technology

I mean fuck US companies too, but love to see the settler colonies companies getting devastated

This will be a kind of stream of consciousness, it might not make a lot of sense.

I was chatting with a friend recently, and the subject of Tech and Community came up. I've been thinking a lot about Lemmy, the federated network it exists on, the ideological nature of instances, building community, maintaining strong and inclusive communities, Parenti's ideas of capitalist encirclement, touching grass, mutual aid, the "Digital Town Square", third spaces, recently.

As working-class people, as wage laborers, as members of physical and digital communities, there must be a way to reorganize our digital social lives so that we can bridge the gap between the global and the local. So much of the "local" is lost in the global digital sea. Hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people all live within the local range of each of us, and yet the platforms we engage with thrust us into communicating with people hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of miles away. Much of this has to do with capital accumulation, you need to centralize as many people into your tent to maximize profits. This, in a way, is a form of capitalist encirclement. Our digital lives, and digital communities, are at the mercy of capitalist rule and often subjected to capitalist discipline.

Facebook, as one of the earliest social media platforms, started with the foundation of "personal network", bridging the physical with the digital connection. The campus was the origin point of these original relations, connecting an entire community of higher ed learners together. Your in group on Facebook was usually your in group in real life. This is reflected in other ways on Facebook, such as the town page. Almost every town has a page on Facebook, where people communicate about local things. On Facebook, you start with yourself, and your network grows based on your personal connections. For a long time, and still today I think, a lot of local mutual aid is done on Facebook. I'm including things like the Buy Nothing pages as mutual aid. Facebook Events has been a tool used by organizers for a long time, allowing for a central place for event updates, directives, addresses, and so on. So Facebook, through its mass adoption, and it's origin point with the self, allowed for more personal community than any other platform online.

That, however, is waning as more people leave the platform, or as more young people never sign up for the platform. Facebook was never a good "digital town square". Groups can become fractured, sometimes ideologically, splitting the community into factions. Groups, I think, are now the driving factor on Facebook, overtaking the personal network.

Years ago, I came across this project, small tech. Their goals are to build a small web tool set. It looks like they're still building, which is cool, but it doesn't really have a lot of traction, I think. They have an update from last year, which is nice to see. The three core projects are:

• Kitten is a development tool kit
• Domain is a turn key hosting platform
• Place is your individual presence on the internet (photos, posts, comments, etc.)

There are interesting ideas here. Like Facebook, it starts with the self, it could be used to build that personal network, while being in full control of your content. Obviously, the barrier to entry here is hosting the services yourself. Domain has an interesting feature where tokens can be generated which, when given to someone, and used, it authorizes them to have a space on the domain. They did a pilot, I believe, where a municipality in Belgium used the token system to generate a space for each citizen in the municipality to get a small webspace hosted by the city. The tokens were mailed out to the citizens, along with instructions on how to use them.

We recently have been engaging with Facebook Marketplace to get rid of some stuff. We usually just put things on the Buy Nothing page, but some of the stuff we're getting rid of is big, expensive, justifies asking for a payment. It feels bad using Facebook, but that's where the people are. The buy nothing group has been very rewarding. The amount of good condition baby stuff we've given away to new and struggling mothers, feels good, and saves them from having to acquire so much stuff.

This all leads me to an analogy I've had lingering in my head for a long time. The internet is a common, and just like the commons of the past, it too was appropriated by merchants and privatized. Except, it was never truly held in common, it was privatized before mass utilization. So my over arching question is this: How do we build a local, digital, common?

Of all the tools and ideas that exist within this federated space, how could we combine them together in a way that can be implemented to build community locally? That allows for that local exchange like the Buy Nothing pages or Facebook Marketplace, that allows for local event organizing, and allows you to connect with local people.

Translated:

According to Jinshi Data on February 8, DeepSeek had over 20 million daily active users in 20 days after its launch, which is 40% of ChatGPT. A few days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, it experienced an explosion in the last week of January. DeepSeek had accumulated 125 million users in January (including websites and applications without deduplication). More than 80% of the users came from the last week, which means that DeepSeek achieved a growth of 100 million users in 7 days. (Jinshi Data APP)

Another link saying the same thing

I'm not sure how to get to the data myself, so I'm not sure how accurate these reports are, as far as I can tell it hasn't broken into mainstream news yet.

For anyone curious, it took two months for chatgpt to hit 100 million users.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10911

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25746824

If you would like to skip the video (given the reactionary creator) and install DeepSeek-R1 on your Steam Deck, here are the commands:

Create the Ubuntu container:

distrobox create -n ubuntu --init --image ubuntu:24.04 --additional-packages "systemd libpam-systemd lshw"

Enter the container:

distrobox enter ubuntu

Download and run the Ollama installation script:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

Install and run the DeepSeek-R1:7B model

ollama run deepseek-r1:7b

This is for work and ASP.NET and IIS are the technologies my organization want me to use, so I can't change those.

So, I have an ASP.NET MVC webservice. When I start it up, I get the following message:

info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[14]
      Now listening on: http://localhost:5000/
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Hosting environment: Production
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Content root path: [Path]

Path removed to avoid exposing sensitive info. I can access the site just fine on the server it's hosted on by going to http://localhost:5000/. However, it needs to be accessible from other devices. The machine it's hosted on also has an IIS server with a company website, and ideally, I should be able to access this webservice through a URL on the company site. I'm not sure how to do this, though. I've tried dropping it into the site's wwwroot folder and registering it as an application, but that didn't seem to work (I tried entering all of the obvious URLs from another device but only got 404s, and I can confirm that the site itself is accessible from that device).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31495652