I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
Be suspicious of anything that requires a cloud service to operate where the server software is not self-hostable. Especially one that costs over $1000 dollarydoos.
I run into trouble every time I try to use generative AI for something other than generating a vague outline or summarizing some content or translating from some text to another format of text. I just don't think it'll save us from doing the thinking and processing stuff that humans are best suited for. Else you'd spend more time trying to direct it than you would doing it yourself (assuming you could do it yourself I guess?) outside a few small tasks.
Maybe that's a good thing though?
Ok, a question for #database #dbms nerds. Many years ago I worked on a join order optimizer that used a heuristic formula to estimate the number of rows produced by an equijoin, based on the number of rows in the two tables being joined and the number of distinct values in the join keys. This formula came from an academic paper, but I can't remember what the formula was or find the paper. Does this ring a bell for anyone? Boosts appreciated...
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STOP DOING UPDATES
• SOFTWARE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO CHANGE
• YEARS OF PROGRAMMING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PATCHES
• Wanted your software to change anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "INSTALLING SOMETHING NEW"
• "Yes please give me A DIFFERENT UI for no reason. Please LOSE ALL MY SETTINGS and re-enable all the telemetry." - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
I'm finally ready to release my desktop image dithering app, Dithertime! 🌟
It's more accurate, correct, and extensive than any other image dithering software out there. And it's fast too!
I've been working on it nights and weekends for a year, and I'm excited to have created a paid app for the first time.
Check it out at https://makew0rld.itch.io/dithertime 👈
(boosts welcome!)
Wow so exclusive and niche.
hyper://31fcaz66jb57o9pm1gdook8ftni5q13mwhn9jrbx4pgs8kqod6zy/
Working on some digital art. Flashy animations based on my sigils that can only be loaded in Agregore over #p2p protocols.
Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Keep a list of these sites for reference:
Made a demo getting #hypercore working in the latest stable #Godot release and I'm really happy with how the API is looking so far.
https://github.com/HyperGodot/hypergodot2/blob/default/example.gd#L65
Next I'll mess more with getting hyper-sdk to run on the Bare runtime so I can get it into @agregore on Android
Our new NLnet grant is officially signed! We're starting work :) The main focus is:
- Creating materials to support the Forgejo federation implementation
- Documentation for the specification
- Implementing the Vervis backed API in the Anvil frontend
Forgejo could enjoy more Go developers joining the federation team! It might be the best way to contribute to forge federation right now.
--Pere
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.