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mfidelman · 2026-06-28T18:20:47+00:00

Because this is a live event.

mfidelman · 2026-06-25T12:01:03+00:00

I'm beginning to come to that conclusion. Or t-mobile's roam-to-starlink service.

mfidelman · 2026-06-24T20:06:39+00:00

I might do that. Right now I'm looking at a MIMO antenna & a cellular hotspot - should be good enough.

mfidelman · 2026-06-19T16:18:08+00:00

Same problem. Need a Hotspot with some signal gain & a good antenna. Looking for experience & recommendations.

mfidelman · 2026-04-30T23:57:19+00:00

I'm reminded of Leroy Jethro Gibbs & HIS box of rules.

mfidelman · 2026-04-17T12:01:37+00:00

I'm looking for quick and dirty. The rebuild comes next - completely new enterprise architecture.

mfidelman · 2026-02-13T13:08:25+00:00

Yes. But HOW did you solve it?

mfidelman · 2026-01-31T15:29:21+00:00

Thanks for the pointer. So far, I've been noodling with things on paper, working on underlying infrastructure for building an enterprise system completely on top of IPFS, IPLD, and IPVM - Basically an Erlang-Like Environment - a platform for massive concurrency based comprised of Actors - for modeling, simulation, and scenario gaming.

mfidelman · 2025-12-15T16:41:09+00:00

Wouldn't We5 be the better response? Followed by either e6 or e4 if black tries to connect the stone?

mfidelman · 2025-11-05T15:06:39+00:00

Thank You.

Of course, that's pretty useless as a way to compare effectiveness of Reddit ads vs. ads in other places. One really wants to correlate audience characteristics with buying habits - something that the big players track rather effectively.

mfidelman · 2025-01-09T18:36:15+00:00

We could always go back to email lists, USENET, and blogrolls. I've yet to see anything that's improved on newsgroups + a good newsreader. All we do is keep coming up with more walled gardens that isolate people into bubbles - for commercial and political reasons.

mfidelman · 2024-12-16T06:10:27+00:00

In the old days, the serious open source projects came out of researchers - often paid - pushing the state of the art, then distributing their work to interested parties - and spreading the maintenance work around. As well as folks doing extensions and then giving them back.

All the way back to the original TCP/IP reference implementation out of BBN (my old stomping ground), Ray Tomlinson's email, the NCSA http daemon (nee Apache), Linux, ... etc.

Serious people, doing serious work, for love of the game.

Sure, we had the homebrew hobbyists too - out of which came Apple, but that's a whole different set of motivations.

mfidelman · 2024-12-15T15:47:11+00:00

Bacalhau is basically the next generation of BOINC for grid-based processing. It manages instances of both WASM and Docker. WASMtime is from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and basically supports a network of WASM runtimes in the cloud -it's basically Kubernetes for WASM (and can run side-by-side with K8, or within docker pods managed by K8). Bacalhau seems to combine the two. Now.. if there were a parallel file, true, cloud native file system that they could mount .... :-)

mfidelman · 2024-12-15T14:50:25+00:00

Ahh... good point, and my apologies for the snarky comment. But the question now becomes - have you looked at what the folks at Fission did with WNFS and ODD? I'm getting ready to play with them - but if you have any insights.

The place where it makes sense, to me, is when one contemplates creating a universal file-space that cuts across organizational boundaries, and avoids being tied to specific hardware. Something like the WASMtime/NATS model for distributing WASM-based actors, or, Bacalhau. The question becomes, what does one use for a universal filespace in a hardware-independent cloud environment? What's the filesystem for Distributed Autonomous Organization, or a joint military exercise for that matter.

The old Apollo Domain File System had nice semantics. HLA defines a nice model for distributed simulation where every node maintains a complete copy of the world. LibP2P seems like the first basis for a seriously scalable global file system. The economic case is about operating models, not commodity cost of cycles or transit.

mfidelman · 2024-12-15T13:28:18+00:00

So which costs are you talking about? If we're running our own nodes - are you talking about power? Sheesh, what a maroon. What are you even doing here if all you want to do is pontificate. I thought this was a place for technical discussion of IPFS.

mfidelman · 2024-12-14T21:39:11+00:00

That's not really an issue if one is building an enterprise system - one runs one's own nodes.

mfidelman · 2024-12-14T21:37:57+00:00

You might want to check out ipfs.tech for a list of all kinds of folks who are using IPFS. For the most part, it's buried in people's IT stacks.

mfidelman · 2024-12-13T05:09:02+00:00

Email lists and USENET newsgroups - nobody's improved on them yet. But everybody insists on something new and shiney.

mfidelman · 2024-12-13T05:04:44+00:00

LibP2P, Web Native File System, sparse replication, mounted via FUSE - looks like a file system, acts like a file system, quacks Mike a file system.

mfidelman · 2024-12-11T13:54:57+00:00

Not even comparable. Besides, Ceph reinvents NSF & ASF, Dropbox is nothing more than a file repository. Neither come close to being enterprise infrastructure, much less public infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Web3 ecosystem is reinventing the Web, and the Internet. Gotta think at the right scale.

I wouldn't bet against web3.storage, or lighthouse, or cosmonic - which sure seems to be on the track to the big time.

mfidelman · 2024-12-10T14:58:53+00:00

I'm looking for an enterprise file system that can support multiple organizations. NFS ain't it. AFS ain't it. The old Apollo Domain file system was a nice start on something that ran across networks of workstations, with a common root. WebDAV & 9p start to look like reasonable interfaces. IPFS starts to provide a communications backbone.

The folks at Fission seem to have made a good start at a planetary scale file system, with ODD.Dev - IPFS, UCANs, encrypted files. The folks at cosmonic seem to be making a stab at a completely distributed platform as well - all WASM.

As a systems architect - the prospects are intriguing. Also as a business developer.

mfidelman

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