an independent research group within #Twitter to investigate the possibility of #decentralizing the service.”
#Distributed and #decentralised #computing networks aren’t left-wing. They are right-wing technologies which aim to escape from being controlled by a central authority.
They aren’t democratic either. Democracy requires a central authorative force which can apply the collective will even to parties resisting it.
We are being sold a right-wing package wearing hippy left-wing tie-dye. That’s why it’s so conflicting.
One of the best books in years:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918149/cyberlibertarianism/
#amreading #bookstodon
there's a *great* piece on the US Postal Service by Brian Justie in issue 13 Distribution of Logic (now Logic(s)) magazine
https://logicmag.io/ #distributed #commons #neoliberalism
So is anyone in the #EU working on a #distributed, #e2ee #chat app?
I know about matrix, no need to go there.