Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-13 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce 

On 14/07/2017 1:41 AM, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

Hmmm... But how would a criminal post be deleted or removed?
Even if decentralized, govs could forbid the use of it (specially having 
a server of this social media), considering that it's database could 
contain child pornography (undeletable child pornography - really bad).


But it doesn't matter, I have other projects to invest my money on D.

I will post the links soon.


Anyway its just silly to go for removal of servers. The overhead is far 
too great. Our compression algo's can't back it up. You'll be talking 
terabytes just to store a few 'websites' soon enough.


Nah, anyway decentralized != anonymous. Even in Tor there are servers.

What we need isn't a decentralized http replacement. What we need is a 
decentralized dns with some form of filters available.

Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-13 Thread Mark Fisher via Digitalmars-d-announce 

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 04:40:16 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:


So... basically, it's a Bitcoin, but instead of transactions, 
the blockchain should store posts and profiles. :) And it 
should have some additional features (the typical things of 
social media - profile picture, some optional information about 
the user, etc.).
And obviously, it is supposed to be written in D, instead of 
C++ like the Bitcoin.
I also think that this blockchain shouldn't be downloaded by 
the client like the Bitcoin does. Only the servers need it. 
Clients will download only the posts that it needs (and 
requests).




why not use the actual bitcoin blockchain? there exists a process 
called "etching" whereby one may store indelible messages.

Re: Hiring D programmers (with cryptography and blockchain knowledge are preferred)

2017-07-13 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce 

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 05:18:40 UTC, wigy wrote:

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 20:11:06 UTC, Vitor Rozsas wrote:

[...]


Hi! I do not think the debate you have with yourself is 
decentralized vs centralized. You are thinking about moderated 
vs unmoderated. One is a technical structure, the other is a 
social one.


[...]


Great explanation, perfectly done.  A decentralized medium like 
this will one day put facebook, twitter, Uber, etc. out of 
business.

Re: Beta 2.075.0-b4

2017-07-13 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce 

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 11:52:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 07:22:00 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

The ChangeLog link is:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0_pre.html


Works for now, but it shouldn't be under that URL.
Will check what broke with dlang.org's Makefile.


FYI: https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1820

Re: Beta 2.075.0-b4

2017-07-13 Thread Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce 

On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 13:44:22 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

Fourth beta for the 2.075.0 release.

Comes with more fixes for dmd, phobos, and installer:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/compare/v2.075.0-b2...v2.075.0-b4 
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/compare/v2.075.0-b2...v2.075.0-b4 https://github.com/dlang/installer/compare/v2.075.0-b2...v2.075.0-b4


Due to the amount of changes the beta was prolonged, new 
targeted release date is Jul 16.


Downloads and changelog here:

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta 
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0.html


Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org.

- -Martin


The ChangeLog link is:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.075.0_pre.html