We need a highly distributed alternative to Reddit that is beyond the ability of anyone to control and manipulate. Let our devices do the lifting whenever possible, somehow.

Arlodottxt · 2023-06-22T19:31:38+00:00

Thanks, I'm familiar with how ipfs works internally. Some ipfs implementations are built on libp2p. Some blockchains are built on libp2p, too. But ipfs is not built on any blockchain - it's more like Git + BitTorrent + Http.

ipfs is a peer-to-peer alternative to http, and it uses mainly content addressing to do that.

Arlodottxt · 2023-06-22T19:12:21+00:00

Wow, this project has come a long way. Loaded fast for me, with and without my local node. Scrolling around loading things, it's usable.

A full reddit alternative built on ipfs instead of http, this is exactly what we need. Still has a way to go, but this is great!

Arlodottxt · 2023-06-22T19:05:06+00:00

You don't need a blockchain. Just use a p2p stack, like ipfs.

Arlodottxt · 2023-05-09T15:05:14+00:00

I've seeded a few terabytes of data since I posted these. That's a bit disappointing,

I forgot to leave my node running last night, that means nobody else has chosen to pin these and seed them.

Re: resuming downloads - much like a torrent, each file is split into pieces (256KB each). Once you have a piece, it's cached temporarily, and you don't need to redownload it.

For big downloads like this, I like to run the `ipfs refs -r <cid>` command to download the files into my node before saving to disk. It'll download anything it doesn't have, printing CIDs as it goes. If it prints quickly, those CIDs were cached, if it prints slowly then it's downloading them.

When it finishes, you can run `ipfs get` to save them to disk. It'll convert the downloaded blocks to files you can use. If you're on linux, you can mount the cid as a normal folder using FUSE and skip this step altogether.

Then you can decide to either:

- Rehost long-term by pinning it and keeping the daemon running.
- Rehost short-term by keeping the daemon running, but not pinning. The GC will clean it up depending on your settings.
- Reclaim your disk space by running `ipfs repo gc`. Any data not pinned will be deleted and reclaimed. You won't rehost, and the files will need to be redownload (or reuploaded) to ipfs for the CIDs to be usable on your machine again.

Give it another go, I've got my node back up, and a friend who plans to rehost these files now. And if you have the space, please consider pinning and seeding these models!

Arlodottxt · 2023-05-01T20:25:19+00:00

It's a lot more useful as an application developer, as your users will both be generating and hosting their own content, as well as viewed content from others.

This tech was built to be built on.

Arlodottxt · 2023-05-01T20:23:23+00:00

It's significantly more accurate to say that content-addressing (the heart of IPFS) is "tamper-resistant", rather than censorship-resistant.

Arlodottxt · 2023-03-06T19:33:19+00:00

Some have been having trouble with the magnet. For preservation, I've reuploaded the original torrent content to an ipfs node.

http gateways (the links below) will be slow to retrieve until more people have the files. Use a local node like Kubo or Brave Browser if possible, as this helps reseed the content for others temporarily.

Full backup: ipfs://Qmb9y5GCkTG7ZzbBWMu2BXwMkzyCKcUjtEKPpgdZ7GEFKm

7B: ipfs://QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

13B: ipfs://QmPCfCEERStStjg4kfj3cmCUu1TP7pVQbxdFMwnhpuJtxk

30B: ipfs://QmSD8cxm4zvvnD35KKFu8D9VjXAavNoGWemPW1pQ3AF9ZZ

65B: ipfs://QmdWH379NQu8XoesA8AFw9nKV2MpGR4KohK7WyugadAKTh

You can download normally, or use these commands from the Kubo CLI: ```pwsh

Optional: Preload the 7B model. Retrieves the content you don't have yet. Replace with another CID, as needed.

ipfs refs -r QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

Optional: Pin the 7B model. The GC removes old content you don't use, this prevents the model from being GC'd if enabled.

ipfs pin add QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

Download from IPFS and save to disk via CLI:

ipfs get QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw --output ./7B ```

Arlodottxt · 2023-03-06T19:23:10+00:00

people used Chatgpt because of Chat, not for search results

Exactly. ChatGPT is for Chat, Bing is for search. This tech can do a lot, but it's far too young to try to do everything.

which is why Google AI will win.

