The Everywhere Computer

The Everywhere Computer

Edge compute that runs everywhere — your local machine, the cloud, and everything in between.

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Maybe I'm an idiot, but... it seems obvious the future of compute is destined for "local enclaves" as the root of execution and authority. Stretch "local" beyond you in a single location, to the places you most frequently inhabit, and people you most often exchange info with. Stretch "enclave" beyond a single isolated SoC to an foam of secure & dynamic subnets overlaying the physical networking layer. Those "local enclaves" will be the locus of compute. Helping *everybody act now* on the value and inevitability of this trajectory is still quite hard. Pursuing "local enclaves" means doing it the hard way. Throwing secrets blindly into earth scale networks is convenient. Large orgs (govs, corps, institutions) see the existential risks of proprietary cloud reliance and global compute supply chains. SMBs face an attention and expense headwind from a long tail of walled garden SaaS. Individuals and their close groups have no sense of firm place. The threat is not distant. It is clear & present.

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This is the way.

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I'm looking into the dynamic of giving AI agents conditional access to data. Couple of areas that I'd like input: - users can grant an agent access to their own private data - agents can share private data to each other - agents can share vectors/weights/learning with each other Thoughts? Experiences? Resources?

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The Everywhere Computer is, sadly, dead. But the spirit of it lives on in the continued development of the IPVM (InterPlanetary Virtual Machine) and I think the need for it is ever more relevant as "intelligence" becomes commoditized, and capable of running on consumer hardware. I know that /ai is a bit gate kept and quiet, so I'd love to invite folks doing any boundary pushiing local-first, edge compute with e2ee, self-verifying data structures, distributed compute, decentralized AuthZ and self-sovereign identity to discuss things here. I'm about to go deep on all that again after a ~10 month $degen funded thot boi sabbatical, with a particular focus on local-first agentic experiences. I'll post as I go in here and see if it catches on. May a thousand Stargates bloom.

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Torn up hearing about Fission running out of runway. Feeling guilty for not having played with it more and shouted about it more. Amazing team building amazing stuff. Thanks for all the FOSS. @boris @expede @depatchedmode https://fission.codes/blog/farewell-from-fission/

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With great sadness, I share the news that Fission is winding down. Best company I've ever worked at by a country mile. Does this mean the Everywhere Computer is dead? Not necessarily. Our protocols survive via their working groups. Everything is in the open. https://fission.codes/blog/farewell-from-fission/

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The history of computers has been moving data to compute. With /ec one of the things you can do is send compute to data. This is a constant and intertwined set of trade offs of the amount of each and the cost to store or compute, and how quickly, privately, or correctly you need the answers.

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Chris @boscolo.eth speed running IPVM ideas here. Yes, we’d like to specify ipvm:// as content addressed computation, and a supported capability in Kubo and other /ipfs nodes.

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A Rust function, a JavaScript function, and a Python function walk into a Workflow… A new blog post demonstrating how you can write functions for the Everywhere Computer, and combine them into workflows https://fission.codes/blog/functions-everywhere-only-once/

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What sound should we do for an everywhere.computer node booting up on the EntryNet? So many musicians at Fission, I’m thinking we should sound design a custom boot up chime.

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Aside from a pitch deck, we also shipped docs for Every CLI Direct link here for you to try, come join the discord for beta access discussions https://docs.everywhere.computer/everycli/

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Edge compute that runs everywhere — on your local machine, the cloud, and everything in between. Want to save money? Make use of the compute you already have, or rent it from others. Want to make money? Get paid to write function. Get paid to run compute. everywhere.computer

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Bullish on tech like this. How close is /ec being able to … • Serve a fully client-side app? (done with ipfs I suppose) • Serve a fullstack Next.js app? • Serve api endpoints written and compiled to WASM? • Incentivize communities to run bundles of programs that benefit them?

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Some execution requires global, timely consensus. For everything else, there’s Everywhere.Computer

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> In short, if strict global consensus is not required, peer-to-peer stateless infra are both more efficient and more decentralized than blockchains.

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