I made base-1353 encoding, so I can fit 256-bit values, like “96cca2a0c8a3263c74ef36274abf55f410d992034d16e8285811a9ad3fc59c13”, into short 26 character strings, like “ᓒᔳᣏዧᐎᑙᖜዌᙔᐸƫȶƃᒨዊጶᙵኻѫyፐᎉᑫᖫᘪᒩ”.
(Also, I think these sigils are beautiful.)
johnservil.github.io/sigil/play.h...
My blog post that explains the latest #WSocial controversy is up:
🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/public-by-de...
Disclaimer for W folks: this work is entirely self-funded, with childcare help courtesy of my family so I could write the first full draft on Sunday 💁♀️
#WIdentity#WSocialFacts#privacy
Another hand/finger tracking experiment, this time using the built-in monochrome cameras on the Steam Frame! Everything runs on-device, including the recording of the video itself! 🥳
#SteamOS#Linux#SteamFrame#VR#SteamFun
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Bandcamp Fridays is now very, very good. You don't know yet because all Bandcamp Friday bangers circulating today is from 2-3 sales ago.
Bandcamp Fridays et al has solved infinite bangers.
A left that could say “the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it” was offering something people could want. Losing that voice to endless fights over whether wanting the future was itself morally suspect was a hell of a loss.
I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff.
The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.
Tons of changes in the latest 0.0.8 update for my open source #SteamFrame native VR video player! Becoming something actually usable now :)
#Steam#SteamOS#FOSS#OSS#VR#VRVideo
At this point, ai coding is two things: the pure engineering side of the craft, and workflows around managing the agent once the project gets large enough that it gets confused.
Half the job is stopping it from the equivalent of three cue reading.
MatineeVR - Open Source Native and hardware-accelerated VR video playback on Steam Frame (Experimental / WIP)
embedding-shapes.itch.io/matineevr#Steam#SteamOS#SteamFrame#FOSS#OSS#VR
I found no native Steam Frame applications for local playback standalone on the device itself, so I made it myself! :)
Native ARM64 binary with Iris hardware decoding, GPU rendering and OpenXR running directly on the headset standalone, all hardware accelerated! \o/
#SteamOS#Linux#SteamFrame
Almost embarrassed to say this but, I just got the Steam Frame and one of the first things I felt like I had to do once inside the desktop environment, was to get Codex installed and get dictation going...
Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias.
One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women.
console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
We believe an open web starts with choice. That includes AI models.
We’re excited to be partnering with Mistral to bring open-source AI to Firefox Smart Window beta and expand access to France, with French-language support.
Was building a harness for Qwen3.8-27B by using Qwen3.8-27B locally, to see how useful it is for real work.
I was keeping all the session logs produced by this harness, so I could share it once done.
The model just deleted all the session files via typo, so yeah, not so ready for real work yet...
Trying something different, a more personal post about AI, authenticity, club nights and why a room full of strangers can feel more human than anything on a screen. Kind of out there for me, but here goes nothing :)
emsh.cat/en/the-peopl...#AI#MusicSky#ElectronicMusic#WritingCommunity
Was building a harness for Qwen3.8-27B by using Qwen3.8-27B locally, to see how useful it is for real work.
I was keeping all the session logs produced by this harness, so I could share it once done.
The model just deleted all the session files via typo, so yeah, not so ready for real work yet...
Alright, the Codex Micro just arrived! Now lets see how I can use this not with Codex but with my own harness, and hopefully also forcefully add a microphone to this device :D
It seems like #OpenAI is planning to encrypt all the prompts that #codex uses on disk, we can already not see whatever the main agent sends subagents as it's encrypted, and they're sending ciphertexts to the endpoints for inference?!
What in the world?! Why would you do this? We need introspection!
Side-note, my HN submission about this (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890...) is probably the submission that got the most points in the shortest time, 30+ points in ten minutes...
If you are looking for Jerry's Map original panels go to ebay.com! There are a few being sold at auction right now! Thanks for the massive response to People Make Games!
It really is! Just achieved ~400 tok/s in single prompt text-generation! Text-only still, but still :) #DiffusionGemma feels like it has a really good foundation for local AI.
Loading a 50GB model into VRAM + 1024 tokens inference in under 8 seconds in total, I think this changes everything :)
DiffusionGemma is something else, getting +200 tok/s in my Rust implementation without even having a look at the performance, and the model is relatively clever for its size. GPU utilization is so much better than pretty much every other local model available.
Incredible map by @jerrysmap.bsky.social beautifully presented by @itsquinns.bsky.social and @chrisbratt.bsky.social
One imaginary map created over 40 years, as a "analogue generative art machine" essentially. Really interesting, inspiring and made be tear-eyed at the end, what a magical project.
DiffusionGemma is something else, getting +200 tok/s in my Rust implementation without even having a look at the performance, and the model is relatively clever for its size. GPU utilization is so much better than pretty much every other local model available.
Using #Firefox and #1Password and suddenly see an emoji picker where you should see your usernames? Seems Firefox version 150 added a new shortcut that overrides 1Password's shortcut, here's how to disable it so you can use 1Password properly again: emsh.cat/en/how-to-di...
Got myself a Mac Mini so I could do CI builds of macOS apps at home.
First time I left it and came back later, monitor received *something* but screen was black. Bit of troubleshooting later, turns out I hit my first macOS bug, I have barely used it!
I have a feeling I'm in for a lot of fun...
Ok, cool, so people tell me to report it via "Feedback Assistant", open up the app, enter my email and the login UX flow doesn't even automatically move the fucking focus to the password field...
This has to be a fucking joke, very different experience compared to 10 years ago when shit just worked
I wrote a short post-mortem on the Bluesky outage we had on Monday. First time using pckt, it was a really nice experience tbh!
pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...
Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...
I am very excited to announce our partnership @eurosky.social with @igalia.com!
The partnership will accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the open social web, enabling developers, organizations, & communities to build new applications.
cc @xanlopez.xyz
I'm finally ready to show off the thing I've been working on: atBB (pre-alpha)!
It's a forum platform built on top of atproto.
I wrote up some thoughts about why I am interested in building forums: pckt.blog/b/mal-s-musi...
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#reddit mobile app seemingly got rid of "All" and you cannot even manually go to r/all...
I guess it was about when, not if, and now I've finally uninstalled reddit and will stop using it, as they clearly want less users.
How would people feel about an open source/open data alternative to myheritage/ancestry and similar family tree services? So annoying they're inaccessible unless you register, shouldn't knowledge about past people be open?