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Anyone know what/who is good to follow regarding #OpenSourceAI? (other than that hashtag)
Including news, models, and high-quality clients or other related high-quality/notable software news. And hopefully without noise, slop, hype, and drama etc.
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Anyone know what/who is good to follow regarding #OpenSourceAI? (other than that hashtag)
Including news, models, and high-quality clients or other related high-quality/notable software news. And hopefully without noise, slop, hype, and drama etc.
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Anyone know what/who is good to follow regarding #OpenSourceAI? (other than that hashtag)
Including news, models, and high-quality clients or other related high-quality/notable software news. And hopefully without noise, slop, hype, and drama etc.
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Anyone know what/who is good to follow regarding #OpenSourceAI? (other than that hashtag)
Including news, models, and high-quality clients or other related high-quality/notable software news. And hopefully without noise, slop, hype, and drama etc.
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Anyone know what/who is good to follow regarding #OpenSourceAI? (other than that hashtag)
Including news, models, and high-quality clients or other related high-quality/notable software news. And hopefully without noise, slop, hype, and drama etc.
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Last week I biked ~300km in 3 days on gravel and road, starting from home. A cyclone rolled in and we had to take a bus back home (grateful to the driver who let the bikes on) but we did as much of the trail as we planned to.
What an adventure full of serendipity and good times with friends. It really was about the journey not the destination.
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Privacy isn't just about not being spied on.
Your mind is a private sovereign space. Having it invaded and manipulated by things you didn't ask for is an invasion of that privacy, and arguably much more serious than what people typically consider privacy-invasion.
Being able to completely control what goes into your mind through your eyes and ears should be the basic standard for any software you choose to use or any media you view.
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RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@BuddhismNow/116345953943414132
> The motto for becoming genuine: nothing is gained by speaking. The goodness of Vimalakirti enters the gate of nonduality.
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Very cool little site with nifty DIY improvements for my new family ebike, Aventon Abound LR.
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I kinda like that "we are not the same" meme, as it highlights the importance of the intention behind an action, rather than the action itself. This seems sorely lost in many peoples judgements of actions, including their own, and including both "good" and "bad" looking actions.
You can cherrypick any subset of actions for yourself or someone else and make blanket judgements. But intentions are often more consistent and revealing.
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Finally, signs of a real crackdown on dark-patterns. Banning kids from social and chat does nothing but allow platforms to continue exploiting Adults with dark-patterns. Its the dark-patterns that are the problem and what should actually be banned.
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Is it just me or does most of the apps out there suddenly now have some kind of automatic "year in review" thing? I guess its because gen AI makes it easy. On the other hand there can be a certain sense of dread about it as it just reminds the user how much the company is spying on them.
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I was reminded again by a post, that the Fediverse appears to be losing active users in recent months.
What could this actually mean though?
Personally what first comes to my mind are positive things:
- Less noise doing the rounds.
- More people are turning away from distraction.
- This is natural for a network that lacks people/algos pulling strings in the background to keep up engagement - there will be ups and downs. -
So after adding quote-posts to Mastodon, it seems the "quote-post apocalypse" did not eventuate.
I like to think it's because the user-base of Mastodon contains a much higher density of "well intentioned" users and far fewer of influencers, bots, attention-seekers and monetization etc. And the reason there are few of those, is because the user has full choice to never see them.
Intentions matter and so does **user-quality**.
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So after adding quote-posts to Mastodon, it seems the "quote-post apocalypse" did not eventuate.
I like to think it's because the user-base of Mastodon contains a much higher density of "well intentioned" users and far fewer of influencers, bots, attention-seekers and monetization etc. And the reason there are few of those, is because the user has full choice to never see them.
Intentions matter and so does **user-quality**.
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So after adding quote-posts to Mastodon, it seems the "quote-post apocalypse" did not eventuate.
I like to think it's because the user-base of Mastodon contains a much higher density of "well intentioned" users and far fewer of influencers, bots, attention-seekers and monetization etc. And the reason there are few of those, is because the user has full choice to never see them.
