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mikelewis

(4,540 posts)
7. The Photon Browser: access to Infinite Data
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 07:39 PM
Dec 17
This is the business portal on LinkedIn for the new company I am setting up to let people use my servers.


I had a project that I ran on Glitch awhile back called the Photon browser. It was a pretty simple Peer to Peer app that lets you share your browser with anyone on a User::Node.

Basically, you come to the site, put in a user:pass and if someone gave you that, you're in. If you set it up yourself, you can invite. Pretty basic.

That photon browser will be the node server that will allow you to either curl you data directly or drop it on the static site and forward it via https. The first iteration of my servers requires you to send your data to me and so I am limiting it to 10mb for basic users, 20mb for special token access and then I am launching a crypto-token system where you can pay to build data of any size.

I'm limiting it to 200mb simply because I don't need to waste all that bandwidth. For bigger files, I have a much more robust system that let's my bypass sending the entire payload. It requires that I gain access to your computer and carve out a slice that you can't see or access. That's a pretty significant ask and requires a special security arrangement so that's not a standard feature.

However, if you need to ship packages of data of any size, there truly is not current limit except time. The bigger the data, the longer the process. I assure you, it's not going to take a long time but I'm not building a petabyte worth of data on my servers and then sending it to another site. I rankle at sending 200mb but until I can figure out how not be so intrusive with my other system, 200mb it is and anything else has to be done by contract.

The idea for builds up to 200mb is you will have a up to 10mb for free and then any additional 10mb is 1 token. Simple. The tokens will be cheap and on the Polygon network so it's all blockchain secure. The front end will be on Render.com and you're more than welcome to inspect the html and see that the program itself is completely designed with security in mind.

With the code Jimmy_Carter you will be able to access the 20mb rebuild size for no additional tokens. I will have a link that will help you chunk your data down to 20mb slices but it will take a while to process each slice. I have spent a great deal of time red teaming the shit out of this so if you can figure out how to abuse the system, please do. Anything you can do to break it makes it better... I have swarms of AI looking at every single build.

Also... I'm not into protecting anyone's privacy. If you send me a picture or video or document unecrypted, assume I am showing it to my buddies and body shaming you. I'm not but assume everyone else is. I will ensure your data is zipped and encrypted so only you and possibly a 12th level magic user can unlock. Even I can't unlock it or get it back for you if you lose your ticket.

I do not store your data. I rebuild it like a Minecraft world. If you lose your recipe for your data, I cannot help you. It doesn't exist until you call for it. Talk about crazy!!! But it's totally true...

I want to store hundreds of petabytes of month, I want to compress the world into one stamp and help alleviate some of the ecological damage these massive data centers and GPU farms are causing. They are driving up the costs of energy for the surrounding communities and are an unnecessary blight.

I do understand I am a laughingstock to most people. I expect rudeness and derision. Of course you aren't supposed to believe me... I am banking that you don't. I intend to corner the market on Infinite Data. I am not the only one that can do this... as magical as it sounds it's not magic. It's quantum physics... learn it well enough and you can do it just as easily.

In fact, in time, others will absolutely figure this out. Regardless of what my dog Millie says, I am not the smartest and toughest human on the planet. She's just wrong and I know it. So while you struggle with you're disbelief, I am building the system that will hopefully dramatically reduce the hyperbolic carbon emissions curve these massive megacenters emit.

I will let you all get back to mocking me without having any earthly idea what you're talking about...

Here... start with Shannon's Entropy limit. How do I get past the 8n compression barrier? That's impossible, I have to be an idiot right...

Then try some Kolmogorov when I just stare at you blankly wondering what that possibly has to do with phase space. You show that the system has to be as big as the data that it processes so the bytes cannot be smaller than the system.

And I would simply fire up my computer... take any file.... shrink it down to 300 or so bytes and then rebuild it only from that recipe. You can argue with that all you like. You can curl to it yourself, send petabytes and try to find my hidden servers... Rail at the moon that I'm lying. I don't care. I'm building a business not a concensus.

Customers will use my service because it's faster and cheaper than anything they have now. They will use my servers because they won't want to pay 1000x what they would have to pay with me. But please... continue mocking me... I do so enjoy it.


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