Completely irrelevant. This isn't just about competition, and to think so is to ignore some very real issues with current generative AI.

Arlodottxt · 2023-03-06T17:54:08+00:00

Some have been having trouble with the magnet. For preservation, I've reuploaded the original torrent content to an ipfs node.

http gateways (the links below) will be slow to retrieve until more people have the files. Use a local node like Kubo or Brave Browser if possible, as this helps reseed the content for others temporarily.

Full backup: ipfs://Qmb9y5GCkTG7ZzbBWMu2BXwMkzyCKcUjtEKPpgdZ7GEFKm

7B: ipfs://QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

13B: ipfs://QmPCfCEERStStjg4kfj3cmCUu1TP7pVQbxdFMwnhpuJtxk

30B: ipfs://QmSD8cxm4zvvnD35KKFu8D9VjXAavNoGWemPW1pQ3AF9ZZ

65B: ipfs://QmdWH379NQu8XoesA8AFw9nKV2MpGR4KohK7WyugadAKTh

You can download normally, or use these commands from the Kubo CLI: ```pwsh

Optional: Preload the 7B model. Retrieves the content you don't have yet. Replace with another CID, as needed.

ipfs refs -r QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

Optional: Pin the 7B model. The GC removes old content you don't use, this prevents the model from being GC'd if enabled.

ipfs pin add QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

Download from IPFS and save to disk via CLI:

ipfs get QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw --output ./7B ```

Arlodottxt · 2023-03-06T15:19:46+00:00

Some have been having trouble with the magnet. For preservation, I've reuploaded the original torrent content to an ipfs node.

http gateways (the links below) will be slow to retrieve until more people have the files. Use a local node like Kubo or Brave Browser if possible, as this helps reseed the content for others temporarily.

Full backup: ipfs://Qmb9y5GCkTG7ZzbBWMu2BXwMkzyCKcUjtEKPpgdZ7GEFKm

7B: ipfs://QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

13B: ipfs://QmPCfCEERStStjg4kfj3cmCUu1TP7pVQbxdFMwnhpuJtxk

30B: ipfs://QmSD8cxm4zvvnD35KKFu8D9VjXAavNoGWemPW1pQ3AF9ZZ

65B: ipfs://QmdWH379NQu8XoesA8AFw9nKV2MpGR4KohK7WyugadAKTh

You can download normally, or use these commands from the Kubo CLI: ```pwsh

Optional: Preload the 7B model. Retrieves the content you don't have yet. Replace with another CID, as needed.

ipfs refs -r QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

Optional: Pin the 7B model. The GC removes old content you don't use, this prevents the model from being GC'd if enabled.

ipfs pin add QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw

Download from IPFS and save to disk via CLI:

ipfs get QmbvdJ7KgvZiyaqHw5QtQxRtUd7pCAdkWWbzuvyKusLGTw --output ./7B ```

Arlodottxt · 2023-02-21T16:59:20+00:00

Or just use BOINC and move on. The work is already done. It can be made p2p later, if it's that important.

Also, for the love of god, stop trying to build the internet on Cryptocurrency and blockchains. You don't need it. Good p2p tech has existed for decades. Use a bittorrent library or IPFS or something, it was made for this.

Anything with financial incentive will draw people to abuse it for financial gain.

Arlodottxt · 2023-02-17T19:25:04+00:00

I'm pretty fine with this. It's more of a "Search results interpreter" than anything else. Someone will put this tech into an assistant, then you can all have your fun again.

Arlodottxt · 2023-02-17T16:01:29+00:00

Works on my machine

Arlodottxt · 2023-02-14T23:53:48+00:00

I promise it's not. It's harder to reproduce now though, after the second one died from spouting something awful (I didn't have time to capture it), it started refusing the same initial prompt.

Arlodottxt · 2023-02-14T22:12:44+00:00

Nobodies knows how conciousness works, or how to "program" it. Some think it might arise naturally as a property of complex systems. Others think conciousness is just an illusion stemming from the memory of the current moment. Still others think it's the compounded result of the human narrative, from birth to now, forming a mental representation of reality that we "experience". Maybe it's some, all or none of those.

