I seriously think this is the missing piece for those "computer in your house" startups. I worked a bit with one in the past and I really wish they figured out the how. Veilid with a web browser frontend seems great. I guess provided the speed keeps up? I hope it's faster than tor or i2p. The mobile first approach is my fave part I think.
Socket Supply is another great contender. I wish it didn't need to have each app loaded as seperate native apps instead of instantly. It makes sense why tho
@dade It's actually so funny when I start hitting hardware limits because my little NAS is absolutely *straining* to make sense of it.
I am greatful to the QT/KDE and GTK ui duopoly for allowing me to run my apps without either shell. It feels so good to be rid kf the clutter taking up CPU and disk read times.
i think the only thing I need to figure out is Matrix as a systemd daemon I can connect with a TUI so I can have multiple windows open
@thomasfuchs I would love to read the training data needed to make it do that.
my favorite is when you try to guess the help command and the utility says “that’s not a command I recognize, you fool. here’s the help listing, you pathetic lost soul” https://fedi.astrid.tech/objects/eac10929-34bd-4d6e-9ca5-22291158fda3
@darkrat OMG I have given up and just clear everything past a few months (media storage wise). It's a leaky engine and needs constant tape but it pretty much gets the job done
I know I upgraded recently but my computing power feels so low compared to what folks use these days. Honestly I could probably cope with 8GB RAM even but having even 32 feels like such luxurious excess. It does mean a lot of chromium based react apps can siphon more resources tho. 😝
For real even a few GBs of VRAM extra would make some stuff so much easier. I hate that LLMs make me want a beefier computer.
@jalcine Like LLM models? It has been a small hobby of mine to tinker with them if you're into chatting about em. I like the 3B ones that can run fast on my shitty computer
@erlend Yeah, I used to bring my cardboard around to conferences and show off my web based dev environment. These days I'm working towards using "steam deck" form factor computers with consumer head mounted displays like the Rokid Max and am working towards using @stardustxr for the spatial computing part
CS Researchers: Here're some programming languages mathematically proven to make the computer do exactly what you say.
Programmers: «create vast complexity that no one person could comprehend in order to render a web page»
Also Programmers: What if we made the programming language English, required that the compiler run on a monstrously huge array of GPUs, and set it up so it only did what we ask sometimes, and other times just do nonsense, but we don't know which is which?
Hacker News: Neat!
One thing I find sad is that a lot if folms treated VR as just another tech fad and ditched it for crypto when that became the fad. Now a bunch of the same folks are following AI. Especially sad when fad chading meant ditching code and community for the next best thing only to abandon it again. It feels like the fad chasing means the fad in question doesn't get a fair chance to actually accomplish it's potential.
Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs.
They offer a thing they're calling an "opt-out."
The opt-out (a) is only available to companies who are slack customers, not end users, and (b) doesn't actually opt-out.
When a company account holder tries to opt-out, Slack says their data will still be used to train LLMs, but the results won't be shared with other companies.
LOL no. That's not an opt-out. The way to opt-out is to stop using Slack.
https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
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.