Cooper8
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- Comment on My led lights suddenly turned dim. Why do they break like that? 1 week ago:
Followup question: is there a company that is not part of the new lighting cartel making screws-in bulbs that actually last 10+ years?
- Comment on Recommendations for data backup solutions ? 1 week ago:
Anyone try Peergos ?
- Comment on Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only 1 week ago:
Yes this is a great discussion. Generally speaking I see how user local-first posting mirrored by relays under e2ee can help solve some of the downsides of instance based federation, however it seems like the actual implementation makes or breaks the utility.
I have a concept that came up in reading the comments on lobster, which is that the issue of incomplete data due to asynchronous/intermittent downtime push and pull by users to/from the relays as well as inconsistent relays behavior leads to inevitable incomplete/non-consensus/out of date data access (something federation also suffers from).
My idea is that relays, bothe standard and specialized, could host a dedicated encrypted ledger for each user/key that has posted to it (potentially within a time limit, or with approval) that holds only a sequential identifier (counted since the first event by the key) of the user’s most recent activity and a unique identifier/key associated with the event the activity was associated with (so that edits would be associated with the UI of the post being edited for example, or a new message to an ongoing thread would use the UI of the thread and the UI of the message.) Limit this log to very few entries and replace it every time it is updated, say between 1 and 10, and you would keep the size of the file very small, and the pushed update from the user/key would also be very small.
This way a user could push activity log updates to a broader set of hosts/relays than the actual content/event was sent to while keeping the cache/data burden on the broader network down. Ideally this would mean that not only the Relays but also users following the user/key could hold the log (enabling gossip without large cache burden). Unlike a blockchain where the ledgers would need to cross-sync with each-other and seek consensus on larger data chunks, in this case the reader of the ledger can always default to the most recent sequential identifier, and that identifier would be generated by publishing key/user.
This way time code variance isn’t an issue, and at time of login a user can pull the logs for all users/keys they follow from relays OR peers they follow and determine the number of events posted by each user/key since they last pulled updates. Then the client could crawl the relays for the actual events with sequential identifiers between those AND stop crawling once they are found.
One issue I see with this sort of system is in the case of deleted events, so perhaps the log would also need to include a string of the sequential identifiers of events which have been deleted within a given time period.
- Comment on Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only 1 week ago:
maybe Peergos? I’m not sure, seem to match up on Goals but IDK about execution: https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos?tab=readme-ov-file
- Comment on Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only 1 week ago:
Sounds a bit like Plebbit, though that is more about P2P “communities/boards” that a user starts and others can post to, rather than a microblog type platform. Unfortunately it also has a strong association with Crypto communities as its founders come from that scene. It is built on IPFS.
What you describe also has similiarities to Secure Scuttlebutt and its successor PZP , which are both unfortunately abandoned but layed a lot of groundwork for asynchronous encryption key based networks.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You could include “either x or y or z…” specifications in the unified documentation.
So “Either soft deletion is to be disabled as by default in which case [explain standard behavior], or it is to be enabled by [yadda yadda]…”
The single document is searchable and cross-referenced internally, making it better in many cases.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 1 week ago:
Thanks Chicago School of Economics you neoliberal bastards, “monopolies are efficient” my ass.
- Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to see a lot of real fossils directly, no replicas, go to Dinosaur National Monument and check out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A huge wall of fossils still in their stone matrix.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm… somewhere in here is a solution for the Bluetooth connection prioritization/stealing quagmire but I cant sus out how.
If bluetooth audio devices would include a paired device selection function by cycling through the list of connected devices sequentially instead of auto-prioritizing either the most recent connection or the most recently paired device that would fix a lot of the Bluetooth hellscape we are in right now.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
DEX is actually pretty good when used with a keyboard and external monitor. I also dont love thr Samsung walled garden, but I end up buying their products because I use my phones for several years at a time before replacing them so top end hardware specs are a priority and especially cameras.
I would go Sony but the data band support in the US is incomplete, and I can’t get caught out by poor cell service while traveling.
I am considering going Pixel next but Graphene hasn’t been announced for Pixel 10 yet so I’m a bit on the fence, I guess I could buy an older model and give it a try wifi only for a bit to see how I like it.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 2 weeks ago:
Nice, I dont use Peertube as often as I’d like because I haven’t found the right creators for me. Good to know they already have this, should be an example to the rest of the platforms
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the issue with foldable is the non-standard aspect ratio. This gets to a standard tablet aspect ratio, so should run out of the box with most apps without additional modification.
