since Luke-Jr was part of our club but hasn't actually been seen in a meeting since shortly before Gerald (Combs) moved to California
Ha. I worked for employers with both of those guys. FWIW, we also had a moment of silence for Oren Beck at the meeting.
There was discussion of creating Onion endpoints -- all the instructions regarding those I found (in a rather shallow search) were concerned with HTTP endpoints. What libraries (C or other) does one need to include to create a generic Onion endpoint, without presuming any kind of purpose for it? I understand you get a thin bidirectional stream, semantically similar to accepting a connection on a TCP socket. Am I correct?
· Distributed filesystem ideas, David Nicol walked us through his concept for a distributed file system. It was an ambitious, entertaining discussion (and a familiar kind of “this is cool and also… a lot” project that many of us can relate to).
not just file systems -- arbitrary blobs, including a simple file system abstraction and a general purpose "list of lists of typed scalars" abstraction too, the intended use case for the Content-Addressable Paged Table is public ledgers.
Ledgers.
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