Someone who is dreaming of an interconnected self-configuring, delay & disruption tolerant network, owned and run by individuals for the good of all, which provides forward secrecy, privacy, digital sovereignty by default, authentication when needed, without any blockchain, middlemen, or global authority
Failure is always an option
Business idea:
Build a warehouse, with lots of silent rooms, quiet enough to hear a pin drop, collect all those pins and sell them… infinite money
@ai6yr Zork — and interactive fiction in general — owes a lot to classic 1970s AI research :D
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
@0xabad1dea I mostly remember that my computer crashed every time the browser loaded Adobe Flash Player for something stupid
@zkat Offer an alternative
Cloud first → Local first
Always online → Offline first
Client/Server → Peer-to-peer
Centralised → Distributed
ACID → BASE
Not in anyway structured like a corporate hierarchy
"Making money of it"
Clearly nothing like corporate money
Not saying no profits, but not the ongoing exuberant profits of rent seeking cloud racketeers
But I know there is a niche for tools like these made by individuals. Humane tools made by humans for humans.
@zkat get really amazingly great at designing and writing useful local-first, offline-first tools, with proper multi-client zero-configuration peer-to-peer abilities for when it makes sense and a mathematically proven correct BASE consistency model fit for purpose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tools which are absolutely *nothing* like any commercial cloud products (nor monstrosities like unlimited forever-growing write-only blockchain cancers)
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (D-MO), Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Britt (R-AL), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) would require AI chatbots to verify all users’ ages, prohibit minors from using AI tools, and implement steep criminal penalties for chatbots that promote or solicit certain harms. That might sound reasonable at first, but behind those talking points lies a sprawling surveillance and censorship regime that would reshape how people of all ages use the internet.
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