Daily Journal 📓 February 2023

• Ben Hoyt From Go on EC2 to Fly.io #GoLang #Fly.io
  • New to me Paketo #Buildpacks
  • Fly has persistent storage volumes
  • Is environment variables an indicator of 12 Factor App? What other consequences are there of env based config?

• #Stable Diffusion takes live action video and turns it into anime. Democratizing animation production by lowering the cost #video
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• Tom Scott “I tried using AI. It scared me.” #ChatGPT
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  • Asks where we are on the #sigmoid curve of AI as technology
  • If we’re only at the knee of the curve — the 1999 Napster moment — then the rapid vertical additive growth “changes everything” in the next 10 years
  • Also: email folders??? Yeah he definitely does email wrong.

- Nora Tindall: The Fediverse is Already Dead Fediverse - “The Fediverse” needs to end, and I don’t think anything should replace it. Speak instead about communities, and prioritize the strength of those communities. Speak about the way those communities interact, and don’t; the way they form strands and islands and gulfs. ==I’ve taken to calling this the Social Archipelago.== - A fantastic presentation by Joan Westenberg NFT crypto - {{video https://youtube.com/watch?v=wRnC8pA2-sk}} - The main message is “no, we’re not early” and that people need to be serious about building - Looking at…

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• I was looking to download some videos from #YouTube
  • The WikiHow for downloading YouTube on #MacOS mentions VLC Player , which no longer seems to work
  • The second option is 9xBuddy which seems sketchy and I had to dodge some porn ads and pop ups but did get a raw video URL that seems to work

⭐️ flynn/noise Go implementation of the Noise Protocol Framework

- Ethan Mollick The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI Bing/AI ChatGPT - We are not ready for the future of Analytic Engines. I think every organization that has a substantial analysis or writing component to their work will need to figure out how to incorporate these new tools fast, because the competitive advantage gain is potentially enormous. If highly-skilled writers and analysts can save 30-80% of their time by using AI to assist with basic writing and analysis, what does that mean? How do we adopt these technologies into our work and lives? What happens when the web is flooded…

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⭐️ tvler/streetpass Find your people on Mastodon

- StreetPass via FediverseReport - StreetPass is a cool new browser extension that uses Mastodon's verification system in a clever way. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site. StreetPass lets you know when you've found one of these links, and adds them to your list. As you browse the web, StreetPass will build a list of Mastodon users that belong to the websites you visit. I spoke with the creater @tvler about the project, 🧵 below. Visit https://streetpass.social to try it yourself! - The Single-Page-App Morality Play shared via author Baldur Bjarnason…

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⭐️ DWebYVR/notes A website and notes repo for DWebYVR

Laurie Voss rebuttal to Alex Russell’s latest post The case for frameworks Alex makes the astonishing assertion that "vanishingly few scaled sites feature long sessions and login-gated content". The above, as an anecdote to the contrary, is a screenshot of my start screen on my personal laptop in Firefox; it is roughly speaking a list of my most-visited websites. Ignoring Alpaca, an unreleased side project of mine, all but one are SPAs. Taking the requirements of "long sessions, login gated content", all but one should be single page apps. Certainly the long tail of websites in the world is…

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⭐️ freenet/freenet-core Declare your digital independence

- Freenet - ((63e6665e-4a45-4ea5-a476-687e227caf78)) - Librecast - ((63e668fc-ffdb-403d-8bc7-2758ed79e50e)) - Both found via Jacky Alciné - Ethan Mollick A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself deepfake - The bad news, or at least some of it, is immediately obvious. You probably shouldn’t trust any video or audio recording ever again. There are some good use cases for this as well: realistic AI-run avatars could serve as customer support agents, personal tutors, and more. Hopefully, the positive uses will outweigh the negative, but our world is changing rapidly, and the consequences…

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- New Yorker ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web ChatGPT - ==Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web.== It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that a jpegretains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation. But, because the approximation is presented in the form of grammatical text, which ChatGPT excels at creating, it’s usually acceptable. You’re still looking at a blurry jpeg, but the blurriness occurs in a way that doesn’t…

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⭐️ jaywink/socialhome A federated social home

⭐️ KhalidLam/CubeMail CubeMail is a webmail client built using React and Chakra UI, It runs in the browser and uses the Gmail’s public Javascript API.

