Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
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- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
Another reason is because gmail has the best email ui
@astrid why 🤮 for homebrew? Im asking from a position of ignorance lol
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We should turn all cargo ships into sailboats again. Almost zero emissions plus having to wait a month for your amazon order would incentive local business.
But above all that: Just imagine the amazing look of that beasts.
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nothing ruins my motivation to send fixes to your open source project more than to ask me to sign a CLA for it.
sorry guys I'm just not that interested in reviewing a legal contract just to improve your software for free
sry im very 🍻 right now but I hope what im saying makes at least a little bit of sense
Answer is, right now its a fucking man page, which starts with, "how to read this manual"
And I think we, as a whole, have to do WAYYYYYY BETTER
I 10000% feel this and agree with you, if anything I think your take doesn't go far enough ...
IMO the linux platform itself, the server itself, needs another layer to provide UI
Even if someone ships a binary, how many years of experience in linux sysadmin are they gonna need to make it so that the binary starts up again when they reboot the fcker ??
It's not like systemd has 1st party documentation or easy to use tooling or anything... Even IF we can get it to turn on, thats only half the battle... We really want to operationalize a program with a full lifecycle.... Wheres the UI for that ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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I've been trying to install Akkoma for three hours. https://gabekangas.com/blog/2022/06/ship-software-not-code/
the omniscient nutrition provider aggregator
AP/mastodon is so bizzare because its populated by ppl who really DONT want publishing, preferring privacy+control+community-ownership over discoverability.
But PUB is literally in the name!!!! And its in the design, too; it feels like there's a big effort to shoe horn essentially e2ee group chat into something that was absolutely never intended to be used that way.
IMO it might eventually come time to start over w/ a new protocol more like SSB. Separate the server convenience service from the data ownership and authentication.
I think bitcoin wallet ui (electrum) has a lot to teach us about how to make e2ee live up to its security hype without falling into the same usability black hole of gpg
And that doesn't mean everyone *has* to have that level of control/responsibility. Just that its always an option. Can still have a server that owns your privatekey and has "forgot my password".
@WizardOfDocs saying this in a way that kinda sounds like equivocation, its an insult to graffiti 😮💨
They are really not the same. Really, rich ppl graffiti looks like big ornate pieces that take many hours to complete and hundreds of dollars in premium spray cans... The kind of grafiti often pointed to to try to "legitimize" it as an "art form".
Advertising and graffiti are not the same KIND of thing.
Demo Day at layer zero is starting soon! just streaming some dashcam footage right now while we wait
Also, it goes without saying, but its ridiculous that if I want this capability, the only way to get it is to bootleg it like this.
Google finally achieved a technology that can transcribe spoken conversation, but they want to hoard it behind proprietary APIs and services. This bootleg is a small glimpse at what technology could be like if its goal was to provide utility instead of just make money: Accessibility technology that actually works!
Ok, ok, maybe that's a bit of a grandiose claim for something like this which is just barely demo-able and still has tons of difficult fundamental problems to overcome... But the point is, this capability would probably be commonplace already if it was open technology. The only reason this is remarkable is because I went through the effort to hack it together with DACs on both sides, special audio cables, android UI testing libraries, and heaps of good old-fashioned software duct-tape. And despite all that, it still out-performs the "Open" state of the art like "OpenAI" Whisper, while using 1/10th of the energy.
Also, here is the massive alt-text I wrote for the video :P A thorough description of wtf is going on in this video:
video of multi-user audio transcription system based on Pixel 6 phone with a neural network chip that enables the Google Live Transcribe app to convert audio into text without the ability to reach the internet.
The Pixel 6 is connected to a combo charger + microphone adapter. The Linux server has a sound card with its output connected to the microphone adapter's input, mediated by a special attenuator audio cable.
The linux server is running a web application that connects to a mumble server, enqueues audio from a conversation, and plays it back one-speaker-at-a-time.
The linux server is also attached to the android phone via ADB. The linux server join's the android phone's WiFi Hotspot. The linux server is running a "uiautomator" UI test which constantly polls the transcribed text element of the Google Live Transcribe app and posts the text to the server via WiFi.
The web application synthesizes the data of who was talking when, and what text was displayed when, in order to display the live conversation on a web-page, similar to a chat log.
These are the repos involved:
https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/mixtape-mumble
https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/mixtape/src/branch/main/mixtape.uiautomator
Here's a link to the video on my server: https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/mixtape-demo5.mp4
its kinda hard to hear @fack, I had my phone sitting on my headphones while recording this and it didn't work out too well
About 5 watts at the wall. A purely self-hosted live transcription of a Mumble audio chat. Transcription annotated by the speaker's name.
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
