In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:
Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?
I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?
Boosts and ideas welcome!
If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org
Great post about the downsides of relying on #ai code generation.
https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/
> The experience of using an LLM to solve a problem is very similar to using voice-control like Alexa or Siri. You ask it to do something, and when it does the wrong thing, you're left explaining yourself in greater and greater detail until you might as well have solved the problem yourself.
@Miaourt Oh snap. Ty for the link. Might give it a shot next week. Would you like me to report back if I had success? :o
@nasser https://github.com/RangerMauve/hyper-sdk-examples/blob/default/05-oplog-chat.js Source code. We passed around a little usb webcam to scan the qr code and enter the url into a cli 😝
@nasser A few dozen lines of hyper-sdk. Hypercore for appending messages and discovering peers.
Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).
But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.
Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever
@rndeon Yeah! Feel free to join the meetup group for updates. I'm thinking of doing it monthly but that depends on interest and whether we can secure venues. 😅
BTW the #decentralized #Ottawa meetup is happening today in a few hours! Come join our potluck and learn how to make a more resilient foundation for technology.
https://www.meetup.com/decentralized-ottawa/events/307548114/
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.