gpt, ai
One of the interesting things (derogatory) about chatgpt is that a lot of people don't seem to get that it's function is to predict text tokens. Often they end up assuming it has some sort of rich reality that it inhabits when you're not asking it things.
E.g. a lot of folks in the comments of this thread are having trouble grasping that it's making up the HTTP responses based on training data and assuming that it's actually making requests.
https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
tech rambling
One thing that irks me about how a lot of tech uses infinitely scrolling "timelines" and the such is that most apps don't keep track of your progress if you navigate away.
If I'm viewing something I probably want to keep going from where I left off unless I explicitly want to go to the top.
RSS readers, Google's podcast thing, Mastodon Web (twitter in general), etc.
At least browsers sometimes preserve the scroll for me if it's a full page navigation. 🤷
@resuna @tommorris i said before that AI can simulate a dev who can talk their way past the interview and doesn't know what they're doing
Finally got a chance to play with @capyloon
Really cool that can so easily develop for it right on the desktop.
just published an update on the #cabal side of things, including news on the nlnet grant we secured and are just starting work on! :>
"The fact that the decentralized web isn’t decentralized is not a secret. Plenty of people can see that Web3 is centralizing far faster than Web2 ever did, they simply don’t care. They’re hoping to position themselves in such a way that they either become part of the monopoly, or at least get bought out for a nice chunk of change along the way."
https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/why-web3-doesnt-exist.html
Capitalism does not require us to “work or starve.”
It requires us to perform labor *for property owners* or *be starved by property owners.*
You have ancestors who lived before wage labor. They didn’t starve to death because they lacked jobs and wages.
You do not lack any of the faculties they possessed. You do not lack any of their abilities to sustain themselves by their own effort.
What you lack is *permission* from property owners.
Here's a video (sorry for the quality) of 2 Capyloon devices sharing data thanks to IPFS:
- the laptop "uploads" the capybara image to its local ipfs node, and generates a QR Code with the ipfs:// url.
- the phone scans the QR Code to get the ipfs:// url, and loads it as any other web page.
- since both devices discovered each other over mDNS, no data left the local network!
Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)
How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?
On a phone, or other touch screen device?
OR
On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?
(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)
Critical Distance, a non-profit I volunteer for on the board of directors, needs help. We have been archiving and contextualising online games writing for 13 years. We are asking for help to allow us to continue operating, and perhaps even invest in building longer term resilience. I'd be very grateful for any help spreading the word: https://www.gofundme.com/f/critdistance
RT @Daleyfurter@twitter.com
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Daleyfurter/status/1597869716193697792
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.