Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
7 posts
I wrote about ZeroNet a few years ago when it was released and it mostly was about decentralized websites. In the time between then and now it has gained a lot of features and regular use. It still does distributed websites well but it adds features suchs as support for sharing large files, merging sites and distributed pseudo-anonymous identity. This... more →
There was a recent post about uncensorable Wikipedia mirrors on IPFS. The IPFS project put a snapshot of the Turkish version of Wikipedia on IPFS. This is a great idea and something I've wanted to try on Freenet. Freenet is an anonymous, secure, distributed datastore that I've written a few posts about. It wasn't too difficult to convert the IPFS... more →
Freenet is an anonymous, secure, distributed datastore. I've written about using Freenet before, including using it as the backend for static websites. In this post I'll demonstrate how to use the Freenet API to push data into the Freenet network and retrieve data from it. Unfortunately the freenet protocol documentation is in a state of flux as it moves from... more →
This post outlines a method of using Freenet over Tor based on posts I wrote on my Freenet hosted blog and subsequent discussions about it. If you read my Freenet hosted blog there's little new here, I'm just making it available on my non-freenet blog. One issue I've had with Freenet is that it exposes your IP address to peers.... more →
This website is generated from markdown to static HTML and I mirror it on Freenet. Data on Freenet slowly disappears if it is not regularly requested and this happens to parts of the mirror of my blog since many posts have a small target audience and the cross section of Freenet users and that target audience results in a low... more →
ZeroNet is a new project that aims to deliver a decentralized web. It uses a combination of bittorrent, a custom file server and a web based user interface to do this and manages to provide a pretty useable experience. Users run a ZeroNet node and do their web browsing via the local proxy it provides. Website addresses are public keys,... more →
I've been following the Freenet project for many years, occasionally firing it up and seeing if I can do anything useful with it. I've been using it regularly over the last month and it has come a long way since I first tried it. It's much faster than what it was in the past. This post describes a bit of... more →