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Namecoin does a better job of jailbreaking the internet away from government controlled TLDs. There's already plenty of open source twitter and fb clones but one that runs over Gnunet would be interesting.

The not-so pocket sized server is cool and all, but it's running on what is essentially a blackbox with tightly sealed patents. Might as well just write an Android server in a dalvik VM and host off your phone what's the difference if we are going the blackbox route.




> They cobbled it together using a Raspberry Pi, a portable hard drive, and the Camlistore software built by Fitzpatrick and Slatkin.

Do tell, how could something be less black-boxy than that?


Something with at least hardware documentation. Pi is a bunch of binary blobs so might as well just make Android webservers, at least it will be a pocket sized bunch of sealed patents


Pi is a bunch of binary blobs

Wow, you have pretty high standards!

High standards are good.

A running platform is also good.

Raspberry Pi has 2 binary blobs - the boot blob & the GPU blob. Personally, I'd prefer if they weren't needed.

But I think the availability of a cheap, widely deployed and capable computing platform is more important.

Yes, there are other choices that could be made for the hardware. People should be encouraged to explore those other options.

Nevertheless I think the decision to build something on RaspberryPi is a good one.




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