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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!English
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    2 days ago

    My problem is that I’m moving in the not so far future and I don’t know where to put my server. Physical security is important and if someone gets into my house, takes the computer and leaves, it’ll be worthless due to encryption. But if it’s in somebody’s datacenter (co-location or whatever), they could be forced to monitor my traffic, tamper with my system, and I’d have to entrust the key to somebody in order to boot the system and decrypt the drives should it restart for an update or for any other reason.

    I’m considering asking a friend to host the homeserver and reimburse them for a better internet connection (fiber) + electricity costs. But I’m not sure they’d be up for it.

    How would you solve the problem?

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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access
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    4 days ago

    OK I understand your concerns better. Thank you for explaining.

    I am less concerned and don’t have such a negative relationship with crypto. As long as it’s not the selling point of something and decoupled from the actual project or product, that’s fine to me. That others don’t feel the same way is understandable.

    For me, radicle is the fastest way to get off of github. All my projects are now there and anybody can contribute without signing up to yet another website i.e they don’t need to have a login for each individual forgejo or gitlab instance. One radicle identity is all you need to contribute to a radicle project on any seed node.

    If (when?) forgejo finally gets federation, I’d be more open to using it, but at the moment, it barely provides an advantage over radicle.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access
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    4 days ago

    The Gemini.com article looks like AI slop to me, honestly.

    In lieu of traditional client-server architecture, Radicle Link uses a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) as the core of its P2P network, a distributed ledger technology similar to blockchain that excels in speed and scalability.

    DAGs are a distributed ledger? Wat?

    Also if you actually looked at the code of radicle, you wouldn’t find rad tokens, erc-20, or whatever else. If you further looked at the protocols you’d see that they aren’t using a blockchain. Repository ownership is not handled by smart contracts either - it’s all public key cryptography, which (again) is not crypto in the sense you’re talking about.

    To be fair, the article is old and describing radicle version 2. You can find the code here, but I can’t find ERC tokens or anything like that in there, which further makes me think the authors of the article are very confused, AI, or misrepresenting the project on purpose. Of course, it’s possible that all references to crypto were removed from the archive, but it would be good to provide a link to that if you found it.

    $RAD is the native token of the Radworks Network, used as the primary means to coordinate all actors, govern the treasury, and (later this year will) reward infrastructure providers on top of the Radicle network.

    This I didn’t know of. But I’m curious how that will be done. It is not proof of crypto being within the radicle protocol or codebase (because it isn’t, I looked - maybe I missed it, but I’d like proof thereof). It might be put in there in the future but I’m pretty sure they know it would piss off people to do that.

    My guess is that theyll do it like IPFS, which I don’t think has crypto with the protocol but has filecoin on top to reward people who pin things in IPFS. But IPFS users can completely ignore filecoin and aren’t required to use it.

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