u_tamtam

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[–] u_tamtam 2 points 14 hours ago

I don’t see what you’re describing 🤷 Soon only appears once on the page and not in this context for me.

It appears as a tooltip here

Anyhow, where I intended to draw your intention was on https://prose.org/downloads

You can just download the client for your platform (assuming one is available), or use the web one (otherwise), or just build one from the sources I linked (which is what I do), and login with your usual XMPP account. Would you need an account and have to decide which provider to register with, this would come handy: https://providers.xmpp.net/

In this set-up, prose.org isn't hosting your account and will of course let you interact with thousands of users or more, like any other XMPP client.

[–] u_tamtam 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Those silicon valley tech billionaires are businessmen who, by the looks of it, have completely fallen for their own marketing, and secluded themselves in a weird echo chamber packed with sycophants and profiteers. They are not superior beings. They have no credential nor academic status enabling them to speak as authorities worth being listened to. Anyone with a critical mind and access to scientific literature understands better than them the actual challenges behind "uploading one's brain to the cloud" and can debunk that science fictionesque bullshit.

All there is to this is a bunch of aging megalomaniacs with too much power, except over death, and that scares the crap out of them and makes them say some stupid shit. And I hate that we sanewash this just because they are rich and influential. As a society we should kick them back to where they belong, which is a court of law, for their continued effort in dismantling our society.

[–] u_tamtam 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Just below you'll find a section about "self hosting (soon)", though you can already use it with your own XMPP account as a standalone client (no questions asked), like I do, or, optionally, with the server-side components (opensource prosody module).

Edit: adding https://github.com/prose-im

[–] u_tamtam 1 points 20 hours ago

See my other comment: if you already have an XMPP account, prose is just another client that you can use however you like, for free (and at that point, everyone should be having an XMPP account, if you ask me). If you don't have an account, they can act as service provider (but this being a decentralized network, the don't want to encourage hosting everyone on the same server).

[–] u_tamtam 1 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

It is not spam, and you miss-read it. Prose is an open-source XMPP client. They can set you up (host on your behalf) for free, up to a certain point. You can pay for it (there is a commercial offering), or you can use it unlimited and with no extra costs than your own server's if you self-host. It's all being developed there in the open in case you don't want to take my word for it: https://github.com/prose-im

[–] u_tamtam 1 points 20 hours ago

In terms of tech and implementation details, it's been years since everyone has been converging towards the same WebRTC architecture (with everyone bundling/linking the same set of basic components and libs as found in chrome, android, ...). As such, a call between two participants (or as a group with less than a dozen participants) should be as good on XMPP as anywhere else (including the commercial options like Google Meet, Zoom, Matrix, ...).

spoilerOf course there are caveats like relying on TURN where direct connection is impossible, but that's the gist of it. Regarding XMPP group calls,

Where things start getting spicier is in large group calls (dozens of participants or more) requiring the stream to be brokered by a central server (SFU), with stream re-compression and optimisation. Standard-XMPP isn't great for that yet (non-standard XMPP, like Jitsi, on which it is based, is pretty damn good, but unavailable from your regular XMPP setup). Work is going on to improve that (on two fronts, with some XMPP servers turning into SFUs, and with a protocol being designed for offloading AV streams to any willing existing SFU).

spoilerThe problem with large group calls essentially boils down to how much bandwidth and CPU you want to throw at it, and that's not cheap (unless, of course, you are the product, i.e. Google Meet, Discord & al). The same applies to self-hosted Matrix/Galene/Jitsi: you probably won't want to hold a large conference call on a home-server, and the server admins are bearing some costs, so get to know them and how sustainable that is. In the case of Matrix.org, it is not.

No idea what prose is.

Prose is an open-source XMPP client with a focus on large rooms/banquet-style conversations (like IRC, slack, …). It is still in its early stages but already quite usable and possibly a good fit for a subset of Skype refugees.

[–] u_tamtam 7 points 1 day ago (11 children)

None of those (except Jitsi to a small extent) qualify as replacements if we ever want to evolve out of the silos we let megalomaniac CEOs build to better control us. So I'll add to the list: prose.org , movim.eu (or anything based on XMPP) and matrix.org (though this one is rapidly falling into obsolescence). The keyword here is federation.

[–] u_tamtam 15 points 2 weeks ago

It has already started. Microsoft and Google hiking prices with AI bundled in is both a way to inflate the "demand" artificially, keeping the show going (covering up the fact that nobody really wants that, and even less so wants to pay a premium for it: there just is no miracle AI product/application to sell), and to mitigate some of the absurd imminent losses.

You wouldn't see that in an "optimistic" and sound market.

[–] u_tamtam 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Count me as a fervent critic of Hollywood, but the world isn't binary and (unfortunately) Hollywood hating it doesn't automatically make it a good thing for the rest of us. Essentially OpenAI, Google and the rest of the pack of thieves are lobbying to establish themselves as the rulers of a lawless world, and everything you already hate about Hollywood (its inordinate amount of power, the bullying of the weaker that ensue, the corruption and politics around it, ...) is meant to get back to us, in worse, with new names at the top.

Indeed that would be the end of the copyright law, but only for the oligarchs.

[–] u_tamtam 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Binnen schoenen aan

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[–] u_tamtam 4 points 1 month ago

That is exactly the point, and I wouldn't be surprised if soon there is more money to be made "certifying works made without AI" than there is selling API tokens for LLMs, i.e. the OpenAI business model (although I have no idea of what the technical implementation would look like, perhaps a mix of secure enclave computing offering only a predefined set of capabilities barred from AI, combined with a blockchain to persist and distribute the reference and hash of the works done? More to the tally of GenAI being a net loss for humanity).

[–] u_tamtam 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's why it should be made compulsory to indicate when something was produced, even partially, by an AI. This time of your life you spent reading some low-effort no-value bullshit you will never get back, and neither will the hundreds/thousands others who read it. This is a net loss for humanity.

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Creating the XMPP Network Graph (discourse.igniterealtime.org)
 

Sorry if this isn't the right venue for that, I thought it'd be in the tone of "self-hosting" and "federation" :)

tl;dr: some XMPP servers started to deploy a mod to report back about how they federate with the rest of the network, and now there is a pretty graph to show for it at https://xmppnetwork.goodbytes.im/webgl.html

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