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Telegram is dieing

Telegram partnering with Elon’s #AI to distribute #Grok inside chats is a clear line crossed. This matters because private data ≠ training fodder, bringing Grok (or any #LLM) into messaging apps opens the door to pervasive data harvesting and normalization of surveillance.This is an example of platform drift: Telegram was always sketchy (proprietary, central control, opaque funding), but this is active betrayal of its user base, especially those in repressive regions who relied on […]

hamishcampbell.com/telegram-is

hamishcampbell.comTelegram is dieing – Hamish Campbell
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#AI#dat#dna

I've built a thing.

Sometimes my follower count seemingly fluctuates at random. To understand why, I dug into the #MastodonAPI and eventually created "fedi-followers":

A privacy-friendly #fediverse #followers explorer as local-only static web app, decentrally hosted on the #ipfs. See who's actually following (and unfollowing) you over time and much more.

fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns

fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns.dweb.linka privacy-friendly fediverse followers explorer as local-only static web app.

Initializing a new project - Interplanetary Markdown. Might explore a #Web3 (off-chain) approach later for a better experience, but for now, keeping it simple with good old #OpenPGP.

A censorship-resistant #Markdown publishing platform, enabling seamless content distribution. Powered by the Interplanetary File System (#IPFS), ensuring #blogs, #articles, and other written content remain accessible and verifiable across the distributed web.

github.com/rvnrstnsyh/cupoftea

GitHubGitHub - rvnrstnsyh/cupoftea: Interplanetary MarkdownInterplanetary Markdown. Contribute to rvnrstnsyh/cupoftea development by creating an account on GitHub.

How is one supposed to find files on #IPFS?

I love that it's based on #DHT of old docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dht/#k though in practice mediated by a central indexer (IPNI) docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipni/ .

But what made DHT useful in #eMule was the search by filename or other human-readable metadata, so of course they removed all of that!?
discuss.ipfs.tech/t/cid-concep

So you can't search a file by its checksum, let alone its filename. You need to know someone who already has the file, and ask them where to look.

docs.ipfs.techDistributed Hash Tables (DHT) | IPFS DocsLearn what distributed hash tables (DHTs) are, how they store who has what data, and how they play a part in the overall lifecycle of IPFS.
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@msbellows @cslinuxboy While it would help with bandwidth issues, it's no isp.

Unfortunately, most apps and websites are currently built with the client-server model. Local first applications go a long way but are a lost art.

Content addressed p2p like #ipfs goes further, can help alleviate power imbalances and users can retrieve from and rehost for anyone. It's needed but hasn't taken off enough yet.

Hasn't stopped me from building and helping others build, but we can only build so fast.

@tasket I've been building something entirely custom using #ipfs to onboard my own Discord community onto a ship we can jump to if need be. It's the best we can hope for right now.

Hoping to expand the scope outside of app development communities once it's well-weathered and tested, but the approach to MVP over the last year has been slow, juggling and building so much from scratch while also making every bit reusable. Need to keep moving forward. Much to organize, much to do. Nearly there now.

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Might also be time to get caught up on #IPFS ? In 2020, I built this fun/janky #RaspberryPi console to access it & print files onto thermal receipt paper.

I used Tinkercad to design some custom LEGO bits for #3DPrinting , to mount the guitar strap, arcade buttons, and 3mm acrylic~

hackster.io/glowascii/pipfs-po

Hey #internet #cloud #web #infrastructure #persistence is there any #p2p or publicly supported content-addressable storage (#cas) solution? (Other than #IPFS, which I am aware of.)
The problem is that I eventually would want a (few) small binaries to be available "in perpetuity", i.e. not some specific content hosting service. The idea being that if that binary-exact file performs an important function, I'd like it to be hard to become unavailable or disappear.