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happyborg

@happyborg@fosstodon.org

Working on #decentralization, #p2p and #dWeb tech, online #privacy and #security, #CopyLeft, #FOSS, #Rust and #autonomi (find me on https://forum.autonomi.community as happybeing).

Note: autonomi was called #SafeNetwork.

Possibly still maintaining #vdash on github.

The #fediverse is a lifeboat, #p2p is the shore.

#nobridge #noaitraining #norobots

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1br0wn, to ai
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‘The head of Indian IT company Tata Consultancy Services has said artificial intelligence will result in “minimal” need for call centres in as soon as a year, with ’s rapid advances set to upend a vast industry across Asia and beyond... its pipeline of projects doubled quarter over quarter to be worth $900mn to the end of March.’ https://www.ft.com/content/149681f0-ea71-42b0-b85b-86073354fb73

happyborg,
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@1br0wn
Is this going to be a repeat of "let's outsource all our call centres to some distant country with low pay and poor employment rights" followed by campaigns proclaiming "we've brought our call centres back to UK"?

I wonder what the environmental impact of such replacement will be.

The people making these decisions only factor in short term share price. We need them to pay when they damage people/environment, even years later.

Wld help if Post Office execs went to prison for example.

kubikpixel, to webdev
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Local-First Web Development

So, you want to build an app that has its data co-located with its UI? That works offline? That synchronizes between clients? And that lets its users own their data?

🧭 https://localfirstweb.dev

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happyborg,
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@kubikpixel

And if you want your storage to be decentralised, secure and private, build it using the CRTD features of 's protocol.

It's early days, but I've nearly finished a demo which publishes websites, and uses a Register to keep all old versions accessible, forever.

As I'm using a CRDT it can also be updated from different devices and will automatically merge changes, while avoiding losing anything in the history.

is so cool!

happyborg, to linux
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Can't remember the order of arguments for making a symbolic link?

Think of it like copying the directory, but instead of a copy, you end up with a link back to the source.

So
cp -R source-dir copy-name

Means to link you
ln -s source-dir link-name

You're welcome.

I saw a few toots recently from folks saying that they can never remember this. Just remember: it's like 'cp -R'.

happyborg, to random
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My first swallows of the year on our morning walk.

Really made my day, I love those beauties. And now I'm remembering how far they've travelled to get here.

A hare earlier too, but the swallows are still buzzing in my heart.

happyborg, to privacy
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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:

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,
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@spoon I agree.

They use tools to get the job done, as I do, such as github etc. and still are committed to their values which I suspect you and I share.

They are one of the few projects I know who have written these down and having followed the project closely (daily) for over a decade I know they mean it.

You can view them here: https://forum.autonomi.community/t/safe-network-fundamentals-context/25352

happyborg,
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@spoon I agree, but so does using GitHub. And tbh doing what you suggest does take time and resources.

The project is laser focused on delivery with a small team so I can forgive them, especially knowing them so well after all these years.

I understand your point. Some will need extra convincing because of that but I've no worries there. When folk see what it does and how, and the effort that has been put into ensuring it is autonomous and decentralised at every level in due they'll forgive!

happyborg,
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@spoon
Indeed, which illustrates how hard it is to provide completely clean services at scale.

I'm very privacy conscious and accept loss of privacy in all sorts of places until I have alternatives, such as those planned by and on Autonomi. One longstanding project is a forum.

I accept your criticism is valid and have often made similar comments.

But I'm not going to abandon or diss what I believe to be the best chance we have of game changing privacy and security with Autonomi.

happyborg,
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@spoon I've been involved for over a decade and made these kind of points more in the early period than now.

Lately I expressed concern about them setting up on Discord and not having an official presence here. I get their arguments about why - those platforms have lots of people - but as you would be am still not happy about that.

Instead of letting that green in the way, I put my energy into helping this amazing project deliver what I want: privacy and security for everyone. And a lot more!

josemurilo, to fediverse Portuguese
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"#ActivityPods is a combination of two #W3C standards: #ActivityPub, and the #Solid specification. The first standard is for data federation and networks, the second is for data storage and access. The ideals of both projects put together create a compelling vision: data control, across user applications, in service to communication across the web."

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/

happyborg,
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@josemurilo Use for the storage backend of Solid and you also reduce or in time eliminate servers.

raiderrobert, to webassembly
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Played around with DuckDB over the weekend.

Pulled in Parquet data from an S3 bucket using DuckDB's native support for that. Immediately queried of the data with standard SQL syntax.

My mind went a thousand directions with the implications for web apps.

happyborg,
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@raiderrobert yes, very exciting stuff. Am learning about on right now while building a demo website publisher / browser.

There's so much brilliant tech going on right now and will I hope be part of the shift away from closed platforms.

happyborg, to random
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My demo is working, and ready to show short of a few finishing touches to make it easier for people to try out. Plus building a release and writing up some docs.

What's left is straightforward , nothing I have to think too hard about but it is proceeding like walking through a swamp. I think I'm just tired, but don't want to break or rest so I push on to get it done.

