Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Apr 15 2022 07:27:00

-=> boraxman wrote to tenser <=-

 bo> Tech really has taken a turn for the worse, with the "consumer" model
 bo> of devices and apps.  We have the power to run our own social networks,
 bo> to handle our own communications, and yet, we centralise it all in the
 bo> hands of Big Tech.

He says, on a BBS networked on home machines around the world.   :)

It'd be interesting to come up with a social network platform that followed 
the Skype model, where servers just kept up with lists of other servers 
instead of hosting the content. Peers would pull down the content. Throw 
some torrent-like capabilities in there as well to make peers able to talk 
to each other.

You'd need an encrypted blob on your home PC, otherwise some jerk would try 
to sue people for content they didn't like hosted on your home PC. And, then 
you'd need to deal with having encrypted content sitting on your PC.

 bo> Sometimes (more often than not), the vision of making computers
 bo> user-friendly, ubiquitous and accessible was a mistake.

 bo> The pubnixes don't really sandbox you that much, you can compile code,
 bo> run programs, write shell scripts.  As long as the permissions are
 bo> initially set up right, the administrative burden wouldn't be much
 bo> greater.  More a matter of just monitoring and keeping out
 bo> troublemakers.

I'm having a lot of fun on the tildes - finally learning tmux, hand-hacking 
HTML again, playing with gemini, rediscovering IRC, and reliving my youth.


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