[theamk]

despite having "OS" in the name, it has nothing to do with operating systems.

It's a local node.js app you run, which connects to their own mesh network, and somehow fetches the user data from the P2P mesh.

The P2P mesh is supposed to be uniform, "No masters, no workers, no special hardware" - but later in the README, they mention (1) users paying for storage and bandwidth (2) other users hosting the servers at their home using two different hardware classes. So it seems there is a pretty clear client/server distinction - even if the code is identical, the functions are not.

It is not clear how the data is stored - if I add a gigabyte of photos and then close the lid of my laptop, who is storing those? Do I choose specific nodes I trust, or is it assigned randomly? How much so I need to pay them for this? What if they turn off the server, do I lose all the data?

There is your usual "your identity is your keypair" deal, this time they recommend a USB stick for this, created from 24-word keyphrase. The good news is it makes the backup easy. The bad news is anytime you leave it unattended, someone else could copy your keys.

Just like with all other distributed systems of this sort, if you either lose your key (and have no backups), or someone else steals it, you lose control of your account forever and there is no way to recover.

There is its own cryptocurrency (of course!), which you can use to buy "Compute time, Storage, Streaming, Content from creators".

There is AI support of course, you can get paid for providing hardware which can run AI, and you can pay to run your queries on someone else's machines.

[BorgIOS]

It has everthing to do with operating systems. It provide services for security, storage and compute. It also makes a network look like one system to the user

[BorgIOS]

read the shardTree.js file if you want do know how your files is stored

[theamk]

instead of pointing me to 2K lines file, can you answer the question directly?

> if I add a gigabyte of photos and then close the lid of my laptop, who is storing those? Do I choose specific nodes I trust, or is it assigned randomly? How much do I need to pay them for this? What if they turn off the server, do I lose all the data?

[BorgIOS]

files are sharded and hashed then digitally signed by the owner. Next they are broadcasted to the ftree network. Nodes compete with a short POW to store the next shard (the POW is to create randomness not earnings). When shards are retrieved an audit is run to see how many healthy shards are available. if less then 3 copies are found a new shard is automatically created on a another cell. Only one healthy shard is all that is required but 3 are always maintained.

No nodes are trusted they just store shards. To recreate a file you need to have the shard map (the list of the sha256 hashes for each shard). If you want the shards encrypted your client encrypts before the file enters the network and only you can decrypt it with the cypher you stored it with.

[BorgIOS]

regarding the password... what is bad news is that everytime some some big tech company's database gets hacked your credentials get sold on the dark net. Why do they get hacked? because everyone knows they have millions of credentials for the taking. I prefer keeping my credentials on my own machine. If you lose your keys that is on you.