Also DEX support on-device means it can run fully windowed applications and use mouse and keyboard natively, which is a big boost in functionality for productivity applications.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 2 weeks ago:
Client side support for a tipping link (Koffee, Patreon, crypto wallet, whatever the user’s choice is) that is built in to the UI would go a long way.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 2 weeks ago:
Most Oil and Gas reserves remaining in the US are on public land, as is the massive lithium deposit just discovered in southeastern Oregon. Then there are the seabed polymetalic nodules that will be mined sooner or later. There are plenty of opportunities to nationalize natural resources, what is lacking is political will.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 2 weeks ago:
If I’m reading(skimming) the documentation right, it seems like anyone who can pass the challenge can download the full node and see the full record of interactions. IPFS is not a perfect privacy network, so user accounts can in theory be traced back.
So basically as with Fedi instances it is fully on the Node host to set who can get in based on the challenge, and what is hosted there is their liability. Only difference is Plebbit allows any user to spin up a new instance/community node ad-hoc and they aren’t responsible for maintaining infrastructure beyond what is required seed the nodes they host.
Is that right? I’m not sure but hopefully someone better in the know will correct me if not.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I wish projects like this would offer simple “security profile” settings that would allow you to batch change the relevant settings between the most common suggested settings for different usecases.
Just “General use” and “Privacy” profiles would go a long way.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What would it take for a fork of Firefox to become the main branch one must wonder? I know I switched to LibreWolf and IronFox when this all started, not FireFox. Now I’m hearing WaterFox works on the platforms I use (is it as good?)
Neither of these projects are doing core feature development on the browser engine though, as far as I can tell. I guess what it would take is a heap of cash for them to really compete.
I see LadyBird and the grumbles about their sponsors, but at least they are really doing work from the core rather than modding.
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 2 weeks ago:
Ranked Choice ftw.
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 3 weeks ago:
I’m ok with both, but prefer co-ops because the members get direct voting on large decisions by default, rather than a proxy vote via an appointed government worker who answers to the municipal government.
That said, there is no reason these can’t be one and the same, the local government could fund the establishment of a regional co-op and maintain audit and some other limited authority over it.
I also support long-distance fiber infrastructure being built and maintained by worker’s co-ops that would then get paid for service by the regional ISPs. Worker members would be highly motivated to maintain good uptime, and hiring/training members who live local to the fiber lines in remote regions would be possible with the incentive of worker ownership. Once built it is a long term maintenance and security business with steady return, perfect for a worker’s co-op that could be financed with private capital at decent ROI.
- Comment on World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI 3 weeks ago:
Eh, recent studies show some implicit bias in some of the best Chinese models, mostly when it comes to software dev stuff so less relevant here. Not the hugest deal for this kind of projected either way, but it would be good to know if they are using those vs say Llama, or yes just building a front end fine tune for a closed model.
- Comment on Matrix Retiring the Slack Bridge by January 3 weeks ago:
In my dumb naive optimistic brain bridges are the perfect kind of software to be automatically developed, revised, tested, and updated by AI agents.
Two sets of rules with written documentation (API), translate request from one to the other, validate message sent and message received, if not revise and test again.
Realistically, I know this would likely hit a brick wall quickly, but it sure seems like if AI driven software development is getting actually practical this type of thing should be on the easier end of the spectrum of possibilities.
- Comment on World Socialist Web Site to launch Socialism AI 3 weeks ago:
I notice it doesnt say what model Socialism AI is built on top of, I’m guessing one of the Chinese models fine tuned?
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 3 weeks ago:
ISPs should be regional users cooperatives everywhere. Rural areas in the US have local ISPs structured this way, but corporate ISPs have been trying to use regulation to make them illegal in normal service areas, which is disgusting.
I predict that point to point private fiber (currently used by high speed traders) will become more and more prevalent as issues with AI impersonation and spoofing become more prevalent, we should use this infrastructure drive to push linking co-op and public mesh networks using the same long-run conduit.
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 3 weeks ago:
Nice! Thanks for posting this. Does it run on all wifi bands? Is there provision for mesh extension by wired Intranet?
- Comment on When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks
- Comment on When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%. 3 weeks ago:
You can run it yourself on a closed network if you’re worried about telemetry, that’s part of the point.
- Comment on When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%. 3 weeks ago:
is this with or without the prompt including politically sensitive topics?
- Comment on When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%. 3 weeks ago:
Check out Apertus , the Swiss are showing how it should be done. 100% open: architecture, training data, weights, recipes, and final models all publicly available and licenses Apache 2.0. https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/09/press-release-apertus-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-language-model.html
- Comment on Corn me up, snake 🐍🌽 3 weeks ago:
corn me up snake, I’m passing through your bountious fields shortly
