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Perhaps it’s time to return to DNS’s original distributed design.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/
The Cloudflare Blog · Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS.
We’re deeply sorry for this outage.
This outage was the result of an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Got slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two biggest offender ASNs, 45899 (Vietnam Post & Telecom #VNPT) and 136907 (#Huawei Cloud).
Enjoy banging at the door, fuckos 
"The power plant of the future isn't a smokestack. It's all around your home." - Futurist Jim Carroll
The global energy grid is in the midst of its most profound transformation in a century.
For decades, our model has been simple: massive, centralized power stations push electricity in one direction to passive consumers. That era is decisively ending. We are witnessing a fundamental shift from a one-way delivery monologue to a multi-directional energy grid. The power plant of the future is no longer a distant smokestack; it's the solar panels on your roof, the battery in your garage, and the smart devices throughout your home.
I must admit, it's kind of bizarre writing about this right now because the trend is real, and yet one nation is busy turning its back on the reality of the trend (and many other things.)
So let's consider this from a global perspective!
This evolution toward intelligent, multi-directional networks represents a critical inflection point over the next five years. It’s a transition creating enormous business opportunities that extend far beyond simple hardware to encompass sophisticated, data-driven services. Here's a PDF that explores it.
https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend7-EnergyDecentralization.pdf
Essentially, it's being a centralized grid, to a decentralized, distributed grid, with millions of energy inputs.
So what's it all about? Continuing on the energy theme from yesterday, this transformation isn't happening by accident. It's being propelled by three powerful, interconnected forces I call the "Three Ds":
Decarbonization: Despite some areas with political pushback, the world is aggressively shifting from fossil fuels to renewables.
Decentralization: Energy is now being generated, stored, and managed closer to where it's consumed. This gives rise to the "prosumer"—an active participant who both produces and consumes energy.
Digitalization: We're embedding intelligence into the network. Smart meters, IoT sensors, and advanced software are creating a responsive, "aware" grid where electricity and data flow in both directions.
The shift is pretty profound. In the old paradigm, you were a passive consumer with little control. Energy got sent to you. The new reality empowers you as a "prosumer." in which you contribute your energy when available.
Think of it this way - various groups right now are building smart home thermostats that manage your batteries and power generation - and become the next billion-dollar industry by doing so.
**#Decentralization** **#Energy** **#Grid** **#Solar** **#Microgrids** **#Innovation** **#Prosumer** **#Batteries** **#Future** **#Distributed**
→ How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-brain-is-like-a-murmuration-of-starlings
“The core idea of emergence inspired me to develop the concept I call the entangled brain: the need to understand the brain as an interactionally complex system where functions emerge from distributed, overlapping networks of regions rather than being localised to specific areas.”
AeonHow the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon EssaysThe brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-2-release
#linux #update #foss #release #llm #ai #intellect2 #rl #training #distributed
www.primeintellect.aiINTELLECT-2 Release: The First 32B Parameter Model Trained Through Globally Distributed Reinforcement LearningWe're excited to release INTELLECT-2, the first 32B parameter model trained via globally distributed reinforcement learning. Unlike traditional centralized training efforts, INTELLECT-2 trains a reasoning language model using fully asynchronous RL across a dynamic, heterogeneous swarm of permissionless compute contributors.
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“Several days on, the cause of #Europe’s biggest #blackout in two decades is still being investigated. Spain’s grid operator, #RedEléctrica, says a loss of generation in the country’s south-west led to a sudden cascade of failures.
What tripped off, why, and how this escalated so dramatically is unclear.
But the fact that an entire peninsula could be plunged into #darkness in a matter of seconds has caused alarm around the world, raising urgent questions about the stability of #EnergyUInfrastructure at a time when many countries are switching to low carbon #electricity instead of burning fossil fuels”
“Our power systems were conceived for an era of centralised, predictable generation,” says #XavierDaval, chair of France’s #renewable energy trade association #SOLERSER. “But the emerging electric world is #distributed, #digital, and #adaptive. This is not a glitch to patch — it’s a #paradigm that must be rethought.”
<https://archive.md/JOyS3> / <https://www.ft.com/content/3b807eff-fdaf-49f6-9611-00c4ff992a43> (paywall)
I think I finally have this thing complete - the paper is live hosted on a little test node, also lives as README.md on the GitHub.
https://idens.net/iden://z1HRUsTNcYMkN5WPm9s1YjGaLUVs58RVRHPjBrV1kYwdAJ.642/pub
idens.netIDEN 0.1.0 PaperIDEN is a lightweight decentralized identity and publishing platform. It provides a small, efficient foundation for building distributed, coordinated systems around self-generated identities. An `iden` serves as a portable, public address—readable by anyone, writable only by its owner. At its cor...
