More than ever, we need networking protocols which are resilient, privacy preserving, bandwidth conserving, able to run on low-spec hardware, and not quite as preoccupied with being the global network for everyone ever.
We’re delighted to present Willow, a new family of peer-to-peer protocols that cater to just that niche. https://willowprotocol.org is a guide to those protocols, with full specifications, ~50 hand-drawn diagrams, illustrations, and comics, and much more besides.
Our thanks to @NGIZero for supporting this project!
@simon Hey! I tried out your ReAct prompt with OpenHermes Mistral and I found that an important step was to get it to verify whether the result was correct before answering, and tried to guide it to perform a more specific query if not.
I posted the gist with my prompt here: https://gist.github.com/RangerMauve/19be7dca9ced8e1095ed2e00608ded5e
“Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.”
MLK
—The Three Evils speech, 1967
I'm severely colourblind - my eyes can hardly detect red light at all.
So, working in web development, picking colour schemes is hard.
There are tools around to help you pick accessible colour schemes, but they assume that you can tell by looking that a colour is the one you want, and the only information you need the computer to calculate is the contrast ratio.
I realised I need a tool that will take the name of a colour and find a shade that gives a target contrast ratio.
Here it is: https://colourblind-palette-maker.glitch.me/
It uses the new APCA perceptual contrast algorithm and the Oklab colour space to help me find colours that people with better colour vision will interpret correctly, while ensuring there's good contrast for as many people as possible.
"OpenAI this week quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy."
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt/
It took years for Google to change their vision from "Don't Be Evil" to "Be Evil."
As with everything tech, the pace of moral innovation is relentless.
OpenAI took only months to openly embrace evil. Well done, tech bros, we always knew we could count on you to do the wrong thing
My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.
"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.
That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the <bleep> out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.
Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.
I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.
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.