Epherial Hosting
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##This page exists only if someone is looking at it
Hi! Welcome to Ephemeral P2P. Thank you for loading this content. Your browser retrieved it from the browser of someone currently viewing this page. You're now a part of the network and someone who loads this page in the future may get it from you!##How does it work?
At a high level, this is what happens:From the homepage you enter the content you want to share.
- When you submit it, you register the SHA-256 hash of the content on the server.
- Your browser stands by with an open websocket to the server.
- When someone else visits a link "/[sha256hash]", the server tries to retrieve the content from anyone registered with that hash. The server double checks the hash of the content it gets and then passes it along to the new person.
- That new person now registers with the server as someone who knows the content for that hash.
Here's my own page:
So what's the point?
There isn't one.
I was bored and this was a cool waste of a few minutes.
It WOULD become a lot more interesting if you could establish this communication directly between the two browsers (P2P). There's some work being done there, not sure if it's feasible at this point.
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Hmm, platform for new forum software?
It's kind of cool, I don't see any practical applications yet but it's certainly something very different.
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Pointless circlejerking!
Nah, I'm kidding, it's cool. Might be useful for setting things like Opera Unite tried, but this time without browser-specific lock-ins. The only thing I ever used from that was file sharing, but you know what, it was useful at times.
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Implement Discourse on it.
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Still more stable than what we have now!
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http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b6e368d27514fe305ca7dcecc32c0134838?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav
Firefox:
Chrome while firefox open:
http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/c4a87dd1ca8d5b0384255d7ac8c48d378460738a3919bb57e5a0e73d83ea7dbe
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Corporate firewall?
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I'm showing 4 currently viewing.
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TIL: I am not people :(
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But what does it do?
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Well, it's a browser from the guys that make Bittorrent, figure it out.
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I'm going to guess "nothing useful".
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Does anyone else look at
http://project-maelstrom.bittorrent.com/browser-illustration.png
and immediately think
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Google_Chrome_icon_(2011).svg/256px-Google_Chrome_icon_(2011).svg.png
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No. I think
Because it's based on Chromium.
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Everything is Chrome.
Sadly.
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That's not something they seem willing to advertise…
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Everything is Chrome
Except for IE/Edge. I would say except Firefox too, but let's face it, it looks exactly like Chrome, so it may as well be Chrome.
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I would say except Firefox too, but let's face it, it looks exactly like Chrome, so it may as well be Chrome.
Firefox wants to be Chrome. It just doesn't try hard enough.