https://www.endatabas.com/ is a pretty interesting new database: immutable, time travel queries, schemaless (it supports JSON-style nested documents) but queryable via SQL. More notes here:
High key I think corporate advertising is one of the biggest plagues on humanity in the last 100 years. A lot of the awful AI shit we're seeing stems from it as well as a lot of the shady data collection.
I feel it'd be for the collective consciousness if this concept were banned entirely or at least stunted to the point it's not commercially viable.
"Prompt engineering" this local copilot to actually do what I want. I'm gonna try to treat it like a codereview instead of "instructions" for what it should do. Apparently prepending an argument to a list of function calls is too big brain unless I word it just right. Though it's also just a 4GB model so what more can I expect
In the first devlog for Rad Reader (rss reader) I present to you: a new icon, bug fixes from the support forum, and the very first OSX builds!! 🍾
https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader/devlog/689209/bug-fixes-galore-and-osx-builds
No, I'm not a wizard, though we have similarities I just have #ADD real bad.
- we disappear for periods of time and come back with new clothes
- we obsess over small things and will go on about them
- we usually like a good pipe now and then
- sometimes when we talk it's like we are speaking in ancient tongues to most people
Maybe the postal service should offer email?
I’ve been thinking about how I could have email service that isn’t a constant battle against Google over deliverability without having to use Gmail/Outlook/etc. and all the evil bullshit that entails.
Maybe there’s other providers who have the reputation and resources to deal with this but it to me thinking: if the postal service can deliver mail to everyone with a mailing address, why not have them do the same for email?
I know historically they were competitors, but I think that time has long passed. Aside from giving everyone reliable email it could also be a way to get back to internet email standards and get companies like Google to handle internet email properly. It has the negotiation benefits of something like single-payer health insurance.
I’m sure there’s downsides, and you could always have additional, privately-owned service addresses for that.
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.