Mastodawn

Angine de poitrine et death from above 1979 au bluesfesssst!!!
https://ottawabluesfest.ca/artists/#/event/angine-de-poitrine
https://support.ottawabluesfest.ca/hc/fr/articles/13558516572955-Programme-Journalier-Horaire-Journalier

Tis' gonna be good.

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Charles Dec 25

James Gleick Dec 25

RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540

We are in the midst of an informational cataclysm lwith little precedent, and Erin @kissane has developed the perfect metaphor to help us understand. This is essential reading. Take your time.

Charles Dec 25

https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/

Let's brace for the landslide.

Landslide; a ghost story

On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.

wreckage/salvage

Charles Dec 19

8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMGbGGllQoE&si=nCZr0UVoc5iHVCg9

Amazing

Charles Dec 11

The Robot Body
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJFMMOlbyIw&si=DwW3lLFFMcSNeea8

Beautiful essay on philosophy of mind, robotics, AI, tech grift, animes, maybe other things.

The Robot Body

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Charles Nov 25

@EdwinG @Nezchan for sure that's what it would be. Different from LLMs though.

For automatic image processing and "anomaly detection" i don't know of a better (more effective/developed) approach than machine learning and deep neural networks. That's the state of the art as far as I know. False positives are always there, of course, and humans need to review and be critical of the results.

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Charles Nov 25

@Nezchan @EdwinG the article doesn't mention using LLM fornthat. No product has been chosen, its in preliminary exploration phase.

Given I'm sure humans are not currently looking at the 10k camera feeds constantly, anomaly detection can probably help human review. All depends on implementation...

Charles Nov 3

Axel Knauf Nov 2

I wanted to bridge IRC to XMPP and vice versa, here's how to do this with matterbridge.

After having set up both IRC and XMPP servers on my VPS recently I realized that it's annoying to keep multiple clients running with accounts logged into each of them. So I wanted to bridge a specific IRC channel with a XMPP/Jabber group chat channel.

After a little research I went with matterbridge and set it up like this:

Created a dedicated IRC user to join my existing channel #lounge
IRC runs ergo with SASL auth enabled
Created a dedicated XMPP user to join group chat bridging
XMPP is a prosody server with mod_muc enabled

My matterbridge.toml looks like this:

[irc]
        [irc.default]
        Nick="bridge"
        NickServNick="bridge"
        NickServPassword="secret"
        Server="irc.example.org:6697"
        UseTLS=true
        UseSASL=true
        SkipTLSVerify=false
        RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "

[xmpp]
        [xmpp.default]
        Server="xmpp.example.org:5222"
        Jid="[email protected]"
        Password="secret"
        Muc="muc.xmpp.example.org"
        Nick="bridge"
        RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "

[[gateway]]
name="irc2xmpp"
enable=true

        [[gateway.inout]]
        account="irc.default"
        channel="#lounge"

        [[gateway.inout]]
        account="xmpp.default"
        channel="bridging"

I've created a dedicated non-login user on my VPS, downloaded the latest binary release, verified the checksums and set up a systemd unit with this config (as per the docs):

[Unit]
Description=Matterbridge daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/matterbridge/bin/matterbridge -conf /home/matterbridge/matterbridge.toml
Restart=always
RestartSec=30s
User=matterbridge

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then I ran reloaded systemd's config and enabled the service. Logging in to the two chat solutions I was able to verify that messages are sent across. Hooray for interoperability!

Having this infrastructure in place I may want to bring in all kinds of other chat protocols that are supported, .. <3

#SelfHosting #IRC #XMPP #bridge #matterbridge #interoperability #chat

GitHub - 42wim/matterbridge: bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API...

GitHub

Charles Oct 24

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/pipelogic/index.php

Wonderful bit of geekery.