[sudo-discuss] YaCy in sudo room: I am inclined to set it up

[Anon195714]

Hell yeah!  Double hellyeah!  And another thing to put on CTel "freedom
box" home servers on the mesh.

I'd love to try this. 

(My brain is mushed tonight from a pretty exhausting day in the field,
else I'd say more;-)

-G.


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On 13-04-05-Fri 12:25 AM, Anthony Di Franco wrote:
> Sudo room is a room with a bunch of computer hardware in it much of it
> idle and a community of people many of them not idle many of whom like
> free access to information and privacy-respecting technology and
> social institutions and dislike pervasive surveillance by state and
> corporate actors and oligopolistic private control of vital public
> resources.
> YaCy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy> is a free
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software> distributed search
> engine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine>,
> built on principles of peer-to-peer
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer> (P2P) networks. All
> YaCy-peers are equal and no central server
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29> exists. It can
> be run either in a crawling
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler> mode or as a local proxy
> server <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server>, indexing web
> pages visited by the person running YaCy on his or her computer.
> (Several mechanisms are provided to protect the user's privacy.)
>
> Access to the search functions is
>
> given
>  by a locally running web server which provides a search box to enter
> search terms, and returns search results in a similar format to other
> popular search engines.
> Thoughts?
>
>
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