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Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp


From: Pronaip
Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:19:48 +0000

Hi, not to rain on the parade, but

> -   All data lives in IPFS: no local filesystem, no Guix store.
>     A personal computing device only stores references to information
>     that its owner cares about.
>
> -   All computations are equal: no distinction between "software builds"
>     and everything else.
>
> -   All data comes with provenance tracking:
>     -   computations are tracked via Guix
>     -   human input is logged (interactivity) or version controlled

unless you vision of the distant future somehow also includes most social 
problems having been solved, these would be ripe for abuse by malicious actors.

Not having any local file system is also just plain wasteful.

Your ideas make sense in some environments (eg. tracking what government 
infrastructure is doing) but for personal computers? Come on....



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