happyborg

happyborg, 9 months ago to fediverse

Another server hacked? 🤦‍♂️

What if there were no servers? 🤯

#fediverse is the lifeboat, #p2p will be the shore.

happyborg, 10 months ago to Futurology

Does anyone remember the open web, and how Google Chrome captured it?

Google is now de facto dictating browser functionality.

#Meta is now part of the #ActivityPub standards group. 🤔

🔥 This is fine.🔥
#Threads

happyborg, 10 months ago to random

Mastodon/fedi are just fine, awesome in fact.

What makes this so is the culture, a hard to define and fragile thing, but everyone here recognises it because we've all seen and many have used other platforms.

Growing organically, at "interpersonal speed" is a strength not a weakness. It allows us to grow without the culture being overrun by an influx from other cultures.

We can respond in real time to a steady influx.

#Threads millions at once, what chance our precious culture will survive?

happyborg, 3 months ago to linux

Are "hard links" important or a nice to have in a filesystem?

I'm trying to assess possible feature compromises for a #decentralized / #p2p based #filesystem that can be mounted on multiple machines, so any views on the usefulness of hard links with examples would be appreciated.

One such compromise here is merging of changes made from different devices, that will be much harder with hard linking.

How important are hard links to you and why?
#FUSE #Linux #POSIX #decentralization #LocalFirst

happyborg, 5 months ago to foss

Just tidying up to do now I've an updated DIY #DNS.

I wonder if it is of use to anyone else?

The idea is to use basic hosting or a cloud instance to keep your own machines up to date with each others' IP address when they don't have fixed IPs.

It works [cough] using an FTP server, or if you have a VPS uses ssh/scp. Each machine's local hosts file is kept updated with the IP each machine saves on the server.

It 'works' but FTP servers vary, hence extending it to use a VPS if you have it #FOSS

happyborg, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

@Gargron @kev

I really dislike the shrinking elephant as the edit box expands while I'm composing a toot. It's very distracting for me and I would love to be able to turn it off. It is present on fosstodo.org but not mastodon.social even though both claim to be v4.2.0 🤔

happyborg, 1 month ago to privacy

Freedom requires no-lock in, which is why we self host domains, don't we? Rather than building on somebody else's domain. Oh, you use Gmail. Still?! 🤦‍♂️

Our desire for ease in a difficult world is what betrays us.

So freedom requires we make the following easy to obtain:

• #privacy
• #interoperability
• #autonomy

#Autonomi has privacy and autonomy baked in, and levels the playing field for users and developers.

But if developers ignore interoperability corporations can still abuse lock-in.

happyborg, 8 months ago to android

Chrome privacy question.

If you have it installed as all #Android phones are forced to, is it necessary to use #Chrome to suffer from its #privacy abuse, or does it do evil in the background regardless?

#Google #enshitification

happyborg, 1 month ago to foss

If your project is #MIT, #BSD or #Apache #FOSS, you are now probably one of the bad guys.

If you don't know why this is bad: #Redis

Same for contributing to projects with permissive licensing.

As copyright owner of a project you can be a good guy again: switch to #GPL

Also stop contributing to other projects that won't switch, after politely explaining why you have a problem with their #licensing.

And avoid using those projects when you can.

#OpenSource

happyborg, 5 months ago to Futurology

I mean, wut?

User: make a list of things I might find you useful for

Llama: Sure, I'd be happy to help you with that. Please provide me with a list of things or tasks you would like assistance with and we can work together on them.

It took nearly a minute of hammering my eight CPU cores to come up with that. 🤷‍♂️

I think we're safe from #AGI for the foreseeable. Don't listen to twerps like #SamAltman who is just shilling.

#Llama #LLM #AI

happyborg, 5 days ago to rust

Is there a deterministic HashMap for #RustLang, one that serialises to the same data every time, for the same content?

happyborg, 9 months ago to firefox

#Firefox sucks so much I can't use it as my primary browser on #Linux, #Ubuntu or #Android. (Sucks means crashes and locks up my devices when handling lots of tabs, which is how I work).

What sucks even more is that it's the only viable candidate that isn't #Chromium based.

