Ian Preston

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Mathematician/particle physicist turned #privacy researcher. Building a self-authenticating humane social web at @peergos
Websitehttps://ianopolous.peergos.me
Workhttps://peergos.org
Githubhttps://github.com/ianopolous
LocationOxford
Ian PrestonMar 17
There's a new release of @peergos out! This one includes a bunch of optimisations and fixes, like skipping identical remote files during folder uploads, and fixes for the MacOS webview which I broke. Also a Korean translation and support for LibreOffice WASM build.
https://github.com/Peergos/web-ui/releases/tag/v1.21.0
Ian PrestonFeb 24
There's a huge new release of
@peergos
out!
https://github.com/Peergos/web-ui/releases/tag/v1.19.0
This includes "proper" desktop apps, and a user partitioned block store. The latter makes GC scale independently of the number of users on a server. Lots of fixes and optimisations too.
Ian PrestonJan 27
nyckiJan 27

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.

Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the colors they refer to.

It's like a box of Crayola for the internet. Finally, my colorblind self can grab a sample of "dark magenta" that doesn't just look like "grape purple" to everyone else.

The data is freely available as a .txt file under CC0, which I've converted into a .css file here: https://git.hatspace.net/nycki/nycki.net/src/branch/main/static/xkcd.css

so now when I want a color on my website I can just write `color: var(--xkcd-off-white)` or so on. it's really convenient :)

edit: blog post discussing this data in more detail: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

#programming #color #css #website

Show threadIan PrestonJan 27
@mauve Nice post! Then there's
https://peergos.org
with different tradeoffs again. Portable data and identity, and everything E2EE + sandboxed 3rd-party apps.
https://peergos.org/posts/decentralized-social-media
Peergos

Show threadIan PrestonDec 28
@Edent Welcome to Melbourne!
Ian PrestonDec 28
Show threadBearstechApr 7, 2025

🔗 Liens utiles Peergos :

👉 Le projet : https://github.com/peergos/peergos
👉 En savoir plus : https://peergos.org/

GitHub - Peergos/Peergos: A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol

A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol - Peergos/Peergos

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Ian PrestonDec 28
Show threadFabrice DesréOct 27
@sillyz.computer Check https://peergos.org . Great tech, but they are not so good at tooting their horn!
Peergos

Ian PrestonDec 3

RE: https://mastodon.social/@peergos/115656552826914681

Peergos is starting to get quite awesome. It's the only protocol I'm aware of that has
1) portable identity and data
2) portable social graphs
3) private data
4) private social graph
5) private metadata
6) E2EE (private data, even from your PDS)
7) Tamper proof data (even with compromised PDS)
8) Sandboxed apps for adding functionality
9) Apps themselves can be private, and are fully authenticated whether private or public

Ian PrestonNov 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@peergos/115576742148967497

This was super fun. It needed a small extension to cryptree (yes we're still improving our core data structure). Now I can load a directory with 25,000 files from a server in the US in 29s, and most of that 29s could be parallelised with a further cryptree tweak and reduce it to ~12s.

If you want to protect democracy you have to fight surveillance capitalism and defend privacy. Come join us!

Ian PrestonNov 15
Peergos protocolNov 15

We found two subtle bugs that were making p2p http requests flaky. So here's a release with reliable p2p requests! We now also generate thumbnails for video in android sync. This also strips out the last remaining use of the bitswap client. Upgrade now!

https://github.com/Peergos/web-ui/releases/tag/v1.15.0

Release Reliable P2P HTTP requests · Peergos/web-ui

This release make p2p http requests much more reliable. It also removes all remaining client side usage of bitswap, but still enables receiver-side bitswap (the server side will be removed in a fut...

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