unpx[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform: sure, but also heresay will be a thing to consider better
unpx[asciilifeform]: shinohai neat
unpx[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2023-09-21#1030882 <<< my comment was on bdl
dulapbot: Logged on 2023-09-21 17:56:29 asciilifeform: re p2p warez, the notion is that you ask a set of peers to start fountaining at you, and they do so for a certain time, after which -- if you haven't the pieces you need -- you ask'em again, and so forth until you have'em
unpx[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2023-09-21#1030887 <<< after reviewing it better, bdl is exactly what I said, a "spray and pray". And you even extend the message length in hope the receiver is able to solve the random jigsaw. At that point you just run a DHT as ascii explained above, without coding.
dulapbot: Logged on 2023-09-21 18:01:27 signpost[asciilifeform]: iirc maymounkov et al came up with a more complicated scheme; I've forgotten now, but I don't see a need for something more complicated than the above.
unpx[asciilifeform]: Moreover, digging around, the author is the same that proposed the current DHT stuff https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html
unpx[asciilifeform]: >The protocol is based on Kademila [1] and is implemented over UDP.
unpx[asciilifeform]: >Peter Maymounkov, David Mazieres, "Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric"
unpx[asciilifeform]: So, yeah, WTF signpost
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-09-22 04:36:13 unpx[jonsykkel|signpost]: asciilifeform: sure, but also heresay will be a thing to consider better
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-12-29 12:30:22 asciilifeform[jonsykkel|awt|deedbot]: 1 of the reasons why the luby transfer absolutely gotta be direct-only (tho can be from >1 peer in parallel, sending diff frags)
asciilifeform: ^ key thread re subj
asciilifeform sad re phf walking off. the list of folx who actually have time & energy to do anyffin of interest is nao very short ( possibly just signpost ? )
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
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