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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

62 points by lftherios 4 hours ago | 8 comments

jgtrosh 3 hours ago

I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals).

The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere?

I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and could explain why this was posted to HN.

dmos62 2 hours ago

Radicle is pretty cool.

> Radicle’s Collaborative Objects (COBs) provide Radicle’s social primitive. This enables features such as issues, discussions and code review to be implemented as Git objects. Developers can extend Radicle’s capabilities to build any kind of collaboration flow they see fit.

lorenzleutgeb 2 hours ago

For the reason of hbsd moving, see https://bsd.network/@HardenedBSD/116437657126172879

hobofan 5 minutes ago

So instead of their self-hosted Gitlab instance being hammered, now their self-hosted Radicle instance will be hammered (and if they are lucky some of the other seeders will tank some of the load)?

I'm not sure that this will actually solve the problem. This seems more like a facade for a move they wanted to do anyways.

ramon156 2 hours ago

In this scenario, how does p2p compare to ATProto? The downside of both is that you still need high available servers

fc417fc802 60 minutes ago

I don't think so? In the case of p2p (including radicle) you can run multiple not-so-reliable nodes. Of course that won't work for serving up a web frontend but that's distinct from the git repo itself.

chungy 49 minutes ago

Is Radicle an alternative to Fossil?

csomar 3 hours ago

This is what I am getting

> Could not connect to rad.hardenedbsd.org The node may be offline or the address may be incorrect. Select a different node to continue.

LuckyBuddy 2 hours ago

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