On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:11:53AM +1100, Jookia wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:45:05PM +0000, vinc...@cloutier.co wrote: > > I want to add IPFS as an option, not as the only way to download stuff. It > > might be better for privacy-conscious people to use http over Tor. > > Perhaps, though I think it's worth thinking about if this issue is solvable > for > now. If an IPFS implementation is widely used and solves a lot of load > issues, I > can see it becoming the most commonly used option with tools relying on this > functionality, especially for people running their own build servers and only > using IPFS. Once in to the situation that a tool works for most people and it > becomes a defacto standard it's very hard to get people to use other tools, > especially if it would mean we'd end up running three networks: HTTP, IPFS and > whatever p2p option there is that both Tor users and non-Tor users can use. > > > A company or any large install could run IPFS/Guix in a LAN, with a build > > server, which would bring *huge* performance gains while being private. > > Why would they need IPFS in LAN if they have a build server? > > Jookia.
They could have one machine in front as a build/cache server that the other machines connect to -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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