Re: Important Announcement: Freenet naming change

2023-01-18 Thread Michael Grube
You are a random, anonymous person with some unqualified sense of importance using personal attacks to accomplish I'm not sure actually, what are you trying to accomplish? This conversation isn't really helpful anymore and should have ended about 20 emails ago. Veiled insults and being living

Re: Freenet's Hackathon (second edition)

2018-10-23 Thread Michael Grube
I'll be participating.

PR Stuff

2017-05-15 Thread Michael Grube
Hi Dev List, I've been quietly running a very small PR campaign and would like to make some data visible to people. I think the results are encouraging. Since January I've done 3 things to promote Freenet: Gave a brief introduction to Freenet primitives and a very very basic runthrough of pyFreen

[freenet-dev] VOUTE Virtual Overlay

2016-08-10 Thread Michael Grube
All, Had an interesting discussion with Stefanie Roos this morning about her VOUTE virtual overlay concept. Essentially a virtual overlay is created in a tree structure, which allows for stable and efficient routing against Pitch Black style attacks. Please find her work below: SSK@Q ~~e6Q7W1sx

Re: [freenet-dev] Should we just go ahead and redesign the website?

2016-08-06 Thread Michael Grube
Arne, he did not mention you. I am at fault, for example, about keeping quiet on the website. I don't think Ian was attacking a specific person here. Let's all try to make an effort to remain on topic so we can reach a consensus about the website. I know there are some complicated issues here, bu

Re: [freenet-dev] Should we just go ahead and redesign the website?

2016-08-06 Thread Michael Grube
+1 in favor of immediate action on the website. The wiki was really supposed to be the developer resource originally, right? So a separate place for developer doc seems not only logical but also something we've already wanted in the past. On Aug 6, 2016 12:03 PM, "Ian Clarke" wrote: > When I've

Re: [freenet-dev] Better captcha for WOT

2016-07-20 Thread Michael Grube
FMS makes use of audio captchas. A response to abuse could be to move in that direction as well. On Jul 20, 2016 6:19 PM, wrote: > > On 20-07-16 17:05, dyn...@mail2tor.com wrote: > >> Google research declares the simple text captcha dead. They remain > >> difficult for human beings, but machine

Re: [freenet-dev] Banner must be removed from website NOW

2016-06-25 Thread Michael Grube
I really can't stress this enough, getting 501c3 status does take time and money (I think the application fee was about $800 last time I checked) and provides a lot of benefits. It's not something we should toy with. On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > Unless we

Re: [freenet-dev] Banner must be removed from website NOW

2016-06-25 Thread Michael Grube
Unless we want to risk our 501c3 status by playing around with the definition of "substantial", we should probably not run any kind of campaign, including helping to collect signatures and send emails. On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > > https://www.irs.g

Re: [freenet-dev] Banner must be removed from website NOW

2016-06-25 Thread Michael Grube
k to the > specific legislation would be great. On a quick web search, I can see this: > > http://www.njnonprofits.org/NPsCanLobby.html > > which only talks about spending money on lobbying, implying that costless > efforts (like having a banner on your website) are perfectly fine. >

Re: [freenet-dev] Banner must be removed from website NOW

2016-06-25 Thread Michael Grube
I'm somewhat familiar with 501c3 rules. Ian's correct, it's not legal for the Freenet project to officially have a political agenda. Tor project is probably also in violation. On Jun 25, 2016 2:57 PM, "Ximin Luo" wrote: > Ian Clarke: > > Even more seriously, it may put us in violation of US law

Re: [freenet-dev] HotPETs talk on Freenet overlay services

2016-06-15 Thread Michael Grube
I love it! Do you mind if I share this more broadly? On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Prometheas wrote: > Hello, > > We got word that our talk proposal "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of > Anonymous P2P Storage Network Overlay Services" [0] was accepted at > HotPETs [1]. > > The motivation is to illus

Re: [freenet-dev] Experiments in Fractal Addressing Space

2016-06-10 Thread Michael Grube
Just to head off any other questions, my next post to this thread will be a link to a paper. Thanks On Jun 10, 2016 7:14 PM, "Michael Grube" wrote: > Hi, > > This is description is incomplete, the main purpose was to get the general > idea out there. I intended on publishi

