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utopiah

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Toward Worker-Owned Delivery Platforms with the OpenCourier Protocol

platform.coop
2 points·by utopiah·2 месяца назад·2 comments

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1 points·by utopiah·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

Recordings from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3)

media.ccc.de
3 points·by utopiah·6 месяцев назад·2 comments

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's HDD

tomshardware.com
3 points·by utopiah·7 месяцев назад·2 comments

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utopiah
·5 дней назад·discuss
True but also... she wasn't a software engineer putting code in production nor a researcher working no the fundamentals of machine learning negotiating a raise.

She was part of the "Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team" of what was then, and still is now, one of the corporations World wide spending the largest amount of resources precisely on using AI commercially.
utopiah
·5 дней назад·discuss
OK as prototypist I can safely say "Yes!" and I've been repeating this for a while now. If you want something that is close to what everybody else does, or said, using statistical means make sense. If you are interested by genuine novelty, things on the fringe where the usual process breaks, then it still remains hard.

Anyway, going to read the actual piece but felt I needed this off my chest.
utopiah
·5 дней назад·discuss
FWIW I had WebMonetization up on my blog since April 2020. No paywall, just available. My wallet on GateHub net worth: 0.00

So... yeah, technically it works but until anybody cares, it doesn't matter.

I didn't even re-installed my wallet for others to get some reward back last time I setup my browser.
utopiah
·5 дней назад·discuss
Funny to consider how many Apples are showcased on Apple TV shows. I think the most ridiculous one was "For All Mankind" where civilization was so advanced it featured colonies on the Moon and Mars... yet used current Apple phones and devices. How unimaginative.
utopiah
·5 дней назад·discuss
For circuits then can be simulated. They have a of constraints that might make the problem space a lot smaller. Maybe there are also a lot of text on what makes a good design.

I also believe most design related to a physical object have documentation justifying the choices.
utopiah
·5 дней назад·discuss
I follow this project thanks to CrowdSupply from which I regularly buy open hardware.

Honestly I'm torn on this one. I will probably buy it but from a purely philosophical standpoint. Why? Well I do have a black & white HP laser printer that I've been using with my Linux devices for years now. It just works. There are a lot of terrible printers out there with wacky firmwares pinging home to their manufacturers. Some require ink with DRM, some companion apps, etc.

But... and that's my main point, are just basic printers that work anywhere with anything. There are quite a few to the point that among peripheral printers might be one of the safest one can safely "yeah it will probably work with open system no problem" relatively confidently (still do check first).

So... yeah it's cool but in terms of openness of our entire IT ecosystem printing doesn't appear to me as the priority gap to fill.

Cool project anyway!
utopiah
·6 дней назад·discuss
Great to see such write ups in particular with money.

At least 2 things the random LinkedIn post will ignore, on purpose or not :

- price today remains low (even though they might feel higher than before), Uber is the business model, no secret there, it's a VC classic

- $150 spent by an expert, a software engineer with significant practical knowledge in AI, is not equivalent to the exact same amount spent by a novice.

Yet now that a number is out, you bet it will be used. Expect alarmist posts tomorrow morning in your feed claiming building software is now as cheap as diner at the restaurant.
utopiah
·6 дней назад·discuss
I don't see why would anybody accept that without a significant upside.
utopiah
·6 дней назад·discuss
Like I said I'm confused, genuinely trying to figure the article out.

"A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against."

What is the cryptosystem then on the Web? Who is the entity? It's not the server or the Website so I don't see what's left except the browser and browser vendor.
utopiah
·6 дней назад·discuss
I'm confused, is the argument that it doesn't work because Google is fueled by surveillance capitalism? If so what about Apple which is only partly so? What about Firefox and in particular its de-branded ones without Google search as default?

I think what makes the Web special is precisely that there are different browsers beyond Chromium. If the Web was Chrome I would tend to agree but even though popular I do not think it is fair to conflate it to be the Web.
utopiah
·6 дней назад·discuss
I would be curious how impactful people here think SpaceX satellite fleet is.

Satellite communication is an impressive technical feet. In some very niche cases it is the only viable way.

