Building native packages is complicated
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Especially if you want a UX as good as Docker images give you.

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This blog post is about Xe’s reasoning for originally only providing docker packages and their work to provide native packages.

    • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      In proof of work, the client performs (relatively) slow & expensive calculations to prove that it’s not spam. If you tried to make too many connections, the work would add up, preventing you from affecting the availability of the service.

      For PoW to work, the server needs to generate a challenge, then the client needs to solve it and return the answer. JavaScript can do this without any input from the user.

      For JavaScriptless PoW, you need to find a way to perform those slow calculations without access to a programming language.

      Like I said in my previous comment, solving the challenge can happen outside of the page, after which the user could paste the answer to a normal HTML form, for example. This allows PoW to work without JS, but requires user interaction & eternal tools.

      I don’t know about Dread, but Tor has built-in PoW now. Since Tor runs outside of the document/tab, unlike JS, it can do a lot more. Tor’s PoW happens invisibly between the network request & response, making it unobtrusive & bypassing JS entirely.