Reading up on IPFS and thinking about the old joke about how real hackers don’t do backups…

Reading up on #IPFS and thinking about the old joke about how real hackers don’t do backups, they just upload everything to public FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it.

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(an internet outage a couple of weeks ago got me thinking about async schemes like that and SSB)

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Cloudflare is launching a gateway for IPFS…

Cloudflare is launching a gateway for IPFS.

On one hand, I’ve thought it was a cool idea since I first heard about it. (And now I’m thinking of that cache problem with HTTPS sites and high-latency connections.)

On the other hand…it’s a lot easier to remember and type ‘example.com/whatever’ than a hash value.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/

#ipfs

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