I don’t want a computer with adverts in the task bar or menu, on which I can’t run my own software freely and easily, or which I can’t repair myself.
I don’t want an eReader which snitches on my reading, or which can remove my books.
I don’t want to use a proprietary third party service and app for my dishwasher.
I don’t want a car which can be controlled remotely via someone else’s servers.
@ShadowJonathan i think I'm paying like 15 or 20 for mine rn 💀 that shit is a storage hog
@trwnh ooo link?
Hackers showed me (there's video) how a website vulnerability let them locate, unlock, honk the horn, start ignition of any of millions Kias in seconds, just by reading a car's license plate.
They found similar bugs for a dozen carmakers over the last two years.
https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/
iroh is about creating connectivity to empower user agency. Reliable connectivity you can build on now and in the future.
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/smaller-is-better
TBH I don't think most people should be on algorithmic social media. Happy people aren't chronically online and these places are machines for brainworm infection and cortisol spiking.
I think "friend only" social timelines and read-only feeds of stuff you're interested in is okay though.
OFC I could never escape the draw of cyberspace, but I am a bit beyond salvation.
Advice for anybody starting a new Fediverse thing: The only real requirement in ActivityPub is that the content type is either application/activity+json or application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams". A lot of people have implemented this.
I think describing this as hazing against new projects might be appropriate.
Verilog to E. coli compiler (feat. Yosys) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-024-01730-1
@hermeticvm@convo.casa @agregore Ohhh I see. This is for the built in LLM UI they have. I am working on JavaScript APIs for web apps to have access to.
@hermeticvm@convo.casa @agregore Oh snap. Is their api stable? Have you tried it out?
For example, Chrome is working on shipping web APIs for LLM access. I'm planning to release something similar in @agregore in the next week or two.
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/prompt-api/blob/main/chrome-implementation-differences.md
@tychi I tried Qwen2:0.5B and it's almost able to do stuff with very little usage. That's like several hundred orders of magnitude less power consumption whole being ablw to do some small tasks. I think these things could be put to work for specificallt crafted prompts with multi shot for a lot of use cases
I don't think cloud AI will fully go away but I think it'll make less and less sense for consumer facing use cases as the small models become more viable via better training and better hardware acceleration.
I think in the next couple years OS-shipped #LocalAI will replace the use of heavy cloud based #AI. Microsoft, Google, and soon Apple will be shipping devices with local LLMs and it'll be cheaper for applications to target those APIs rather than pay OpenAI or the such. This will also mean that we'll get into a sort of "browser wars" of model functionality gated by hardware vendors.
@dulvui It's a GPD Win 4 and my powe block is an Omni Charge. My fave part of it is the built in keyboard.
🌍 🚨 Breaking News: The #UnitedNations General Assembly has adopted the landmark Pact for the Future & Global Digital Compact this morning, reaffirming global commitment to multilateralism.
🖊️ The pact embraces responsible tech innovation for the future. And GDC clauses 14-17 commit the #UN to adopting #OpenSource as a key strategy for global cooperation on technology where no one is left behind.
📄 PDF of adopted resolutions: https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sotf-the-pact-for-the-future.pdf
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.