#diy data

[kaino2001]

Look at him

[smokeycemetery]

Short Zine I made under the Horizont Kollektiv Organisation. It displays various exemplary visual works of the Horizont Kollektiv.

-----You can read the Zine in higher Quality here --

-------------and see my instagram here -----------

[aetherglade-reborn-rq]

One day, 2d laser printers will be open source and we can finally beat the monopolies. I know this will happen someday because i am part of the effort.

The reason for this push is because all technology should be modular and repairable by the end user, not just laptops or tractors.

Printers may cost more to produce by the end user, but proprietary printer's ecological impacts are not negligible nor are they sustainable.

Considering their impact on the imperial periphery is important to make tech sustainable and equitable

By making 2d printers open source, we loosen the stranglehold on data colonialism and proprietary components and reduce the need for plundered materials.

We need support in the open source. You can help significantly in projects that don't have a lot of flashiness or style but are vital utilities for daily living.

Contributing to the open source on a hardware, software, or firmware level helps significantly. even just mentioning it can be impactful to someone.

I never want to stop caring about people, animals or the environment.

[ortie-pnk]

We are supposed to interact with the web we visit. We are supposed to upload and download. We are supposed to leave a footprint behind us, other than cookies and trackers.

The web will not stay still, it is perpetually changing and what we are seeing today may not be tomorrow.

Share your things, comment and post.

But also save what you want to keep : write down the name of the artists you follow, download the content you like to stream, copie/paste the posts you want to re-read... We forget faster than internet but it is still fragile. What you got on a disc is far more durable.

[thatweirdomarissa]

Here... Art ... Of dii in their fem form... Also I'm using cellular data RN. I'll probably get power back soon today hopefully..... Hurricane Milton makes me wanna molt haha get it

[bluegreenphoenixes]

Idea for wholesome (IT) projectS for people with memory conditions (that is, everyone, since everyone is forgetful sometimes) | by Sansa Zet | Jun, 2024 | Medium

[tenshunnoise]

i uploaded some new experiments with Pure data on my bandcamp page and Archive site.

give it a listen if your ears are feeling curious!

https://archive.org/details/puredataexperimentalcomposions3

[piedoesnotequalpi]

I guess the one advantage of having dated my ex is that I know about APKs (and therefore have evaded the horrible discord update)

[emelie-png]

On a more delightful note (other than me becoming slightly unhinged from my current cc issues), I'm starting a uni course on Blender in a week. And looking at the assignments thats been published beforehand, it seems I can incorporate making CC for the assignments. Its also focused on animating, so horse animations at some point, maybe?

[bob3160]

Tech Talk - 10-25-2024

[jcmarchi]

Microdosing on Low-Hallucinogenic AI

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/microdosing-on-low-hallucinogenic-ai/

Microdosing on Low-Hallucinogenic AI

The Agentforce is here. Salesforce wrapped another edition of its annual Dreamforce conference this September. Joining the swarms of attendees — and the swarms of Waymos shuttling them around an extra-cleaned San Francisco — we each now have a swarm of agents at our fingertips to transform work, neatly controlled within the Salesforce ecosystem. While Dreamforce is always a spectacle for its marketing-honed pronouncements of the future, this year provided an unexpectedly compelling vision of how AI-based agents are about to revolutionize the workplace and customer experience.

Let’s temper our expectations for just a bit longer. Benioff pondered at his keynote, “Why would our agents be so low-hallucinogenic?” Yes, they have the data, the metadata, the workflows and a vast array of services to connect into; and so long as your systems only live within Salesforce, it sounds pretty ideal. Salesforce may or may not have invented prompt engineering, a claim Benioff also made in the keynote evoking perhaps the “Austin Powers” Dr. Evil monologue about his father inventing the question mark. But can Salesforce meet the Agentforce vision? If they do, it’s going to be a big deal for how work gets done.

Let’s be real though: our systems and data don’t all live within Salesforce. If the future of work is defined by groups of agents working together, how far can walled gardens and closed ecosystems really get us in delivering outcomes across our businesses? Certainly Apple and Microsoft and Amazon and a host of others want to wrap their arms around the massive agent opportunity in front of us. But as each wave of technical advancement has brought forward different flavors of closed vs. open debates, we’re ultimately going to need a standard for agents working together with one another across boundaries. Otherwise only parts of your business will meet this opportunity.

