[Mesh] Getting excited about patchwork

[John Atkeson]

Out of town right now and catching up.

Cinnamon and gnome-shell are Javascript-based?  Jeez.  I wonder if that
came out of the brief scare when people thought that Windows 8 was going to
replace .NET with js.  It wasn't true, but it started a stampede of
developers toward doing the same thing with open source.

On a slightly different topic I've been trying to teach myself basics by
installing batman on our two *buntu machines on our home network without
wifi.  Is that even possible?  Batman installs easily, but I'm not sure how
well it works without wifi.

There's a lot of documentation, maybe even too much, much of it out of date
or for unrelated problems.



On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Stuart Gathman <stuart at gathman.org> wrote:

> I installed the [download a zillion unaudited 3rd party libraries from
> random websites] internet generation package for patchwork in a Fedora
> 25 virtual machine to start using it (to get a feel for whether to keep
> working on packaging).  I am actually getting excited about it.  There
> are two components, a scuttlebutt server and a client.
>
> https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
>
> The ssb (Secure ScuttleButt) protocol is pretty well documented, and the
> reference implementations are in node.js.  The current full featured
> reference GUI client is written in node.js on the electron platform.
> Electron is based on the open-source chromium browser and enables
> standalone node.js applications.  Like other js platforms (cough, cough,
> cinnamon, gnome-shell) it is kind of heavy and has to be restarted
> periodically as memory use keeps growing.  But, it did the job of
> enabling rapid development of a very usable and nice looking client.
>
> I created the identity CustomDesigned, and I'm currently subscribed to
> #anarchitecture and #scuttlebutt (and #faq).  If nothing else, it cured
> the temptation to keep wasting time on facebook (which makes things too
> easy for NSA).  Of course, you have to remember that your public
> comments are still, well, public - and FBI can read/misread them just
> like anyone else.  But the private comments will require some actual
> hacking of client machines as they are end-to-end encrypted.  Censorship
> of the sort that facebook carries out is much more difficult.
>
> But the best feature, of course, is that you don't need a giant central
> organization.  And people can ask who needs their driveway cleared
> without talking to servers in California.
>
> The getting started page above has a nice list of other dex
> (decentralized) projects, including cjdns.
>
> If you guys get up on cjdns and install linphone (or other sip client
> supporting ipv6), you can call my laptop at:
>
> "Stuart D. Gathman" <sip:stuart@[fc37:2c50:7583:e01a:8c69:8f50:8dcf:a076]>
>
> Or send text messages.
>
>
>
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John
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