Wow cool! I believe you’re the first person I’ve met that actually used a cluster FS (in their homelab at least). I looked into it myself but it felt like nobody was really using it so I didn’t bother.

Does it involve much more work or is it a fairly transparent replacement to traditional storage options? Assuming one is already using Kubernetes. I’m wondering if it’s worth it to switch to a cluster FS for everything, like Radicale or Tiddlywiki.

you don’t necessarily have to disable your VPN btw, I just switch vpn servers till I find one that works. But disabling VPN works too

haha what a riot! I may be paranoid but I’m not schizophrenic, the voices told me so.

Well it was a blast chatting with you friend, beware of the ip-monitoring governments and stay safe out

that list feels a bit outdated. What about write a simple program? Make basic 3d models and 3d prints? Some photography and video editing. Design a simple website. Even if you aren’t a tiktoker, these are fairly essential skills in the modern world. And if we’re throwing in poetry and painting, might as well throw in music, sports, sewing, gardening.

I’m not saying humans should specialize on a single skill. I just think people should be able to choose not to cook in favor of learning other skills. At a certain point, society should reach a point where somebody can say “I don’t need a kitchen in my house, I’ll just eat out all the time”.

Wouldn’t it be better to have affordable delivery food? Cooks focus on the cooking, regular people won’t have to spend so much time learning and doing cooking, and focus on their own work/play

are you using a VPN? the video is from catbox.moe, sometimes they block VPNs

Have you tried using Ceph or other distributed storage systems in your kubernetes cluster?

I’m aware of databases that support HA, but the vast majority of self-hosted apps I’ve encountered use file storage, even if they have a database as well. It sounds like you’re proposing shared storage like an NFS share. But if you’re upgrading nodes, at some point you have to upgrade the node hosting the shared storage right? Wouldn’t that take down all services? Unless you use a distributed storage system, but I’ve heard those can get very complicated…

have you found many self-hosted services that suppprt that kind of HA? I can’t imagine services like torrent clients allowing you to stream writes to one node while replicating to the other, though maybe I’m misunderstanding the setup

what is the appeal of this? It’s ok if you’re autistic you can always marry an alien?? wtf?

so it sounds like this is more for group chats, to ensure at least one member is online at all times. Otherwise, if it were just 1-1 messaging, and one person’s phone went offline, the other person would have to wait until it was back online to send a message, right?

It’s important to not go down that route because if you can’t ever trust then you can’t believe you can ever have privacy or anonymity except when you completely retreat from all communication or interaction both electronically and physically.

I do agree that it’s an extreme threat model, so it’s not one I use personally. I guess some people may try anyways though 😅

here’s an article about the proton case: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09/protonmail-now-keeps-ip-logs.html

That was a colorful and fun read, can’t say I can match that. But I think if you are against the feds the assumption has to be that they infiltrated the other party. This is the whole reason why canaries exist. Because many jurisdictions allow the feds to force companies to do things and keep silent about it (gag order). For example, Protonmail was once forced to log IPs to track down the owner lf an email account.

By the same token, if Posteo is able to associate a nonce to an account, then they’re also able to tell the feds. Even if you are in a different jurisdiction from Posteo, feds can work across state lines through international agreements (which I think was also the case in the Protonmail case).

ok first off, this community is about self-hosting, there just happens to be a lot of overlap between people who self-host and people who care about privacy.

And if you thought privacy was about distrust, that is a very unhealthy view. Privacy-minded folk simply have different principles than the mainstream. But if somebody comes along that shares those principles, then trust can be earned.

OP’s product is open-source and self-hostable. This is aligned with the community. I’m not saying to throw money at the product before it’s released, but it’s worth keeping an eye on, and showing support for.

I actually know somebody that was fined quite a bit for torrenting, so idk what you mean by failed meme. The ISP absolutely does collaborate with copyright lawyers. So if copyright lawyers with enough money want to take down a nintendo switch emulator, and they got the IP of the dev, they cound find the real person behind it easily.

Ok so you’re a troll then. Fearmongering doesn’t help the community. If you’re against something give evidence. There’s a balance between fearmongering and blind hype.

this reply adds nothing. Please explain your position

How do you send a threat to an IP address?

Unless, you’re thinking ISP involvement

There’s many ways to track somebody down via IP address, but yes ISPs can corroborate. You ever heard of people getting letters from the ISP for torrenting? You think the ISPs actually care about piracy? They are forced by legal pressure.

If the threat model is “lawyer”, developers will be fine

The threat model is massive fines and potential prison, depending on how the court case goes. Look up the Yuzu nintendo switch emulator and how that legal battle went. And I’m not arguing that those developers were the brightest of the bunch. I’m saying that those developers could use the privacy that Tor offers.

bittorrent will not be the right protocol for this anyway.

Bittorrent works well enough. Bittorrent works fine over I2P and is used plenty. Better to get something up and running before starting to design bespoke protocols.

this sets unrealistic standards for hens

P2P already gives you anti-censorship

until a lawyer joins the swarm and has the IP of every node. See which node pushes commits to the swarm first, and you found the dev. Send a couple of threats to the dev and watch the project grind to a halt.

Plugging into Tor or I2P is a easy way to give network anonymity, no need to re-invent the wheel. Though it seems like Radicle already supports Tor and I2P so not entirely sure what OP aims to do