Chronicon

AG: Are there any significant distributed ownership platforms other than Mastodon?

TR: Blue Sky is supposed to incorporate that kind of model, but so far they haven’t. I am not aware of any other decentralized social media platforms.

awww, got my hopes up

yeah that's for sure an issue. If you're online enough and there aren't less-visible corners for the spammers to hide in then it shouldn't be bad

to be clear, you don't need to sign up for an account to disable p2p, at least on the site directly, embeds (like into cytube) might be different.

In that case the preferences just get stored in your browser with a cookie or something (so if you wipe those regularly it will get wiped out and go back to defaults)

Also godspeed in combatting bots tanuki, hopefully they aren't too much of an issue, but with open reg and no email verification it might become one

Commenting here as well for visibility, the author of this article mangled the math to produce this clickbait headline. It's very cool tech with a lot of potential, but it unfortunately did not show 1700x the efficiency of a google TPU.

The paper claims that a simulated scaled-up 8-bit version of this tech (180nm CNT transistor TPUs) could theoretically reach 1TOPS/W. That is less than the efficiency the author specifies for the google TPU (4TOPS/2W = 2TOPS/W)

Then they go on to speculate that a lower process node will probably improve that efficiency greatly (very likely true, but no figures listed in the public preview of the paper, even simulations)

The author of the article assumed (wrongly) that the actual chip they made could do 1TOPS (it's only 3000 transistors and can only do 2-bit math), and that it consumed 295 microwatts to do so, for an efficiency of 3389TOPS/W. (roughly 1700x the 2TOPS/W of the google chip) That's of course ludicrous.

Maybe if someone reopens chapo chat and puts a Chinese interface on it we'd get a lot like that

This would be pretty easy I think, seeing as we already have next.hexbear.net

it depends how you measure. I don't think the OP of that thread is really picking great measures. But regardless of the measure you pick we are not like, dominantly huge, just very active. (well except total comments, I think we still are 50% bigger than .world on that with our sizable user base and few year headstart.

on a desktop it might not be significant but I tried using flatpak apps on a device with very limited root emmc storage (16 GB) and ran out of space really fast. Its really common to see a couple multi-hundred-megabyte library downloads for each new app IME.

I like them for some stuff but there are glaring issues that I don't like. I've posted about it before, poor integration of apps/not getting the right permissions is a big problem, the people packaging them don't often do as good of a job as someone like a distro maintainer.

But admittedly my experience using it probably isn't representative (pop os through their shop and arch on a mobile device). Neither were amazing, but not having to compile shit myself or install with an untrusted shell script was nice for some apps. Without some significant improvements it's not a good replacement for a distro's package repos but it might be a good way to broaden the available applications without having to maintain 10x more packages.