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Pure-webapp DAT: is it possible?

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I gravitated towards DAT because it looked technically superior to IPFS, which looked technically superior to BitTorrent, for doing peer-to-peer file transfer. However, I'm currently writing a pure _webapp_ (runs...

James-E-A

I recently discovered dat and dont fully understand how dat protocol works so please forgive me if I come off as ignorant. My question is regarding file discovery using dat...

congruentsquare

[NGI0] - Updating licensing aspects according REUSE

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Hello, aligned with the NGI0 initiative, I'd like to propose the adoption of REUSE specifications for improvement of copyright and license displaying. The [REUSE](https://reuse.software) specifications intend to make licensing easier,...

lucaslasota

Current chunking: content-aware? de-duped?

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Three questions about the current/stable dat client and ecosystem library behavior: 1. are imported files chunked in a "content-aware" way, eg using Rabin fingerprinting? I've seen mention of this in...

bnewbold

Trying to emulate Dat network in mininet.. Though Dat can be accessed from different hosts.. not able to mimic a network.. any inputs.? I have assigned the hosts the ip...

deepakedayillam

Documentation on NAT traversal and firewall issues

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Yesterday I answered a question on stackoverflow named [Fully Decentralized P2P](https://stackoverflow.com/a/45323665/8295283): > I’m looking at creating a P2P system. During initial research, I’m reading from **Peer-to-Peer – Harnessing the Power...

aschrijver

Doesn't DAT Need Official HTTPS Gateway?

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IPFS has a https-gateway used as `https://ipfs.io/ipfs/\`. The existence of such gateway gives the following benefits: 1. Search engine crawlers may access these pages. 2. Users may access ipfs/dat pages...

ilyaigpetrov

Concept: DAT over HTTPs

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@dkastl went to a conference at a university campus and he had to sign a paper stating that "by accessing this network you will not use any p2p software such...

martinheidegger

Issues with “Why not just use git?”

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_From @wking on June 2, 2014 22:30_ [In the what-is-dat docs](https://github.com/maxogden/dat/blob/master/docs/what-is-dat.md#why-not-just-use-git) you list some reasons to not use Git: > - Large numbers of commits add significant overhead. A repository...

joehand

Astronomy use case: Trillian

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_From @demitri on August 26, 2014 23:23_ ### Trillian Data Needs This document will describe the data needs in detail for the [Trillian project](http://trillianverse.com). Trillian is an attempt to address...

joehand