Working on cooperative audio playlists in Diffuse, curious what people think of this lexicon. This works a bit different than a CRDT-based approach, so I'm curious how it'll turn out. I'm guessing it does mean you can't reposition other people's items, only your items in respect to other list items

How are atproto apps dealing with conflict resolution? Or is there no such thing basically because everyone uses the firehose, or polling, to get the latest records? Or should I use jetstream?

In the process of adding ATProto to Diffuse v4. One tiny issue though with the OAuth ... it clashes with my system that allows you to pick a version of the software on the website 😩 I don't know the exact redirect URIs in advance, so I can't specify all of them in the metadata json file.

The quality on this is crazy 😱

Oh this might work nicely for non-forced upgrades for software on the web. elements.diffuse.sh/bafybeihj5zj... (See upgrade icon next to the logo on top, might take a few seconds to show up) This then upgrades to the latest version by just redirecting to: elements.diffuse.sh/bafybeihby6n...

help me upvote unstream and get more tech bros to support music artists directly www.producthunt.com/products/uns... #musicsky #fairtrademusic #bandcamp #mirlo #faircamp #qobuz

Not sure if my thinking here is valid, but I'll give it a try anyway. My goal with Diffuse + LLMs is so that people can build a Millennium Falcon model/replica using the provided Lego set, as opposed to building it from scratch with raw materials. (disclaimer: prob obvious but this is an analogy)

Do you like a free tool? Send money. Do you use a tool at work? Convince your employer to sponsor it. Stop marketing OSS as free stuff to your employer, and treat it as a cost for the company. You only endanger the OSS project, if you don't give something in return.

I think I've started to figure out that gentle slope the malleable software essay from @inkandswitch.com talked about (where the user gradually becomes an editor or creator). www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... I'm comparing Diffuse (a set of components and tools) to food, copy need work tho 😅

Can’t we just all stick with distributed compute in order to create & use these LLMs? I mean, wtf with all these new huge data centres. Fuck big tech so much. There’s so much farm land disappearing, that’s gotta be bad for the future. This techno feudalistic capitalism is just … so depressing 😒

Are there any decent local AI setups yet for coding with open-source models? Thinking of models like the ones from @ai2.bsky.social and @nousresearch.com I tried to setup jan.ai on my Linux machine, but after downloading any model it just sits there as if it hasn’t downloaded anything 😬

Are there any decent local AI setups yet for coding with open-source models? Thinking of models like the ones from @ai2.bsky.social and @nousresearch.com I tried to setup jan.ai on my Linux machine, but after downloading any model it just sits there as if it hasn’t downloaded anything 😬

I like the internet handle thing except maybe for the fact that it looks so much like your email address. I suppose if I say my internet handle is @tokono.ma and my email is [email protected] That kind of makes sense. But what if my handle was @steven.tokono.ma and email [email protected]? 🤷‍♂️

Happy Holidays and may all your protocols in 2026 be open. 🍾🥂

Whelp, my domain got blocked, no incoming email 🥲 My fault for picking the top-level domain of Morocco I guess.

2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X. I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change. berjon.com/fascintern-m...

Does anyone know of a database of artists that pretend to be the lead singer? And while we’re at it, of fake AI artists? @musicbrainz.org @simontomes.com

Someone finally built a small wooden manual threadmill (walking pad) that isn't crazy expensive 🙌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/981...

So; genuine question, where do we start? What’s the best option to put my dns records? I got dnsimple.com and cloudflare atm. Future… something like github.com/pubky/pkarr maybe? No idea what the best hosting is. Future… distributed web (ipfs, etc)? What lower level parts do we need to replace?

Made a "deploy system" based on content-addressing that allows the user of a web page/app to pick a specific version or latest; works on any http server (well, with _redirects file support). Example: elements.diffuse.sh/latest/ (Netlify) Source: tangled.org/@tokono.ma/d...

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

GM fam! We're solving real connectivity problems with Web3 tech—peer-to-peer networks for festivals, stadiums, and anywhere traditional infrastructure breaks down. Coordination tech where crowds need it most. Building the resilient internet, one crowd at a time.

Experiment take two slowly taking shape, new url: elements.diffuse.sh Not usable quite yet, just interesting to note how all the custom elements fit together. Also added descriptions to most elements so people can get a better idea of what a component actually does.

If all (web) software is malleable and composed of small pieces built by various people; how do data schemas fit in? Can the system be designed in such a way that data interoperability in itself is optional? We can only abstract so much, but what is the ideal balance?