Yesterday, two #Briar forums (one of them is Fediverse) were vandalized with 1000+ rubbish posts. It was bound to happen, as there is no protection against spam at all. However, it hadn't happened for 3 years.
I guess Briar is becoming popular.
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What is the AT Protocol?
Wikipedia: “The #ATProtocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol, pronounced "@ protocol" and commonly shortened to ATProto) is a protocol and #OpenStandard for #distributed #socialNetworking services. It is under development by #BlueskySocial #PBC, a public benefit corporation originally created as an independent research group within #Twitter to investigate the possibility of #decentralizing the service.”
en.m.wikipedia.orgAT Protocol - Wikipedia
#Distributed and #decentralised #computing networks aren’t left-wing. They are right-wing technologies which aim to escape from being controlled by a central authority.
They aren’t democratic either. Democracy requires a central authorative force which can apply the collective will even to parties resisting it.
We are being sold a right-wing package wearing hippy left-wing tie-dye. That’s why it’s so conflicting.
One of the best books in years:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918149/cyberlibertarianism/
#amreading #bookstodon
University of Minnesota PressCyberlibertarianismAn urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...
there's a *great* piece on the US Postal Service by Brian Justie in issue 13 Distribution of Logic (now Logic(s)) magazine
https://logicmag.io/ #distributed #commons #neoliberalism
Logic(s) MagazineHome | Logic(s) MagazineLogic(s) is a queer Black and Asian magazine devoted to deepening the discourse around technology. We publish twice a year in print and digital formats.
So is anyone in the #EU working on a #distributed, #e2ee #chat app?
I know about matrix, no need to go there.
Interesting look at an algorithm used for distributed collaborative text editing.
"Collaborative text editing algorithms allow several users to concurrently modify a text file, and automatically merge concurrent edits into a consistent state. [...] We introduce Eg-walker, a collaboration algorithm for text that avoids [...] weaknesses [of other algorithms]."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252
#Collaboration #Software #Algorithm #Distributed #TextEditing
Discussion at HN [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669840 ].
arXiv.orgCollaborative Text Editing with Eg-walker: Better, Faster, SmallerCollaborative text editing algorithms allow several users to concurrently modify a text file, and automatically merge concurrent edits into a consistent state. Existing algorithms fall in two categories: Operational Transformation (OT) algorithms are slow to merge files that have diverged substantially due to offline editing; CRDTs are slow to load and consume a lot of memory. We introduce Eg-walker, a collaboration algorithm for text that avoids these weaknesses. Compared to existing CRDTs, it consumes an order of magnitude less memory in the steady state, and loading a document from disk is orders of magnitude faster. Compared to OT, merging long-running branches is orders of magnitude faster. In the worst case, the merging performance of Eg-walker is comparable with existing CRDT algorithms. Eg-walker can be used everywhere CRDTs are used, including peer-to-peer systems without a central server. By offering performance that is competitive with centralised algorithms, our result paves the way towards the widespread adoption of peer-to-peer collaboration software.
Interesting #distributed #Git review system that stores reviews in the repo itself:
https://github.com/google/git-appraise
Might be better than #email based reviews tbh. I like the decentralized aspect of email driven development, not a fan of the UX of it in practice.
GitHubGitHub - google/git-appraise: Distributed code review system for Git reposDistributed code review system for Git repos. Contribute to google/git-appraise development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Working within the constraints of existing #distributed #collaboration systems (email) and #Git "request-pull", this is one of the best on-ramps to help people collaborate regardless which provider they use:
> Sending patches upstream
> git.sr.ht provides a web-based patch preparation UI […]. You can even use this to prepare patches for projects that use email for submission, but are not hosted on SourceHut.
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Do you want to help improve Garage, an open-source #distributed #objectstorage service tailored for #selfhosting built in #rust ?
#Deuxfleurs has funding for a PhD thesis in France to work on Garage! Apply before 31st January, and start the PhD in September 2024.
The funding is mostly aimed at candidates outside of France.
For more info: there is a webinar on 12th January at 11 am CET, or email coucou@deuxfleurs.fr
All links and details here: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2024-01-phd-offering/
Boost welcome!
garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr
PhD offering to work on Garage and Distributed Systems | Garage blog
An open-source distributed storage service you can self-host to fullfill many needs.