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Having tested a bunch of projects, I gotta say that OpenHermes 2.5 is the most helpful out of the ones I can run locally.

I recently wasted a bunch of time getting Phi-2 to do some summarization work, and it just couldn't stay focused for more than a sentence or two.

Woot, I have finally written enough code to be unable to avoid the lifetime specifications / borrow checker stuff.

@beka_valentine RIP. What software are you using? I generally find OBS does everything I want.

I love this post-mortem from a former #p2p enthusiast... 🧵

"DHTs were not reliable or performant. We were way too optimistic about device discovery and NAT traversal."

He's absolutely right. If you're using a DHT, you're doing it wrong. It might have been the right primitive in 2003, but not today.

holy shit mozilla has a new issue tracker documenting all of the ways that apple, google, and microsoft purposefully put third party browsers at a disadvantage and is calling for action https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/

K. I swallowed my pride and gave up on trying to run all my build tools as "close to the metal" as possible. I'm now going to pretend I'm in an Ubuntu environment via distrobox :P

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Ugh C++ dependencies bring me so much pain. I'd take a hundred weird react-native version mismatches over rustc being unable to find OpenSSL for a library I didn't think would even need rustc in the first place. This is not an invitation to help because my setup is far far away from the happy path of debugging.

The dowbside with lrimarily interacting with folks I regularly see in meatspace is that they are in my tinezone but aren't night owls

You know, I reckon it might help reverse Firefox's declining marketshare at very little effort for Mozilla to implement a feedreader into Firefox, & run an advertising blitz advocating how much calmer this "new" way of reading the web is!

They'd get some eyerolls, & some may find it suspicious how broadly supported it'd be out of the gate...

But since they're rightly concerned about their declining marketshare, this'd be a cheap & hugely beneficial thing to try!

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I love it when I get to talk to folks that have more knowledge than me on a subject I am interested in. It's tough because it doesn't happen as often as I'd like due to being the domain expert for the subject in a lot of groups I interact with.

Hey folks! We have a new round of tutorials and example apps out as well as updated `hyper://` docs. Read more on our blog: agregore.mauve.moe/blog/2023/1

For my hackathon project I did try to make CFA (Cat Factor Authentication, using your cat's microchip as a second factor) a thing 😆 The project did win a prize, but more for the experimentation then the actual result wpengine.com/blog/hackathon-de

#catsofmastodon #mfa #hackathon #wpengine

A phrase I heard and loved when I was in a committee room in the UK Parliament this evening, for an Open Source event - “Open Source is the Right to Repair, for software.” 👏🏻 such a perfect way of describing it, I wish I'd been the one to say it!

@smitner Yoooo! I use the same keyboard as my daily driver. 🥰💜

One thing that annoys me about the Agile discourse is that no one acknowledges that time estimates are based on the maximum amount of time you think your managers will accept as a timeframe and not how long you think something is actually going to take.

More than ever, we need networking protocols which are resilient, privacy preserving, bandwidth conserving, able to run on low-spec hardware, and not quite as preoccupied with being the global network for everyone ever.

We’re delighted to present Willow, a new family of peer-to-peer protocols that cater to just that niche. willowprotocol.org is a guide to those protocols, with full specifications, ~50 hand-drawn diagrams, illustrations, and comics, and much more besides.

Our thanks to @NGIZero for supporting this project!

@fleeky It's code that sits between user input and LLM output. It detects the AI doing "internal thinking" so thst the user doesn't see it, and when the LLM tries to ibvoke a function the harness will execute the actual code for it and feed it to the AI. It also hides those steps from the user so they only see the final result

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