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Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Uds, shm, fuse for ipc. Ini for configs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what language am i reading?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Unix domain sockets, shared memory (classic and/or over anonymous file descriptors), file system in userspace, the (ms) ini format.

Was going to sleep when i wrote that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

IPFS I'm really glad things like nerdctl and guix support it, but I wish more things too advantage of the p2p filesystem.

Petals.Dev and hivemind ml P2P AI inference and training seem like the only true viable options to make foundational models that are owned soley by authoritarian government s and megacorps.

Matrix for federated general real time communication. (Not justs chat, video, images, but just data, with third room being on the cooler demos for what is possible)

Activity Pub for asynchronous communication between servers. The socialmedia aspect is obviously the focus and the most mature, but I'm also excited for things like Forgejo (Codeberg.org) and Gitlab's support.

I am also excited for QUIC for increased privacy of metadata and reduction of network trips.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've been playing with MQTT on meshtastic. I really hope LoRa and meshtastic continue to grow.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wish the protocol used by Hotline Client took off, it was basically Discord in the 90s with its support for announcement/news posts and file sharing

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

matrix, or at least interop standards for online communications. It's such bullshit that you make a shitty chat app, and just because it's free and relatively featured, become the single existing monopoly of chat applications.

Like idgaf as long as i can host a bridge between discord and matrix or some shit, and you technically can, but it's a right pain in the ass to do so.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

NBD (Network Block Device), it's like a remote hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m really into CloudEvents because I love event-driven systems, and since events can come from, or be consumed by, so many different services, having a robust spec is super duper useful.

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