#gnunet — Public Fediverse posts

@SuperDicq sorry for only mildly related musings: i am curious how #freenet #hyphanet #gnunet would work as a peertube storage. perhaps with caching proxy in front of it, or something along those lines. i guess latency would be main issue.

#GNUnet and #Freenet seem to have similar objectives. Both have been actively evolving lately. Is there a recent technical comparison?

(Linux news in previous posts)

FOSS NEWS

Mozilla is packing new features into Firefox:
https://betanews.com/article/mozilla-is-packing-new-features-into-firefox/

Is Firefox getting a new logo? Mozilla’s socials suggest so…:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/is-firefox-about-to-get-a-new-logo

Signal introduces group member labels, allowing you to specify your role or responsibility:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/signal-introduces-group-member-labels-allowing-you-to-specify-your-role-or-responsibility/

Blender 5.1 Open-Source 3D Graphics Software Released with Many New Features:
https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-1-open-source-3d-graphics-software-released-with-many-new-features

LibreOffice 26.8 To Add A Donation Banner To Its Start Center:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26-Donation-Banner

Mozilla Releases Llamafile 0.10 To Enhance Their AI Offering For Easy-To-Use LLMs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-AI-Llamafile-0.10

Ollama integration brings all models to OpenClaw platform:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/ollama-integration-brings-all-models-to-openclaw-platform/

OpenShot 3.5 is (yet again) the ‘biggest’ and ‘fastest’ release ever:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/openshot-3-5-released

Bitwarden Send improves security with email verification for paid users:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/bitwarden-send-improves-security-with-email-verification-for-paid-users/

SuperTux 0.7.0 Arcade Game Is Out with Complete Level Design, Revamped Graphics:
https://9to5linux.com/supertux-0-7-0-arcade-game-is-out-with-complete-level-design-revamped-graphics

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets easier to use with Steam:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-gets-easier-to-use-with-steam/

OpenTTD devs clarify store changes with Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release as Atari contribute server funding:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/openttd-devs-clarify-store-changes-with-transport-tycoon-deluxe-re-release-as-atari-contribute-server-funding/

GNUnet 0.27 Released For Those With "Some Reasonable Pain Tolerance":
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNUnet-0.27-Released

Immich 2.6 improves map side panel, asset viewer, shared link slugs & presets, and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/immich-2-6-improves-map-side-panel-asset-viewer-shared-link-slugs-and-presets-and-more/

(more FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Firefox #Signal #Blender #LibreOffice #Llamafile #Ollama #OpenShot #Bitwarden #BitwardenSend #SuperTux #RPCS3 #OpenTTD #GNUnet #Immich #Browser #WebBrowser #VideoEditor #VideoEditing #ContentCreation #Gaming #FOSSGame #FOSSGaming #OpenSourceGame #PlayStation #PlayStation3 #FosseryTech

@wuffel Forgejo und so sind schon mal super.

Was ist eigentlich aus #Gnunet geworden?

The November #GNU Spotlight by Amin Bandali is now available! Read it here: https://u.fsf.org/49k #FSF #coreutils #gnuastro #GNUnet

@nextgraph Hi. Is there a comparision with protocol-based and library-based approaches like #GNUNet's?

Every few years I’m setting up #GNUnet to see how it’s evolving, but this iteration of the exercise with 0.25.2 makes me think it’s actually devolving 🤔

The documentation has gone completely out of sync with the tools, many core services had been rewritten from scratch and barely anything works anymore, There seem to be no public nodes on the Internet, last nodes bootstrap was published for 0.22. There seems to be no online community, IRC or Matrix channels etc. Even a 100% private network composed of two isolated nodes only works in basic functionality (gnunet-publish and that would be it).

I would very much someone to come and tell me “no no, it’s actually alive!” but it doesn’t look like that at all, especially when I have comparison against its state a few years.

Lots of brilliant ideas and features are buried in this project, but to be honest it seems like it became an entirely self-focused academic playground suffering from endless feature creep, always unfinished, with no working deliverables.

The October #GNU Spotlight by Amin Bandali is now available! Read it here: https://u.fsf.org/499 #FSF #GNUNet #Marst

@libreinator the GNU Name System, an alternative to the centralised #DNS system that chumma forces us to pay for every domain

It's part of #GNUnet, an alternative stack to whatever we have going today 🌐

https://www.gnunet.org/en/

https://cn.dmi.unibas.ch/en/
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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The Computer Networks Group researches and develops distributed infrastructure for secure communication and computation at all levels of the networking stack. Our past activities include work on sensor networks, autonomic operations of networks, bio- and chemically-inspired networking, as well as mobile code. Currently our main focus is on survivable computing.

https://p2p-basel.org

The aim of the P2P Basel workshop is to bring together researchers and software builders to share insights and collaborate towards the sound and sustainable development of efficient eventually-consistent (offline-first) peer-to-peer systems. Examples of related projects of interest are Secure #Scuttlebutt , DAT/Hypercore , Cabal , #Tox, BitMessage , #IPFS , Socket Supply co., #OrbitDB , Earthstar , Willow , #Nostr , #Holochain , #P2Panda , #GNUnet , #Hyphanet , #Freenet , #Zeronet , #Retroshare , #NextGraph , #Web3 , #serverless , #maidsafe , #matrix , Other P2P projects that are based on stronger consistency models, such as Mass Market are also of interest.

The June #GNU Spotlight by Amin Bandali is now available! Read it here: https://u.fsf.org/47t #FSF #GNUNet #Nettle