More than 100 #HackWeek#projects are submitted!!! Take a look at all the projects & considers if you want to take part or start your own project. The fun begins next week! https://hackweek.opensuse.org/
#projectone is getting really close to being in a "stable" state. Schedules are generated correctly, channels are "done", and things work as expected. Code just needs cleaning up, channel logos made, and finally, onto the physical build.
Also, I think I finally have all of my movies in a proper H264/AAC format. This means I'll have to re-copy files over, rebuild the DB, and do some thorough testing, but it should help with playback on the #raspberrypi 4b.
Join us at @CCC 's #37C3 conference track "Sustainability & #Climate#Justice"! We're thrilled to focus on the pressing issues of ecological injustice and ecosystem collapse. If you're passionate about creating a sustainable, just, and #democratic#digital future, we invite you to submit your presentations by November 11, 2023. We're particularly keen to hear from underrepresented groups and those from the global south.
⚡ Having fun with it — using #AI to grok policy about AI. With language models, I calculated embeddings against President #Biden's executive order on Artificial Intelligence. I used that to facilitate retrieval-augmented generation against the document based on my query, and then pass the relevant passages to a locally-running #LLM to summarize. Here I asked the model to tell me what the order said about copyright issues. Seems to work well!
Here it is in #Jupyter + Colab form — a #python Notebook demonstrating how I used text embeddings and a #LLM (LLaMA 2) to ask questions of #Biden's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence. No API keys required, just some good ol' #OpenSource libraries and models. I learned a lot!
The @CCC is back, inviting #hackers#activists, #artists, and technology enthusiasts to the renovated #Hamburg Congress Center. Expect insightful lectures, collaborative #learning, #creative#projects, and vibrant discussions in a peaceful, respectful atmosphere.
Join us at the #37C3 conference track "Sustainability & #Climate#Justice"! We're thrilled to focus on the pressing issues of ecological injustice and ecosystem collapse. If you're passionate about creating a sustainable, just, and #democratic#digital future, we invite you to submit your presentations by November 11, 2023. We're particularly keen to hear from underrepresented groups and those from the global south.
Since #electronics have been on my mind lately, I've been thinking of this ... story? situation? anecdote might be the best fit.
Doing anything every vaguely #niche, like #hobby electronics, in a small #city in the middle of #nowhere used to be quite difficult in terms of obtaining #supplies and #parts. Before the #internet, if you could plan ahead and order enough stuff at once from a big #distributor to make the #shipping charges worthwhile, #catalogs from DigiKey etc were life savers.
Some of our #projects would probably have been too expensive to do if we'd been stuck with buying parts #locally.
(This is finally tying back to my opening comments...)
This city had exactly 2 local #suppliers open to the public at the time. One, Radio Supply, was locally owned. Their prices weren't too bad, but they didn't #stock everything and didn't really do the special-order thing. If what you wanted was common and used in trade, you would be okay.
Doc Searls and Dan Lynch sat with Aral Balkan of Small Technology Foundation as he argued the venture capital model dooms most startups to unethical business practices in Silicon Valley.
Balkan explained that founders of tech projects essentially "sell the exit" to investors from day one.
With revenue growth being the driving metric, most companies get acquired by tech giants like Facebook and Google.
To build truly ethical tech alternatives, Balkan believes different incentives and success criteria are needed.
Are there any good resources out there for those who are targeting WebAssembly from a compiler? Code generation strategies? Things to know about what typical runtimes handle efficiently (or not), or how much they will optimize (or not)?
For example, it feels like locals and globals are effectively registers (can get/set, cannot get an address of for indirect access), Clang seems to use global 0 as a stack pointer, etc. Is that a correct take?
Der Sovereign Tech Fund wird heute ein Jahr alt! Am 18. Okt 2022 wurden die ersten neun Technologieprojekte der Pilotrunde auf Einladung von @franziskabrantner im Bundestag vorgestellt. Wir lassen die ersten 12 Monate unserer Arbeit Revue passieren, da wir einiges geschafft haben. 1/
Wir haben das Ziel, das Open-Source-Ökosystem nachhaltig zu stärken. Was bedeutet das überhaupt? Die neun Projekte der Pilotrunde zeigen die Bandbreite digitaler Infrastruktur und wie sehr unser Leben in verschiedenen Bereichen davon abhängt:
OpenMLS, Curl, OpenBGPd, Bundler/RubyGems, Wireguard, OpenPGP.js/GopenPGP, OpenSSH, Sequoia PGP und Fortran. Mehr zu diesen Technologien und weiteren, die wir dieses Jahr unterstützen haben, könnt Ihr hier nachlesen: https://sovereigntechfund.de/de/#projects 2/
https://myrssalgo.org ingests a bunch of articles from sources you choose and ranks them based on your prior interactions—constructing a personalized timeline/newsfeed.
You can choose to see everything or apply a customizable cutoff & only see "the best." You can mute content you don't want to see & promote content you always want to see, regardless of the algo's ratings, & importantly, your votes, searches, reading histories, settings et al. live only on your device. #projects
Vielleicht steh ich ja grad echt massiv auf einem Schlauch, aber gibt es noch andere #Flohmarkt-Instanzen außer https://fediflohmi.ch ?
Schweiz ist ein bisschen arg weit weg von hier.
Introducing BIDEN: Binary Inference Dictionaries for Electoral NLP ⚡️ Using only compression, I demonstrate a method of binary partisan classification for campaign emails and other written political materials. This method is FAST; I train the model in about 30 seconds on a CPU, and run inference in milliseconds. No GPUs. No Neural Networks. No N-grams. No transformers. No kNN. I learned a lot!
The model is simply two Zstd³ compressors — one trained on Democratic emails, the other on Republican emails. Zstd has the concept of compression dictionaries⁴ to pre-seed compressor state with example data. The idea is that if you are compressing a lot of similar data, you can optimize on common patterns. The BIDEN model labels by which compressor best performs on an input.
Good news! #projectone is getting extremely close to v0.0.1!
Getting this milestone completed is just the start. Be expecting a blog post today/tomorrow and maybe even a video update when the time is right. It's pretty basic right now so I want to show it off once it can get to a certain point.
What personal projects do you have? The more you have, the less you like your job.It’s time to switch jobs or make your personal projects your priority.
I have one, and I don’t even have a job.
If you have “side” projects, you are trying to escape life.
Ok, we'll try to attract EU-funded #projects to the fediverse.
But why?
Some projects have quite good results (let's forget for a moment those who burn public money without actual results).
And also fediverse deserves to know how funds were spent.
The domain is bought, and the server will be set up shortly.
If you're a manager or marketeer of an #EU-funded project, would you be interested in joining a dedicated #fediverse server and post about the results and the progress of your project?