Even worse, #Google is using this #Chrome monopoly to impose an ever more enclosed, centralised and oppressive web. 😱

Firefox used to do the job but went bad, got a bit better, but is now useless.

#browser @mozilla

happyborg, 8 months ago to SafeNetwork

What if there was a truly #p2p network where running a node was possible on a mobile or any device, and doing so would earn you anonymous encrypted storage on that same network forever?

Secure, anonymous storage for anyone with an internet connection. No gatekeepers, just you and a global network of nodes running on almost any connected device.

We're testing it right now...

#SafeNetwork 🥳

See: https://safenetforum.org/t/clientimprovementnet-22-09-23-testnet/38701?u=happybeing

happyborg, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to math

Just your everyday mathematical proof that instead of exploding towards infinity, an infinite series such as 1+2+3... converges to... wait for it -1/12

Anyone else watched this and found it both hard to believe and convincing? Massive implications if true.

I've not done a search on this yet but it's worth a watch first even if it's wrong.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=beakj767uG4
#math #mathematics #physics

happyborg, 7 months ago to android

How to find out why an #Android app is not compatible?

A banking app on my Android 11 phone started saying after June it would stop working.

After that I uninstalled to try and fix the issue but since then #GooglePlay says the app is not compatible, even though the bank's website says it works with v5 and above.

I've since looked at two other banking apps and Google Play says neither is compatible with my #Alcatel 1 phone.

There's no way to find out why or if a different phone will work.

happyborg, 5 months ago to llm

Starting to think about a #p2p social media protocol that doesn't fall foul of the UK's ridiculously broad #OnlineSafetyAct, and leaves what you see in your own hands.

Feed curation as active or effortless as you like, using whatever approach you choose.

So a protocol that provides the basis for user respecting apps with different approaches.

Goal: curation with zero effort via support for 'algos' that serve you rather than the other way around.

Use a personal #LLM / #AI?

#p2pthoughts

happyborg, 5 months ago to llm

Try a local #LLM using #Mozilla's #Llamafile:

1. Get the 4.3GB file:
   curl -LO https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/resolve/main/llava-v1.5-7b-q4-server.llamafile

2. Make executable

3. Run it

4. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/

You're welcome!

This is a text and image capable LLM, so ~ #ChatGPT 4

h/t @simon

More in Simon's blog: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/

happyborg, 8 months ago to llm

If you insist on anthropomorphizing #LLM models, please can you say they lie rather than hallucinate. They're not on drugs after all.

Preferably just say their output contains errors. 🤷‍♂️

So called #AI.

happyborg, 9 months ago to rust

My first attempt to find memory leaks in #rustlang and I'm using #Valgrind for the first time.

Sensible?
#Rust #debugging

happyborg, 8 months ago to SafeNetwork

After sixteen hours this is an extract from the #vdash display for my Safe Network node in the current #testnet.

For each 1 hr column it shows:

• credit earned for providing storage (which I can use to buy storage from #SafeNetwork)
• price to store each 1MB encrypted chunk
• PUTS (number of entries chunks stored)

#p2p

happyborg, 8 months ago to random

Once you realise that #capitalism is the source of all the existential threats faced by humans... 🤷‍♂️

It means that almost everything is part of that threat. Every corporation, every lobbyist, every politician with very few exceptions, and everyone who hasn't recognised this yet.

Before long I expect it to be dangerous to say that, unless of course it is a futile thing to think.

happyborg, 4 months ago to rust

Calling #Rust web gurus.

I'm using the #reqwest crate to call two different APIs. One is working fine, the other I had working intermittently but not sure what fixed/unfixed it.

The issue is that the await doesn't return even though using curl works fine.

Why would await not return after a few seconds when the curl request returns immediately?

happyborg, 4 months ago to random

@kev Any chance you can stop these "Install Mastodon App" popups?

I'm seeing them on this and each of my other accounts multiple times every day. (Brave on Android).

happyborg, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

I've had a pint of PIMMS, should I:

happyborg, 7 months ago to Signal

Whether there's a 0day exploit using link previews in @signalapp or not, why would anyone using Signal because privacy or security want them?

What idiocy is happening at #Signal that such a dumb feature was put into an app whose reason for existing is to protect privacy and security. 🤦‍♂️

Never heard of "attack surface"?

#InfoSec