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danny

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i talk to everybody and am overly charitable | currently interested in: consolidation without centralization, composable economies, ocaps, incautious optimism. ex-NTK, ex-EFF, now with Filecoin Foundation (for the Decentralised Web)

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was Day of the Triffids a joke to you people

danny, to random
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Want to hear me speak about Building the Commons: Community Archiving & Decentralized Storage? OF COURSE YOU DO. Sign up here -- it's on Thurs April 25, 10PT/1PM ET/6PM GMT/1900CET https://events.techsoup.org/events/details/techsoup-public-good-app-house-presents-building-the-commons-community-archiving-amp-decentralized-storage/

Some amazing projects will demo: @OpenArchive , and the TRANSFER Trust.

danny, to random
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Hey, have you done something cool, and open source/for the public good on using in the last year ? Then you can apply to get retroactively rewarded for your 2023/2024 citizenshipness in this LibP2P retroactive public good funding run. US$125K is being given out https://blog.libp2p.io/2024-04-08-libp2p-rpgf/ . Retoot at will!

danny, to random
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huh. I can't find a video format that supports hyperlinks in the video (ie regions that if you click on them, would browse to a URL).

How would you do that?

danny, to random
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It's ok to publish your email address —and to give your users an option to publish theirs. The era of fighting spam through obscurity is over, and by only publishing your social media handles, you're tying all your private communications to them.

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Because I live in the strange intersectional space where I can simultaneously be pining for fosdem and willing to stay in the US and fork over for a Apple Vision Pro, here's my first weekend impressions of the latter:

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  1. Quite a few people have been disappointed by the passthrough, eye-tracking and field-of-view, to the extent that big Apple fans are thinking of sending it back. I find them all fine, and I suspect this may be a combo of physiological variance or actual hardware issues/bugs. Some people say they can't see text in passthrough, for instance, and it seems fine to me.
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  1. The persona and eyesight (the googly eyes on the front) are clearly Not Very Good, but demos of things that /should/ be good in a version 2 or 3. The thing is clearly meant to be see-through glasses, with higher-res cameras, but they just didn't pull that off in the first gen. https://www.ifixit.com/News/90137/vision-pro-teardown-why-those-fake-eyes-look-so-weird goes into some of the tradeoffs that make the eyesight feature not quite come together.
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  1. I think the thing that may have made Apple pull the trigger on shipping is that the AVP v1.0 can throw around some emotional heft here: namely spatial videos and the 3D interactive elements. I jumped at the dinosaur, and spent far too long dreamily watching a 3D video I took of my family at Christmas. There's some cheesy humanity in this tech somewhere, and that's usually what Apple seizes on and tries to foster.
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  1. The UX feels work-y (or art-y or creative-y or do-something-that-isn't-just-computer-y). I am unsure if I could work for long in it, but it felt like a full-fledged user interface, in a way that the Quest/Steam UI doesn't really.
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  1. The main thing limiting it at the moment is that normal UI interactions can get a little ... intense. I brought up a Safari webpage and the combo of the bright colors, eye-tracking on lots of links, gave me real sensory overload. Maybe you adapt, but it felt like the rest of the interface -- which is quite muted and visually subtle, is toned down by comparison. We may think you want a million windows floating in 3D space, but I'm not sure that's tolerable, even for us.
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  1. I'm really fooling around with this to see what we need to gank for the Free and Open World. i don't think there's anything utterly unobtainable here, apart ofc from the hardware, but that will slowly trickle down into the open hardware land. I think it's noteworthy that Apple chose to go the iOS/iPadOS locked down app route, rather than making this a desktop Mac alternative. I think you could build a competive, unrestricted, seize-the-means-of-computation version of this someday.
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  1. My instinct, as ever, is to treat these initial forays by well-capitalized corps -- just like AT&T Unix, the early OS X laptops, the iphone, the ipad, the watch, GPT -- like palantirs. Good for seeing a little bit into the future to know where we're heading, but don't get too comfortable in the world they are building, and make sure you're not giving more info to it, than you are taking from it...
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@boris @danny ahhh the gazillion dollar question! Chasing taillights is a proven strategy and gets you a long way, and I deeply think you and all the other smartest people's strat of grabbing and running with the research that the big tech companies miss is the way to get ahead. But I still think, as you know, we need new institutions. Ink & Switch, Fission, Dynamicland, Spritely, the beautiful genius reading this post right now, and I dunno the support of the Wakandan govt

danny, to fediverse
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psst come join the co-creators of , the inventors of JSON, and luminaries from skunkworks operating systems and ambitious MMORPGs from the 70s onwards at the newly open https://community.spritely.institute/ to hack together to build Spritely, the secure and equitable foundation for future decentralized social software -- more details here https://spritely.institute/news/developer-community-forum-open-for-everyone.html

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you don't want to know how much time I spent last night thinking about using USENET as a modern communication platform

i have jetlag ok

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I don't agree with everything in this @pluralistic takedown (god I feel like I need to preface that to EVERYTHING I READ these days), but people /really/ underestimate the importance of spam as a signal about the world, and Cory knows how to paint a rich picture of its significance. https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/

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It breaks my heart to see people thinking that copyright is going to help them, and that making knowledge more accessible, universal, and shareable is going to hurt them.

danny, to random
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I've just contributed to Guile Ares RS and Emacs Arei. Consider supporting them too — every little helps! https://opencollective.com/guile-ares-rs

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this interaction, where somebody comes from the internet, looking to help with a project, is familiar but it warms my heart every time: https://list.orgmode.org/87zg0m1sw4.fsf@localhost/T/

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Don't mind me, just taking advantage of founder effects in the early ecosystem: https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot/-/issues/170

danny, to ipfs
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sitting in a room with #IPFS hackers new and old #ipfsconnect

danny,
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So this is a demo of the idea of content-addressed computation -- you take a hash of a WASM function, a hash of your inputs, and you get a hash of the output. You only need to run a function with the inputs once, because results are cached across the whole network. Inputs and outputs are grabbable using content-addressing, because if you have the hash, you can find the file!

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Now I'm sitting with Juan Benet @dietrich , @boris , Megan Klimen and others listening to @robin setting the scene for a discussion of governance and nurturing the ecosystem

danny,
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this was a great discussion, we talked about tooling (and ended up exploring some convos about IPFS chat https://tinyurl.com/ipfschat on https://pol.is/ a tool that we're building on in the universe too), gardening and documentation, oral cultures in a zoom era, Coasean floors and teasing out the elemental parts of a governance organization)

danny,
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Finally, a fishbowl session where we all agonize about how to make mainstream. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_(conversation) -- I've never done this before! I took one for the team and relayed what users tell me about first impressions-- that it takes a lot of CPU and network connections. I think it's actually just an issue of Kubo's defaults, but it's the number one papercut I hear about.

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