Vanessa Freudenberg has passed away (SqueakJS, Croquet, Multisynq)
https://twitter.com/codefrau/status/1980966719410565320
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672484
posted on 2025.10.22 at 13:36:42 (c=0, p=3)

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

The web can be made personal again.

blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

Home | Immich Self-hosted photo and video management solution

Really impressed by immich.app @immichapp.bsky.social

Amen! futo.org/about/what-i...

GPT-5

The marketing: "It's like having a team of PhDs in your pocket!"

Also the marketing: This y-axis🤷‍♂️❓

#DataViz #ChatGPT

Uses deepgram, the nova-3 model is very reliable for English, nova-2 is pretty good at German. nova-3 multi is pretty bad. But for realtime transcription still better than the smaller whisper models.

GitHub - rksm/gnome-voice-input: A voice input utility for the GNOME desktop that transcribes speech using Deepgram and inserts text into the currently focused field. A voice input utility for the GNOME desktop that transcribes speech using Deepgram and inserts text into the currently focused field. - rksm/gnome-voice-input

Claude works, which is sort of unbelievably amazing.

In any case, I've gone over to do way more with speech-to-text input than before. Didn't really find a reliable working solution for Linux/Gnome and created github.com/rksm/gnome-v... or this.

"We make, not just to have, but to know." – Alan Kay

great stuff @alexanderobenauer.com

in a world of tech slop, this quote feels relevant as ever:

Ich kann Ängste verstehen, jedoch müssen wir aus der digitalen Steinzeit im Gesundheitswesen raus.

Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...

‘Bring me my tariffs’: how Trump’s China plan was 40 years in the making Both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s political careers were shaped by their formative experiences in the 1980s – and, above all, their encounters with Japan

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

You first.

And yes, this blurp was meant to troll (which it successfully accomplished). What makes me really sad is that this attitude is now (world)widely picked up and taken for “what Silicon Valley really is like”. For that reason alone, thank you for going on air and giving a different account.

But by completely disregarding the past, folks miss out on many insights that have not been popularized, and yes, are bound to repeat the mistakes made. If you then layer this amount of arrogance on top, the result is disgusting. Even if money is the objective, this is so harmful in the long run.

I think you touched on this in your conversation quite well. Even in this short time, there has been a tremendous amount of work and innovations that made the modern digital world possible. It’s easy (maybe to a certain degree even necessary) to mask out the details to act in the here and now.

Plus: a number of avenues that have been touched upon in the 70s and 80s but never really followed on thoroughly. I'm sure there are many more good business ideas hidden in the past.

"Dealers of Lightning" and "The Dream Machine" are very enjoyable reads and shed some light on how much work went into all this. I wish more people would be interested in how this all came to be.

Great conversation between @bcantrill.bsky.social, @ahl.bsky.social and @randyshoup.bsky.social. oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/a-h.... Really enjoyed the reply on "shouldn't we run it". :💯

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Trumpismus und Putinismus sind Brüder im Geiste. Der Transatlantizismus durchläuft so eine Polumkehr. Illiberale pro-Kreml Kräfte in Europa (die Orbans, die Weidels, die Ficos), die die USA bisher verachtet haben, sind schockverbliebt in MAGA. Liberale Demokratie ist nun von allen Seiten unter Druck

Catching up with my podcasts, what an amazing interview!

Logic Game, 2005.

I made this logic circuit simulator to learn Etoys, Alan Kay & co.'s programming language for kids. I represented the state of the wires and logic gates with their "costumes" -- there is no hidden state. This makes the behavior of the circuits visible.

1/3

More experiments adding #audio #metadata as #emacs #dired buffer overlays

#macos #linux #music

Similarly: computational efficiency as in energy consumption. This is not just a PL question but also deployment and runtime behaviors. How to design applications for a low CO2 footprint? There is academic research but little has trickled down so far.

peer-2-peer, but it works YouTube video by number 0

New vid! @iroh.computer is p2p that works: youtu.be/zyRFr9WjWEc

Learned about STUNner, a TURN server that acts as an adapter between WebRTC servers <-> kubernetes. This used to be painful with coturn; STUNer works like a charm. In combination with webrtc.rs or pion, this enables quite a few new avenues for video streaming and more!

docs.l7mp.io/en/stable/WHY/

Reliable software: An interview with Jon Gjengset - timClicks (Tim McNamara) Listen to Jon Gjengset discuss how to write high quality Rust software and keep it that way.

Tim McNamara (author of Rust in Action) released a podcast episode with the one and only Jon Gjengset - author of Rust for Rustaceans and the crate decrusting series on Youtube.

Check out their discussion on creating & maintaining high quality Rust codebases: timclicks.dev/podcast/reli...

Text embeddings are the real "AI" invention. LLMs are clever in how they manage the token context but I think much more can be build with technologies based on models like BERT. Not only is this stuff more reliable, it is also much more versatile, easier/cheaper/faster to run and fine tune.

It is possible to build Tailscale in a weekend. We did that and have been debugging it ever since.

@sachachua.com and I were keen to get an #emacs video index going, so we put together emacs.tv

More at lmno.lol/alvaro/hello...