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Post #3005549

2026-05-31 11:05 UTC

i wrote a rust microkernel with a federation userspace layer where clusters of trusted machines quietly lend each other idle resources inspired by gift economics. lend your spare capacity, earn the right to borrow. machines find each other automatically on the same network, bond by consent and shared keys, stay fully independent. a solar machine lends freely at noon and pulls back at dusk. computation drifts toward wherever the cleanest cheapest energy is.

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  • @valkyrie@wandering.shop 2026-05-31 11:08

    i don't know that this scales, that it is practical, but it is a thought experiment i believe is worth having that other ways of doing things are possible. systems can find each other via signed beacons if on the same network (lan/wifi/mesh). systems trusting each other is a deliberate human act. the kernel itself is built on a capability-security model where authority flows only through explicit tokens

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  • @floriann@infosec.exchange 2026-05-31 11:07

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop Sounds nice, i'm curious what kernel means in this context. 😊

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  • @haise@tech.lgbt 2026-05-31 14:31

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop this is very cool

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  • @fraggle@social.coop 2026-05-31 15:10

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop great to see people exploring concepts like these. i've always found clustering to be a fascinating concept and it's disappointing to me that it's always been a niche feature that you usually need special patched kernels and such to pull off. really i think it ought to be a standard feature of all operating systems that you can just cluster them and combine many physical computers into a single conceptual one

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  • @valkyrie@wandering.shop starred it on github <3

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  • @elle@weathered-steel.social 2026-05-31 22:55

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop very cool experiment, nice work!

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  • @the_moep@mastodon.de 2026-05-31 23:55

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop Transparently using the resources of my home server or PC from my phone or laptop would be an amazing thing.

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  • @kevm@toot.community 2026-06-01 02:27

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop @Gte@mastodon.social love this so much.

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  • @kworker@kolektiva.social 2026-06-01 03:41

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop this looks pretty cool, is there source available anywhere?

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  • @floe@hci.social 2026-06-01 06:07

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop massively impressive! kudos. 💁🎩

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  • @valkyrie@wandering.shop This is a very nice idea ​:blobcatHappy:​

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  • @valkyrie@wandering.shop I love the idea of swapping memory resources from constrained systems to systems with plentiful RAM. Which begs the question…. Would swapping out pages across the network (say, gigabit) be faster than using local swap backed by the type of flash common to small single-board-computers like Raspberry Pi’s? That is, microSD or eMMC?

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  • @bram@gamedev.lgbt 2026-06-02 08:29

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop super cool! would love to see the code ✨

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  • @wall_e@ioc.exchange 2026-06-02 12:02

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop wow now that's some serious cyber-solarpunk shit 😍 Also counts as art in my book

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  • @praetor@mstdn.social 2026-06-02 19:19

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop I'm not entirely sure this is all that practical in compute environment where everything is using the same power source within the same datacenter. BUT....where this would be absolutely BITCHING (and people like Ubiquity would pay you money for) is in a sort of least-cost-routing scenario for networking equipment. The cost for network links is aggregate, and increases per hop. Network kit eats power whether you want it to or not.

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  • @simonwistow@hachyderm.io 2026-06-06 07:36

    @kitten_tech@fosstodon.org read this, thought of you and some of the things you talked about with Argon

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  • @drwho@masto.hackers.town 2026-06-07 21:54

    @valkyrie@wandering.shop This reminds me a lot of the Soverign Processing project that was around about fifteen years back. Folks ran a BOINC-like daemon which offered a certain amount of processing power, RAM, and storage for helping run workloads for the community.

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