Re: [freenet-dev] Experiments in Fractal Addressing Space

2016-06-10 Thread Michael Grube
"Arne Babenhauserheide" wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thank you for sharing your work! The fractal scheme sounds pretty > interesting. > > One thing wasn’t yet clear to me: > > Michael Grube writes: > > When a node joins the darknet(I am not considering any opennet

Re: [freenet-dev] Experiments in Fractal Addressing Space

2016-06-04 Thread Michael Grube
ormal explanation but I will be occupied for the next 5 days or so. I will attempt to release a draft of the paper to the list by the end of the week. Thanks again. On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Before you read this, I am writing the results more foma

[freenet-dev] Experiments in Fractal Addressing Space

2016-06-03 Thread Michael Grube
Hi everyone, Before you read this, I am writing the results more fomally in a paper. I'll be using some informal language and making some assumptions about your knowledge in this post. I really just wanted to get the concepts out there in case I'm hit by a bus or something. I wanted to share some

Re: [freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Grube
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > I've written a proposal for how we can do this, based on my learnings over > a > decade and a half of managing software projects (mostly commercial). > Feedback from the core team has been positive so-far, with the main > objection > being that

Re: [freenet-dev] DuckDuckGo has donated $25k to Freenet

2016-05-03 Thread Michael Grube
That's great! On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Ian Clarke wrote: > It should now be safe to announce that DuckDuckGo has donated $25k to > Freenet. > Will follow-up with discussion with my thoughts on some processes we can > use to > decide how to allocate it. > Ian. > -- Ian Clarke > Founder, Th

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Grube
Hi Stefanie, My apologies, I missed that you were talking about a different attack. Regardless, I agree that the presented solutions are not ideal. Thanks, Michael On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > Hi Stefanie, > > I'm just clarifying for my own sake -

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Grube
; > >>> The fix does not need to know the size of the network. The only global > >>> information it needs is routing to random locations. > >>> > >>> In this mail I first describe simulator and Pitch Black Attack. > >>> Afterwards I describe the f

Re: [freenet-dev] Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco, by the Internet Archive, June 8th

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Grube
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Michael Grube writes: > > > If nobody would object, I can also check my availability. If both of us > are > > available, we could simply both go - right? > > That sounds ideal, I’d say :) > > Ar

Re: [freenet-dev] Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco, by the Internet Archive, June 8th

2016-04-19 Thread Michael Grube
If nobody would object, I can also check my availability. If both of us are available, we could simply both go - right? On Apr 19, 2016 1:29 PM, "Dan Roberts" wrote: > Hi xor, > Thanks for the kind words. I think hiding behind semi-real-time text > messaging has allowed me to seem a bit bett

Re: [freenet-dev] freenetproject.org traffic: Pretty good

2016-03-10 Thread Michael Grube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimilarWeb "In June 2013, SimilarWeb released SimilarWeb PRO, an advanced version of the free and general purpose SimilarWeb.[16] In addition, SimilarWeb provides its data in form of API

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Data

2016-02-17 Thread Michael Grube
A quick correction, this is probe data, not data from a seed node. On Feb 17, 2016 9:56 AM, "Michael Grube" wrote: > All, > > Some 2 months ago, Steve was nice enough to collect anonymous data from a > seednode and share it with me to do analysis on it. I am currently swam

[freenet-dev] Freenet Data

2016-02-17 Thread Michael Grube
All, Some 2 months ago, Steve was nice enough to collect anonymous data from a seednode and share it with me to do analysis on it. I am currently swamped and figured this information should be accessible to the public anyway. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0lQIisqJ2blMTZ0ZlVNcmxXSXc Enjoy, a

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-02-09 Thread Michael Grube
t; > > > ## Graphics > > > > - > http://draketo.de/dateien/freenet/fix-pitch-black-400-mean-median-median2-peerdist.png > > - > http://draketo.de/dateien/freenet/fix-pitch-black-400-mean-median-median2-lochist.png > > > > (because that’s what most people

Re: [freenet-dev] Open Encryption projects receive half a million euros of Dutch government

