You know how SETI got hundreds of thousands of people crunching numbers on their computers to analyze radiowaves in a hunt for aliens?
What if we had this, but for crawling and cataloging the internet? Like, producing an open source dataset that anyone could use to run their own ad-free unbiased search clients.
Could it work? would you volunteer idle computer time to crawl the web for it? Did I just invent something cool, or is it actually stupid?
Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale & Simplify Your Systems https://lobste.rs/s/kykhhj #video #distributed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siEtKc6Sq2Y
cppq: Simple, reliable & efficient distributed task queues for C++17 https://lobste.rs/s/ddklvz #show #c++ #distributed
https://github.com/h2337/cppq
How to Test the Reliability of Durable Execution https://lobste.rs/s/nf1nzf #distributed #testing
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/how-to-test-durable-execution
Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations https://lobste.rs/s/a5mmlt #distributed #security
https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/security-predisclosure/
« Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 »
Perhaps it’s time to return to DNS’s original distributed design.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
Why Aggregators Ate the Internet https://every.to/thesis/why-aggregators-ate-the-internet #AI #future #distributed #security #privacy (interesting idea)
The AI Memory Economy - Kinic AI Blog https://www.kinic.io/blog/the-ai-memory-economy?_bhlid=7e63baa692e5da45e980dc8d0bf7af6af83a4522 (interesting startup idea) #AI #memory #distributed
Registrations are now re-opened for #distribits2025, taking place 23-24 October!
https://www.distribits.live/news/2025-distribits-registration-open/
Join us in person (spots are limited) or remotely - sign up now at https://www.distribits.live/.
Please note: The call for contributions is closed
The #hackathon is full, but you can ask to join the waitlist in your registration form
@datalad #gitannex #distributed #data #opendata #rdm #tech #open_source_software #conference
aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport https://lobste.rs/s/9wf7sc #distributed
https://github.com/aeron-io/aeron