Notices by ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@social.seattle.wa.us), page 2

kubernetes and cert-manager?

https://gitlab.com/pnathan/tiaf/

tiaf.

a not-even-currency blockchain.

at some point I will stand up a tiaf endpoint for people to play with and replicate from, but the data system isn't finished (needs spill-to-disk).

So if someone comes to me - or you - and says, I need to share data with other, external, entities, in a tamper-resistant system where both can write - you do not need a blockchain qua BTC or ETH. You don't even need smart contracts. You don't need miners.

You need a way to authenticate that so and so is a member of the organization, and they are authorized to click the "share the data" button. Or, in other words: LDAP, G Suite, Okta, blah, blah, blah.

What I created solves the data part.

I implemented this system, using the perspective of someone that would do this for work, using conventional enterprise/identity tools; using the perspective that insults to the database would be resolved through the courts of law.

that made everything much simpler and ridiculously faster.

I can basically commit data at speed of cpu. Because I don't "mine", I simply command, a block is instant in creation.

thought #1. a trustless/distributed world without contractual enforcement is extremely expensive. That's why "mining" occurs. bitcoin mining is actually how data transactions are committed as well.... in a trustless world.

thought #2. a resilient public sharable database is actually a very good thing.

thought #3. identity is not solved by a private key.

in news that might be of interest to the mastodon world, I decided to implement a coinless, "gasless", blockchain.

"crypto without the currency".

or, if you're being technical: an immutable database with cryptographic hashing of prior blocks, similar to a merkle list.

I developed a lot of thoughts around crypto/nfts etc while doing this too.

@finn I think the images are broken on social.seattle.

just logged in and all images are 404'ing

@raye I got a notary at a UPS store in Seattle.

another rainy seattle day.

grinding away on the big startup project with a deadline of, uh, monday morning biz opening.

and the kid is home sick. :-/

::sticks head in::

hi? how are ya'll?

Hi

@Imani yea I hear you... I have family and the finances and logistics simply make it impossible.

if i was single I'd have migrated elsewhere for covid so I could walk in a yard and breathe free and safe.

I miss sunny days. We've been in Western WA since 2013.

With the covid and the rain and the damp, I am starting to get very antsy. Dreams of the Southwest, where my wife lived for a while before we married.

@eryn @dthompson @ehashman @thegibson

strong agree.

they have never really been onboard with decentralized anything tbh. strong control has been their practice

lets see how fediverse/mastodon is doing these days

@raye nice Dacrymyces photo! I've been doing seattle-area photos of fungi this winter.

@Gargron they used to be.

xmpp

@shapr You can write it in as an issue for the maintainer. We really appreciate that sort of thing.