In the vast majority of cases though it is terrible compared to laying down cables.

What LEO does is addressing a minuscule market. Sure you know a guy, or you might even has a dish on your van, and honestly that's cool. But that is also NOT normal. The van life or having Internet connectivity while crossing the Atlantic on a boat is NOT daily life for the vast VAST majority of people. Most people do 9 to 5 from one suburb to another part of a city. Not a tiny remote town, a city. Those cities are where people actually live and work for decades now already have electricity and in most cases telephony. We can use those.

I think when we have to make decisions that affect us all we have to step back. It is not anymore about a couple of sexy examples, it is about actual impact and actual usage.

This is the opposite of appropriate technology while spoiling a common good.
utopiah
·6 дней назад·discuss
Busted my Corne-ish Zen yesterday, going back to an Ergodox EZ (until I received 2 new Corne, including one as backup) I can tell that leaving a comfortable and efficient hand based setup is literal pain, both physiological and cognitive. I write and code using Vim (so navigation with keys) and browse with Tridactyl (same principle). It's very rough going back.

Also I work in XR and rely heavily on hand tracking and I'm precisely trying to use that accident so re-consider what does typing mean without a keyboard. How can one use hand tracking in XR as input without relying a virtual keyboard, which is so slow and lacks tactile feedback.

Anyway, all this to say yes, ours hands are impressively precise, fast, flexible. We take them for granted but it's definitely worth spending a bit of time training them, considering the interfaces at different level, ergonomic, physical interface, firmware, then the software with its UI.
utopiah
·6 дней назад·discuss
Yep, staff is technically brilliant, company itself is still terrible though IMHO.
utopiah
·7 дней назад·discuss


    $700
    13.3-inch E Ink Carta ™ 1300 Display or E Ink Kaleido ™ 3 Display
    Touch support
    3200 x 2400 resolution (300 PPI)
    Up to 60 Hz refresh rate
    Sub-100 ms latency
    USB Type-C with DisplayPort Alt Mode
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow
utopiah
·8 дней назад·discuss
As a prototypist I can share :

- you genuinely learn once your assumptions about how a system works break, you realize it, try differently, validate, get a better model of that system

- your interfaces must remain permissive while providing feedback, namely you provide wiggle room then only once it behaves roughly as expected do you tighten then up
utopiah
·8 дней назад·discuss
Agreed. It's especially frustrating to read of extremely high standard (even though justified, I'm not suggesting it's OK to have a subpar experience) while most people just share everything and anything on Facebook, TikTok, SharePoint, etc and have no idea what permissions even mean.

So... yeah, sure, e2ee and encryption and all that but don't wait on perfection when the otherwise situation is pretty dire. It's only encroaching BigTech fueled by surveillance capitalism even more!
utopiah
·8 дней назад·discuss
How my mindset changed :

- What's Docker?

- wow Docker is so convenient

- hmmm all that convenience is creating new problems

- is Docker really open?

- What's Podman?

- Ugh Podman is a great idea but does not work

- Is Podman working better now?

- ... kinda, just for testing on my machine

- wow... Podman works just as well as Docker in 99.99% of my cases

... so yes except for the last .01% (e.g. rather niche https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues/792 ) is now my default container engine.
utopiah
·8 дней назад·discuss
I didn't estimate the cost but server-wise it's less than 30 EUR/month. What's demanding is transcoding but with the new architecture https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/architecture#remote... there are ways to optimize, e.g. do nightly batch transcoding on a cheaper spot instances.

My business model is showcase and archival of my prototyping work. I'm the only account on my instance so there is no surprise with suddenly someone abusing the instance.
utopiah
·8 дней назад·discuss
Been running my instance for more than 5 years now, feel free to ask questions.
utopiah
·9 дней назад·discuss
I wish.

The EU could be fine but it's just not doing it. Companies in the EU and even EU institutions do keep on using US SaaS, from Microsoft to AWS to Oracle institutions and companies claim they want sovereignty but when it's time to deploy their IT plan, they just don't.

TL;DR: in theory yes, in practice it is just not happening at scale.