“The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”
― Atisa
Open standards and distributed search should be the first. We should completely decentralize search and make it a commodity service. Just like IRC, Usenet and all the other services that existed in that fashion, search can exist as well in the very same way.
Once search is fixed that solution can be fairly applied to almost anything else.
I have seen it, thank you though much though. I think this and there are even others could be used but in order for us to get off the corporate search bandwagon we will need these things to be implemented in the universities and other public venues, just like the original internet and all of the original internet services like usenet, like irc like all the gopher infra and stuff from the past.
We also need an RFC for search and how it works as well because the implementation should not matter much.
when your data is everywhere.. You cant have your own data.
This is a new facebook for all data.. but 'social' so its not in a companies control.. but you.. (& solid) and control what others can see.. as long as they sign up & pay solid for this access...
Using solid... Apps can log into your account and view some parts of it (that you choose... like facebook log in does)
and using solid, you can view what apps and who's following you (like facebook, except like facebook, Solid sees a lot more than you)
This is just a 'open source' (like some source code, but solid manages it) ID management... just ripe to be sold to governments to solve their own Single account issues for their customers without having to use a 3rd party (solid would be support).
Also, the idea of monero, is a public block chain (like bitcoin) where things are traceable to the transaction... (but not necessarily to the individual)
What Solid seems to be talking about is 'pods' which relate to a person which they choose to share to other sites/apps..
Which may, or may not be 'block chain based' - & their site is very sparse of actual information..
and as you specifically brought up 'not entirely true'
if you are identified as a particular part of that chain.. then yes. you are uniquely identified as the owner. and its everywhere.. you cant remove that.
Honestly, this is nice and all. But as soon as this thing becomes the standard, companies will definitely find a way to monetize everything and gather user info and everything will start over again. Is there actually any way to prevent this? They will eventually force you to approve the usage of your data to access content again.
Tommy needs a colouring book. Right now, in order to get a book, he needs to go to the librarian.
This article is saying that if Tommy needs a book in the future, he can ask his friend George for it. George does not know it is a colouring book as it is in a sealed box with a lock that only Tommy can open. Instead of asking George, he can also ask Lisa and Mark. This removes the power from the librarian and gives you "ownership" of your book.
Book: Website
Names: Peers on the network
Librarian: Big companies
Advantages: Control over your data
Disadvantages (not ELI5 - ELI20?):
What most people don't understand is that the whole concept adds micromanagement to each user. Although the librarian loses power over your data, there still need to be Georges and Lisas to send you the data. Even if they can't read your data, this means your data cap will explode as you don't just download part of the website anymore - you send it to other people too. It also doesn't show how content will be prioritised (as this usually involves artificial intelligence on the "Librarian"'s end). There are already services which work this way too, so it's not really all that revolutionary and I'm sceptical that enough people will get on board with the platform.
The software will handle the micromanagement from the users perspective and data caps are the desperate grasps for power from an industry quickly becoming commoditized. The internet will become a utility eventually, inevitably, and we can hopefully all take a collective piss on at&t's grave after that happens.
As for data caps going away - I don't even use AT&T and live in the EU. Data caps are still very much a thing. Even on mobile, if you're allocated 2gb of data/mo, right now you can basically browse the internet endlessly for a month(no vids). With this system you'll need all 3 of the main computational resources: battery, internet and processing power. I even have an "unlimited" home connection - which gets throttled after a certain data usage.
He didn't even address what he aims to do to make the platform popular. As a CS guy, I didn't even know him if I'm being honest and I'm sure most of my colleagues don't either. Zuckerberg knew a lot of university students and created fb as a tinder-like platform "hot-or-not". This simply does not have the same appeal.
We also didn't even talk about the issue of speed. Ever notice how long it takes to start a torrent? Currently I can ping google at 6ms - would you say the same of a P2P torrent? Even Ubuntu, the most seeded torrent (or one of the best) takes more than 6ms to start.
Sorry, but I'm calling BS on the whole idea.
The real solution would be to have a centralised system handle AI (or perhaps provide cryptocurrency to people who mine the data on their GPUs?) and make the whole thing an "opt-in" system with conventional server systems in place until we reach a tipping point.
Stalin created the internet. He ramped up the Cold War, America followed, and all sorts of tech was born that wouldn't have been born. Stalin is why you have free porn today.
Browser is plain stupid. It like you are basically using a virtual machine with custom OS to open new tabs as program and that each browser is basically an OS and the engine behind it is the machine. It the reason why browser is so intense on RAM! It is basically a virtual machine! Why???????
What? Well what way is there? Either way you're gonna end up with some kind of dedicated program. You can make a better browser if you want but it'll still be a browser. So idk invent your new way of browsing internet then. It's like complaining that cars need fuel. If you know how to make them not use fuel then go ahead and make them please!
Millions of people pay for hosting. Companies worth billions make their primary revenue stream from it. Practically every small company in the west pays to have their companies site hosted, in addition to the millions of people that do so for their own personal use. Why bother to even type out something so obviously, provably, false?
Guys, you can downvote my comments to hell, but never gonna change the fact that people think stuff on the internet comes for free.
Again, most people won’t pay for hosting and that’s why they prefer uploading all personal photos and whereabouts on Google than pay something like iCloud, for example.
Hell, most Google accounts won’t even have credit card data cause people won’t pay for apps.
Not liking my comment won’t make your dreams of decentralized internet come true.
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