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@banteg get a 100 GB VPS and host an IPFS node there don't feed the serverless scam machine

i looked up ipfs hostings and they are all 10-20x more expensive than cloudflare r2. what kind of scam is this? i need to host around 100gb.

@jefdiesel @banteg IPFS is not permanent. it's a P2P storage with hashes as locators, kinda similar to torrent in torrent there can absolutely be no peers you can download the thing from, even if you have the hash

@banteg ipfs is permanentish. that's what's costs. R2 you pay as long as you need it

@apoorveth it’s going to zero right away anyway do you know anybody who uses opensea today

tempo can launch a new chain in 9 months but opensea can't launch a token in 6 yrs

@peter_szilagyi interesting

@alexhooketh It does work with the Rust toolkit distributed with Alpine, but it does not build with the toolkit from rustup.

Interesting issue. On Alpine Linux, RocksDB does not compile with the rustup Rust toolkit because it's missing dynamic linking capability. You need to use the one form the distro packages which does support it. Guess how much time it took me to figure this one out... sigh.

@peter_szilagyi i'm 100% sure that i did manage to build rocksdb for rust in a docker image, but i don't remember what exact binding lib it was

@peter_szilagyi do u mean alpine in docker? could it be a bindings issue? iirc there are multiple bindings for rocksdb in rust

@peter_szilagyi @gakonst you’re welcome! to answer ur question, in rust specifically i had the least issues with rocksdb. rust-first solutions like sled had a lot of unexpected pitfalls if you’re coming from more professional KV DBs like leveldb/rocks/LMDB

@alexhooketh @gakonst Ah that's very good to know, thank you. Crossed it off the list then. Had enough years of pain with go-leveldb which went down the same path.

Hey @gakonst, need to pick a Rust database for the Dark Bio firmware storage (audit logs, report results, etc). Saw that Reth uses mdbx and figured might as well go with what you guys found worthwhile. Any drawback I should be aware of, of are you happy with it?

Ah... got it :/. I'm sorry. Regardless of our respective perspectives on KYC, I also hope that the world calms down a bit and the practice of restrictive regions end. Nonetheless, wishing you the best on what you're building! It's even better to hear that you're working on something to support others who've been impacted.

imagine getting a shoutout from the CEO of Palantir just had the crypto equivalent of this

@rickcsong @ProtonVPN appreciate your attention on Untron tho! hopefully we'll never have to use Persona. as that would mean that I and billions of people around the world won't be able to use our solutions

@rickcsong @ProtonVPN that was a dunk on the practice of "restricted regions." i can't KYC anywhere no matter if it's Persona used on the website or any other service

As of today, Brazil requires identity verification to use social media. X use Persona for ID checks, the same provider found capable of running 269 checks on every verified user, matching faces to government watchlists, and retaining data for up to 3 years.

@pseudotheos yeah we're on the same point here, government is the problem here single sentences starting with "roman republic/empire fell because of ..." are always simplification and never factually correct if you're into history

@alexhooketh the roman republic fell because of over-reliance on private armies palantir also collects it from the government which is the problem

i feel about persona the same way leftists feel about palantir deep, utter hatred

@pseudotheos at the end nobody achieves anything, KYC costs vastly more than how much funds it saves, but persona is richer and richer and has more and more money to lobby KYC requirements worldwide

@pseudotheos if you don't want to or the provider doesn't accept your papers (happens to ~1-4 billion people around the world depending on the arbitrarily chosen set of "restricted countries"), you buy other people's IDs from these same KYC providers (thru "hackers" that "stole" it from them)

@rickcsong @ProtonVPN hey rick! for some reason i'm deplatformed from all services that use Persona for "identity verification" do you feel anything about it? besides, maybe, sadness that you won't be able to sell my passport

I know that posting about Persona these days is a decent way to generate engagement, but tbh, I never expected to be catching a stray from Proton (which I am and remain a big fan of). First, just to clarify some of the points regarding Persona: 1/ Although we are capable of running 269 checks, they're split across more than 40 types of verifications. Many of these verifications are gated and require additional due diligence to gain access. There is no customer who is even close to using all 269 checks. And as far as I'm aware, there is no customer of ours who would be so sadistic to put any user through 40 different verifications (might as well just forcefully churn them at that point). 2/ Regarding sanction watchlists, these are used and required by our financial services customers for KYC/AML who make up a significant part of our business. The face comparison is only performed if there is a false positive match against the watchlist, and this is common practice to dismiss a match (given that 99%+ of sanction matches are false positives). 3/ As you stated, data can be retained for "up to 3 years". This is the *max* that a customer can choose to. X is actually configured to redact your data immediately after you are verified. Despite the recent media attention, Persona is actually not an age verification business. Our core business is securing how personal and sensitive data is collected, retained, and redacted. While many other identity verification providers exist, platforms like X choose to partner with us because of our unique focus on building the best-in-class controls for data access, security, and retention for them. Lastly, we are and remain huge fans of Proton. I believe our teams have actually spoken in the past to explore ways Persona could collaborate with Proton Pass. And I've also personally had a Proton Mail since 2015 during its beta. Although I understand (and honestly, really respect) your position on age verification for VPNs, I'd still be incredibly excited to explore other ways our teams could work together in the future!

@pseudotheos there's one thing persona and palantir are definitely similar at — the reason they're so powerful is because the government that they heavily lobby gives them all resources they need there's no persona without the KYC cabal, there's no palantir without the CIA

@pseudotheos private intelligence and armies are good actually it might be because i'm not american so i don't see the damage that palantir might cause to people there persona and the KYC cabal as a whole does cause damage to me, my people, and billions of other people around the world