My first computer printer was a #Teletype 33 which I could barely pick up, as it was a big beast made almost entirely of metal. And not flimsy metal, this thing could have taken a bullet and not flinched.
Printing was at an incredible - very noisy - 3ish characters per second, and all UPPER CASE!
@aral Yes, ads themselves are toxic, drive toxic business models and toxic products, partly through centralising power, and of course by hiding better products and undermining trusted networks (eg person-to-person).
Aral, do you recall me urging you to look at Safe Network a few years ago because of these issues, to bring your UX ideas?
I know you have your own approach as well but hope that now it is happening it will be interesting to you - recently renamed #Autonomi
@fabio it sounds like we have similar principles and goals but a different idea of what's important to realise them. Which is completely ok, necessary really.
Personally I don't see how people can look past Meta v fediverse and justify helping Meta in order to connect with people who are still there. It's one of the reasons they can exploit and abuse those people, and anyone visiting a website that helps them track even non Meta users.
I don't get abusive but I understand people's anger.
The reason that could happen is a consequence of one of the core problems that fedi doesn't solve: servers controlled by admins.
Hence we need even less centralisation of the levers of power, and increased choice and autonomy for users. I'm hopeful #p2p will do this and that 2024 will be the year we see the beginnings of that.
#Fedi was a step in the right direction but never going to solve these issues using traditional servers.
It's not just "people in the street" though. It includes career technologists who have dived deep into LLMs. I know one who says things like, perhaps humans aren't all that intelligent after all, reasoning that we're doing something very similar to an LLM.
I know but cannot prove that an LLM lacks a human like mind, but so much of what is said implies that it's not that different and encourages conflation, and there are already dangerous legal precedents built on such lies. @simon
@simon I think there is a point because something has changed. People are suddenly experiencing something uncannily like all the fictional AIs they've read about and watched in movies.
Many people, including plenty I expect to know better are seeing a conversational UX with a black box behind it, as opposed to a few lines of basic, and then make wildly overblown assumptions about what it is. Deliberately encouraged by those using deceptive framing such as 'hallucinations' to describe errors.
@sil And may I suggest, remember that github = Microsoft, and that almost any company that isn't already owned by one of the big untrustworthy corporations can become owned by one of them overnight. Currently we have no good options.
Until we do I'd put the emphasis on portability, not so much on past record.
Is it easy to export into a useful format? If so, do it regularly in case one day it is not. @simon
@simon One of the primary goals of #SafeNetwork is to solve this problem, and it has now entered pre beta testing.
It has been through a number of designs and false starts and is aiming to launch with relatively modest initial features compared to its earlier perpetual, versioned web. But the capability to implement that, inc. non-expiring human-readable domain names will be there. So watch this space in 2024, or even join in the testing and get a feel for what is coming. @mfowler@timbray
The only good thing about the looming disaster that is faux AI, is seeing less drivel talked about #cryptocurrency and less calling anyone who talks about digital tokens a crypto-bro.
Also, one of those technologies being subject to a landgrab by the corporations and VCs who ruin everything, may leave the other to get back to its roots.
Ultimately we should all embrace #p2p and make it work for us, because otherwise our enslavement by capital will accelerate. #crypto is a valid list of this.
I just started looking at it because MaidSafe are implementing support for it in #SafeNetwork and I'm wondering if it would be possible to implement support for #ActivityPub on top of #gossipsub.
It would be amazing if this potentially widely used library were a way to link Safe and other #p2p networks to the #fediverse
@raucao You've joined the Musk cult and are encouraging others.
Can't you see where this is going?
Do you want your connection to others to have Musk as the gatekeeper?
Are you ok with finding Musk's funding hegemony?
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I refused to give Murdoch my money for decades, I gave up things dear to me, but for the slightest convenience humans do seen willing to give up everything. This is why we're fucked man.
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