fruitycoder @ fruitycoder @sh.itjust.works

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Distributed computing. Its amazing to see things go from isolated PC to things like p2p torrenting and BIONIC to block chain and IPFS to kubernetes to the fediverse and Matrix and Tor.

All filling wildly different niches of trust and capability.

Want to run a secure shared virtual reality space in p2p way? Check out 3rd space built on the matrix protocol.

Want to build a highly secure computer system spanning regions and dataceneters? Check RKE2!

What about just a secure little thing in your house or across friends and family houses? Not gonna believe it but rke2 or its simply brother k3s.

Just need to store public data? Chuck into IPFS and share it in a highly cooperative way.

Want to push it out in a pub/sub fashion or sub to others info? Check out ActivityPub. Great for medium trust networks since you can choose who you publish too or subscribe from.

Maybe you want to share just metadata between private servers but real time data between users, check out matrix.

Maybe you want to share data publically but what hard incentives to keep the compute and control of that distributed. Check out block chains and pick your poison of incentive models (e.g. pow or pos or maybe look at the wierder ones). With current pick of creating a limited supply digital asset to act like currencies do.

Maybe you just need a VPN you can trust, maybe try a distributed network of volunteers using layers of obfuscation to minize info leaked about your network.

Plenty of human problems around all of these but still super cool how far we've come.

I remember getting a scary letter because I was torrenting. I thought it so funny because I had to the only person in the world only torrenting freeaoftwarr and public domain works.

The wierdest one I made for ttrpg was a nation built by orphans in an extrwmly poverty striken nation. Life is short and fast, you do what you can to help each other out and when someone dies they get they're name, date, and one sentence voted on by people that knew written in the book.

Their is no ownership, but if you take something you better have good reason or people won't help you out. If you want something done, do it or covince the people that can to do it.

You're expected to use contraceptives unless you know the orphanage can handle more kids. If you want to do something good with what little you've got helping to take care of poor kids like yourself at the orphanage is one most sure fire ways to do that. Holden up to raise just a kid or two out by yourself is no way to make a mark and who's gonna write your sentence some snot nosed kid isolated from the rest of the world by you? Why?

The moment that defined them as nation instead of just a community was when a nearby kingdom was preparing for a war path. They set out to create the equivalent of nuclear bomb, with many lives being lost trying to save themselves and each other. They finally made it, with many sentences being written of the kids that built a sun, and founded a nation. Their neighbors gave them a different sentence, because when they demonstrated it others had to turn they're heads from the blindly blaze, but the kids "did not look away" instead smoke glasses adored admired what their felllow orphans did with them.

Basically an anarchist society built on communal child rearing, and shared mythology of legacy of brief meaningful lives.

Then they can pay to produce clean energy or reduce energy usage for people in the rest of their city to make this unnecessary. Or as another commenter put it, eat our entire collective asses.

And they should be held liable for the costs occurred to employees and customers.

Every function of the economy felt it was a game in its own right. Crafting required skill just like fighting did.

Full dive makes it way more immersive too, so more subtle things like taste and closer details matter more.

The world, while a game, really felt like it was ment to be lived in too.

Then companies deserved to be hacked. shrug

From the article: "Even knowing that Kamkar's silent, invisible, long-distance laser spy trick exists, how does anyone hide their secrets from it? He suggests that companies install double-paned or reflective glass. Some security device companies also sell protection devices that affix to windows and vibrate them to prevent laser microphone spying, and Kamkar concedes he hasn't tested his attack against those. But he also suggests a safer countermeasure: “Don't work on computers visible from a window,” he says. “Or just have dirty windows.”"

Sweet. There has been a little too much "open" just enough to contribute but restrictions on the actual end user.

I'm super excited to see machine vision for inventory management personally. A tons of trades is just finding the right connectors, plates, wire for a job.

Oh man, taking the reference code for an academic white paper and trying to add something to it is a trip.

Almost never any thought beyond proving the point of the paper.

Oh they explicitly do that now. They talked about at length during a share holder meeting and its why hackers were able to find another cars photos on the systems they've exploited.

Honestly the closest thing I can think of is the fact that techically every Tesla is a compute node for Tesla that can be tasked to not only process local data but also other cars data.

Its a mix of both in my exp. A deciding factor I think is money source for the creator. If it subscription (librepay, opencollective, patreon, etc) peertube is fine for them. If the primarily get paid more directly odessy is more enticing (because of its built in payment system).

Subsidize to include worker rights suppression to include the extreme of state sanctioned slavery.

Cypercube

Maybe we should just give visa workers more protections?

It seems like their intentionally kept in a state of precarity by our immigration laws.

I in general very much support requiring paying for support. I.e. SLAs with consequences for not meeting targets support.

At least for software/hardware running things that can't afford indefinite unauthorized access or downtime if left in a vulnerable state. (Some stuff actually can IMHO be like that).

I also think governments should have justify renting software insteading buying it if the money is intended to be an investment of any kind.

Love "I'm a liberal" by Phill Ochs does a great job expressing the critics by the left.

Then you have neoliberal ideas which is basically capitalism with regulations, subsidies, and safety nets. Which fiscal conservatives hate because they cost money and hurt their investments.

Online people hate on them because its the status quo and things suck so they get the blame. Nvm the mountain of obstacles opents of the philosophy put up against it as well.

Hey that's what I did with Mimic2 (the Mycroft project's TTS) and DeepSpeach (Mozilla's STT) for a Lil bit. Hard to handle streaming data right, but it was doableish.