There are many challenges when designing federated applications. Here I share thoughts that I've been developing with the Commune group, as we envision a fediverse of agents, not a fediverse of servers.
@JamesGleick probably not, maybe Shakespeare but even in that case an American had to reconstruct the theatre because the British were totally uninterested
One technology which I think deserves more hype (it is getting a little) are Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)!
I made sure to include it in my exploration of a minimal yet inclusive OS (upcoming page), quote:
"In just the past decade Computer Science brought us the concept of CRDTs! Which represents your document as a series of edits, which combine such that no matter in which order these edits you recieved we get the same result!
@darktable Yes, really looking forward! I really love how fast Darktable is evolving. Thanks a lot to all the developers! I am right now editing a whole wedding shooting and I am glad there is no cloud, AI or license bullshit I have to deal with, and no need to use Windows. Just editing images and my customers love the results.
I always strive to be kind to everyone. This world is hard enough, and you never know what someone is going through.
But the truth is, this kindness never extends inward. It pains me to admit that I'm quite mean to myself—meaner than I've ever been to another person, ever.
I'm working on it, but it's a hard habit to break.
So I want to know: what's one simple thing you do to show yourself some kindness?
The FTC on AI: "Don’t misrepresent what these services are or can do. Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods." #AIhttps://werd.io/2024/succor-borne-every-minute
The responses to the Trump verdict offer an instructive – and alarming – reminder of what defines the American Right today: They are out for bloody retaliation, all dressed up as patriotism.
Across the world the right to repair is gaining traction... in the UK Jay Blades & his colleagues on The Repair Shop have pushed repairing into the mainstream.
This has been going on for some time, including cycle repair Co-ops, repair clinics etc. Every now & then it pops up in the mainstream media... and here is this week's iteration.
Repairing is the future, but the Tech firms don't want us to embrace it - resist!
I'm very excited that the #Ghost team has chosen #Fedify to implement #ActivityPub. I've been working closely with the Ghost team, and it's been a lot of fun, and I can't wait to see the ActivityPub implementation at Ghost.