Notices by Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)

@nemobis pics or it didn't happen ;-)

@nemobis nice!

... & why it is needed https://www.404media.co/the-cdcs-website-is-being-actively-purged-to-comply-with-trump-dei-order/

It looks like the CDC uploaded a 98 GB snapshot of their datasets as of January 28, 2025 to @internetarchive

https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets

I haven't really been paying attention to the news so I actually found this NYT article about DeepSeek somewhat helpful. Especially this:

> ... the impressive performance of the DeepSeek model raised questions about the unintended consequences of the American government’s trade restrictions. The controls have forced researchers in China to get creative with a wide range of tools that are freely available on the internet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/technology/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk4.LlQI.8MiXuJdKy3fy

@nemobis what a perfect use case for that tool, thanks!

@nemobis ps. I love how @phanpy displays those embedded links from your post inline:

It has happened before, but it is astonishing how the whitehouse.gov website can be completely gutted during a change of administration. If you have linked to anything on there it might be worth considering updating to point at a web archive. Here's an example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250118023441/https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/

🔖 Plan for the Artist Owned Internet: A Collectively Owned Bandcamp Successor
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1znV0Q8_jjxFTiKeT_FETTZieiXlJ0ZUn/view?pli=1

Also: https://subvert.fm/

#coop #music #bandcamp

One nice side effect of ripping my old CDs is rediscovering music I like that has been sitting in my basement.

I know, I should've seen that coming right?

#TIL wget is able to use HTTP Range requests to complete a file download that was previously terminated due to a connection failure.

@raffaele @wikimediaitalia @nemobis I'm working with an automated translation, but that seems ... weirdly anachronistic?

@alex interesting questions! I found myself thinking of how #webrings could fit in somewhere.

@alex For some community archiving work [1] I've been helping evaluate ipfs-cluster for adding/deleting pins (files) amongst a group of collaborators. I do find myself worrying about overcommitting to IPFS because even after all these years it doesn't seem to get used by many in actual production systems. But maybe that's not fair.

[1] https://www.shiftcollective.us/ffdw/

@alex we have been focused on getting static site exports out of dynamic web applications, and onto ipfs-cluster where they can then be replicated amongst friendly organizations. But really the harder part so far has been, like you said, the social governance part.

https://inkdroid.org/2024/10/20/pincushion/

@alex random aside re governance: I just received this in the mail yesterday from @medlab

https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/03/get-our-latest-zine-open-source-governance-change-cards

@alex but back to torrents, clients have been around a while, and have been stress tested under the most severe conditions. It's hard to imagine the protocol going away as long as there is an Internet? You might want to check out how Magnet Links work, which let users share links to their torrents and retrieve the metadata and data from peers using a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). IPFS uses a DHT as well.

@beep the next sentence is a banger too:

> AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.

I wish more developers thought about how they were binding systems together when they integrated ML models and AI services into their software. But maybe they are, and its their managers who are not.

This is a good reminder for me to read your book!

#TIL at #loco2024 that the #bbc has a Sustainable Engineering Team. Of course they do. 🙌

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/sustainable-engineering

Has anyone read anything that backs up the assertion that "semantic search" actually does get at the meaning of words? I mean apart from tautological definitions where semantic search is always already semantic.