In my opinion, every government, public entity, association, foundation, etc., that needs to communicate with the public should have its own communication channel, with full control over its data and the messages it delivers. When I read “my Discord server,” I feel like responding “there’s nothing ‘yours’ about it - tomorrow morning they could shut everything down, and you would have lost EVERYTHING.”. Own your data!
Sometimes, I read that instances are not opened because of “costs not balanced by the number of users.” But even public television channels are often economically unprofitable, yet they are considered an essential service for public communication. Open, decentralized technologies that ensure control over one’s data should be treated the same way.
What I really want from technology these days is passivity. Physical buttons, and PASSIVITY.
No guessing, no anticipating, no predicting.
No autofill, no autocorrect, no autodrive and PLEASE God no autoplay.
Just be inert until acted upon!
@hrefna TIL, ty for the link. On my end we've been experimenting with something similar to MongoDB queries but represented via querystring parameters. Nothing formal or public yet though.
@tychi HAve you seen the Lilygo T-Deck? I think it's a great form factor.
Listening to Bill Jobs, fixin bugs and adding network outage recovery.
@hrefna One thing I wish protocols did was have a standard for doing even basi8c filters over collections of data. E.g. I think AP pull-based sync could be made much faster if we had a standard for filtering by time from the client-side. In general I feel a lot of protocols that have append only logs in them are sorely lacking indexing at the sync layer.
@mcc Minecraft but tbh both. The sequel to the parkour civilization movie holds up too IMO.
Minecraft but i survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION
Thinking about, if someone were to try to teach "Minecraft but i survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION" , the basically thirty pages of explanation that would be needed to make it make sense. It's so rooted in a cultural context… all the Minecraft mechanics you need to understand. Familiarity with the "Prison Server" concept. Enough knowledge of present day serialized media to recognize the video you're watching is stitched together out of shorter videos…
@mcc That series is goated NGL
The project itself has been a team effort and I'm thankful for help from my teammates at Hypha + various folks on the interwebs. Hopefully we can stabilize and document this stuff this month so we can show a full demo.
It's been a bit of a journey learning #rust and #veilid and #iroh but these last few functions were very satisfying to write. This code triggers a download of an Iroh-blobs based file from it's hash by establishing tunnels to peers in a group using a multiplexer I built using Veilid AppMessages over private routes. The code to get here was hella messy but these functions felt pretty elegant.
@light not with this cost of living 💀💀
@jwz Ah! I meant users of firefox. Like, I have a hard time imagining a single user that wouldn't feel negatively about this.
@jwz I'd love to hear the perspective of someone that actually has positive feelings about this.
@lvk Ty! I was thinking cartoons since I like making really exagerated voices. My partner is an animator so hopefully they can get me a small role some day.
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.