2015-12-14 Thread Michael Grube
x27;ll see what happens. On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Ian wrote: > Can't hurt to try, thanks Michael! > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Michael Grube > wrote: > > > Cliche quote about missing 100% of shots not taken goes here. > > > > > > If n

Re: [freenet-dev] Open Encryption projects receive half a million euros of Dutch government

2015-12-09 Thread Michael Grube
Cliche quote about missing 100% of shots not taken goes here. If nobody else is even going to try, I suppose I will. I am not free until this weekend but I will give it a shot. On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Bert Massop wrote: > The key parts of the amendment are the following: > > De indiene

Re: [freenet-dev] Possible Active Pitch Black Attack

2015-12-04 Thread Michael Grube
request by > tomorrow I'll file one. > > All the best, > Bert > Op 4 dec. 2015 17:29 schreef "Michael Grube" : > > > If this graph is a measure of your distance from your peers we should > > reconsider the graph title. > > On Dec 4, 2015 11:25 AM,

Re: [freenet-dev] Possible Active Pitch Black Attack

2015-12-04 Thread Michael Grube
If this graph is a measure of your distance from your peers we should reconsider the graph title. On Dec 4, 2015 11:25 AM, "Steve Dougherty" wrote: > On 12/04/2015 11:20 AM, Bert Massop wrote: > > Also, the clusters all appear close to your respective node's locations, > as > > expected, and cert

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Canary

2015-12-02 Thread Michael Grube
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On 02/12/15 20:34, Ian wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Victor Denisov > wrote: > > > >> This is very interesting, it is - but I'm afraid the true reason Freenet > >> is struggling as a software development project is much, much

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Canary

2015-12-02 Thread Michael Grube
" For a while that worked pretty well, perhaps partially because the constant flow of favorable publicity provided a constant flow of new, enthusiastic, and (often) competent developers willing to devote their time." This, more or less. Freenet is simply not experiencing the positive feedback loop

Re: [freenet-dev] My project

2015-11-30 Thread Michael Grube
Hey toad, It's nice to see you back in the community. You know, NS2 can actually simulate more or less anything you can think of with quite a bit of accuracy. I know there are also extensions to add parallelism. You may want to consider writing a Freenet library for ns2 as on option because it wou

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Rebooted (without rewriting everything, pay for opennet)

2015-11-30 Thread Michael Grube
On Nov 30, 2015 11:09 AM, "Bert Massop" wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > > This is true of everything that money can buy. Which is everything, with > >> the possible (and slightly dubious) exception of social capital / > >>

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Rebooted (without rewriting everything, pay for opennet)

2015-11-30 Thread Michael Grube
This is true of everything that money can buy. Which is everything, with > the possible (and slightly dubious) exception of social capital / > friends. A big global friend-to-friend darknet is a good long term > solution but the problem is how to get to that point. Please, please PLEASE don't mur

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-04 Thread Michael Grube
Should the website maybe also mention Freenet's 501c3 status near the donation bar? On Nov 4, 2015 10:34 AM, "Ian Clarke" wrote: > I like the donation bar, and the website is a huge improvement. > > However, I'm still very concerned about how much blank space there is on > our front page, while y

Re: [freenet-dev] A bold idea for discussion: "Freenet 2"

2015-11-03 Thread Michael Grube
Bold indeed. Necessary, in my opinion. The complexity that the project will ultimately face due to disparate and poorly documented code will eventually outweigh the benefits even of holding on to current users. The currently complex code also means that Freenet may become a security joke, which i

Re: [freenet-dev] adding freenet to funding-platforms?

2015-01-16 Thread Michael Grube
Patreon is an excellent platform. We could fund at the feature or bugfix level. On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > In recent years quite a few new funding platforms appeared, and since > people actually donate there, it might be useful to allow funding Freene

Re: [freenet-dev] TAILS inclusion by creating .deb package

2015-01-12 Thread Michael Grube
This offer is still open, by the way. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:22 AM, xor wrote: > On Friday, December 12, 2014 05:12:40 PM Michael Grube wrote: > > To add incentive, I will send $50 in BTC to anybody who creates a Debian > > compatible package. > > > > Than

Re: [freenet-dev] TAILS inclusion by creating .deb package

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Grube
ther things, but you'll run into them when you've > played with that repo. > > Lots of work to be done, happy hacking! > > X > > On 13/12/14 17:40, Michael Grube wrote: > > Toad, > > > > If you can point me to an up-to-date debian package, I'd be grat

