So I was sitting here hacking on adapt2, and so I added a freenet backend to it. (adapt2 is my apt proxy/apt cacher like tool, that doens't suck like they do. it does, howevr, suck in other ways right now, specifically there is a few fatal bugs left in it :-p)
I promptly realised that this was entirely useless, since apt is a shitty of
http client, and times out way before any data is transerred. (my swiss
cheese (so called because it's full of tunnels) connection probably doens't
help there (the node is on a 33.6 modem on the other end of a vpn link over
a 4.5km and a 1.5km 802.11 link :-p), but hey, it's better than what I had a
week ago :-p)
So I thought I'd look for some ideas on how to make it not useless in the
future.
I had this idea that it could insert all of the files that it downloads off the
main internet into freenet, and share it's list of them for other clients,
fmb style with trust metrics and stuff. But then it occoured to me that this
is still entirely useless, because freenet is most likely going to usually
be slower than a non-anonymous implentation of the same thing, and you're
already giving up your anonymity by grabbing packages off the web/ftp site.
Do any of you you have have any ideas on how to make this useful? Am I on
crack any more than usual here?
The official word of the people I live with is that apt-over-freenet is a
completly useless thing to be doing, but I'd like to think that they're
wrong :-p
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