It's taking some of the fun out of it, although I'm looking forward to sharing it and seeing what people think.

happyborg, (edited ) to privacy
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Very worthwhile read on the fallacy, yes fallacy of "if you're not paying, you are the product".

@pluralistic argues that this implies you have some power from paying because you can stop.

But the reality is different: if you are locked in you won't stop so your payments have no leverage. So we can't make companies behave by paying for services.

The key is freedom from lock in, and . That's what would help, not being able to pay for privacy.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

1br0wn, to random
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“Those who care about Britain, who fear its descent into Ruritanian absurdity because there seems nobody to take charge who thinks responsibly about anything beyond Tuesday, should ask themselves how Johnson, Truss and even David Cameron — all of whom did much damage — were ever permitted to attain the summits of governance. They were, and are, people ambitious to exercise power, who lack a credible vision for anything about Britain’s future except their own place in it.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1d1c056f-18f1-47c4-998a-e06822be2e9c?shareToken=f5c2cc92a6cbfa751461c42b4a4369ed

happyborg,
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@1br0wn So ironic that is in The Times. 🤦‍♂️

jorin, to random
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Can someone eli5 the difference between marketing and sales?
And do you always need both?

happyborg,
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@jorin marketing is most of a business, sales is selling the product.

So for example, market research, analysis of customer segments, defining strategies and products, testing those etc.

It's broader, more interdisciplinary and deeper than selling.

daringfireball, to random
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★ Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition
https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/face_the_critic_ian_betteridge_edition

happyborg,
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@daringfireball something else that's habitually ignored:

  1. signing up to pay is itself effort, a barrier, and regardless of cost it is much easier to skip that and click "Yes, take all my data and use it for anything you like". If only the question was that honest.

  2. signing up to pay is also giving away privacy, just not quite as godawfully harmful and abusive, maybe. I've not read about what happens to information gathered by payment processors, and banks etc so maybe it's really bad too.

happyborg, to Games
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I'm looking for static HTML games which are open source licensed for inclusion in a GPL licensed project.

Any suggestions?

My own preference would be for retro , especially from the early days of video game machines but I'll consider anything so long as it is static HTML.

ntnsndr, to random
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Increasingly I think what Diane Ravich realized about education is right about the internet. People keep thinking that we can fix society by fixing the internet. But actually the only way to fix the internet is to fix society.

happyborg,
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@ntnsndr I think it's both, each is part of the other.

I can do more fixing of tech than I can society, others the reverse.

18+ Frances_Larina, to random
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"Tesla Cybertruck No Match For Car Wash"

Things to note:

  • Rebooting the truck takes 5 hours
  • The owners manual cautions against ever washing the truck in direct sunlight
  • It must be put into Car Wash Mode before washing
  • Car washes can void the warranty

This is seriously the most fragile "pickup truck" ever built.

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-no-match-for-car-wash-1851417011

happyborg,
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@Frances_Larina The Cybertruck also needs someone to walk in front of it with a red flag.

happyborg, to random
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I have a buggy demo working, but now working on one of two really cool features while hoping that when I switch to Tauri v2 the bug will go away (cos its a tricky one and this is just a demo anyway).

I've promised the Autonomi community this demo will blow some socks off and I'm already barefoot. 😁

Excited doesn't get close.

Development is hard, always rewarding, but sometimes it's beyond superlatives.

And did I mention I love Rust?!

downey, to random
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Great to see as a member of the Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance to balance the voices of big tech. Have been tracking the hard work of @thegibson and others for quite a while now, and its P2P approach is one of the most inspiring developments on the horizon.

happyborg,
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@downey
You may also want to follow , another security and privacy focused post-quantum encrypted p2p platform due to launch in October.

I'm building a demo on it now and haven't been this excited about tech since 1994.
@thegibson

happyborg, to random
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In other news I just pulled a deer out of the canal.

It put up a hell of a fight but I got it out and carried it to a field.

Doggo seems mystified and disappointed that I let it go.

Living on a boat I don't do much as get close to nature as nature keeps shoving itself in my face.

happyborg, to random
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De-enshitification = = autonomy.

collinsworth, to random
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I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you don't have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale without paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

happyborg,
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@djsf
I love Svelte + Rust too. Both awesome but together a dream.

I'm working in a demo with them now which will help illustrate how things are about to change dramatically in the direction the OP describes, and I've not been this excited about tech since the early days of the web, when we were emailing http server IP addresses, visiting just to see what loaded from the other side of the world.

Those were amazing times and things are going to blow minds again soon.

@erickjm @collinsworth

happyborg,
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@djsf
The project is , a secure, privacy focussed peer-to-peer network (no blockchains!). It is autonomous and aims to restore autonomy, hence the name and I'm building a demo app to show developers and users some of what it can do.

You can read more in the White Paper linked at https://autonomi.com and there's a friendly knowledgeable community to ask anything at https://forum.autonomi.community
@erickjm @collinsworth

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