Re: [freenet-dev] TAILS inclusion by creating .deb package

2014-12-13 Thread Michael Grube
Toad, If you can point me to an up-to-date debian package, I'd be grateful and willing to contact the TAILS people with that package. In the absence of an up to date package that we can submit to debian, my offer stands. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On 12/12/14 2

Re: [freenet-dev] TAILS inclusion by creating .deb package

2014-12-12 Thread Michael Grube
To add incentive, I will send $50 in BTC to anybody who creates a Debian compatible package. Thanks. On Dec 12, 2014 5:05 PM, "Michael Grube" wrote: > https://tails.boum.org/contribute/meetings/201409/ > > "Someone proposed on Redmine to include more darknets, for exampl

[freenet-dev] TAILS inclusion by creating .deb package

2014-12-12 Thread Michael Grube
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/meetings/201409/ "Someone proposed on Redmine to include more darknets, for example freenet and Namecoin. We don't know Namecoin, and adding freenet seems a bad idea to someone. Also they are not in Debian. We will close the ticket and open another one in case so

[freenet-dev] 31c3 - We Fix the Net Assembly

2014-11-19 Thread Michael Grube
I have neither the time nor the authority to speak about the current state of Freenet development. However if somebody is feeling brave, I wonder if it might benefit us to be there. I first found out about Freenet years ago by watching the talking at ccc, so if we are suffering from bad marketing t

Re: [freenet-dev] Kickstarter

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Grube
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On 17/11/14 21:38, Michael Grube wrote: > > I hate to put it this way, but let's be coldly rational here. Please do > not > > take this as an offensive question: What can we offer that maidsafe > cannot? >

Re: [freenet-dev] Kickstarter

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Grube
14 4:27 PM, "Matthew Toseland" wrote: > On 17/11/14 20:46, Michael Grube wrote: > > I know I've not comment or contributed in some time now, but I just have > > some comments on this. > > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Toseland > wrote:

Re: [freenet-dev] Kickstarter

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Grube
I know I've not comment or contributed in some time now, but I just have some comments on this. On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On 16/11/14 17:50, Ian wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Toseland > wrote: > > > >> On 16/11/14 16:36, Ian Clarke wrote:

[freenet-dev] Using hardware to secure opennet; was: Would you pay to join opennet?

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Grube
For what it's worth, I think there is some potential here. If Freenet were tweaked to favor performance slightly over cryptography and anonymous routing(I'm not suggesting we get rid of these things completely), it might be worth attempting to sell as a very cheap cloud service. There is a company

Re: [freenet-dev] New darknet routing paper may be important

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Grube
I've rented a machine with 24GB ram and 8 cores. Matthew has the login info. Hopefully others can donate more testing resources. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 03 May 2013 13:31:04 Michael Grube wrote: > > > > > > Also, the reali

Re: [freenet-dev] New darknet routing paper may be important

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Grube
but on darknet this is less > > > important than on opennet, and we really should have a separate tunnel > > > setup system for the very paranoid (e.g. based on Pisces). > > > > > > > > Having said that: > > > > - All the topologies simulated showed

Re: [freenet-dev] New darknet routing paper may be important

2013-05-02 Thread Michael Grube
nted that's > somewhat idealized... > > - We can use redundancy to some degree to avoid perverse parts of the > keyspace breaking important functionality. I've suspected that "perverse > parts of the keyspace" exist for some time, and that seems to be the > paper's

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet meetup/mini-conference?

2013-04-02 Thread Michael Grube
If my voice holds any importance, the next CCC woukld be best for me. North America or Europe is preferred. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:33 AM, wrote: > - I like the idea of the side event but doesn't need to be a huge event > anyway. > > - What about next CTS? They seems to hold one every 6 mont

Re: [freenet-dev] Native android client?

