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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.
Joined Apr 2022
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@hrefna That's one of the reasons I've been interested in bringing P2P protocols into the mix. Instead of everyone fetching from one server it could be spread over a swarm of nodes with peers resharing to others that are interested instead of one server getting overloaded.
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Dear corp world: I actually really like returning to office and being with people in person. But all those pre-8am and after-5pm meetings I've been attending to make life easier on other timezones were bought with commute savings.
You can have RTO OR 7am meetings but not both.
Listening to some ear-piercing nightcore remix of barbie girl to get through this code.
AHA! Apparently I can get around this by using `tokio::task::spawn_local` instead of `tokio::spawn` according to this response to a deleted reddit post from two years ago. Yes my life expectancy got reduced a little while trying to figure this out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/10xwg0h/why_does_tokiospawn_require_send/
@makeworld I never understood how people could think that him "leaving a leadership role" made the project "okay". He still had stake in the technical layers and had a huge influence on the culture. It felt a bit too optimistic to me. I find this development unsurprising.
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This is why exercise is so exceptionally hard for me. I want to do it, I know I need to, but there is no dopamine reward for doing so, only agony and sweat.
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Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.
https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/
@technobaboo https://ollama.com/ it has gpu acceleration support :o
I threw a tokio::sync::mpsc::channel into the mix and did the un-Send-able stuff in a separate task. and it magically works now.
I am apparently too stupid to be able to make a method that returns a Stream of Result<Bytes> from a stream::unfold which does as async read of file chunks because I have no clue why the chunk read needs to be Send and what that even means
Stumbled across this neat programming language / environment while tinkering with my system.
I like how declarative it feels
I'm guessing a lot of folks will hate it but I kinda like how flirty gemma2:2b is and the overuse of emoji in it's regular conversational paths.
On top of that it's been surprisingly good at code generation given how absolutely tiny it is.
@alcinnz I think something that is missing from the non-http document web is logic for handling uploads. E.g it'd be useful to have a way to add new posts to a p2p forum without needing a server to gatekeep. I've been thinking that a PUT/POST to a wasm module could work with access to the p2p file system as an alternative to a bunch of JS. Maybe with a focus on reusing simple logiv between sites instead of doing a bunch of bespoke stuff.
Updated my setup with Kanshi so now I can make sure my window manager is only rendering to one display at a time. Before I had to do a bunch of tinkering to move my workspace windows, now I unplug and it gets there automatically.
@jonny @ansuz @jonah Alternately one could use something with IP privacy and zero accounts / names to reduce ability to identify. Requiring the reader to ask a specific URL hash could be good to reduce ability to get *all* hashes. Also have some sort of detection for history brute forcing and block the peer. Lots of options tbh. Not easy and lots of gotchas however
@jonny @ansuz @jonah I've thought of adding that to @agregore but haven't been prioritizing it because it means you're leaking your browsing history to the network. A bad actor could see all the pages you're seeding with enough effort. 😥 Sharing between friends could make it less risky but even then there's a bunch of risk / hassle. I'm down to build it if someone wants to help crowdfund :P
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.
A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence. The security guards on the door are cautiously indifferent to anyone walking in. The air is filled with tense conversations between partners - drowned out by the noise of screaming kids.
In the middle, a young woman sits on a hard plastic chair. She is surrounded by canvas-bags containing her worldly possessions. She doesn't look like she is in a great emotional place right now. Clutched in her hands is a games console - a PlayStation Portable. She stares at it intensely; blocking out the world with Candy Crush.
Or, at least, that's what I thought.
Walking behind her, I glance at her console and recognise the screen she's on. She's connected to the complementary WiFi and is browsing the GOV.UK pages on Housing Benefit. She's not slicing fruit; she's arming herself with knowledge.
The PSP's web browser is - charitably - pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.
But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.
Not everyone has a big monitor, or a multi-core CPU burning through the teraflops, or a broadband connection.
The photographer Chase Jarvis coined the phrase "the best camera is the one that’s with you". He meant that having a crappy instamatic with you at an important moment is better than having the best camera in the world locked up in your car.
The same is true of web browsers. If you have a smart TV, it probably has a crappy browser.
My old car had a built-in crappy web browser.
Both are painful to use - but they work!
If your laptop and phone both got stolen - how easily could you conduct online life through the worst browser you have? If you have to file an insurance claim online - will you get sent a simple HTML form to fill in, or a DOCX which won't render?
What vital information or services are forbidden to you due to being trapped in PDFs or horrendously complicated web sites?
Are you developing public services? Or a system that people might access when they're in desperate need of help? Plain HTML works. A small bit of simple CSS will make look decent. JavaScript is probably unnecessary - but can be used to progressively enhance stuff. Add alt text to images so people paying per MB can understand what the images are for (and, you know, accessibility).
Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you've created?
I chatted briefly to the young woman afterwards. She'd been kicked out by her parents and her friends had given her the bus fare to the housing benefits office. She had nothing but praise for how helpful the staff had been. I asked about the PSP - a hand-me-down from an older brother - and the web browser. Her reply was "It's shit. But it worked."
I think that's all we can strive for.
Here are some stats on games consoles visiting GOV.UK
Matt Hobbs (@TheRealNooshu@hachyderm.io) @TheRealNooshu
• Xbox - 2,062
• Playstation 4 - 1,457
• Playstation Vita - 25
• Nintendo WiiU - 14
• Nintendo 3DS - 16
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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.
Joined Apr 2022
