the new post-quantum encryption algos have dope names CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, SPHINCS+, FALCON https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/08/nist-standardize-encryption-algorithms-can-resist-attack-quantum-computers

i’m over here thinking about how to get free internet to millions of people and keeping the system requirements as low as possible.

but everyone is talking about making a computer using scraps that can barely render a few lines of ACII and maybe some non-latin characters as images.

imo the only useful application would be so that I never have to get a new computer again unless mine breaks. i like being able to talk to people from around the world, so its going to have to include internet and video (y’all saw the impact tiktok had on the gaza situation, can’t deny that video is important)

what’s that point of permacomputing?

trying to be alive, part 2: in the city of angels

some day, you’ll be able to download nix-on-android from f-droid and nix run git+https://git.cyb.red/pkgs/free-internet.flake and join the no se vende mesh collective.. something like that

i’m excited about how the new system is coming together. i’ve chosen bento as the system admin runtime. the centralized model simplifies some things and encourages people to setup their own (if small) binary caches. the whole thing is federated in the end and i think we can find some ways to make an HA bento. co-ordinator nodes i think are important for making a stable network. a spare laptop can easily buffer some power, run a secondary radio, and have an ethernet hookup. even a phone can make a nice one.

tried out a demo vm setup of nixos, but i really want to level up my server game and provision the whole thing using terranix.

NDN is looking pretty neat https://docs.named-data.net/NLSR/current/INSTALL.html https://github.com/named-data/ndn-svs#installation

this is what i like to see https://gerbil.scheme.org/guide/nix.html

re: reticulum i might just make my own internet replacement protocol if i keep finding out that the extant ones have yellow snake flag people attached to them

honestly kinda hype about this one https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html#sideband I think some concepts from named-data networking (andana and statevector sync in particular) and secure scuttlebutt (plumbtree) could help make it more robust, but I like the overall direction and architecture a lot. the multi-hop transmission design in particular 💋

biiiiig oof when it comes to compiling big things on my laptop. i’m gonna have to get a binary cache up and running pretty soon

i have successfully put a docker container inside of a nixos container, a turturken so to speak. next up, we get arion-compose working in there and then see about mem_limit and cpus!