From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pronaip Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:19:48 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87ef4g2zfq.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Reply-To: Pronaip Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34323) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXpvZ-000889-70 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:35:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXpgp-0001Qx-H2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:20:04 -0400 Received: from mail-40133.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.133]:36757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXpgp-0001J6-21 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:20:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Konrad Hinsen Cc: Guix-devel 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 p= roblems having been solved, these would be ripe for abuse by malicious acto= rs. Not having any local file system is also just plain wasteful. Your ideas make sense in some environments (eg. tracking what government in= frastructure is doing) but for personal computers? Come on....