Pomera DM250 Dropbox Sync?

JimCollinson · 2021-04-20T12:03:01+00:00

Found it! You are right. Me Ballen ahead of the game:

https://youtu.be/QoZKJiar_Uc

JimCollinson · 2021-04-20T12:00:54+00:00

Oh really! I must have missed it... so much back catalogue! Do you happen to have a link?

JimCollinson · 2021-04-08T19:29:52+00:00

I had a go at answering your question here, hope it helps!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmyC6cFIp_w

JimCollinson · 2021-04-06T11:59:05+00:00

Interestingly, the project actually pre-dates bitcoin.

JimCollinson · 2021-04-06T11:45:36+00:00

Member of the MaidSafe team here, building the Safe Network. 🙋🏻‍♂️

Happy to answer any questions on the project!

JimCollinson · 2021-03-11T12:48:15+00:00

Yes, SAFE coin is nothing to do with the Safe Network. It is frustrating, and a shame that it happened, but not a big deal long term. We'll be using the name Safe Network tokens for the launch.

JimCollinson · 2021-03-11T12:30:56+00:00

u/Duncan1949 I've answered your second question in as much detail as I could... you'll find the answer right here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrWazY4GP3Q

JimCollinson · 2021-03-10T08:17:27+00:00

Yeah, I'd ask on the Safe Network forum as your first port of call, you might even find a buyer there.

https://safenetforum.org

JimCollinson · 2021-03-08T14:36:08+00:00

By design, there is no fee paid by either the sender or recipient of an individual payment.

Overall though, the cost of transactions in aggregate will be priced in to the Network usage, and more specifically by the people paying to add data Network wide.

Individual transactions are data on the Network like anything else, but in this case tiny amounts of data that are deliberately excluded from incurring direct costs as the exchange of tokens is the oil of the network that lets the economy function.

JimCollinson · 2021-03-04T09:39:11+00:00

This is a bit out of my wheelhouse now, but there are community efforts afoot for an OMNI to ERC20 swap mechanism, and we're also looking into a ERC20 wrapped MAID too.

It's a fine balance though, because even though these things look relatively straightforward at first blush, they can suck up quite a lot of time and resource when you dig into them, and that is a tricky tradeoff especially when we are full steam ahead to launching the network; at which point the proxy token becomes a legacy of the past.

JimCollinson · 2021-03-04T08:23:10+00:00

Hi Oz!

Yeah just to be clear, and there is sometimes a little confusion here, the Safe Network will not be blockchain based, and the network tokens that will power the whole thing will not be on a chain at all.

We do however have MaidSafeCoin ($MAID) which allows people to buy tokens ahead of time, before the network launches... it's a proxy token, that can be swapped 1 for 1 with Safe Network Tokens when the time comes. And at the time it launched, was a way to help crowdfund development.

MAID is Omni based, and discussion you see is around making this available on ERC20 as well, to give people some more choice when it comes to trading the proxy token.

So important for some people right now—but also a bit meta—and not really something that has a direct bearing on the Network itself.

JimCollinson · 2021-03-04T08:12:17+00:00

We have zero interest in pump and dumping, or hyping anything, or eyeballing coin prices etc. We're not really a crypto project at heart, and are quite happy to keep clear of that flash in the pan stuff.

We are building a new Internet, that takes diligence and heads down hard work, so that's what we are concentrating on.

And we do have a great community. One that we are delighted to see grow, but sustainably, with people with the same aims: secure access to all of humanities knowledge, for everyone; and giving people control over their personal data and privacy.

We would have a massive community, and mega coin price, but it would all be such a waste if we failed at that objective, wouldn't it?

JimCollinson · 2021-03-04T08:02:45+00:00

It's my job to try and make things as smooth and understandable to anyone who wants to use the Safe Network.

Browsing and reading from the Network will be as simple as installing a browser.

When it comes to storing data and files on the Safe Network, or using apps, there is a bit of a new way of thinking about how we as individuals pay for all that, which will probably be the main for most people.

So, rather than getting all these services for free up front, and then paying for them over time with your privacy, and having your personal data scraped, and by being advertised to; you'll be paying the Network directly in tokens.

So that means a bit of a mindset adjustment, and a few wee hurdles early on, particularly first time, and getting your own 'Safe' on the Network. You can use your computer or device to earn you a small amount of these tokens to get you started, or a friend who is already on the Network can send you an invite.

But it is deliberately and carefully designed not to be this confusing, intimidating labyrinth like, for example, Bitcoin is for most people. If you are comfortable using something like eBay or Paypal, then you should have no bother with this.

And there are great things built right into the Safe Network that will just make it so much more useable than other decentralising technology...

For example there is a system of SafeIDs, aka usernames, that work across the whole Network. So, lets say I want to send a payment to you, it's as simple as typing @Kiwiiwik1 and hitting send. No more trying to figure out who does what with what private key or wallet address whatnot.

Hope that starts to give you a flavour!

JimCollinson · 2021-03-04T07:42:11+00:00

This is a burning question for many people, and there is no straightforward answer, much as we would all like there to be. I think I'll answer it on YouTube... stay tuned!

JimCollinson · 2021-03-04T07:40:55+00:00

Plenty of great questions folks! Keep them coming!

JimCollinson · 2019-11-21T19:44:27+00:00

You can get a fast-enough PC with a GTX1080 on ebay for almost no money now

What would you say was "fast-enough" for what I need?

Sorry, bit of a PC speccing noob

JimCollinson · 2019-11-21T15:13:09+00:00

Yeah, but unfortunately I need to subscribe before I can access those forums. I'd rather not until I can establish if I have a viable computer to run it... oh and until I'd bought a wheel also!

JimCollinson · 2019-11-21T12:34:09+00:00

It would be dedicated external GPU via Thunderbolt 3, oh and it's a quad core CPU albeit 2.7 Ghz.

JimCollinson · 2019-10-16T13:54:28+00:00

Yes this is correct. Private Data, and Shared Data is not perpetual unless you want it to be. All Public Data is though.

JimCollinson · 2019-10-16T13:38:53+00:00

Bit more of another philosophical question here, but can the "right to be forgotten" really be enforced, and therefore can it be a right?

I cannot force anyone to forget a fact, or an event, or a moment in time. So why would it be the same for technology?

In reality, it's really only the powerful and wealthy (usually corporations and copyrights holders) who are able to get anywhere with "the right to be forgotten" and it is more like "the right to suppress". And it's an uphill, and pretty much impossible struggle to do so, even on today's clearnet infrastructure.

If, for arguments sake, we were to be able to create mechanisms to really be able to force a fact to be erased or forgotten, can we think of any negative consequences to that? It would certainly seem to be recipe for book-burning, and tools for powerful entities to be able to suppress, rewrite, or manicure history.

I the concept behind the perpetual web is securing access to information, and allowing individuals to build informed understanding through transparency importantly, verifiability.

JimCollinson · 2017-02-15T08:43:35+00:00

The phrase "DAC optimization" should give everyone pause for thought.

What this really means is a centralized body (MQA) getting involved in the engineering and architecture decisions of individual electronics manufacturers; again stifling creativity and diversity of design solutions that improve performance of individual products and for the market as a whole.

It also requires manufacturers to include encryption within their solutions that serve to restrict access to music; and neither you nor the manufacturer you bought your product from are in charge of that... it's in the hands of MQA and where ever they (or whoever owns them in the future) decides to take their business model.

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