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Introducing Hypermind: A fully decentralized, P2P, high-availability solution to a problem that doesn't exist. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 6 days ago by yodeljunkmanenvy@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm not the creator of this program, but its too fun not to share! The comments from the developer and users joining the swarms on the reddit thread are hilarious.

It's basically a decentralized swarm of docker users. It does nothing except tell you how many other users you are connected to. Some are in the tens of thousands, haha!

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https://github.com/lklynet/hypermind

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[–] jogai_san@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The perfect vector for a nefarious experiment...

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Yes, especially if people use the “latest” tag, trusting whatever the container might be updated to do in the future.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 56 points 6 days ago

Q: Why did you make this? A: The homelab must grow. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Nice.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And here I am making a "useful" p2p decentralised network that has no users, so this is how you get people onboard 😁

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Wish I could find the developer meme of “hey I’m making a neat thing” “a neat thing or critical infrastructure?” “defeated tone critical infrastructure”

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

*crying emoji*

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What are you creating?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The tenfingers sharing protocol, in a nutshell it's free websites / a decentralised file system (FOSS, encrypted, censor resilient, no DNS, no crypto, ...).

Forwart a port to your PC and install a node with a script/simple manual commands/docker image and you're ready to go. But no one does...

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nice - but it's a pretty crowded space between Zeronet and IPFS and possibly others. And even these well-known ones barely see any serious use. And these projects have been promoted pretty heavily. You need fanatical users ;)

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah for sure (Fanatic users come to me!) and I don't have the promotional skill or funds, but Zeronet is a bitcoin horror (IMO) and IPFS is like the grandpa of decentralised sharing, cumbersome and lacking simple things like the ability to update a file.

One day it'll take off because of its ease of use and elegance, that's what I keep telling myself anyways 😅!

[–] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't like those projects either. Scuttlebut and cjdns looked more "profesional" to my ignorant eyes. I bring these up because I'd like to hear your comments. I will check 10fingers now...

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Thanks!!

Cjdns is more of a VPN or some sort of internet communication in itself, so not really a sharing protocol, more like a communication protocol. You could maybe build a sharing protocol on top of it but that has ofc to be done.

Scuttlebut seems to be very interesting, didn't know about that one, thanks for the sharing! I'll have to check it out a bit more thoroughly, but it seems like a sort of IPFS-like at a first glance.

Cheers!

[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You have 128GB of RAM

Who do you think I am, a multimilionaire?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago

Unless you're building just now, those 128GB would've cost very little.

[–] kmoney@lemmy.kmoneyserver.com 19 points 6 days ago

The cheekiness of the github page had me smirking, chuckling, and nodding along the whole way. I of course spun this up immediately along with the Home Assistant integration...the number must go up after all.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There goes my RAM

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 6 days ago

I love the description.

Hey everyone, so you just finished setting up the *Arr stack and your dashboards lookin crisp. But you look at your htop and see... unused RAM. It’s disgusting, isn't it?

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I left it running for like 2 hrs and it's used up 150GB of ICMP????? 

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Working perfectly then

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 2 points 6 days ago

I left it running for like 2 hrs and it's used up 150GB of ICMP????? 

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is awesome! I'm now using the swarm to control my living room lights.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It does nothing except tell you how many other users you are connected to.

.......but why?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fun :(

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That's cool. I can tell you there are 700+/- different entities traversing the edge router of my network or at least vying for a slot. I'm not sure about adding 41,840 more. LOL

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Installed, still have free RAM... I think I did something wrong...

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Launch multiple?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago

I don't run any containers and this made me consider trying to get the whole infrastructure setup 😁

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 6 days ago

Surely when number goes up far enough, it magically gains sentience and godlike powers

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Based

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

Autobots, assemble!

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Sounds like it's time to fire up another dedicated VM