- Socialhome ActivityPub social network - ((63e495db-3a4f-4f1c-a914-f7b74728c5f6)) - Chris Dixon Toys, Secrets, and Cycles: Lessons from the 2000s future of venture - The key web 2 concepts were: letting users publish whatever they want (“user generated content” was a buzzword), social graphs, APIs and mashups (what we'd call composabilitytoday), defaulting profiles and photos to public vs private, and tagging over hierarchical navigation, among other things. There were also technical innovations. A seemingly simple but important one was web pages that updated dynamically without reloading…

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• I posted about Chatter Net to my personal blog, which cross posts into my #Twitter and #Mastodon accounts. Completely shadowbanned on Twitter. First time I’ve seen this.
  • POST IN SCREENSHOT
• Disroot is a web services platform focused on open source and federated services
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⭐️ chatternet/conversely

⭐️ erlend-sh/opensource-curriculum Curriculum for students of ‘open source’, starting with a narrow focus on open software development.

⭐️ wnfs-wg/roadmap The roadmap provides information on future improvements to WNFS and their priorities/timelines. It also helps you participate in this process. What can you contribute? Help us accomplish things faster!

• Mastodon Embed Tools by Patrick Curry #Mastodon
  • A set of different embedding, suitable for putting on a website of your own
  • The “article mode” that turns a thread of tweets into what looks like one long article is great
• I’m waiting to get the thumbs up from Flancian before I share, but I did write and publish about Twitter API costs and Moa Party Shutdown #Moa Party #Twitter

⭐️ y-crdt/y-crdt Rust port of Yjs

- Exclusive Q&A: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence AGI John Carmack - The iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR visionary has pivoted to an audacious new challenge: developing artificial general intelligence—a form of AI that goes beyond mimicking human intelligence to understanding things and solving problems. Carmack sees a 60% chance of achieving initial success in AGI by 2030. Here’s how, and why, he’s working independently to make it happen. - Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking Glenn Fleishman Mastodon - A very good intro and…

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⭐️ chatternet/chatternet-client-http

⭐️ Rakefire/jekyll-ical-tag Pull ICS feed and provide a for-like loop of calendar events in jekyll’s liquid tag

• Chatter Net

  • The key difference is that it’s made to be compatible with #ActivityPub. So instead of being oppositional to the leading protocol, it’s complementary.

    • via Erlend Sogge Heggen in Noosphere Discord
  • Uses did:key
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⭐️ theahaco/witme Tools for generating to and from wit format

• Simon Wardley Why the fuss about conversational programming?
  • Start by going back to Why the Fuss About Serverless?
• Coffee with Ed Levinson
  • Talked about When Tailwinds Vanish
  • IndieVC is starting back up
  • Some ideas around specialized investment funding for Enterprise SaaS focused companies
• Tao of Mac makes a list of #ActivityPub/Server and #ActivityPub/Client resources
• Deno writes about The Future (and the Past) of the Web is Server Side Rendering #Server Side Rendering
  • They have their own framework Fresh
  • Mentions islands architecture
• Why You Should Use Islands Architecture

- Matt Lorentz compares Nostr vs SSB for Planetary - Paul Kedrosky - AP: probably 10M users, mostly Mastodon flavoured. Lots of dev activity. - AtProtocol/Bluesky: Private Alpha User facing, minimal dev activity. - Farcaster: curated private user facing, good but niche dev activity. - Nostr: yolo Bitcoin centric culture wanted a protocol. - DWebYVR organizer meeting tonight - As expected, just Emily McGill and I, but an excellent discussion and trial run of Deville Coffee - BUT, had a connection via DM on Twitter and got a chat group started - DWeb Vancouver/2023 Feb Planning Meeting -…

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