I haven't noticed any bad actor traffic. Perhaps yggdrasil is still too obscure to bother attacking.
The stationary nodes are connected to several public yggdrasil peers that are geographically close by. The routing "just works", though connecting to a peer can take a few seconds, at first.
I share that sentiment. I've thought about combining yggdrasil with garage to create a sort of plug-and-play distributed storage pool shared with a trusted circle.
Though I wonder if the network routing would break down beyond a certain scale, or if it can be resilient against attacks. I don't know enough about the inner workings to be determine the weak points.
There are tipping points, when warming accelerates and becomes irreversible.
There’s some debate in “the science” about how quickly we’ll reach that point. Limiting warming to +2°C was not a scientific position; it was political, based on what people thought was achievable. Before the Paris Agreement, 2° was not considered “safe”.
Anyway, it turns out we’re going to zoom past 2° in the next couple of decades.
Objects in Garage are broken up into 1MB (default) blocks, and compressed with zstandard. So, it would be difficult to reconstruct the files. I don't know if that was a recent change since you looked at it.
Configuration is still through the CLI, though it's fairly simple. If your usecase is similar to the way that the Deuxfleurs organization uses it -- several heterogeneous, geographically distributed nodes that are more or less set-it-and-forget-it -- then it's probably a good fit.
Garage works well for its limited feature set, but it doesn't have very active development. Apparently they're working on a management UI.
Seaweedfs is more mature and has many interfaces (S3, webdav, SFTP, REST, fuse mount). It's most appropriate for storing lots of small files.
I prefer the command line interface and data/synchronization model of Garage, though. It's easier to manage, probably because the developers aren't biting off more than they can chew.
Back then, 10 years of technological advancement made a huge difference. Today, you can get by just fine with a 2016-era laptop.