2013-03-30 Thread Michael Grube
You may want to consider that the traffic from freenet may significantly wear down any mobile device's battery. That being said, a "lightweight" android client might be amazing. You may also want to consider working to put Tahrir(http://github.com/sanity/tahrir) on Android, which may be easier on a

Re: [freenet-dev] The current store size stats attack and Pitch Black

2013-02-28 Thread Michael Grube
I haven't had too much time to think about this. How would centralized reporting work? Seems like a malicious person could have a bunch of nodes join and simply report bad stats. Just my feedback. I'll try to have some kind of decent response in the next 24 hours. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM,

Re: [freenet-dev] Maven revisited

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Grube
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Matthew Toseland < > t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> On Thursday 31 Jan 2013 17:50:32 Michael Grube wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ian Clarke

[freenet-dev] Pitch Black Attack - Analysis, Code, Etc.

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Grube
Old response that was never forwarded. On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi Snark, > > Thank you for posting! Your analysis looks pretty good. > > Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013, 00:02:17 schrieb Michael Grube: > > > Not bad! There is obviously

Re: [freenet-dev] Maven revisited

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Grube
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ian Clarke wrote: > I was thinking about the fact that we still build Freenet using the tools > that were available to us a decade ago, while the Java world has moved on > to more sophisticated dependency management tools like Maven. > > I recall that the reason

Re: [freenet-dev] Pitch Black Attack - Analysis, Code, Etc.

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Grube
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Monday 28 Jan 2013 21:39:54 Michael Grube wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Toseland < > t...@amphibian.dyndns.org > > > wrote: > > > > > On Monday 28 Jan 2013 18:09:07 Mich

Re: [freenet-dev] Pitch Black Attack - Analysis, Code, Etc.

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Grube
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Monday 28 Jan 2013 21:39:54 Michael Grube wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Toseland < > t...@amphibian.dyndns.org > > > wrote: > > > > > On Monday 28 Jan 2013 18:09:07 Mich

[freenet-dev] Pitch Black Attack - Analysis, Code, Etc.

2013-01-26 Thread Michael Grube
Hi everyone, Around this time last year I started on work to simulate the pitch black attack working against Oskar Sandberg's swapping algorithm that is implemented for use with darknet. The work is essentially incomplete, but I did enough to get an idea of how well Oskar's proposed solution to th

[freenet-dev] Statistics Project Update #1

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Grube
s it seem reasonable to omit the ability to gather > such information? > > > On 04/28/2012 03:51 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > > Are you assuming opennet, darknet, a mix? > > The simulation generates the graph in a way which effectively sort of > assumes darknet: it assign

Re: [freenet-dev] Statistics Project Update #1

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Grube
s it seem reasonable to omit the ability to gather > such information? > > > On 04/28/2012 03:51 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > > Are you assuming opennet, darknet, a mix? > > The simulation generates the graph in a way which effectively sort of > assumes darknet: it assign

[freenet-dev] Statistics Project Update #1

2012-04-28 Thread Michael Grube
Are you assuming opennet, darknet, a mix? On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Steve Dougherty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Here's an update on my progress on the statistics project for the > first week: > > The current probes are biased towards better-connected nodes

Re: [freenet-dev] Statistics Project Update #1

2012-04-28 Thread Michael Grube
Are you assuming opennet, darknet, a mix? On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Steve Dougherty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Here's an update on my progress on the statistics project for the > first week: > > The current probes are biased towards better-connected nodes

[freenet-dev] GSoC 2012

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Grube
nstructions for getting the source code for Freenet: http://freenetproject.org/developer.html Tahrir is a social media/filesharing application that uses small-world routing in the same way that Freenet does. Described here: https://github.com/sanity/tahrir/wiki > Thanks > > On 17/02/20

Re: [freenet-dev] GSoC 2012

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Grube
nstructions for getting the source code for Freenet: http://freenetproject.org/developer.html Tahrir is a social media/filesharing application that uses small-world routing in the same way that Freenet does. Described here: https://github.com/sanity/tahrir/wiki > Thanks > > On 17/02/20

[freenet-dev] GSoC 2012

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Grube
Hi Mohammed, The first thing you can do is educate yourself about exactly how Freenet works in detail if you haven't done so already. Generally speaking, you can help Freenet by: 1. Adding interesting content 2. Running a node, spreading awareness, getting people to use it 3. Making or contributi

