It’s a shame that the article appears to have been edited since.

If you’re willing to donate bandwidth, I suggest I2P or a public SyncThing node. My server chews through a terabyte of bandwidth helping people securely access their files. I also run Tor’s Snowflake proxy which helps users reach the network.

I2P is Java. SyncThing and Snowflake are written in Go which means you can’t pull off typical memory corruption attacks in these relatively safe languages, and it’s fairly easy to run them in a container.

I don’t feel like it makes a huge difference for me and I run quite a few servers. It’s mainly the cooling costs in the summer months that run up the bill.

BOINC is great. In its day, you could get an enormous amount of computing power on a shoestring budget thanks to volunteers. It also helped the volunteers feel like they were more a part of something, because they were! I used to have a small server farm crunching numbers for science.

Unfortunately, the landscape has changed. Some projects are still around, but many of the big players have left. Computing power is a lot more accessible now, and the main limitation is time spent analyzing the data rather than the computation itself. Cloud computing can make just about any computation happen fast for a reasonable price without having to own all of that hardware. GPUs have exploded in computation capacity. Just, a lot of factors came together where the need isn’t as great.

With that said, I still run it on one mini PC, but the payoff for having to write your application in a distributed fashion doesn’t have the return on investment that it used to.

A seven hour bubble bath in fact, using all the hot water in town.

Ignorance is strength. Sickness is health.

I can assure you that you need the money way more than they do.

If they’re making America so great, why is it collapsing all around me?

Sometimes you can simply not report the tips at all, particularly cash tips.

You don’t want anything that advertises next generation encryption. You want tried and true encryption. You want boring encryption.

You said traitor twice.

Great time to try wireless charging if you have a device that supports it.

I don’t mind so much. It started as a Wiki and then became a corporate AI training ground.

I think Microsoft bought it, and as with most things they buy, they run it into the ground.

Hey! My assembler is actually quite neat and compartmentalized.

They’re all liars. They are sociopathic narcissists.

This is the way to do it. It’s just not worth the financial struggle if you’re the kind who would be impacted by a new car.

It also means it’s much easier to afford to replace the vehicle if it’s becoming a money pit, and you don’t sweat a small scratch.

And good for the environment!

House ain’t never happening. You got me on the car though.

A decentralized social media has 2 problems: How to store the entire world’s data on a blockchain

Stopped reading right there. I can’t take this project seriously. Even the description uses weasel words that focus more on broad concepts rather than technical clarity. I struggle to find a new idea being presented here that actually provides concrete and material benefits over other ways to put power in the hands of users.

To me this looks exactly like an academic project that was done in school and quickly forgotten. It’s great for writing papers, however.

Oh my God I didn’t see what community this was. If this was supposed to be a joke, it was quite the long one. But yeah it’s a joke project it looks like. That’s a fair comparison.

Providing care for a patient was his first mistake.

If I have a bill that big, it’s the hospital’s problem not my problem.