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Why do I feel so specifically targeted by this.

Though maybe I am of the philosophy of prototyping as I like to code for problems that I am facing right now in real life and wish like damn... wish someone could build something cool & though I use AI quite hard. Its actually because I am currently in school and I just don't have the time to code but I face some issues which I genuinely feel need to be solved right now. (Maybe even as just a proof of concept) so that I can later write good readable code later on when I go into university.


Wow this is absolutely great!

I am misquoting a famous quote so pardon me but

a revolution is three meals away.

Whereas pesticides death are so much easier to control since they don't happen simultaneously, they happen way less and is overall net positive.

Accidents happen on roads with cars, that doesn't mean we should ban cars though (though in all honesty, maybe we should all use buses and use less cars, maybe this is a shitty argument?)

I am personally a two wheeler electric kind of guy since electric cars are way too expensive and I actually want to have cheap transport and I am comfortable for 99% use cases otherwise for the rare cases, I might use Uber and I am still net positive.


> I am misquoting a famous quote so pardon me but "a revolution is three meals away."

Funnily enough, I was looking at this saying recently. There are several variations so it's hard to find the "one true version".

The canonical version is more likely: "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. " - Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Lewis

Implying that roughly three days of total breakdown of essential systems would cause societal breakdown. One day wouldn't do it, but it wouldn't last a week.

Is it true? That's not for me to say, and lets not run the experiment. The versions where the quote is "three meals" and the version where Lenin or Stalin said it don't appear to be accurate.


oh boy I was thinking of doing something like this for the lolz but I genuinely didn't knew what it meant to put tariff in programming.

The author however has it figured out.

What an amazing job to create something so mematic I think. A perfect blend of politics and programming.


There's iroh.computer which can use a relay/ do direct nat punching.

They use bao hashing which is something that I discovered through them (IIRC) and its really nice.

Could create such a protocol though bittorrent/ipfs is fine

I once wanted to create a website which was just a static website.

and I used some ipfs gateway to push it with my browser and got a link of that static website, all anonymous.

Kind of great tbh.


Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

There are other genuinely useful crypto projects (like Monero for privacy and I don't like the idea of smart contracts)

I really want to tell you the fact that most crypto is scam. These guys first went into crypto and now I am seeing so much crypto + AI.

As someone who genuinely is interested in crypto from a technology (decentralization perspective)

I see transactions as a byproduct not the end result & I see people wanting to earn a quick buck feel really weird.

Also crypto isn't safe. I just think like now its better to correlate as a tech stock though 99% of the time, its run by scams, so absolutely worse.

The technology is still fascinating. But just because the technology is fascinating doesn't mean its valuable. Many people are overselling their stuff.

That being said, I have actually managed to use crypto to create a permanent storage (something like ipfs but its forced to store it forever) , so I think this can be used where anonymity/decentralized is required. But still, this thing could be done without including money in the process as well & crypto is still not as decentralized as one might imagine.


> Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

Iroh contributor here. I don't know what you are referring to. Iroh is just a library to provide direct QUIC connections between devices, even if they are behind a NAT. We don't have any plans doing a blockchain or an ICO or anything like that.

I am not aware of any project called Iroh that is a scam, but if there is, please provide a link here. It's not us.

I know there have been some scammers trying to make a BLAKE3 coin or something, a year ago.


I actually wasn't referring to iroh but rather ipfs / the stratos thing that I mentioned.

My only gripe with iroh currently is that its browser wasm feels too much for me/ I don't want to learn rust.

So I actually wanted to build something that required connectivity and I used nostr because nostr is great for website and not gonna lie ,its awesome as well (but nostr is also riddled with crypto bros :( )


Haven't used Nostr recently, but isn't it associated with bitcoiners rather than crypto bros? At least it used to be that way.

OK, thanks for the clarification.

I have nothing against crypto in principle, but I really don't want Iroh to be associated with crypto scams.

Iroh is just a library for p2p connections. You can use it for crypto, but I would say that the majority of our users are non-crypto(currency).

We will try to make the wasm version easier to use, but if nostr works well for you, go for it! Not the right place if you want to avoid crypto bros though :-)


I also use this! like I wanted a backup of my device once to my phones when my system was messed up.

and I used this. Though I would prefer a way to keep it downloading from where it left because this method ISNT reliable for 40 gigs transfer

I am also wondering about this comment in the gist which was linked (gist.github.com/willurd/5720255) by olejorgenb which is

Limiting request to a certain interface (eg.: do not allow request from the network)

python -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1

Like what does that really do? Maybe its also nice, IDK?


127.0.0.1 means "self" in IP. Presumably that means that it if you browse to your IP address from your computer it will work, but from your phone it will not.

I usually do the opposite - 0.0.0.0 - which allows connections from any device.


In the minecraft example video

We are shown a person who quit the server and then the server stops and restarts (that 2 second clone of vm)

but what if I have a service like lets say normal minecraft servers like hypixel or others, they can't hope for a 2 second delay. Maybe we would have to use proxies in that case.

I am genuinely interested by this tech.

Currently, I am much in favour of tinykvm and its snapshotting because its even lighter than firecracker(I think). I really like the dev behind tinykvm as well.


Great post as usual!

Tinykvm is going to be the future


man, I wish for something like crystal but with a little more golang like syntax.

I hate OOP though, I may be wrong but crystal afaik is OOP. I wish for a non OOP golang-esque crystal alternative.


> something like crystal but with a little more golang like syntax... I wish for a non OOP golang-esque crystal alternative.

I don't understand... Isn't that golang?


Roc?

They're unfortunately in the middle of a compiler rewrite from Rust to Zig right now though


I think V might be what you’re looking for?

Go can also compile to llvm https://github.com/goplus/llgo Though I am not sure how fast it is.

Doesn't look like it fully supports the language or ecosystem, with partial support for 1.21 version.

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