[HN Gopher] How to setup a Handshake site with Caddy
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How to setup a Handshake site with Caddy
Author : NetOpWibby
Score : 35 points
Date : 2021-05-16 15:36 UTC (7 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (blog.webb.page)
| superkuh wrote:
| More London Trust Media Holdings corporate moves to try to
| monetize the FOSS properties he's bought (Private Internet
| Access, Linux Journal, freenode, snoonet). Handshake was/is an
| attempt to use Freenode to start a cryptocurrency to further
| enrich himself. But since the Freenode community didn't bite I
| guess they're casting a wider net now.
| bdcravens wrote:
| How is PIA a FOSS property?
| rasengan wrote:
| This statement made by superkuh is false in its entirety.
|
| 1. LJ - Bankrupted, 500K debt. LTMH paid off the debt in full
| and funded the operation for the next 2 years, before a much
| more well funded entity was able to take over - for free.
| Earnings: negative. Profit potential activity: 0. Funding: >
| 2m.
|
| 2. freenode - Reached out to LTMH for funding multiple times
| and LTMH always obliged. Earnings: negative. Profit potential
| activity: 0. Funding: > 1m.
|
| 3. Snoonet - Continues to run under its own policies. Earnings:
| negative. Profit potential activity: 0. Funding: > 50K.
|
| Other:
|
| Handshake is not an LTMH project. That being said, the
| Handshake project received 10m of funding and provided all of
| it to FOSS projects.
| superkuh wrote:
| If it isn't clear to anyone else, this commentor saying I am
| wrong is the owner of the corporation.
| rasengan wrote:
| Thanks for clarifying!
| superkuh wrote:
| No problem. Perhaps you can clarify something for me. Do
| you think being technically correct about LTMH not being
| involved matters when you yourself are leading it and PIA
| and the linux journal are involved in promoting it?
|
| https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/vcs-are-investing-
| big-n... (https://archive.is/IK7w8)
|
| >Just released, Handshake brings with it the much needed
| security and reliability on which we rely... The project
| and protocol has been led by Joseph Poon (creator of
| Bitcoin's Lightning Network), Andrew Lee (CEO of Purse),
| _Andrew Lee_ (founder of Private Internet Access or PIA)
| and Christopher Jeffrey (CTO of Purse).
|
| Legal shell games work for legal issues. But we're all
| just humans here and it sure looks like you are running
| the show.
| rasengan wrote:
| Thanks for the reply.
|
| I don't see how LJ, who commonly writes about DNS for
| example, writing about a DNS project handing 136m to the
| FOSS community with the help of the top VCs in Silicon
| Valley while moving ownership of the DNS root to the
| commons isn't a topic LJ would cover?
|
| As you can see many other publications covered this as
| well.
|
| In terms of the shell games comment, it's definitely true
| I have or had a stake in many of the entities you spoke
| of, thru LTMH. However, I was not in operational control.
|
| Case in point: On snoonet, I owned the cryptocurrency
| channel. However, I was deopped and removed from founder
| as the subreddit, /r/cryptocurrency/, claimed ownership
| over it. Snoonet's policies dictate that the owner of the
| subreddit owns the namespace on Snoonet.
|
| Any other questions that you have that you'd like me to
| help to try to clarify?
|
| Thanks again for your questions and comments!
| judge2020 wrote:
| > Yes, there is a blockchain involved but we're not going to get
| into that.
|
| Maybe provide a link to people interested in learning or
| wondering why the blockchain part might be concerning/daunting.
| ameliaquining wrote:
| I don't know anything about this project, but blockchains are
| the only known technology that can let people globally register
| human-readable names without allowing any other party to tamper
| with them. So it's not surprising that one is used by an
| alternative DNS root project. The more concerning/daunting
| thing is trying to do an alternative DNS root at all.
| BoppreH wrote:
| I love Caddy (running my own personal page with it), and I think
| DNS is one of the few truly useful applications of blockchains.
|
| Unfortunately, Handshake is a blockchain that builds consensus
| via Proof-of-Work and the environmental impact cannot be ignored.
| The Handshakw FAQ[1] handwaves it away by saying that most of the
| energy probably comes from renewables and they hope it'll be
| almost all of it soon, but provides no sources for this critical
| assertion.
|
| [1]: https://handshake.org/faq/
| francislavoie wrote:
| Do you really need light-ca? Caddy ships with smallstep, i.e. can
| act as its own CA, and can act as an ACME server for mTLS even.
|
| All you need to do is use "tls internal" (instead of specifying a
| cert/key), and if you want enable the ACME server, then you can
| use the "acme_server" directive
| https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/acme_serve...
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