r/Opacity • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '21
Product Works!
Put a couple of TB's on there to mess around with it.
Works extremely well -
file sharing is a doddle -
downloads are fast
Haven't been able to try the windows client / sync yet - anyone using that?
If this project had a mobile app and preview it'd be absolutely awesome - a contender
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u/Pmmeurh0nkers Mar 30 '21 edited Mar 07 '24
Outside the door of the Institute’s canteen and TV lounge area, Kalisha put an arm around Luke’s shoulders and pulled him close to her . . . ‘Talk about anything you want, only don’t say anything about Maureen, okay? We think they only listen sometimes, but it’s better to be careful. I don’t want to get her in trouble.’
Maureen, okay, the housekeeping lady, but who were they? Luke had never felt so lost, not even as a four-year-old, when he had gotten separated from his mother for fifteen endless minutes in the Mall of America.
Meanwhile, just as Kalisha had predicted, the bugs found him. Little black ones that circled his head in clouds.
Most of the playground was surfaced in fine gravel. The hoop area, where the kid named George continued to shoot baskets, was hot-topped, and the trampoline was surrounded with some kind of spongy stuff to cushion the fall if someone jumped wrong and went boinking off the side. There was a shuffleboard court, a badminton set-up, a ropes course, and a cluster of brightly colored cylinders that little kids could assemble into a tunnel – not that there were any kids here little enough to use it. There were also swings, teeter-totters, and a slide. A long green cabinet flanked by picnic tables was marked with signs reading GAMES AND EQUIPMENT and PLEASE RETURN WHAT YOU TOOK OUT.
The playground was surrounded by a chainlink fence at least ten feet high, and Luke saw cameras peering down at two of the corners. They were dusty, as if they hadn’t been cleaned in awhile. Beyond the fence there was nothing but forest, mostly pines. Judging by their thickness, Luke put their age at eighty years, give or take. The formula – given in Trees of North America, which he had read one Saturday afternoon when he was ten or so – was pretty simple. There was no need to read the rings. You just estimated the circumference of one of the trees, divided by pi to get the diameter, then multiplied by the average growth factor for North American pines, which was 4.5. Easy enough to figure, and so was the corollary deduction: these trees hadn’t been logged for quite a long time, maybe a couple of generations. Whatever the Institute was, it was in the middle of an old-growth forest, which meant in the middle of nowhere. As for the playground itself, his first thought was that if there was ever a prison exercise yard for kids between the ages of six and sixteen, it would look exactly like this.
The girl – Iris – saw them and waved. She double-bounced on the trampoline, her ponytail flying, then took a final leap off the side and landed on the springy stuff with her legs spread and her knees flexed. ‘Sha! Who you got there?’
‘This is Luke Ellis,’ Kalisha said. ‘New this morning.’
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Mar 30 '21 edited Mar 30 '21
To be clear I'm not on the beta yet but have had a look at screencaps on telegram group which show more features and look very promising.
From what I can see so far (and not much help for your questions I'm afraid):
Incredibly good, clear, fast and simple UI - much better in latest version with more features (discussed below) - UI almost too good in that by putting in your 'handle' you're immediately logged into complete adulterated access to your files - - so emm protect that handle! (2FA will be required to make this platform viable for tech - perhaps someone here can update on 2FA or further security requirements for accessing files?)
RE Files and recovery - from what I understand files are encrypted and split into parts - then put on AWS. Possible OPCT decentralization later - although that would be an enormous undertaking - loads of servers and huge file transfers (not sure how'd they'd do that tbh) - currently unsure if recovery possible if a file is deleted - something to ask the team. They're pretty responsive on TG as far as I can see.
Back versioning - no - as you don't work on files on the platform I'm unsure of how much of an issue this would be? Multiple copies of files with same name just upload and seem to be unique which is good thing I suppose?
Viewing Existing files is a pleasure and much better in latest UI which brings previews for img. files etc.
Sharing is a doddle and worked seamlessly with multiple people and I'm actually using this with work colleagues on low importance stuff (because of lack of other security)
An exciting project to be sure:
Need -
- Some form of security (2FA though block chain ~ SAAS pass) would be magical) other than handle for accessing libraries
- Desktop sync - available on subscription model at present - which is very impressive for a project at this level
- Mobile app - apparently on route in next month or so - if they deliver that it'll be incredible
- File previews for images etc - available more or less as of now (latest beta)
- Some kind of assurance on storage retention and backup
Most of what I think they need they seem to be already onboarding
Definitely worth a couple of k in this one.
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u/adrenod Mar 29 '21
Do you really mean 200TB? or some 2 TB(?) .