Oh, the old every game is worth 50€ so a drive with 4.000 roms is … 200 grands of course !

Me:

Shows a demo function just to show how it could be done.

Manager: (looking in his manager book)

-“So it’s already implemented!”

Me: no it needs to be programmed first

Manager: but it already is, i can see it on screen!

Me: it has to be implemented correctly.

Manager (looking in book again)

-“How much time if you implement quickly as quick as possible?”

Me: it will take X time.

Manager: Starts to call tech-lead and chief boot-licker to “convince” me it doesn’t need that much time.

After 3 hours of painful meeting I say okay okay okay and pushes ‘best I could do’ to production in the same evening. Reinforcing the idea that I’m a lying bad programmer and that Manager, tech-lead and chief boot-licker are correct.

Source: 10 years of gamedev

Yeah it’s the gartners hype cycle, like dumb phones for example, they were so bad and expensive (especially the monthly cost) just for calling. Now they’re cheaper than a doorstop.

I have this phone thats more than 47 years… :-D

Hopefully we’ll get better quality as the need for doubling the specs every X years slows down.

Thanks!

IPFS is static, whereas tenfingers is dynamic when it comes to the links. So you can update the shared data without the need of redistributing the link.

That said, its also very different tech wise, there is no need for benevolent nodes (or some crypto or payment).

Nodes do not need to be trustworthy either, so node discovery is very simple (basically just ask other nodes for known nodes).

The distribution part, where nodes share your data, is based on reciprocal sharing, you share theirs and they share yours. If they don’t share any more (there are checks) you just ditch the deal and ask for a new deal with another node.

With over sharing (default is you share your data with 10 other nodes, sharing their data) this should both make bad nodes a no problem, but also make for good uptime and takedown safety.

This system also makes it scalable infinitely node wise, as every node does not need to know all other nodes, just enough for their need (for example thousands out if millions of existing nodes).

To share lots if data, you need to bring enough storage and bandwith to the table because it’s reciprocal, so basically it’s up to your node how much it can share.

Big data sets are always complicated because of errors and long download times, I have done 300MB files without problems, but the download process sure can be made better (with parallel downloading for example and better error handling).

I haven’t worked on sharing way bigger datasets, even a simple terabyte is a pita to download on the regular internet :-) and the use case is more the idea of sharing lots of smaller data, like a website for example, or a chat.

What do you think, am I missing something important? Or of course if you have other questions please do ask!

Also, sorry I’m writing this on my mobile so it’s not very well written.

Edit: missed one question; getting the data is straight forward to use (a bit complicated how it’s handled because of the changing nature of things) but when you download, you have the addresses of the nodes sharing your data so you just connect to one of them and download it (or the next if the first one isn’t up etc and so on). So that should not be any kind of bottleneck.

I write my specs in C++

Okay here it goes!

Tenfingers sharing protocol & python implementation (your python needs cryptodomex, or use the frozen executables).

http://tenfingers.org

You share theirs, they share yours (all encrypted)! So no benevolent nodes or crypto and it’s 100% decentralised.

I’m working on a better documentation on how to set it up (just forward a port and run setup basically).

Would you be interested in a similar protocol that supports more things (and is IMO easier to set up)?

Yeah it’s basically a benevolent-store-static-data, where static is you cannot change it (or you have to upload new data and make a new link to it).

Cool name though.

You are allowed to say fuck here.

Runescape is nice and all but it’s not WoW IMO.

Thanks!

I played it a looong time ago, mined a lot lol.

Tried it later and it was more 3D-ish and I didn’t like that very much.

Any idea which one I should try out?

Cheers!

So a reasonably expensive one I guess, which would be fair I think.

Well spotted!

Maybe I have only used crappy ones in AirBnBs who stopped working if a drop of water touched the plate…

I hate induction with a passion, beep boop it doesn’t work because a drop of water, you can’t put anything on it, the controls are obnoxious and you have to change at least some cookwear.

I love gas, sure it’s more a preference than logic but it’s so snappy ! Turn the button and you have 5000watts of heat, no long click this, short click that, and when done, just turn the knob.

Now, it has drawbacks like when it’s windy, it does get super hot etc. but I’d get hologen (with knobs) before any induction.

/Rant off

Isn’t it a pseudo rogue like? Like you (have to) upgrade your ‘village’?

If it’s the game I found it quite tedious(haven’t voted up or down).

I built my own because they were quite expensive, lots of fun but very little real use at all. I’m planning on reviving it because it’s lots of fun to tinker with.

Hell yeah! 💖💖💖

Knee high socks are for any Linux flavour 💖

Look boss we have ‘engagement’ up 700% now! Everyone looks at the video!! Well, at least 5 to 15 seconds it seems but not more hmm gotta fix that too now…