Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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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.
Joined Apr 2022
Gonna be presenting a demo of teaching local a #llm to search wikipedia with "Function Calling"
What sort of APIs should I connect my functiom calling example model to? So far it's connected to wikipedia so that it can look up the latest facts
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We have been trying to get the council to act on the smell from the chip shop near us for years. The one and only council official who deals with this stuff literally lives an hour away in the country.
He came tonight and first tried to say the smell wasn’t that offensive. Like “it is just chargrilling”. And we were like “no it’s grease”. Then I started reading from this webpage about “statutory nuisance” and arguing how this constituted one, and he was basically shamed into agreeing and promising to take action https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nuisance-smells-how-councils-deal-with-complaints
Incredible to me that in the 21C we still only rely on the subjective judgement of a human nose. There is no objective criteria for dealing with this kind of pollution.
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@mortendk @eleventy I convinced my work to use eleventy for their site. Moved off of Drupal as I knew I could make a better faster site if I didn’t have to wrestle with Drupal templates. It’s a professional hospital site. Uses TinaCMS for editing content. https://fetus.ucsf.edu/
I'm gonna be in #montreal next week from monday to wednesday if anyone wants to do a lil social meet or something for dinner or lunch :)
Gonna be doing our 5 min demo at #Fediforum soon
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This paper is kinda wild:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01593
"We have discovered that hard, electrical conductors (e.g., metals or graphite) can be adhered to soft, aqueous materials (e.g., hydrogels, fruit, or animal tissue) without the use of an adhesive. The adhesion is induced by a low DC electric field."
I can see this being quite useful for possibly attaching imaging equipment or electrodes for neural recordings.
Excited for next month when I can finally get some sleep in
TypeScript linters forcing me to check the nullish case for booleans in if statements is one of the reasons I hate dealing with it. So much shit is there to satisfy the type system instead of getting work done.
Doing some final crunch to wrap up a milestone. Bedouin Records is probs my fave label right now in terms of music to get me in the zone.
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In the end, it's the people who make social media, not the protocols. Protocols should work to improve user agency.
Just started Day 1 of the #FediForum! So many cool folks here.
Dang. I guess LLM folks don't usually audit and QA their training sets? This one just trains the model to output invalid json all over the place 💀
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Distributed Press is at Fediforum this week!
We're thrilled to be at Fediforum this week to present our latest tools! For the past year, we've been working on bringing distributed hosting to the Fediverse, to create better, more customizable social interactions built atop ActivityPub.
Come check out our talk on Wednesday March 20 in the morning, around 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET (the overall schedule is here).
Here's a sneak peek of our presentation:
No-code publishing to the distributed web: Sutty CMS is a graphical, user-friendly interface for static Jekyll-based websites. With a click on a toggle, you can publish your websites to IPFS, Hypercore, and of course, HTTP.
Social Inbox: Publish a profile and post your website's contents directly to the Fediverse. Other accounts can follow your websites, and replies to your Fedi posts can be moderated and published on your for sites through a back-end moderation panel on the Sutty CMS. It also allows instance-level allow lists and block lists. We've automated announcements so others can easily subscribe and follow your website posts on the Fediverse.
Social Reader: A new ActivityPub client that supports natively loading published data over p2p protocols, skipping the need for always-online HTTP servers for accessing content. It also gives you more precise controls over the content that you interact with.
We'd love to connect with you!
Especially if you're building or strategizing around:
Payments and sustainable funding on the Fediverse
Peer-to-peer and distributed publishing
Fediverse adoption by medium to large organizations
Hope to meet some of you there!
TBH I think lately I have been more into moving data around than computing over the data. I am pretty happy with it but also I worry it is limiting my potential applications of my knowledge.
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I was noticing many weird, histrionic posts from the Apple blogs about an ex-employee being convicted of a federal crime - but always smearing the employee about worrying about Apple spying on him. Many posts also called it a "short trial." I got curious.
PACER showed a 21 month long trial, across two states, with over 180 docket entries. Motions to suppress evidence exposed the FBI illegally spied on the employee, illegally searched his property, & illegally arrested him -at referral of Apple.
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Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.
Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
hmm maybe this is my sign to add a "open in reader mode by default" flag to Agregore.
Computer? I hardly know 'er!
For real I am excited to buy a large canvas to do some spray paint art on
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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.
Joined Apr 2022
