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I was encouraged to write a new post as I actually received feedback from a visitor! That was via gopher, which I assumed I would get even less traffic on than Gemini!
Earlier I wondered why my laptop's CPU was running higher than usual. I used *top* to see and saw *ipfs* was using CPU time. I couldn't for the life of me think what that was, so I had a little search.
This now, oddly, reminds me of a time a few years ago. And randomly, on my laptop, the CPU would stay at 100%. It would be fine, then all of a sudden would max out. Again, looking at *top*, I found there were 4, seemingly randomly named processes. They were each running, using CPU time, but they had nonsense names. Like 8 random digits. I tracked the executables down and there were several of these executables in /usr/bin. They were easy to spot as they all had the same modification date. I deleted them and that seemed to solve the problem. I always wish I'd saved one to figure out where it came from and what it did. Probably some sort of bitcoin miner, maybe? I don't know where they came from, I don't run random stuff. And I don't know what triggered them running, because it didn't seem to be happening at start up.
Anyway, somewhat off-topic there...
So I had a search what ipfs was and I did remember reading and installing it. But I don't really remember what it was for or if I still wanted it.
According to the website: "A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open"
I think it's a way of sharing files. And when you download it, you share it too. I guess this would help share a popular file by distributing it in the same way BitTorrent or Freenet do.
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