On: 2020-12-06 -
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If you are using Orion, Siderus’ IPFS desktop
client, you might have noticed that the app has not received any update during
the last year.
Around a year ago, after noticing an extensive amount of misusage of our IPFS
Gateway to share illegal content, I have decided to redirect the traffic to the
official IPFS Gateway. We took down the servers and IPFS nodes and gateways from
every continent.
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On: 2020-08-02 -
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I have the feeling that a blog post about distributing packages is needed. 😮
In a word filled with Containers, PaaS, and SaaS, it seems weird to talk
about how we can automate the creation of Debian packages and APT repositories.
Nonetheless, even if this appears to be a forgotten step for operations, some
projects are not distributed over Debian packages, 👷♂️ and I need them for my
Raspberry Pi! 😜
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On: 2020-06-01 -
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All static websites meet a hard limit when a comment form, “like” buttons, or
any interactive content is required. These extra components force people to
build an API, host a server, a database or pay for any SaaS product that does
that… we could write a blog post about that, but it would be too easy! 🤣
Instead in this article, I wanted to challenge myself a little more and explore
how to make a decentralized like button: We will try how it is to not be
hosting any server or database, and instead use a p2p networks and a
decentralized database to count the likes. 👍
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On: 2018-05-29 -
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The journey that I have decided to take with Siderus brought myself always in embarrassing moment on meetings Hyped discussion about “Blockchain” and data storage. In this article I don’t want to talk about the misconceptions about storing data into a blockchain, but instead I want to focus on a more generic question that I have been asked: Is a blockchain useful for human being? Can we use it for good?
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