tinyzimmer

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I used to particularly enjoy getting banned from subs for being mean - with a link to my comment being a reply to someone calling me an idiot and me telling them why they are wrong.

 

Hey there!

I have this project "Webmesh" that I've been working on for the last month. It is yet another solution providing a zero-configuration WireGuard mesh/VPN solution. Mostly similar to projects like NetZero or TailScale. More infoz is on the project website https://webmeshproj.github.io/.

The difference with this project is I am building it on top of a distributed architecture where state is maintained on each node via Raft consensus. Requests to mutate network state are automatically fielded to the leader node as necessary - and if that node goes away - the network can continue on without them.

Most recently I released a new feature that allows independent meshes to be bridged with each other. An example of what this looks like can be found here https://github.com/webmeshproj/webmesh/tree/main/examples/mesh-to-mesh. It got me realizing that this is becoming a sort of "federated networking" solution. And that immediately made me want to turn to a Fediverse related community to get some feedback.

Excited to hear what you think!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This page aims to cover that (at least for using mTLS) https://webmeshproj.github.io/documentation/using-mtls/ - but you are right - administration docs in general need a lot more love.

EDIT: I've added a link to that page in the part of the insecure "Getting Started" that says "this is insecure don't do it this way". Hopefully that helps people in the right direction a bit more - but I have a long road of more documentation ahead of me.

As always - any and all contributions are welcome :)

 

Hey all

I wanted to show off my new project, webmesh. It's yet another solution for creating WireGuard mesh networks/VPNs between multiple hosts.
It differs from others in that there is a controller-less architecture that maintains the network state on every node via Raft consensus. This allows for any node to become the "leader" should one go away.

More infoz in the README and on the project website: https://webmeshproj.github.io

Excited to hear any feedback :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Except it is encrypted, and pretty secure. That's not really related to the issue. Facebook complied with a subpoena as they are legally required to do so. Signal would have to do the same. The only difference there is that Signal doesn't retain decryption keys for your data so subpoenaing them would be pretty pointless except to prove that some conversation happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If you click your name in the top right you can go to your Profile which has a list of subscriptions as one of the tabs. Also under your settings you can make your home view be just your subscriptions instead of everything.

No way to set newest as default that I'm aware of yet - would be nice because I'm like you in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I respectfully disagree. A sub like AskHistorians generates tons of traffic for the site via google searches alone. It's also got 2 million subscribers that happily remain subscribed for the quality content with all the spam filtered out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

How far is he willing to take this? I mean AskHistorians hasn't gone full NSFW yet - but they are in a protest mode. Albeit one that still will end up producing decent content, just less frequently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are a lot of customizations out in the wild provided as CSS scripts to install with Stylus or JS scripts to install with a monkey plugin.

I'm using this plugin for collapsible comments everywhere right now. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468923-kbin-improved-collapsible-comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm on Linux (Arch with KDE) for whatever that's worth. So I am very likely using different fonts than you. I haven't messed with any of the browser font settings though so those should all be the defaults. Happy to pair with you on this further if you want. Tho not sure the best medium for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not sure honestly. And I reallllly suck at CSS so take what I say and did with a grain of salt. Here's what it looked like before my changes (me replying to you):

I then lowered a few sizes.

        .comment figure > a > .no-avatar {
           //
            border-radius: 5px;
            width: 1.615em !important;
            height: 1.615em !important;
          //
      }

Same for the vote buttons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Pretty slick. The absolute positioning and sizing of the avatars and voting buttons is a little finnicky on Chrome. But tweaking the sizes a bit made it workable.

 

Hey folks. Normally I'd throw this on a few subs on Reddit - but things are really going downhill over there. I've sort of landed on an aspirational project that is the culmination of 4 or 5 different ones I've done over the years and I'm ready to start sharing it with the community.

For lack of a better name, I'm calling it "webmesh" at the moment. It aims to be a WireGuard mesh provider akin to projects like TailScale, OpenZiti, etc - but with a controllerless architecture maintained by raft consensus amongst nodes in the mesh. I'm also trying to avoid implementing custom userspace protocols as much as possible and keep the codebase relatively simplistic by relying on existing kernel technologies and tools.

Short term I could see this turning into a type of SaaS on top of the open-source code (happy to talk to anyone interested in joining on such an endeavour), but I also feel like there is a large amount of potential for standardization of some of the concepts to enable better connectivity across devices at the edge. I don't want this to be Web3 or blockchain or cryptocurrency. But I do think it could become what those things promise (without the built-in financial incentives).
After looking through Lemmy's architecture a bit more - I started getting some wild ideas in that space too, but I would need to write a Rust SDK first.

The project is split across three repositories for now. An API repository containing protocol buffers for the inter-node API and Raft logs. The "node" itself which is the implementation of the API and where the bulk of the documentation/examples/etc resides. And an operator repository where I am putting together a Kubernetes operator to allow bootstrapping meshes on k8s clusters.

Repos are all here: https://github.com/orgs/webmeshproj/repositories

Excited to hear any feedback people might have. Cheers :)

#opensource

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