Neat, the new node:net/promises API looks convenient! In general being able to for await a stream feels clean to me. Also, we have built in Websockets now?!
https://nodejsdesignpatterns.com/blog/whats-new-in-nodejs-27/
@heapwolf SSB was similar to this and I think it did a decent job of preserving social context! I keep getting the urge to recreate it but with indexed B+ trees instead of oplogs for the base data layer so that initial load is actually fast :P
gripes about matrix protocol
@akhileshthite If peerchat had a bridging ecosystem to all the apps I need already, maybe :P
@mauve as someone who started online in the early 2000s: we had (semi)centralised spaces and connections born on-platform. But thinking of something like Livejournal, you didn't have a global timeline exposing you to everything anyone was posting.
In other places (thinking of Deviantart) where you had that exposure, the context was still present because the community was small (to today's standards) and very focused. I guess the same would apply to forums of the time.
First social networks I saw (Friendster, Orkut, MySpace) were weird to me because they didn't seem to have a point. No focus like "this is a community about a topic" or "this is place to blog", but just "this is a place to have a profile and friend other profiles".
A nice thing about the Fediverse is that it brings back, in some places, this "topical community" thing with servers, and a nice middle ground between small (server) and wide (fediverse)
@yhancik yeah, I get that. It's complicated. IMO this is one of the issues with centralized spaces. IMO it'd be nice if the onboarding was more organic based on attaching onto social connections that are established off platform rather than getting exposed to large volumes of low context info.
@yhancik Oh? tell me more.
@roknrol that's a fun idea. Social extortion. I think "be blocked by B until you block A" would be less friction. I'll make sure to add it the next time I make a new social media platform. :P Maybe only notify users following A to keep the spam down.
This is kind of how fedi blocking works already (which I like), but that breaks down more with large instances that lose social context between users. IMO >1000 active users is when the context collapse muddies enough that individuals can't expect to trust everyone else.
@vbatts No, the WIN 4. It's more like a PSP. it's honestly perfect as a self contained device compared to everything else. Pretty easy to take out and use and you can get them to be pretty powerful. Driver support is decent. AMD ROCm GPU accelerated stuff doesn't work with integrated graqhics though which is inconvenient. Having a physical keyboard is what really makes it. I'm not a fan of how the WIN 5 removed it. :/ It's less portable than my current setup tho!
local llm harness tinkering
I added "summary" fields to my edit/writ/shell tools in my harness and now I have short human readable messages as it's doing stuff which has been a nice middle ground between full auto and manual review. If the command is within the strict allow list, I just see the summary since I can trust that it's just find or sed or something.
@neoluddite I'm absolutely Golgolas
hopefully there's noöne amongst my followers who needs to be told this (for reasons, ofc, of all of you being honest, law-abiding people who understand and respect the norms of their respective societies), but people who brag about how much they love breaking the law will rat you out the first chance they get, and people who try to incite you to leftistly commit crimes work for your country's domestic intelligence service
me to my wayfarers: "hey cyber shades, what's the top news on Facebook?"
my sunglasses talking like Knight Rider: "a child has built the Statue of Liberty out of trash and he requires 1,000 faves on his post. also he is a war veteran and has no legs. also it is his birthday today."
me: "this child, is he also Jesus for some reason?"
sunglasses: "yes jackdaw, the child is also Jesus."
me: "cyber shades please send a sad react and reply that this is so true and inspirational and important."
gripes about matrix protocol
@cmdrmoto It sucks because I don't have a functional alternative client ecosystem to go to since libpurple isn't very usable anymore. I can't escape the trap. Either I use shitty matrix clients, go insane making my own, or make a dozen clients for all the puppet bridges from scratch. 💀
Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.