CRDT hacker here. The talk says CRDTs need to store a history of fine-grained edits indefinitely to make them work. There are some ways around this requirement. I'd be happy to chat more about this if anyone is interested!
"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway."
What a weird take. The internet was built fundamentally decentralized but was centralized against us with the worst of intentions. They lost me at the first sentence.
CRDT hacker here. The talk says CRDTs need to store a history of fine-grained edits indefinitely to make them work. There are some ways around this requirement. I'd be happy to chat more about this if anyone is interested!
Very inspiring talk how to organize data for federalized systems.
worm-blossom crew is just a delightful bunch of humans doing really great work
"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway."
What a weird take. The internet was built fundamentally decentralized but was centralized against us with the worst of intentions. They lost me at the first sentence.
You have to go into the past a little bit. Think about your:
University email, FTP, and terminal server.
The Internet is just a highway. You will end up at a destination.
I'd read that as "some centralised systems", not "all centralised systems"
Not against us. Against some of the nerds will. The rest cheered. That's why it worked.
Humans hate friction, they don't want to pay for maintenance and have short term thinking.
Even on HN there are plenty of voices saying they won't even bother using firefox because it inconvenience them.
Can we blame then the normies for choosing integrated easy systems to use?
>Can we blame then the normies for choosing integrated easy systems to use?
With that logic everyone would use the Edge-Browser right? Don't underestimate the "normie" ;)