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Veilid (en.m.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 day ago by TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Veilid is a peer-to-peer network and application framework released by the Cult of the Dead Cow on August 11, 2023, at DEF CON 31. Seems more promising than I2P.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there are alternatives. Matrix, Zulip for chatting and the entire fediverse for forums and micro-blogging. But they chose big-tech corp #321 and big-tech corp #123 👍

At least they're on Gitlab. I'll give them that.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gitlab is also a big corp

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Gitlab = Big Tech? Dude, you have got to be kidding me.

Financially, the year was also marked by record performance. We delivered over $245 billion in annual revenue, up 16 percent year-over-year, and over $109 billion in operating income, up 24 percent.

Microsoft. 228k employees

Fiscal Year 2024 Highlights:

  • Total revenue of $579.9 million

Gitlab. 2.1k employees

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So then do you define a company with 400 million annually and over 2K employees as Medium Tech? Because that ain't no mom-and-pop tech shop seeking to undermine the status quo, that's got to be in the top 10 companies in that space. Obviously MS and Atlassian are bigger, but gitlab is like number 2 for git!

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 18 hours ago

Big tech

Big Tech, also known as the Tech Giants or Tech Titans,[1] is a grouping of the largest IT companies in the world. The concept of Big Tech is similar to the grouping of dominant companies in other sectors

I don't know what Gitlab is, but if you look at the "smaller big tech companies" list, Adobe is the smallest on there with 17 billion in revenue as of 2022, which is ~34x that of Gitlab today. It's probably on the larger end of medium sized companies, but that's very fluid.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't say 'big tech' I said 'big corp'

Regardless, 'big tech' isn't really a thing its just a buzzword used by the media to describe parasitic capitalism that uses computers

Also gitlab can afford billboards along the 101 in the middle of SanFrancisco so yeah they suck