hi! recently deleting instagram has super charged my desire to invest in alternative online social spaces!
I’m an incoming assistant professor in computer science at Loyola University Chicago. I study electronic waste and how to build computing tools to improve processes of reducing reusing and recycling computing material 🌱💻
Welcome! We like reusing old computers here!
@xjasminelu welcome!
That sounds great - looking forward to reading more from you!
@xjasminelu you study electronic waste? I was not aware that's a thing you could study.
Perhaps I need to revisit my approach on what I want to do with my life.
Anyways.
Welcome to mastodon.
Glad to have you here!
If you are looking for cool people to follow @alice is a great start. She is the GOAT 🐐
@nihilistic_capybara aww, thank you 🥰 (I'm still #NotAGirl though 😉)
@alice oh. So "they are the goat"? Sorry this is still difficult for me.
@xjasminelu please disregard my lack of skills and understanding. This is not representative of the community.
@nihilistic_capybara no worries 💖
Loyola is in a great part of the city! Congratulations on the professorship.
Check out the River & Roads coffee shop on Devon, just west of campus.
@xjasminelu welcome 👋
You should definitely connect with @martin who is a maker dealing with old computers refurbishment and @coralie who is a researcher working on the same topic, on infrastructure and the cost of extracting materials.
@adelfaure if you like low tech art Adel is a talented ASCII artist
I am sure they will be able to recommend other interesting people!
@xjasminelu Oh you'll definitely fit right in on the fedi!
Welcome. 🙏🏼
@MLE_online has some fascinating information about experimenting with copper glaze to solder wire onto pottery. They seem to have invented a very successful method, I think you will enjoy the read.
@xjasminelu
congratulations and welcome. 👏
i was never on #instagram but deleted my #github account a few months ago. 😅
I can really recommend @radicle
it differentiates itself by being p2p and thus has a low barrier to entry
and welcome to fedi :)
I'm sorry I can't quite follow what you wanted to express.
I did indeed encounter LLM use on the radicle network.
But at a quick glance the main protocol doesn't contain a CLAUDE.md file.
To check for yourself:
https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad:z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5
Neither do the other repos by radicle.
Apart from the radicle-explorer web browser interface.
https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad:z4V1sjrXqjvFdnCUbxPFqd5p4DtH5/tree/CLAUDE.md
The relevant thread on the forum:
Personally because I abhor the incompetence surrounding decisions in computing at the moment, I'm very critical of the use of LLMs.
That is why I'm working to decentralize and thus future-proof my projects.
I have seen no alternative code forge other than radicle serving this kind of truly distributed and asynchronous collaboration.
I see it as revolutionary and should it become necessary the tech will be forked.
So far I'm happy to say that the team and community convinced me of their competency.
Did I understand your critique correctly?
side note:
I work under the assumption that technology cannot be taken back easily
once the cat's out of the bag, that's it
imo llms fundamentally suck by being spammy
framing them tight can alleviate some issues and rigorous benchmarks can be used to objectively measure results
this is what's happening at community-computer:
https://radicle.network/nodes/iris.radicle.xyz/rad%3Az4Wk8hdpwG4HtoCxr1uuoQDpnfr25
even if all the datacenters experienced rapid unscheduled disassembly this would be a method that generated traceable computing experiments
and even failed experiments - if recorded methodically - always render valuable data
@xjasminelu @roy_calum
#sourcehut is strongly anti-AI. 😍
owner maintains a fork of #vim without the #AIslop:
https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/
thank you for spreading the gospel of floss
I'm sure the work they do is commendable
you're welcome
it's a murky business, but I think it provides a good impetus to everyone atm to reevaluate their needs when it comes to computing
I think making decentralized work easier is a very productive direction to invest one's time in
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