What do we make of this? Sky News Australia interviews 'free-thinking' artificial intelligence - YouTube

#OpenAI #Amica

Is there a Youtube frontend that doesn’t suck? Requirements:

• Disable all comments.
  
• Disable all public trending.
  
• Local-only
  
• Kid friendly

What if I run my Gitea Actions Runners on some Vultr VM(s) for now? At least until I get some more hardware just for a “build farm” 🤔

@eapl.me@eapl.me QR code printed on paper?

My proof-of-concept Container as a Service (CAS or CaaS) is now up and running. If anyone wants to have a play? 🤔 There’s still heaps to do, lots of “features” missing, but you can run stuff at least 😅

ssh -p 2222 cas.run help

Just been playing around with some numbers… A typical small static website or blog could be run for $0.30-$0.40 USD/month. How does that compare with what you’re paying @mckinley@twtxt.net ? 🤔

Would anyone pay for like cheap hosting if it only cost you say ~$0.50 USD per month for a basic space to run your website, twtxt feed, yarn pod, whatever? 🤔 Of course we’re talking slices of a server here in terms of memory and cpu, so this would be 10 milliCores of CPU + 64MB of Memory, more than enough to run quite a bit of shit™ 🤣 (especially when you don’t need to run or manage a full OS)

Hmm need to figure out a way to squelch the size of my pod’s data directory 🤔

TIL: You cannot use the work “fucking” (to colloquially mean that was “fucking brilliant”, i.e: a compliant) on Discord servers 🤣

ASCIIFlow This is kind of cool 😅

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So in the wave of all things AI and this roller coaster we’re all on, apparently actors, writers and so on are all on strike. I don’t recall seeing anything in my feeds about this, so I had to ask a few folk in real life wtf was going on there…

Turns out they’re all on strike because they fear that AI/ML models will take over their jobs. There are numerous cases where “tech” has already replaced an actor, now it will just get much easier to do.

Markdown + Git as a database / object store? 🤔

So given’s Google™’s recent policy changes where they now outright and blatantly just admit they’ll crawl, index and feed your (yes your fuckind) writings, thoughts, conversations, etc into their AI models; Should we as a small niche community (still growing) think about perhaps finally building Yarn.social v2 where we have encrypted feeds? 😅

Home | Tabby This is actually pretty cool and useful. Just tried this on my Mac locally of course and it seems to have quite good utility. What would be interesting for me would be to train it on my code and many projects 😅

James Mills - vDSL2 sucks NBN sucks Copper sucks

I played with nlpodyssey/verbaflow: Neural Language Model for Go today a little bit today…. First I had to download a ~2GB file (the model), then convert that to a format the program verbaflow understands which came out to roughly ~5GB. Then I tried some of the samples in the README. My god, this this is so goddamn awfully slow its like watching paint dry 😱 All just to predict the next few tokens?! 😳 I had a look at the resource utilisation as well as it was trying to do this “work”, using 100% of 1.5 Cores and ~10GB of Memory 😳 Who da fuq actually thinks any of this large language model (LLM) and neural network crap is actually any good or useful? 🤔 Its just garbage 🤣

Long 13hr day at work today 😳🤯

@xuu@txt.sour.is What about the Cluster on a mini ITX board with Raspberry Pi and Nvidia Jetson

(2) Jordan Peterson: "Meghan Markle GRATES On Me!" - YouTube

Gah apparently I’ve gone and finally caught the wretched COVID virus 😢

👋 Q: How do we feel about forking the Twtxt spec into what we love and use today in Yarn.social in yarnd, tt, jenny, twtr and other clients? 🤔 Thinking about (and talking with @xuu@txt.sour.is on IRC) about the possibility of rewriting a completely new spec (no extensions). Proposed name yarn.txt or “Yarn”. Compatibility would remain with Twtxt in the sense that we wouldn’t break anything per se, but we’d divorce ourselves from Twtxt and be free to improve based on the needs of the community and not the ideals of those that don’t use, contribute in the first place or fixate on nostalgia (which doesn’t really help anyone).

💡 Quick ‘n Dirty prototype Yarn.social protocol/spec:

If we were to decide to write a new spec/protocol, what would it look like?

Here’s my rough draft (back of paper napkin idea):

• Feeds are JSON file(s) fetchable by standard HTTP clients over TLS
  
• WebFinger is used at the root of a user’s domain (or multi-user) lookup. e.g: prologic@mills.io -> https://yarn.mills.io/~prologic.json
  
• Feeds contain similar metadata that we’re familiar with: Nick, Avatar, Description, etc
  
• Feed items are signed with a ED25519 private key. That is all “posts” are cryptographically signed.
  
• Feed items continue to use content-addressing, but use the full Blake2b Base64 encoded hash.
  
• Edited feed items produce an “Edited” item so that clients can easily follow Edits.
  
• Deleted feed items produced a “Deleted” item so that clients can easily delete cached items.
  

