Bryan touches on an important axes in the question of how to structure decentralized networks in describing sharded search as "too risky to build on today."
Designs that a team thinks will be able to scale are going to be different from the ones built in a fully satisfying decentralized way. It's the prototyping and experimental networks that can help pave the way for more decentralized systems to get built with the intention of scale.
We couldn't pin this project on federated queries / decentralized indexes reaching scale & reliability, but that's what I'd encourage people to research. If somebody can make a breakthrough on it, they'd be able to introduce it as a variant AppView model on top of atproto.
One of the points that is made is that since the PDS that's being interacted with here is part of a 'Personal Data Server' rather than the Bluesky product, it ends up able to offer infinite free data storage.
This seems like one of the things that might be part of the references the bluesky team has made at time to introducing a subscription service - providing more space / bandwidth / higher quality video on your PDS seems like the type of hosting that could be offered at a premium tier.
> 'Personal Data Server' rather than the Bluesky product
If I understood correctly, the PDS was hosted on Bluesky. I assume it could be hosted somewhere else, so yeah it could be interacted with more than Bluesky.
This was a fun project. It's good to know that a lot of the north korean consumer technology does propagate at least to the border areas with China, and so has a chance to be archived and kept available into the future.
Likewise, the 'essentially the same' drand is a 2017 paper https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/papers/413.pdf and the league of entropy has been running since 2019, so hard to know exactly what the additional pioneering was in 2021.
counterpoint: less disenfranchisement, actions to honor the popular vote at the party and popular vote level (see: super delegates, electoral college, state representation), perturbation of the 2 party system to allow representation of positions held by young people would all be _actions_ to cause more people to vote, rather than telling people to stand in lines in badly gerrymandered counties with insufficient services. At some point, people loose trust in the system. Gallop polls from this year indicate that 60% of Americans do not have confidence in the US election system [1].
It would be super interesting to overlay the scale of efforts like this one that follow publisher licenses with those of scihub that ignore them.
The amount of effort we put into curation due to license and the amount of content lost because of our ownership policies seem to be coming more clearly into view as we consider the costs those choices incur.
for the last month (v6.6.0 and v6.7.0) libvirt has been released with a new key 453B65310595562855471199CA68BE8010084C9C (first seen:2020-07-20).
It hasn't been signed or verified by any other source in libvirt / redhat yet.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-announce/2020-July/m...
That is preventing downstream distros, like arch, from admitting these new releases into their package repos.
V4 has many more things going on (it's stateful, has a much more complicated locking system integrated, and adds some other points of complexity that get better performance).
More than I was ready to take on for a first pass :)
For what it's worth, stateful is a good thing; NFSv4 leases are what allows it to safely do more aggressive caching than NFSv3. Back when it was new, benchmarks showed a good speed increase all around...
Designs that a team thinks will be able to scale are going to be different from the ones built in a fully satisfying decentralized way. It's the prototyping and experimental networks that can help pave the way for more decentralized systems to get built with the intention of scale.