Posts by rob@openshare.me
(DIR) Post #AQOwuc7xSPdUFYt0Uq by rob@openshare.me
2022-12-08T15:50:30Z
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@alejandrobdn That is a shame. Like everything, it has a learning curve and added complexity of its own, but then abstracts a bunch of things that used to be important away so you don't have to think about them again.Trying to use it for the first time to stand something up that already has lots of complexity is hard as it initially just multiplies the entropy.I started by learning the basics on a simple bit of software of my own with a nodejs service in a container. `docker build` and `docker run`. Then add external ports , state (mount an external volume) etc until you have built something that works. All the rest of it just kind of flows from those basics as you add building blocks to make complete systems.Diving straight in with docker-compose on an existing big system with lots of components is pretty hardcore. I couldn't.
(DIR) Post #AQP1uBZufL8rgEZqE4 by rob@openshare.me
2022-12-08T16:46:30Z
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@alejandrobdn ping me if you get to that point again and don't find something useful. Happy to spend half an hour on a call to signpost the basics.I'm no docker deployment guru, just somebody who has come from tin, to VMs, to containers. I've found each one a step in the right direction to spend less time doing the same tedious tasks related to the environment my code runs in and more time thinking about how to make those services scale and run reliably.
(DIR) Post #AQpUrgpnwqLaX289RI by rob@openshare.me
2022-12-21T09:33:34Z
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@atomicpoet Does it matter? If the underlying protocols are architected for federation and easy migration then any instances that go bad won't last long.I do see a model like SMTP e-mail becoming a thing where technically anyone can federate, but it becomes increasingly hard for non well-resourced players to provide the necessary abuse management to play effectively.
(DIR) Post #AR2EUUBNkVEIQ7cEka by rob@openshare.me
2022-12-27T09:56:43Z
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Is it just me or does anyone else love it here, but find the word "Fediverse" cringe inducing.Toot, I could have lived with but federation is the natural order of things and it all seems a bit "Information Superhighway" or "find me on the World Wide Web", no?
(DIR) Post #AWCxLuTmoFGMnbLog4 by rob@openshare.me
2023-05-31T07:02:21Z
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There is no credible scenario under which "AI" could autonomously seize control and wipe us off the planet.Machine Learning is however already widely used as a tool for industrial scale manipulation of economic and political systems by humans.Computer programs are not going to press the nuclear launch button without a human who is authorised to do it allowing them to. All of the scenarios in which they are able to do significant harm to the human race require human agency to connect them up in a way that causes them to do so.AI isn't going to press the button, but it is already being used as an occult tool by humans whose only qualities are wealth and self serving ambition to exert control over societal opinion. The risk here isn't that it will directly take catastrophic actions, it is that it is used as a tool get people elected who will be crazy enough to do so.We are being asked to look at the wrong risks in my opinion.https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk
(DIR) Post #AXtWnehQ0LVWCxrZtQ by rob@openshare.me
2023-07-12T08:58:05Z
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This is going to be fun!
(DIR) Post #AXurShkbkyKZmoAMXQ by rob@openshare.me
2023-07-21T10:24:55Z
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@mansr @neil They won't have any choice, they will have to.They can't break a key feature of their products for the entire world because one tiny backward principality thinks it is King Canute.On the other hand, it is a real Law, any of their managers operating (or just visiting) here can be thrown in jail if they continue to offer those services here.They only have one way to comply.
(DIR) Post #AXutI23g74JNUZ7niS by rob@openshare.me
2023-07-21T10:45:25Z
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@mansr @neil Problem is it wouldn't just be UK accounts, it would be anyone worldwide who communicates with a UK account, or is in a chat group with just one UK user. They have to consider what fraction of the worldwide user base they will lose to products that don't cave. Nobody seriously trusts Meta anyway, but Apple makes a big thing of E2E, and it is the only thing signal has.