Hey Arne, Thanks for looking into this. This project is really cool and promising.
Hope I can give it a try soon. Keep up the good work! Best regards On 2022-08-17 22:20, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > > infocalypse is the awesome code-over-freenet tool created by djk > and turned into an actual social coding tool by Steve (operhiem1), but > it has been broken in Python 3 for many years. > > Last weekend I bit the bullet and spent a day (well, an evening, a night, > and a day) to get the minimal roundtrip working again: clone your code > to Freenet, clone back to the local computer, commit, and push it back. > It was lots of annoying string-to-byte and byte-to-string handling, but > it got into a minimally working state! > > Then Debora took it up and fixed fn-setup which creates your local > infocalypse environment (I still had mine around so I didn’t hit that > while testing) and sent a bundle with the changes over FMS. Thank you! > > Infocalypse is not yet fixed completely, but its core workflow is > operational. (with WoT and without WoT) > > > We have a working code-over-freenet system again! > > > If you want to try it, first install: > - Mercurial https://www.mercurial-scm.org > - pyFreenet3 (pip3 install --user pyFreenet3) > > Then get infocalypse and set it up: > hg clone hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/infocalypse ~/infocalypse > hg -R ~/infocalypse update py3 > echo "[extensions] > infocalypse = ~/infocalypse/infocalypse > " >> ~/.hgrc > > > Then try the roundtrip: > > # variables for the run, choose a WoT ID of your own > export WOT_ID=ArneBab > export UUID=$(uuidgen); > > # create a new repository > rm -r /tmp/infocalypse-* > hg init /tmp/infocalypse-revived > cd /tmp/infocalypse-revived > echo "Follow the white rabbit" > looking-glass.txt > hg ci -Am "infocalypse" > > # clone to Freenet and get it back > hg clone . freenet:${WOT_ID}/infocalypse-revived-$UUID > hg clone freenet:${WOT_ID}/infocalypse-revived-$UUID > /tmp/infocalypse-averted > > # do a change and push it into Freenet again, this time without WOT > cd /tmp/infocalypse-averted > echo "One pill makes you larger" >> looking-glass.txt > hg ci -m "And one pill makes you small, so you can roundtrip" > hg clone . USK@/infocalypse-averted > > > I’m really happy that infocalypse works again! > > This gets us one step closer to self-sufficient development: Freenet > development could now be done by a group of pseudonymous people. We can > already release updates when all our centralized infrastructure is down > (if we decide to ship the old windows installer and let Windows boxes > update over Freenet; Microsoft requires centralized signing), now we can > actually do development over Freenet again. > > We don’t yet know whether it will work with larger repositories like > fred (it used to, but back then the network was 3 times larger), and > we’ll have to check and possibly fix hg fn-reinsert so all contributors > can keep the repository working, but we finally have that in place > again. > > > A foundation of real information freedom in the internet — safe against > censorship by threat and by harassment and by flooding with noise. > > > Imagine a group of hackers living in remote or citybound meshnets, > connecting with solar-powered nodes to their friends while using their > pseudonymous developer IDs to check on pull-requests and merge their > work until they have a release they can insert to auto-update. > > Known to the community for the good work they have been doing on Freenet > in the past, an unbound focus of Freenet development. > > > Best wishes, > Arne
