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bouncepaw 🍄

Append-only systems are wrong. If something has been added, it should be possible to remove it.

Am I right that IPFS is an append-only system? If so, then I don't like it. Git also encourages append-only workflow. Luckily, it has --force that lets me fix my three mirrors.

5 Nov 2022 at 19:13 | Open on merveilles.town
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Lykso

@bouncepaw IPFS is content-addressed. So, changing the content changes the address. There's some sort of DNS-like called IPNS which allows for mutable named pointers, so to speak. I don't think *that* is append only, but I'm not terribly familiar with it.

5 Nov 2022 at 20:14 | Open on tiny.tilde.website
अनीश

@bouncepaw I'd like to challenge the notion that append only is wrong

you can't undo words, you offer an apology
you can't undo broken, you replace or fix
you can't undo creation, only reaffirm it was better than nothing

append only is the default state of reality, and the magic of thinking sand has conned into thinking otherwise

append only as a way of being is generally better imo

6 Nov 2022 at 2:34 | Open on merveilles.town
Felix

@bouncepaw That's why I hesitated to use Fossil for the longest time, despite liking it otherwise. But their reasoning for going that way convinced me. It can be done right.

15 Nov 2022 at 17:47 | Open on wandering.shop
bouncepaw 🍄

@felix oh, so Fossil is immutable? Didn't know that. My hesitation is their lack of mobile UI for the web tool.

15 Nov 2022 at 18:53 | Open on merveilles.town
Felix

@bouncepaw Commits are, other things not so much.

15 Nov 2022 at 19:05 | Open on wandering.shop
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@bouncepaw it has an option to purge data, but it's intended to be used only in case of, for example, accidental leaks of sensitive data or in similar situations.
@felix
16 Nov 2022 at 5:28 | Open on pleroma.aaoth.xyz
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