I cant wait until there’s real competition with NVIDIA for ML development. ROCm could do it if AMD would put any real effort behind it.

The current near monopoly with NVIDIA for realistically all AI seems incredibly dangerous.

It seems like there’s a lot of talk about an AI “arms race” between nations, especially recently with Stargate and DeepSeek.

The more important distinction is closed source and open source, and the actual moat of closed sourced models. I’m personally excited to see how we can push open source AI

DeepSeek R1-zero is insane. Really good at reasoning and the least censored LLM I’ve used.

The fact that it’s trained via purely with reinforcement learning is super interesting too, countering the assumption that reasoning requires chain of thought

Getting back on Blue Sky after primarily trying mastodon for the last year. The UX is night and day.

After 4 years in WA, finally had the chance to backpack the Enchantments. Absolutely brutal up Asgard Pass, but well worth it

Just tried Threads and the majority of the posts I see are from accounts I don’t even follow. Not great.

Is there any "branding" yet around what LLMs have done to web application development?

I'm less interested in the "AI changes everything!" rhetoric, and more in the "cacheing has moved from x to y; delegated auth is harder because z; scaling and load balancing needs new patterns a, b and c".

Just got to CA, and somehow it’s wetter than Seattle? 🥲

Feeling the pain of people who want this to be a better place. Who have only had the experience of being on a rented platform that they have no stake in.

Start planning to run an instance. We “live” online, so consider it a digital barn raising. Gather a crew, raise funds, decide on structure.

normalize being nice and friendly. and giving other people the benefit of the doubt. and listening to what they have to say

Fyi, Bluesky has a web app! It's https://staging.bsky.app. For an MVP it works great and is pretty functional.

Kudos to the Bluesky team!

SkySpaces is now on BlueSky!
Follow: @skyspaces.bsky.social

From my limited understanding of AT protocol vs ActivityPub - AT protocol will allow me to transfer my account, including existing followers and follows, posts, etc. while ActivityPub essentially forces me to create a new account (I save my follows but lose followers).

Is that right?

long term, with fully portable user accounts, your continued use of our services would be a vote of confidence in us. not a hostage situation where you lose all your friends and creations if you leave.

this is set up to be a federated republic, not a walled-off empire.

What a breath of fresh air coming from the bird app - looking forward to seeing where this goes