Hi, On Friday, March 15, 2024 5:04:13 PM IST carlo von lynX wrote: > [...] > A lot about GNUnet and related projects hasn't changed dramatically > in the past fifteen years. We had our vision laid out even before > Snowden and suddenly became relevant, so there are many worthwhile > videos from around that time. Here's some stuff: > > > https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ChaosWest-6-privacy_oriented_distributed_networking_for_an_ethical_internet_including_50_subsystems_of_gnunet > https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ChaosWest-7-scalable_and_privacy_respectful_distributed_systems_our_chance_to_avoid_cloud_computing > https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ChaosWest-1-three_ways_to_enhance_metadata_protection_beyond_tor_secushare_org > https://youtu.be/H7TVRYN6Vhk > > The one on scalability discusses multicast technologies. I had a > business doing scalable chat systems before Zuckerberg used ruthless > methods to gain market dominance. > > [...] > Have a look, it's especially dramatic when embedding binary data: > https://psyc.eu/libpsyc/bench/benchmark.html#sec-3
Thank you for the resources. They have been very helpful. I haven't finished going through all of them but it feels like I am beginning to understand certain things now. I am sorry I didn't acknowledge your email soon enough. > [...] > Not sure how well existing libraries abstract involved headaches away. > When it comes to dealing with radio and its protocol implementations > you might find yourself spending a lot of time dealing with glitches > and things that should be working according to the docs, but don't. > But once it works it is obviously very useful to have. The way any > GNUnet node should be able to work with any other should at least > avoid the whole pairing business. Ideally simply flicking bluetooth or > wifi on should allow your locally running GNUnet node to exchange > traffic with other nodes in the vicinity, in theory. Understood. I have also been going through parts of GNUnet's source code (particularly gnunet-communicator-*). I feel I have to cover a lot more ground before I can get involved in practical work. Thanks, Sahil