Re: [freenet-dev] GSoC 2012

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Grube
Hi Mohammed, The first thing you can do is educate yourself about exactly how Freenet works in detail if you haven't done so already. Generally speaking, you can help Freenet by: 1. Adding interesting content 2. Running a node, spreading awareness, getting people to use it 3. Making or contributi

[freenet-dev] GSoC 2012

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Grube
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > I'm not sure whether people would object to this, but I would quite like > to mentor a student to work on Tahrir under the umbrella of the Freenet > project. > > Thoughts? Opinions? Insults? > More probably stands to be accomplished this way

Re: [freenet-dev] GSoC 2012

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Grube
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > I'm not sure whether people would object to this, but I would quite like > to mentor a student to work on Tahrir under the umbrella of the Freenet > project. > > Thoughts? Opinions? Insults? > More probably stands to be accomplished this way

[freenet-dev] Website traffic increased substantially

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Grube
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Robert Hailey wrote: > > On 2012/01/23 (Jan), at 8:21 AM, Martin 'The Bishop' Scheffler wrote: > > > well, i see the megaupload-bust as a second factor to that. > > we should thank the FBI for pushing users in our direction :-) > > And then we should push developm

Re: [freenet-dev] Website traffic increased substantially

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Grube
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Robert Hailey wrote: > > On 2012/01/23 (Jan), at 8:21 AM, Martin 'The Bishop' Scheffler wrote: > > > well, i see the megaupload-bust as a second factor to that. > > we should thank the FBI for pushing users in our direction :-) > > And then we should push developm

[freenet-dev] Freenet Revival?

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Grube
Somewhat related, myself and some people at the local hackerspace are getting involved in evaluating what Freenet has vs what we'd like to see, then going out and implementing it. Good things are about to happen! On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ian Clarke wrote: > Anyone familiar with this (i

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Revival?

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Grube
Somewhat related, myself and some people at the local hackerspace are getting involved in evaluating what Freenet has vs what we'd like to see, then going out and implementing it. Good things are about to happen! On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ian Clarke wrote: > Anyone familiar with this (i

[freenet-dev] Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Grube
papers than I do. > That's a nice lead. Thanks! > > Ian. > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Michael Grube gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks for the info! >> >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Ian Clarke > freenetproject.org>wrote: >> &g

[freenet-dev] Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Grube
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Evan Daniel wrote: > Submitting a response to the Pitch Black paper seems a bit premature, > given that in the real world we probably have network distribution > problems even without an active adversary. > Could you be more specific? Are you talking about the c

Re: [freenet-dev] Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Grube
papers than I do. > That's a nice lead. Thanks! > > Ian. > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > >> Thanks for the info! >> >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: >> >>> fyi >>> >>>

Re: [freenet-dev] Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Grube
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Evan Daniel wrote: > Submitting a response to the Pitch Black paper seems a bit premature, > given that in the real world we probably have network distribution > problems even without an active adversary. > Could you be more specific? Are you talking about the c

[freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Grube
hat plugin. There > > have also been many posts about a filesharing plugin, which I think is > > a great idea, but I haven't noticed reports of progress on any of them > > so far. Most recently, f?nfnull's "What Freenet really needs" in > > eng.freenet on F

[freenet-dev] Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Grube
Thanks for the info! On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > fyi > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: David Hausheer > Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:27 PM > Subject: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012 > To: David Hausheer > > > ##**##

Re: [freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Grube
hat plugin. There > > have also been many posts about a filesharing plugin, which I think is > > a great idea, but I haven't noticed reports of progress on any of them > > so far. Most recently, fünfnull's "What Freenet really needs" in > > eng.freenet on F

Re: [freenet-dev] Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Grube
Thanks for the info! On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > fyi > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: David Hausheer > Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:27 PM > Subject: Call for Papers: IEEE P2P 2012 > To: David Hausheer > > > ##**##

[freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Grube
I wonder if there's a competitive debugging phase like in TopCoder. Holy crap, that would be awesome! At any rate, imho Freenet needs to do this now that the resident expert has dedicated his time to school. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > If I understand correc

[freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Grube
If I understand correctly, you pick a task that nobody has time to do. You then outsource that task. People then compete for your money with their solutions. It's like TopCoder but you get paid to win! Awesome. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Daxter wrote: > That's a very interesting platform i

[freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Grube
This is something I would get pretty excited about. +1 On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > I recieved the following email from Rich Jones, creator of Gun.io. This > could be a very interesting way for us to get specific tasks done... > > -- Forwarded message -- >

Re: [freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Grube
I wonder if there's a competitive debugging phase like in TopCoder. Holy crap, that would be awesome! At any rate, imho Freenet needs to do this now that the resident expert has dedicated his time to school. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > If I understand correc

Re: [freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Grube
If I understand correctly, you pick a task that nobody has time to do. You then outsource that task. People then compete for your money with their solutions. It's like TopCoder but you get paid to win! Awesome. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Daxter wrote: > That's a very interesting platform i

Re: [freenet-dev] Gun.io

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Grube
This is something I would get pretty excited about. +1 On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > I recieved the following email from Rich Jones, creator of Gun.io. This > could be a very interesting way for us to get specific tasks done... > > -- Forwarded message -- >

[freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-26 Thread Michael Grube
simulations of the attack against some potential countermeasures as well as a paper. I do have an advisor supervising the work but I'm sure I'll be reaching out to the the community. > I'm happy to provide feedback on whatever you produce, just let me know. > Will do! >

Re: [freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-26 Thread Michael Grube
simulations of the attack against some potential countermeasures as well as a paper. I do have an advisor supervising the work but I'm sure I'll be reaching out to the the community. > I'm happy to provide feedback on whatever you produce, just let me know. > Will do! >

[freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Grube
Created a stand-in Wiki page. You'll be able to track all of my progress from here. https://snark.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W1 On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > Tried creating a Wiki Page, had the same problem Ian described. > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at

[freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Grube
Tried creating a Wiki Page, had the same problem Ian described. On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michael Grube wrote: > Ian, > > I've actually made a commitment to do this and will have to complete this > task to graduate from college ;) > > That means I'll be done

[freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Grube
Ian, I've actually made a commitment to do this and will have to complete this task to graduate from college ;) That means I'll be done before May and will start in about 2 weeks. Of course I can start sooner than that, but something else is gripping my attention at the moment. Mike On Dec 25, 2

Re: [freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Grube
Created a stand-in Wiki page. You'll be able to track all of my progress from here. https://snark.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W1 On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Michael Grube wrote: > Tried creating a Wiki Page, had the same problem Ian described. > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at

Re: [freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Grube
Tried creating a Wiki Page, had the same problem Ian described. On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michael Grube wrote: > Ian, > > I've actually made a commitment to do this and will have to complete this > task to graduate from college ;) > > That means I'll be done

Re: [freenet-dev] Addressing the "Pitch Black" attack (aka anyone want to write a paper?)

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Grube
Ian, I've actually made a commitment to do this and will have to complete this task to graduate from college ;) That means I'll be done before May and will start in about 2 weeks. Of course I can start sooner than that, but something else is gripping my attention at the moment. Mike On Dec 25, 2

[freenet-dev] Usability testing

2011-05-21 Thread Michael Grube
I'm actually putting together a presentation to show off Freenet to a new hackerspace that just started up where I am for this coming Friday. This doesn't fall in the ungeeky category, but maybe I'll insert the slides into Freenet and post a URI on the list. Maybe we can even pick up some extra hel

Re: [freenet-dev] Usability testing

2011-05-21 Thread Michael Grube
I'm actually putting together a presentation to show off Freenet to a new hackerspace that just started up where I am for this coming Friday. This doesn't fall in the ungeeky category, but maybe I'll insert the slides into Freenet and post a URI on the list. Maybe we can even pick up some extra hel

[freenet-dev] Seednodes wanted!

2011-05-14 Thread Michael Grube
If you have no other volunteers, I can offer my node roughly 14x7. On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2011 19:26:24 Matthew Toseland wrote: > > We need more seednodes for opennet. If you can run a seednode please send > me your opennet (not darknet) noder

Re: [freenet-dev] Seednodes wanted!

2011-05-14 Thread Michael Grube
If you have no other volunteers, I can offer my node roughly 14x7. On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2011 19:26:24 Matthew Toseland wrote: > > We need more seednodes for opennet. If you can run a seednode please send > me your opennet (not darknet) noder

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