I really like this idea, and kudos to the author for coming up with a pragmatic (if possibly insane) way to get things done... but when I read stuff like this:
> Imagine if you could send git pushes to any of your friends on
> Google Talk or other Jabber (XMPP) servers. Even though you're in
> different places and your computers probably cannot talk to
> one-another directly, you can share a git repository, without
> relying on a git hosting provider such as GitHub.
I really just want to weep. Hopefully some of this will go away with ip6 (no more silly NATing for nothing). Broken networks with asymmetric bandwidth hawked by dying conglomerates protecting their ancient signalling technology (and now antiquated media distribution channels) will haunt us for decades.
I agree of course.. But it's even worse than that. Seems like half the time ipv6 comes up on NANOG, they're talking about the abdomination that is NAT66. (Rest of the time they're talking about NAT46 of course.)
I have little confidence in the Internet's end-to-end routing getting fixed unless and until the Internet backbone itself changes shape to something less conducive to monopoly.
Especially since in practice for most people they'll just be replacing a third party git hub with a third party xmpp server. Which of course is of benefit to those that don't know they might want to have a github/shell account with their own git on it -- but more or less swaps out one problem for another (almost) equivalent problem.
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