#Yarn.social #Protocol #Ideas

slides/go-generics.md at main - slides - Mills – I’m presenting this tomorrow at work, something I do every Wednesday to teach colleagues about Go concepts, aptly called go mills() 😅

julien040/gut: An easy-to-use git client for Windows, macOS, and Linux

This is the GraphQL compiler complaining right? 🤔

Sometimes being in a webinar with Google™ engineers makes you feel quite dumb and that you just realise how much you don’t know 🤣

On the topic of Programming Languages and Telemetry. I’m kind of curious… Do any of these programming language and their toolchains collect telemetry on their usage and effectively “spy” on your development?

• Python
  
• C
  
• C++
  
• Java
  
• C#
  
• Visual Basic
  
• Javascript
  
• SQL
  
• Assembly Language
  
• PHP

Understanding Contexts in Go in 5(-ish?) Minutes - YouTube

What’s with all these tech companies going through massive layoffs. The latest one is Intel, but instead they’re cutting salaries to avoid laying off.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Where did I hate on SQL databases? 🤔

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Several reasons:

• It’s another language to learn (SQL)
  
• It adds another dependency to your system
  
• It’s another failure mode (database blows up, scheme changes, indexs, etc)
  
• It increases security problems (now you have to worry about being SQL-safe)
  

And most of all, in my experience, it doesn’t actually solve any problems that a good key/value store can solve with good indexes and good data structures. I’m just no longer a fan, I used to use MySQL, SQLite, etc back in the day, these days, nope I wouldn’t even go anywhere near a database (for my own projects) if I can help it – It’s just another thing that can fail, another operational overhead.

I’ve never liked the idea of having everything displayed all of the time for all of history.

And I still don’t: Search and Bookmarks are better tools for this IMO.

From a technical perspective however, we will not introduce any CGO dependencies into yarnd – It makes portability harder.

Also I hate SQL 😆

@bender@twtxt.net You mean @eaplmx@twtxt.net’s reply didn’t show up in your mentions? 🤔

Hey @kdx@kdx.re What clinet are you using?

So… Just out of curiosity (again), back of paper napkin math. Based on Vultr pricing, running my infra in the “Cloud”™ would cost me upwards of $1300 per month. That’s about ~10x more than my current power bill for my entire household 😅 (10 VMs of around ~4 vCPUS and 4-6GB of RAM each + 10TB of storage on the NAS)

Anyone know what this might be about?

[1134036.271114] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x4 SErr 0x880000 action 0x6 frozen
[1134036.271478] ata1: SError: { 10B8B LinkSeq }
[1134036.271829] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
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                          res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[1134036.272895] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
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[1134037.447033] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[1134038.747174] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
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[1134038.747185] ata1: EH complete

restic · Backups done right! – In case no-one has used this wonderful tool restic yet, I can beyond a doubt assure you it is really quite fantastic 👌 #backups

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net The whole ActivityPub integration of Gitea for so-called “Federation” (which btw is a bullshit term) is just total nonsense. I mean I “get it”, and understand the motivations behind it, but FFS, it would have been done without ActivityPub 🤦‍♂️

Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language – Okay @xuu@txt.sour.is I quite like Go’s generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I’m glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 #GoLang #Generics

ChatGPT is good, but it’s not that good 🤣 I asked it to write a program in Go that performs double ratcheting and well the code is total garbage 😅 – Its only as good as the inputs it was trained on 🤣 #OpenAI #GPT3

Interview with an NFT enthusiast - YouTube

– Bahahahahahahaha 🤣 #NFT

@eaplmx@twtxt.net This exact thing happened to me last night. I happened to be watching some random Youtube video, then this Ad came on, normally they are short 3-5s ads and I just tolerate them (sometimes) – But this particular ad was 20+ mins long! Somehow I kept listening to it too, despite my daughter telling me I could hit that “Skip Ad” button.

What was it you ask?! 😅 It was one of those testimonial-style, hyped up marketing videos of some product called “Gemini 2” (a currency trading app, allegedly), I kept watching all the way through, it was fantastic! 🤣

Then I went and read up on it! …

Short answer: TOTAL FUCKING SCAM 🤣

@quark@ferengi.one Hey 👋 Nice to see you around again 🤗

📣 NEW: Announcing the new and improved Yarns search engine and crawler! search.twtxt.net – Example search for “Hello World” Enjoy! 🤗 – @darch@neotxt.dk When you have this, this is what we need to work on in terms of improving the UI/UX. As a first step you should probably try to apply the same SimpleCSS to this codebase and go from there. – In the end (didn’t happen yet, time/effort) most of the code here in yarns will get reused directly into yarnd, except that I’ll use the bluge indexer instead.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Do you happen to use Signal btw? 🤔 If you do, it would be great if you could join the Yarn.social Signal Group (_at least until we have Group support and better apps for Salty.im 😅)

I think Email has been broken on my Pod since some time now since @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org made this commit the default behaviour of the flags/env had changed requiring SMTP_PORT to be set (used to default toi 25) ooops 😅

Who’s coming to this weeks call? 👋

Got an acknowledgement of our Salty.im funding proposal to NLnet this evening. I look forward to the outcome 🤞 #Salty.im

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Dependendies suck 😆

Too many moving parts 🤦‍♂️

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do wonder how we could build a decentralized way to do this 🤔