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"Balkfontein is a small village in Nala Local Municipality in the Lejweleputswa District of the Free State in South Africa. The village houses the "Sedibeng Water" utility that operates a water purification works drawing water from the Vaal River inlet. The small town has residences and facilities, including a golf course, for employees of Sedibeng. References Category:Free State (province) Category:Populated places in the Nala Local Municipality "
"The Flyway Club is a historic shooting club at 221 Marsh Causeway in Knotts Island, North Carolina. Located on more than facing Currituck Sound on the west side of Knotts Island, it is one of the oldest surviving fowl hunting clubs in the state. Its main lodge was built about 1920, and rebuilt in a near replica in 1960 after being destroyed by fire. The lodge also includes a large U-shaped farm building, also built about 1920, that housed the club staff and farming equipment. The club was established by Ogden Mills Reid, and remained in the Reid family until 2013, when it was acquired by the Conservation Fund. Twenty-six acres of the club's property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Currituck County, North Carolina References Category:Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1920 Category:Buildings and structures in Currituck County, North Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Currituck County, North Carolina "
"The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content- addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices. IPFS allows users to not only receive but host content, in a similar manner to BitTorrent. As opposed to a centrally located server, IPFS is built around a decentralized system of user-operators who hold a portion of the overall data, creating a resilient system of file storage and sharing. Any user in the network can serve a file by its content address, and other peers in the network can find and request that content from any node who has it using a distributed hash table (DHT). IPFS was launched in an alpha version in February 2015, and by October of the same year was described by TechCrunch as "quickly spreading by word of mouth." The logo of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has an IPFS hash with the following code: QmRW3V9znzFW9M5FYbitSEvd5dQrPWGvPvgQD6LM22Tv8D. It can be accessed with that hash over HTTP by a public gateway or a local IPFS instance. Design IPFS allows users to not only receive, but to host content in a similar manner to BitTorrent as well. As opposed to a centrally located server, IPFS is built around a decentralized system of user-operators who hold a portion of the overall data, creating a resilient system of file storage and sharing. Any user in the network can serve a file by its content address, and other peers in the network can find and request that content from any node who has it using a distributed hash table (DHT). In contrast to BitTorrent IPFS aims to create a single global network. This means that if user A and B publish a block of data with the same hash, the peers downloading the content from user A will exchange data with the ones downloading it from user B. IPFS aims to replace protocols used for static webpage delivery by using gateways which are accessible with HTTP. Users may choose not to install an IPFS client on their device and instead use a public gateway. A list of these gateways is maintained on the IPFS github page. History IPFS was launched in an alpha version in February 2015, and by October of the same year was described by TechCrunch as "quickly spreading by word of mouth." The Catalan independence referendum, taking place in September–October 2017, was deemed illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain and many related websites were blocked. Subsequently, the Catalan Pirate Party mirrored the website on IPFS to bypass the High Court of Justice of Catalonia order of blocking. Phishing attacks have also been distributed through Cloudflare's IPFS gateway since July 2018. The phishing scam HTML is stored on IPFS, and displayed via Cloudflare's gateway. The connection shows as secure via a Cloudflare SSL certificate. The IPStorm botnet, first detected in June 2019, uses IPFS, so it can hide its command-and-control amongst the flow of legitimate data on the IPFS network. Security researchers had worked out previously the theoretical possibility of using IPFS as a botnet command-and-control system. Other notable uses * IPFS was used to create a mirror of Wikipedia, which allows people living in jurisdictions where Wikipedia is blocked to access the content of Wikipedia. That archived version of Wikipedia is a limited immutable copy that cannot be updated. * Filecoin, also inter-related to IPFS and developed by Juan Benet and Protocol Labs, is an IPFS-based cooperative storage cloud. * Cloudflare runs a distributed web gateway to simplify, speed up, and secure access to IPFS without needing a local node. * Microsoft's self-sovereign identity system, Microsoft ION, builds on the Bitcoin blockchain and IPFS through a Sidetree-based DID network. * Brave uses Origin Protocol and IPFS to host its decentralized merchandise store. * Opera for Android has default support for IPFS, allowing mobile users to browse ipfs:// links to access data on the IPFS network. See also * Content addressable storage * Dat (software) * Distributed file system * GNUnet * ZeroNet References External links * Category:Application layer protocols Category:Computer-related introductions in 2015 Category:Distributed data storage Category:Distributed file systems Category:File transfer protocols Category:Free network-related software Category:Free software programmed in Python Category:Internet privacy software Category:Internet protocols Category:Network protocols Category:Peer-to-peer computing Category:World Wide Web "