MaidSafe Dev Update - October 26, 2017

This is the case for secure message transfer where each section confirms message validity.

The routes point is where we used to (still do but wont soon) send messages via various routes, delegating the send to a single node. Then we try each of the next 7 routes. Now the network will use a series of votes between sections to speed up and basically send a smaller amount via every route in parallel, if that makes sense. The routes was delegated sender, new design is all nodes send to all nodes, but only send a vote, not the whole message.

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I understand that a lot of spring cleaning is happening in preparation for the next big milestone but what I’m really hanging out for is a picture of the new headquarters with Maid signage. Please put me out of my anxiety

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There has been pictures posted already as I’m sure you’ve seen, and signage is to come which I think David said.

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Thanks for the recap neo. Impatient me is hanging out to see the interior and Maid signage to show to my friends who still think Maid operates out of a rented flat, due to the Google pointer error. Hopefully it will be a good Christmas present for forum members.

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Haha yeah, imagine the story to the uninitiated when they in the years to come look back over the projects history and read about…moving from the ‘flat’ over into ‘Ayr’.

The project that shaped the digital world which was looked at by most outsiders for many a year as vapourware actually existed the whole bleepin time right in that there Ayr.

You just can’t make that stuff up :rofl:

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Arrr this topic

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We’ve still to start work on the interior @Cryptoskeptic, it’s really a very blank canvas at the moment. We’re currently working on making sure that as we expand globally we maintain consistency across all our sites and we’re working to establish that look and feel at the moment. We will hopefully be able to reward your (im)patience soon enough.

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Nice! Across from a Funeral home, where blockchain is buried…

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@joshuef I don’t have a Dev account so I’ll comment here on the browser choice.

I don’t see a stake holder model and think for the browser in particular there is only one stake holder hence no stake holder model and it is the end user. When we go to use SAFE for our own purposes we are all end users- exceptions will still likely have critical personal end user use cases.

Therefore I care about one critical decentalized feature which I think should be a design principle:

End user retains total unadulterated control over the end user interface.

Default mode allows no manipulation of interface i.e., scrolling, volume, forward and backward and stop load but most critcally nothing modal no graying or locking the number or order of windowing. None of the things that advertisers use to force, coerce or steal attention.
Total control over book marking… on and on all modifications explicit opt in.

As as a regular end user I don’t trust any mainstream browser and dislike them all even Brave which I like the most in a relative sense.

HTTP bridges seem inevitable and they will be problematic. So personally I favor letting go of HTTP as a sinking ship. What is needed is a clean ground up design that adhears to SAFE principles which have evolved beyond the 1960s internet. But to be properly decentralized it has to be in my mind end user centric where the needs of the end user will come before all other use cases. I know to some extent this may imply SAFE OS, because I think also end user retains total control of the hardware. And SAFE can make the integration there as tight as possible because no one will force SAFE to unbundle browser from OS.

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Tell me the invitation code, please!

Go to https://invite.maidsafe.net to claim yours. Make sure to set your IP.

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First get to Trust Level 1 (Basic User) on this forum, then download the browser from maidsafe.net. Then visit invite.maidsafe.net (while logged into this forum).

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As anticipated in the original post, a new release of the SAFE Browser (v0.7.0) has been just published. Please refer to this post for details and instructions to download it.

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Excellent news chaps, let’s hope you can get some outside Dev momentum over there.

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I watched this (and got all excited) because you talked about the maidsafe network as if it already existed. That was in 2013, then you scrapped the whole project and started again with “Rust” I believe?

I joined the forum and have tried some of the demos (the ones where all the uploaded data goes away as soon as you test the next version.

Since then i have moved on to Qubes OS for file security and we now have Dtube.video and dsound.audio which are working after only a month of development.
Great idea guys. A day late and a dollar short - selling all my maidsafe coins - if they were real, they would have disintegrated by now.

Uh, If it were a product that worked. It would be a threat to the powers that be. So it would have to be decentralized and all devs would have to work from different places. THAT LAST THING a decentralized company wants is a CENTRAL location.

I don’t believe this product will ever launch. We needed it badly in 2013 when the Snowden files were all the rage - we still need it. But, sadly there is no maidsafe network. It’s just something that was mentioned 4.5 years ago on Max Keiser.

dtube.video is pretty cool! Didn’t know about it before.

Maidsafe would have been cool but they are wasting the Years of adoption time it needs just developing it.

How would you suggest adopting something which isn’t ready yet?

I suppose Google self driving cars would be cool too, if they didn’t waste years developing them…

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One most regrets the missed opportunities. One day you may be deeply sorry for your safecoins. Even when you leave a project keeps 10%…

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