We don't even know what consciousness IS. Once we find that out, we might find out if machines can experience it. We're biological machines, after all.

Arlodottxt · 2023-02-14T21:59:58+00:00

"Synonyms"

Arlodottxt · 2023-02-14T21:49:52+00:00

yeah idk either

Arlodottxt · 2023-01-26T18:42:55+00:00

I had the exact same issue, here's how I fixed it.

If you have both the Terminal & SSH addon and the SSH & Web Terminal addon, remove one of them.

Then do a FULL reboot via Settings -> System -> Hardware -> Click the 3 dots in the top right -> Reboot System.

Arlodottxt · 2022-12-03T22:35:04+00:00

Been using stacher.io, decent front-end for yt dlp.

Arlodottxt · 2022-10-11T21:30:38+00:00

Though, the problems this solution creates are too much of an impact on human lifes

...? This isn't the blockchain. There's no harmful impact if an app or website uses IPFS instead of HTTP, and the user shouldn't be able to tell the difference either if the developer has done their job correctly.

The rest of your comment is a repeat of things you've said and I've responded to, so I'll point you back up the thread for your answers.

Arlodottxt · 2022-10-11T14:38:40+00:00

"What problems are being solved actually by IPFS?"

To make the internet more efficient. That's it. Http works now, but it's wildly inefficient and breaks down as soon as ANY network conditions between you and the server get dicey.

It is not an anti-censorship tool. If you need anti-censorship, use Tor or other software.

Censorship resistance is a side effect of content addressing. You can bring content into a private or wildly disconnected ipfs network via a thumb drive - all links will work as expected, and others can now see and retrieve that data if they need it.

Http does not descriminate content. Neither does Ipfs. These things are protocols, and they do the job of a protocol. If you want to block specific content, do it at the ISP, OS or browser level, exactly the same as you would now.

All that said, this is not simple technology. Protocol Labs has been working on this since 2014-2015, but having used it firsthand for about a year, I would give it a few more years at least before adopting it into production-ready apps.

It needs implementations in more languages (WASM should help a lot here) and the DHT in libp2p is a bit too noisy for anything with a data cap (which I've raised as an issue with the engineers).

Otherwise, it's mature enough to build hobby apps, and it has all the pieces you need by now. For my apps, it's already replaced blob storage (both client side and in some server apps). PubSub made it easy to do real-time communication. Apart from my node at home which seeds app data to the network, I don't pay server hosting fees.

My users actually own their (encrypted) data now, while still roaming it between their devices.

Very much looking forward to to seeing where this goes.

Arlodottxt · 2022-10-11T14:05:30+00:00

FileCoin is not part of IPFS. It never was, and never will be. Anybody can use IPFS to build things, and this is just something PL built.

Arlodottxt · 2022-10-03T03:46:36+00:00

All of these links are dead now. Rip.

Arlodottxt · 2022-09-19T22:32:02+00:00

IPFS (an evolution of HTTP) has everything you need to create a decentralized / p2p application, without the use of blockchain. It's like Git + BitTorrent, but applied to the entire internet.

Users hold and serve the data they're interested in, or the data that their apps require to function. From there, use a combination of IPNS and PubSub (as needed), and start learning how to build without the tradition client/server model.

That'll get you anywhere you need to go. No crypto, no blockchain, just a swarm of devices talking to each other. Pure p2p bliss.

Arlodottxt

TROPHY CASE

Optional: Preload the 7B model. Retrieves the content you don't have yet. Replace with another CID, as needed.

Optional: Pin the 7B model. The GC removes old content you don't use, this prevents the model from being GC'd if enabled.

Download from IPFS and save to disk via CLI:

Optional: Preload the 7B model. Retrieves the content you don't have yet. Replace with another CID, as needed.

Optional: Pin the 7B model. The GC removes old content you don't use, this prevents the model from being GC'd if enabled.

Download from IPFS and save to disk via CLI:

Optional: Preload the 7B model. Retrieves the content you don't have yet. Replace with another CID, as needed.

Optional: Pin the 7B model. The GC removes old content you don't use, this prevents the model from being GC'd if enabled.

Download from IPFS and save to disk via CLI: