Yeah that works. I've done piano, jujitsu, hockey, and half a dozen other things with my kid. If they ask to do something I let them, but make them do a commitment. If they hate it, they can stop when the season is over and try something else. The tricky part is to balance ensuring they learn not to quit just because something is hard, with not making them do something for too long that they've just figured out is not for them. Piano and gymnastics were a big no, while they fell in love with the right jujitsu gym.

Not everything has to be competitive or official either. Like you can just go to the community pool during the summer without joining a swim team. I think some parents forget this, but this was normal for previous generations.

So my kid has a few extra curricular activities and then I also do plenty of activities with them at the house like play chess or card games or whatever. They're also watching some of my old favorite sci-fi shows with me. Nearly all of YouTube kids is steaming garbage designed to turn your kid into a mindless consumer. Netflix kids is pretty good though. There are a lot of shows that have character progression and multi season plot arcs that cover complex subjects. Avatar the Last Airbender is an example of a show I was comfortable with my 7 year old watching without worrying about brain rot. Mind you, I think all screen time needs a limit.

Given the anti Europe stance expressed in the leaked Signal chat [1] any consideration of embedding Palantir in the fabric of European life is to say the least, foolish.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/stunning-signa...

You are right. At the moment, we are an opinionated wrapper, but we take a different approach to discovery than other libp2p-based networks with our custom batman-adv-based neighbor discovery.

Abstractions for collaboration are currently in the works, and we hope to release that soon. The work on consensus has already started. Your suggestions seem all very interesting, and we'll definitely consider them. We are also currently in the process of talking to potential users to build handy and approachable abstractions for them.

I saw that [freenet](https://docs.freenet.org/components/contracts.html) went with CRDTs, but I think they made it too complicated. We were thinking about a graph (or wide-column) with an engine similar to Kassandara and a frontend like (or ideally just) SurrealDB.

I remember that iroh moved away from libp2p when they dropped IPFS compatibility and moved to a self-built stack: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/a-new-direction-for-iroh When we got started, the capabilities of iroh didn't really fit our bill, but it seems like it's time to reevaluate that. As a former contributor to rust-libp2p, I never quite got the frustration with libp2p that many people have, Iroh included, especially since many of the described problems seemed fixable, and I would have preferred if they did that instead, and libp2p remains the shared base people build these things on.

I remember Actyx being a rust-libp2p user, but I wasn't aware that they failed. Do you have more info? How and why? It would be great if we could learn from them.

Grammar will be reviewed ;) thank you!

I don't know how that helps. Watching TV with my kid has been the best way to teach him I've found. There are great videos and shows that you can watch together and then discuss afterwords. Baking videos. Chemistry. Physics. History. Seeing something on TV is great way to fire up the imagination and inspiration for real world activities.

This looks great!

Have you seen the libp2p project? Might help get you pluggable NAT traversal and transport strategies plus peer discovery. We’ve been using rust-libp2p for building an overlay network and have had decent success.

Thank you very much, I've spent a lot of time on them over the past week and am really pleased to hear that you enjoyed them!

Remarkable, up until recently, requests for a new release were somewhat brusquely rejected and marked as spam. e.g.

https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/4315 and https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/4455

I wonder what made the maintainer change his mind.

I know that being a tourist in Canary Islands is fun but is it a good country for a German to move to permanently? Does it have the kind of infrastructure and healthcare Germany has?