by pizza on 3/8/22, 10:22 PM
Yup. Calling it. This is the future, may not seem like it to everyone but this is a part of actually new and extremely useful, passively scalable technology. Imagine (good) unkillable zombie databases- so long as the name of a piece of data is known (its hash).. someone, somewhere, might make it possible for you to answer your query, without even needing to setup a server setup.. that’s _it_! Not to mention it might be faster than the original source.
Pretty damn powerful. The next level above this is a search index that lets the user generate their own results, using their own machine learning algorithm or ranking weights of their own preferences, bc they would have direct access to the DB index and features. People could wrote anti-ad plugins. There could be foss upgrades all the time. Nobody would have to spend a particularly crazy amount of money on storage if they could all just cache the bits they’d needed themselves. Quite remarkable imo!! Whatever ends Google search’s reign, will probably be user-owned in a way that seems a lot like this..
by qwertox on 3/9/22, 5:58 AM
My biggest issue with storing data inside the browser is the lack of tools to set up filter rules for clearing or explicitly not clearing website-specific application data.
Looking at Chrome's Inspector, Application Storage has "Local Storage", "Session Storage", "IndexedDB", "WebSQL" and "Cookies".
If I decide to clear all this stored data stored for all the pages with one button press in the settings, how can I be sure I'm excluding something important? Or if I install a new extension which helps me manage privacy, how can I be sure that it won't delete all this data because I forgot to add a site to its whitelist?
by loxias on 3/9/22, 4:53 AM
This simply solidifies my opinion that SQLite is one of the Best Tools Ever.
by yjftsjthsd-h on 3/8/22, 11:25 PM
Does the lazy loading combined with the torrent mean that you can lose individual rows if nobody has accessed them recently?
by ajconway on 3/8/22, 10:41 PM
It would be interesting to understand why ipfs was so slow in prior experiments.
by AviationAtom on 3/8/22, 11:44 PM
Heads up that some of the search results are probably NSFW, so it might be a better one to check out at home.
by chatmasta on 3/9/22, 2:07 AM
Inspired by this, can anyone explain why distributed protocols more often opt for centralized consensus algorithms like Raft, instead of decentralized schemes like Chord or Kademlia? In all cases, the underlying data structure is a shared key/value store. Intuitively, the p2p approach feels more robust, since each node only needs to worry about itself, and every node is the same. So why add the coordinator node? Is it still the right choice in $current_year, even after so many hours of development invested into strong p2p consensus protocols like libp2p powering Ethereum (currently ~11k nodes btw, not actually that big – and many operated by small number of entities)?
by Aloha on 3/9/22, 2:08 AM
a decade ago, I had the idea of a distributed internet wide filesystem where the chunks could be duplicated over and over again over the internet. Something survivable and loosely/eventually consistent when updated.
Someone appears to have built at least part of it.
by gw67 on 3/9/22, 11:42 AM
For video file could you open a webtorrent video player instead of linking to magnet?
by catmanjan on 3/9/22, 2:46 AM
Can someone explain this pro: "Database size and number of records are not a problem"
How is this the case if earlier there is a "limitation of not being able to ask ONLY for pieces I'm interested in"?
by asadlionpk on 3/9/22, 12:48 AM
Since ipfs is hash addressable, is there a decentralized way to point to the latest hash of the content. I can point a domain to it, but domain can be taken down.
by est on 3/9/22, 2:35 AM
This is cool but if I understand it right, it's actually WebTorrent protocol via WebRTC, not inter-torrentable of vanilla BitTorrents out there?
by can16358p on 3/9/22, 1:26 PM
Went to live demo, I searched for "South Park" and I just got many porn results?
by RobertMiller on 3/9/22, 1:45 AM
All of this seems very familiar; I recall similar claims being made about torrent-paradise.ml (domain now dead); it was a static site, unkillable, db distributed on IPFS, etc.
Is there any relationship between these two projects, or are the similarities only incidental?
by sergiotapia on 3/8/22, 10:29 PM
Getting no results and error: "WebRTC: ICE failed, add a TURN server and see about:webrtc for more details" in Firefox latest.
by EGreg on 3/9/22, 7:38 AM
How does this compare with:
IPFS / Filecoin
Dat / Hypercore
PouchDB / CouchDB
by forgotmyoldacc on 3/9/22, 3:46 AM
Is the demo down for anyone else? It's stuck loading. Chrome on MacOS
by grae_QED on 3/12/22, 7:29 PM
What a fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing!
by Alphatx on 3/8/22, 11:01 PM
in the past I also tried to use the system with ipfs instead of webtorrent. but I got errors with CORS ...
by morelish on 3/8/22, 11:34 PM
Seems interesting. Not sure I see it taking off.