Strypey

"'The Cloud' emits somewhere in the vicinity of 2% of the world's carbon - that's about the same as the airline industry - with Australian data centres ranked among the worst in the world."

#JadeAmbrose, 2026

https://tv.lumbung.space/w/aebd157e-ad49-4ce6-b761-bd06fda6962d

So ... why is any organisation in Aotearoa *not* run by climate change ignorers still hosting online services offshore, especially in Oz? Including our government FFS!

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#talks #ConferenceTalks #ClimateChange #CarbonEmissions #DataCentres #NeighbourhoodFirst

Neighbourhood-First Software: the open web without expecting everyone to self-host - Jade Ambrose

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Show threadStrypey10h ago

We can, as a country, develop a strategy of repatriating all our data. Hosting it instead in;

1) onshore datacentres, run off the national grid, which is about 85% from renewable generation and climbing;

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/building-and-energy/energy-and-natural-resources/energy-statistics-and-modelling/energy-publications-and-technical-papers/energy-in-new-zealand/energy-in-new-zealand-2025/electricity

2) onshore datacentres with inbuilt renewable generation (eg solar panels on the roof) and large scale storage filled from it, and if topped up from the grid, at off-peak times

3) Neighborhood-first hosting; https://tv.lumbung.space/w/aebd157e-ad49-4ce6-b761-bd06fda6962d

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#hosting #RenewableEnergy

Electricity | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Low hydro inflows and lower gas supply saw an increase in coal use for electricity generation in 2024. At the same time, increases in wind, solar, and geothermal generation capacity helped offset the drop in hydro generation, with 85.5% of electricity generated in 2024 coming from renewable sources.

Show threadStrypey2h ago

"Our current main version of LoRes Node is using P2Panda 0.4, and meanwhile the Panda folks have gone off to attempt to battletest as part of a grant to develop Reflection, which is a local-first text editor for GNOME ..."

#JadeAmbrose, 2026

https://
tv.lumbung.space/w/aebd157e-ad49-4ce6-b761-bd06fda6962d

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#P2P #BleedingEdge #LoResNode #P2Panda #GNOME #Reflection

Show threadStrypey2h ago

"But as part of making Reflection work, they found significant problems with some of the core building blocks of P2Panda. So they've basically replaced the key networking, discovery and sync libraries - almost completely rewritten them. So Reflection is using unreleased and rapidly changing versions of those, which haven't seen their APIs stabilising, perhaps until the last week."

#JadeAmbrose, 2026

https://
tv.lumbung.space/w/aebd157e-ad49-4ce6-b761-bd06fda6962d

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Show threadStrypey2h ago

"So this is why the P2P stuff is in that fun and edgy box ..."

#JadeAmbrose, 2026

https://
tv.lumbung.space/w/aebd157e-ad49-4ce6-b761-bd06fda6962d

Always has been, always will be, bleeding edge and unstable.

Yes, this is a bold claim to make about the *entire category* of pure P2P software. But I'm making it, based on a long history of seeing this projects promise the moon and deliver dust and ashes, right back to testing Speak Freely late nineties, and Freenet in the early noughties.

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Show threadStrypey2h ago

I recently started drafting a Disintermedia blog post about my observations from almost 3 decades of watching people try and fail to develop production grade pure P2P software; apps that use no servers whatsoever.

This started with braindumping a list of projects off the top of my head, checking what years they started development, and making a timeline. Then I decided this timeline would be worth sharing, separate from the blog post, so I started a page here;

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Pure_P2P_Graveyard

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Pure P2P Graveyard - P2P Foundation Wiki