As we often do when faced with the open/closed conundrum, let us look to the open web as a way forward. Just like apps on your phone need a web view to enable an infinite array of mobile app outcomes, the same will be needed in the upcoming multi-agent frontier. Tools like Slack provide UI frameworks like Block Kit that can power the user interface for a simple agent interaction, but it’s not cut out to handle the depth of modern user experiences. Take Clockwise Prism as an example. We’ve built a next-level scheduling agent for finding time for a meeting even if there isn’t any current “whitespace” on the calendar tomorrow. When hooking it up to other agents to land that impossible meeting with your hottest sales prospects, you’ll need a way to either confirm or explore a myriad of sophisticated and powerful scheduling options. Providing a web view for doing this is the clear path forward.

Throughout his keynote, Benioff repeated the mantra that you don’t want DIY agents within your business. And he’s right. Enterprises want controlled and simplified workflows that deliver repeatable value. And yet they don’t want to be stuck in a silo. This is why we need an open standard for the multi-agent future. We need a dependable way for agents to interact with one another, to cross boundaries across applications and ecosystems and do it in a way that keeps businesses in control of their product experience.

You might be just as likely to kick off a set of work agents from within an Atlassian Jira ticket connected to a Salesforce customer case as you would want to kick off a set of agents in reverse originating from within Salesforce connected to Atlassian. For agents to work together regardless of where a work request originates and in any number of directions with a consistent user experience, again a standard for doing this is needed.

What else should be represented in this standard? Outside of Salesforce, the multi-agent ecosystem today is an exciting wild west. On the daily we see new innovations and ways of connecting and constructing AI systems and agentive workflows. One recent tie-in between the AI framework LangChain and a tool called Assitant-UI brought this insight:

“UX is crucial for agents. Everyone wants agents with streaming, generative UI, and human-in-the-loop in their application.”

Indeed, we’ve already covered how crucial user experience is to agents. And clearly agents must be able to quickly stream their responses when working with other agents. But what of generative UI and human-in-the-loop in their application?

Let’s start with human-in-the-loop; another area of broad agreement. While Salesforce and others talk a big game about automation, it’s always grounded in the need to be able to bring a human back into the center when necessary. We learned this lesson as well at Clockwise, and have built our scheduling agent experience around a core concept of being able to check back in with the user with a proposed set of scheduling options. When you are doing complex work, it’s amazing to get to full automation, but it starts on the backbone of involving the user and keeping them in the loop. Any standard must be built around an optional ability to check-in and confirm with the user before proceeding, and eventually allow for full automation when confidence is high enough.

And so what of generative UI? Here I’d propose that what is needed isn’t necessarily generative UI but “native UI.” What is important is that the agent is producing a UI that is native and controlled by the service/agent responding to the request. Only the native service will have the context and understanding necessary to render a user interface that ties into the agent request. Whether that UI is rendered using generative AI or some other non-AI mechanism is left to the responding service as an implementation detail. And so here, we think the open standard must allow for the responding service to control and deliver native UI to an agent request.

What comes next? We’re excited to continue to examine what an open multi-agent future might look like. We’ve created a draft of something we’re calling Open Multi-Agent Protocol (OMAP) and we’re excited to keep pushing the conversation forward. It won’t be long before there are entirely new types of jobs out there where people use agents to do work in powerful and streamlined ways. The age of the Agent Orchestrator job description is upon us, and while Salesforce paints a compelling path ahead, we’ll need a standard way for agents to interconnect beyond boundaries.

[rhinozzryan]

PSA: the guardian is not working on a hit piece on diy hrt, and claims they are are misinformation (see update)

UPDATE: the guardian has published an article referenced by the original 4chan post, which was legitimate. the email continues to be fake. the article appears not to have contacted trans people or under-18s. and the message remains the same: don't talk to journalists about your personal information or history. you can see a recap and response to this publishing here. tl;dr: claims that the guardian's Susanna Rustin is writing a piece on diy hrt and contacting trans people for comment is false.

on the 18th, this post appeared on 4chan's /lgbt/ (slurs in thread: link). a screenshot was posted to reddit, then to tumblr. you've probably seen it:

today, the 23rd, another screenshot popped up on various discord servers, then was reposted variously to twitter. it shows a supposed email from guardian journalist and notorious TERF Susanna Rustin, claiming as the original 4chan post does.

it's now been shared around, and it's with good intentions. the message is useful: don't share your personal information or medical data with journalists, especially ones that happen to be TERFs.

but the post does this through misinformation and fearmongering. i'm still waiting on my response by email from Rustin, but she's reiterated twice (once, twice) that she did not write the email and is not working on such a story. on the 19th, i talked to other guardian newsroom journalists, who said they also did not know of a story's existence.

the moral of the story: this is misinformation, and it's dangerous. it spreads a fine message here, but it does it through spreading anxiety and terror.

you can follow along with this post on my parallel thread on twitter. also calling on @wakewithgiggli to delete their original post!

[techdriveplay]

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