Can’t say I’m deep in this space, but I think there’s a lot of sentiment towards going more lean with operations and aiming for direct donation toward Firefox development (which I don’t believe is presently an option) which seemingly, if Mozilla narrowed to their core (Firefox, MDN), the community would likely show heavy support. I have my doubts it would fully cover the bill in a sustainable way, but I at least think that’s one of the main sentiments.

Any good options recommended for self-hosting something similarly functional that doesn’t take too much effort to get up, audit, maintain? Discovery isn’t really important for me, so federated isn’t really necessary, but a cool extra. I’d love to host something or contribute to hosting for my gaming groups, my class or multiple classes at my school, or otherwise. Voice, chat, screen share, camera, would all be great if possible, but range of options would be good. I’m still using Mumble for gaming…

Haven’t tinkered much with Matrix nor do I know much about Revolt, but I’m curious before I look into it deeper if anyone in the community has experience hosting any communication platforms for small, invitational groups.

C could just be a blank and you have to bit blit the arrow on yourself.

I don’t know why, but I still can’t open a core file without going I’m in. I don’t do QA, though, and so tinkering with final breath of my program frozen in time maintains some novelty.

My two cents, after years of Markdown (and md to PDF solutions) and LaTeX and a full two years of trying to commit to bashing my head against Word for work purposes, I’m really enjoying Typst. It didn’t take long to convert my themes, having docs I can import which are basically just variables to share across documents in a folder has been really helpful. Haven’t gone too deep into it but I’m excited to give it a deeper test run over the next little bit.

I researched creative AI and how AI can help people be creative, people thought it was a ridiculous and pointless topic. I’m biased.

Firstly, I think it’s important to see the non-chat applications. Goblin Tools is a great example of code we just couldn’t have written before. Purely from an NLP perspective, these tools are outstanding, if imperfect.

I’m excited to see new paradigms of applications come up when talented new developers are able to locally run LLMs and integrate them into their everyday programming, and too see what they can cook up in a world where that’s normal.

I’m interested in LLMs not to generate data on the fly, but to pre-generate and validate massive amounts of content or data than we’d otherwise be able to for things like games.

From a chat perspective, I like that it can support fleshing out ideas, parsing lots of data in a usable way.

And finally I’m excited for how lightweight LLMs could affect user interface design. I could imagine a future where OSs have swappable LLMs like they have shells that can allow for natural language interfacing with programs.

I don’t know, it’s just really accessible NLP, and that’s great.

This should be interesting to play with. Does anyone know of any Copilot-like VS Code extensions that provide similar UX but hook into a custom local/remote server? I would love to write my own pipeline and context builder for it, but I haven’t written a VS Code extension before and a starting point would be good.

I haven’t worked with any of the current code-based open models so I don’t really know how it compares, excited to hear thoughts from others on this.