How wealth dies
THE NOTIONAL VALUE TRAP Foreword Just as growth in the “real” economy of material products and services has been decelerating towards contraction, so aggregates of financial wealth have carried on increasing relentlessly. Since the widening disequilibrium between the monetary and the material must eventually crash the financial system, the probability is that notional wealth will […]
Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Network
Imgur decided to block UK users. Honestly? I don’t really care that much. I haven’t actively browsed the site in years. But it used to be everywhere. Back when Reddit embedded everything on Imgur, maybe fifteen years ago, it was genuinely useful. Then Reddit built their own image hosting, Discord did the same, and Imgur […]
28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
Generate embeddings for search query Sentence Transformers provide local, easy to use embedding models for capturing the semantic meaning of sentences and paragraphs. The dataset in this HackerNews dataset contains vector emebeddings generated from the all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model. An example Python script is provided below to demonstrate how to programmatically generate embedding vectors using sentence_transformers1 Python […]
Molly: An Improved Signal App
Molly An improved Signal app Molly is an independent Signal fork for Android with improved features: Fully FOSS Contains no proprietary blobs, unlike Signal Multi-Device Pair multiple devices to a single account Material You Extra theme that follows your device palette Automatic Locking When you are gone for a set period of time RAM Shredding […]
JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas
If you’ve ever tried to dive into JSON Schema, you’ve probably encountered a wall of terminology that makes your head spin: schemas, metaschemas, dialects, vocabularies, keywords, anchors, dynamic references. It feels like the community invented new words for things that already had perfectly good names, just to make the rest of us feel inadequate. I’ve […]
C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone: a working web server. Web browser accessing HTTP server on my OS Networking was always integral to my hobby project. The first goal was getting the basic networking stack working: Ethernet, IP, […]
Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
I don’t remember when I first started noticing that people I knew out in the world had lost their sense of erotic privacy, but I do remember the day it struck me as a phenomenon that had escaped my timeline and entered my real, fleshy life. It was last year, when I was having a […]
So you wanna build a local RAG?
When we launched Skald, we wanted it to not only be self-hostable, but also for one to be able to run it without sending any data to third-parties. With LLMs getting better and better, privacy-sensitive organizations shouldn’t have to choose between being left behind by not accessing frontier models and doing away with their committment […]
True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network
English | Русский True P2P Email on top of Yggdrasil Network What is Tyr? We’re taught that email must go through servers. Why? Because the Internet was built around centralized infrastructure. Every email you send travels through multiple servers – your provider’s server, maybe a few relay servers, and finally your recipient’s provider’s server. Each […]
AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
