LWN's guide to 2024

Posted Jan 4, 2024 14:40 UTC (Thu) by timon (subscriber, #152974)
In reply to: LWN's guide to 2024 by spacefrogg
Parent article: LWN's guide to 2024

Your usage of “P2P” seems unusual to me. HTTP is not usually considered a peer-to-peer protocol but a client-server protocol.

> There is absolutely no justification for your trust.

Going with your example of HTTP, of course there is with well-known entrypoints and TLS with root CAs (the last one is a bit problematic, but generally works).

Example:
I know that the home of Linux is at kernel.org, so if I want to get in touch with Linux kernel development, I’d visit https://kernel.org and from there I can find the mainline Linux repository hosted at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

Anyway, everything of what I just said doesn’t mean that we need the quasi-monopoly on code hosting and open-source development that GitHub is.