*blame the game

I saw the machine rebooting and figured it would come back online.

I am using voyager, what should I do?

Information must always be free so that

- you can be surveilled without cost

- AI can eat all your content without remuneration

- spammers can target you

Or maybe information should have a price 🤔

how am I supposed to use it then?

Bitcoin hit $100,000 Canadian Moose Shekels this morning. Timbits rained from the sky and Justin Trudeau cried rivers of maple syrup 🇨🇦

Nostr is too chill. Not even one thing to be outraged about?! Cmon!

Gm nostr do we go beyond 10 o’clock moosejaw time today?

The X algo has started throwing a ton of posts at me from the "Irresponsibly Long $MSTR" community.

Feels pretty pumpy & super sketchy.

These are routing nodes, they have in-memory storage and they only store two things:

1. routing table to nodes closer to a target info hash (basically a hash table automatically sharded)

2. small packets of arbitrary (and other non arbitrary but less relevant to Pkarr) data in an LRU cache.

Nodes churn all the time and even when they don't churn if their cache is full your data might be evicted.

so it is great for censorship resistant routing, not so much for data durability let alone storage of large blobs.

GM, it's not the best book but it's honest work. What matters though is consistency.

The hardest part about philosophy is to remember in daily life what you once understood during a meditation. On the spot, within a second or two, when life challenges you, to be able to recognize your emotions and to remember what you've once read and decided how you would act. The hard part is not understanding, it's acting on it when you actually need to. Even a child can understand it because what's good is often simple, even trivial.

The only way to get there is through repetition. Do philosophy every day and your moral instincts will grow like a muscle.

Happy yo answer your questions.

But the simplest and closest analogy is DNS and WebDav.

Pkarr is a censorship resistant DNS.

Our Homeservers are a nicer WebDav, in many ways, none of which are revolutionary or unfamiliar to web developers.

Some aspects might feel disgusting to Nostr devs, like the fact that data is not signed at client side (not at the protocol level) but we think that is a good thing as it allows for better key management and usage of tried and tested alternatives like good old sessions with cookies.

you can however ignore the homeserver and just put your npub in Pkarr. we just believe that homeservers allows decades of web development to be put to better use.

As you can tell, Pubky core doesn't answer the discovery question, unlike Nostr which starts from discovery then tries to bend relays to be hosting providers with Outbox model.

For discovery we think crawlers and indexers are the normal solution, just like they were for the early web.

But there are plenty of apps that can be built without discovery, and our strategy is to spend the least amount of complexity to achieve the most leverage, before moving to more complex and frankly harder problems in principle (like censorship resistant global search).

it is easy to think that we are using Bittorrent, since we are using its Mainline DHT, but we are Not.

No p2p storage at all. Just a good old web server, but the censorship resistance come from the fact that you can always point your public key to another hosting provider if you got censored or deplatformed.

In fact, because it is just DNS packets over Mainline, you can use SVCB records to point to mirrors of your data, so even if your main host is taken down, http agents can be smart enough and failover to reading from your configured mirrors.

Lots of things in talking stage. Not ready to commit yet 😆

Gm rebels. ☕️

no im not retarded

apparently my bitcoind leveldb corrupted *yet again* so I have to redownload the entire blockchain from scratch. ffs. leveldb is terrible.