BIG NEWS! 📣 We're pleased to announce that Fission has received an $800,000 USD grant to support further applied research of the InterPlanetary Virtual Machine (IPVM) protocols and the Homestar reference implementation from the Arcological Association and the IPFS Network Capital Pool.
We're also #hiring a full-time software engineer to work on the Homestar implementation.
Learn more here: https://fission.codes/blog/ipfs-impact-grant-ipvm-decentralized-wasm-computation/ #WebAssembly #Wasm #IPVM #decentralizedweb
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
It's not the year of Linux on desktop; it's the year of Linux on a handheld.
Another thing we did last weekend in Berlin: redeployed Cinnamon’s seasonal clock, with some adjustments so that there are matching emoji for every hour of the day: https://seasonalclock.org
(this is a global clock where it’s the same ‘hour’ everywhere around the world, e.g. I am posting this at blossom hour, no matter where you are. It is a scheduling toy for an existing group of friends.)
You know when you have a video loop, but to make it loop something disappears in an improbable manner?
And you think, that's a shame, because I really like this little clip.
And you could crop it so, for example, a bird doesn't disappear in mid-flight, but then it looks unbalanced so you need to find some unobtrusive way for the bird to disappear so it appears natural?
Yeah. That.
I think I need a quiet lie down.
#seascape #video #loop #animation #bird #silly #drawing #SillyScribbles
New blog post I wrote this morning:
"Google shattered human connection"
https://staltz.com/google-shattered-human-connection.html
Complete Dat ecosystem interview series hosted by Kayla.
Thanks to @mauve , @cblgh , @heapwolf , Diego, James, Mix, Hans, @ninabreznik , @serapath , Telamohn & Mathias for taking time and sharing their work <3
Are there #llm powered cyberpweapons put there already? It'd be neat to see how they're structured.
I don't think an alternative is impossible but it's disheartening to see the lack of efforts to find alternatives by "land developers".
Everywhere I look there's just islands of grey sameness infected with franchises owned by a few duopolies siphoning the life out of residents after destroying the life that was once thriving on the land.
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.