Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 day ago
It's almost like we shouldn't rely on just a few central sites. And that everything should be democratized and federated.
Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 day ago
It's almost like we shouldn't rely on just a few central sites. And that everything should be democratized and federated.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I2P
geti2p.net/en/
Basically, what if the entire internet was torrents, everyone was seeding / routing to everyone else, oh and also its more private/secure than Tor or VPNs?
Downside is it is quite slow… but if it caught on more widely, that could alleviate somewhat.
errer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think I’d really need to know how “somewhat” alleviated it is to have any interest, given the status quo is like, a second.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Uh also, double post but whatever:
You know what works fine on I2P?
Just oldschool HTML, with no fucking javascript, no fucking broken media containers, no bazillions of advertisement systems that constitute 80% of the website’s actual ‘size’.
Yep, everything basically looks like MySpace, the 90s.
This is a good thing.
GIFs caught on initially because they are a very lightweight and efficient way to add a simple animated looping element to a webpage.
Now, everything is built for maximum webdev ease, which is also maximally bandwidth inefficient for the end user, so now we need mega server clusters everywhere, for everything.
But evem the existence of working video hosting websites that work via p2p streaming shows that other ways of doing things like this are fundamentally viable… maybe not quite as snappy, but so, so much more efficient and less wasteful from a totally top down perspective.
errer@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
If only more companies copied McMaster-Carr’s approach dev.to/…/the-surprising-tech-behind-mcmaster-carr…
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Uh, no clue, that math on that would be very difficult to calculate, exceedingly complicated.
Have you ever been able to accurately predict the actual speed at which you download a torrent thats the size of a whole days worth of your regular internet usage?
Its basically a dynamic mesh network, you could run the math on a 100 different scenarios, get a 100 different results, and also no clue which scenario is more or less realistic.
The way I2P works is by step one, encrypting your traffic, step two, bundling that into a bigger packet made out of those network-near you’s traffic, that then has its own encryption around all that, and then that gets sent somewhere else.
So, upside is, even if your packets are intercercepted… its basically impossible to figure out which subpart of the bigger packet is whose.
You only have the keys to your part of that bigger packet.
Downside of all this is that all that packet bundling takes time, and is dynamically reconfigured, so… yeah, doing a ‘from principles’ estimate is… I dunno, find a chaos mathematician specialist for a more precise answer?
Possibly also worth mentioning: You can use I2P as basically something like Tor/a VPN, to access the non I2P net, the normal internet, you do this by using what is called an outproxy.
Theoretically an outproxy could be just giving all its packets right over to the NSA, but again, you’ve got that kind of encrypted packet sausage going on, and the network is much more complex and distributed than the Tor network’s smaller number of more centralized nodes.
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What do you recommend to read up on it more. I’ve read the wiki and this.. I’m wondering if there’s more to understand about browsing or connecting with content or like minded people.
Venator@lemmy.nz 17 hours ago
Could possibly run a benchmark if you can convince a few friends to use it and all visit the same site at the same time a few times and see how long it takes and average it and then do the same without I2P to compare