Intentions matter and so does **user-quality**.
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So after adding quote-posts to Mastodon, it seems the "quote-post apocalypse" did not eventuate.
I like to think it's because the user-base of Mastodon contains a much higher density of "well intentioned" users and far fewer of influencers, bots, attention-seekers and monetization etc. And the reason there are few of those, is because the user has full choice to never see them.
Intentions matter and so does **user-quality**.
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So after adding quote-posts to Mastodon, it seems the "quote-post apocalypse" did not eventuate.
I like to think it's because the user-base of Mastodon contains a much higher density of "well intentioned" users and far fewer of influencers, bots, attention-seekers and monetization etc. And the reason there are few of those, is because the user has full choice to never see them.
Intentions matter and so does **user-quality**.
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Lately I've been tossing around this concept of "user-quality".
It's not something I have heard talked about much in tech.
The idea is that instead of trying to design and scale your app to the maximum number of users (usually the "marginal user"), design it around only attracting or grouping users based on "quality". What is quality? for me that is only interacting with users with good intentions, and/or good first-hand knowledge.
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Local consumer watchdog confirms Black Friday is a lie.
Happy Buy-Nothing day.
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"No One Does The Doing"
Ownership/authorship/doership are the illusion. It's imagined and elaborated. Contrived and sprinkled on top.
But doing, participation, struggle, and even the feeling of a "self", are actually there regardless of any owner/author/doer.
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So Collins dictionary awarded "vibe coding" the word of the year.
But what is more ridiculous is their actual dictionary definition of it:
> the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code.
Yikes....
Personally I would define it as:
> the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to write computer code, without any significant understanding nor review of the code
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/vibe-coding
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After all the personal services I have self-hosted for many years, in the long-run what are my top 5 in terms of usefulness and daily usage?
1. Nextcloud
2. Miniflux
3. Linkding
4. Kimai
5. HomeAssistantThank you devs and community 🙏
#SelfHosting #OpenSource #Nextcloud #Miniflux #Linkding #Kimai #HomeAssistant
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How the normally dreaded "Privacy Policy Update" should be done.
✅ Clear, simple, and dread-free notification email.
✅ Link directly to the applicable markdown file commit, easily allowing a diff between previous versions.
✅ Privacy gets better/clearer instead of worse/ass-covering.
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In the spiritual and philosophical world, I've come to find the real answers and solutions are in the silence.
The teachings or "non-silence" are just tools, not answers or solutions.
The tools can help reveal the silence by clarifying the mind, if I use them as tools. Picking up when needed and putting down when done.
Mental silence is not totally nothing either. It's the root of flow and being.
It's the difference between practicing vs just learning.
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What is always certain, but totally lacks "thingness"?
Pure observation. Awareness. Consciousness.
That thou art.
Verify for yourself.
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Something I appreciate about #bifl or #buyforlife mentality, is that "shopping" has a certain background anxiety in it which became obvious only after becoming a much calmer person.
There is anxiety motivating one to buy products, anxiety motivating one to not buy in case of regret, anxiety about finding the perfect product, sustainability anxiety etc.
Being less dependent on stuff and buying stuff that lasts means the less I have to go through the grind of shopping again.
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A fairly dire collection of scientific snippets about the side effects from unchecked use of tech... probably only getting worse now with AI.
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Trying to encompass the full extend of what BIFL means to me ("Buy It For Life"):
- Lasts a long time.
- Doesn't go obsolete easily.
- Simple timeless design and aesthetic that wont feel "dated" easily.
- Reliable time-tested construction which doesn't have unforeseen bugs, issues and failures.
- A new version with a few tweaks doesn't come out every year or so to entice me.
- Can be repaired.
- Can buy the same one again in 10+ years time if lost or destroyed. -
When was the last time your mind was satisfied enough by its own activity, that it stopped and came to rest in its natural state of peaceful awareness all by itself?
Perhaps the best way to answer this question is simply to allow it to relax into its natural state here and now, instead of with more activity trying to think or remember the last time.
Then your answer to this question, no matter when it is asked, will always be the same...: Now.