Nostalgia level: 💯 (yeah this is a working music player & browser) Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org

Is there a CLI tool that scans a directory, detects duplicate files and makes symlinks so that only one instance of the file remains? Thinking of making a versioned web app deploy system/flow based on content addressing that should also work on non content-addressed systems like Netlify.

Is there a CLI tool that scans a directory, detects duplicate files and makes symlinks so that only one instance of the file remains? Thinking of making a versioned web app deploy system/flow based on content addressing that should also work on non content-addressed systems like Netlify.

Now we wait until signals are a browser standard 🤝 No more component libraries that are tied to a specific framework 🙏 I know we already have that latter part, but signals are so much nicer to use than events (for reactive data at least).

I was thinking the same thing the other day. I was trying to figure how to programmatically tell if some piece of javascript had been executed in the browser by a shared worker or a regular worker. It failed miserably. I would’ve been more happy with “I don’t know bud, carry on”

📣 Looking for some part-time work if anyone needs help with anything web, distributed tech, cryptography, etc. Currently doing some protocol work for totemgrid.io, but while we wait for funding, I could really use some money. AT Work profile: atwork.place/u/tokono.ma Website: tokono.ma

Alright, we’re turning the ship around for the next version of diffuse.sh The applets.diffuse.sh version was so close to my og vision for a malleable music player/browser but it came just short. Rewriting it from scratch now using what I learned from that experiment on top of custom elements.

I've always envisioned ideal user-owned data as "bringing your own usb drive that you plug into a piece of software". And, that might finally become popular now with the ATProto PDS, which combines storage + auth in a convenient package with a great identity system besides it.

It’s that time again where neoliberalism is annoying the fuck out of me, so here’s a few reminders to myself: * billionaires = bad, find ways to reduce their assets, or the worth of those assets * one way to do so: support cooperatives with non-tradeable shares * inequality makes everything worse

Rewatching Benn’s “manifesto”, hits so much harder than the first time I watched it. Actually took some time to learn about financial markets, and now.. well.. 💀

I hacked something together earlier this year that technically does that: byov.tokono.ma The thing is, I don’t like doing the passkey AND the Storacha auth. I wish I could just do the passkey for activating cloud sync and be done with it. Keyhive will for sure fix that w/ Beelay, but still …

Started moving away from Github by pushing my code to multiple code forges (using `git push origin --all`) You can follow me at: * tangled.sh/@tokono.ma/ * app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.r... No clue why my v4 branch on Radicle isn't updating though.

Anyone got some thoughts on monetarycommons.com? To me this sounds very reasonable. I haven't read the full paper though, just this webpage. Clearly different from aboutcircles.com which takes a whole different approach, which focuses more on personal currency creation, trade & trust.

Had an interesting chat with @chrisshank.com this week about making the web more "composable". I'm definitely going to try to use more custom elements so that those components can be easily modified using just the DOM. Also going to use regular CSS classes so one can restyle elements effortlessly.

At this point, Spotify, I’m just … 🤣 no words 🥲 Very curious to see what happens next with whole music ecosystem.

Trying to devise a way where a website can sign any content offline without exposing the private key. Any ideas? My idea: when opening the website with an internet connection, create a tunnel between server and client that transfers the private key into a non-exportable indexedDB webcrypto key.

i don't enjoy the romanticizing of some golden past of the web that web never died you made all the decisions about where to publish and where to spend your time

Malleable software project is on hold. Realised that this has a big privacy concern, namely that every website can read your data. Trying to figure out a user friendly way of solving this; permission dialogs are so not it.

Back from vacation, missing Italy already. I needed the escape tbh, too much stuff that feels overwhelming. Rich getting richer, climate worsening, wars, fascism, not having an income, managing health issues, etc. Luckily I can somewhat manage the latter two, not sure what to do about the others.

I was wondering about the inverse of this recently, what if there was no same origin; the address book data came from a specific origin and could spread freely to other origins if opted in. What would the permission prompt look like then? Do we even want data prompts?

New blog post up.

David Van Reybrouck: ‘Er wordt niets gedaan om ons roofzuchtige economische systeem aan te pakken’ www.mo.be/interview/sa...

Short retro on the iframe experiments: * Loading iframes is expensive af * Anything happening in the main thread of iframes blocks the main thread of parent context as well * Web workers don’t do parallelisation out of the box * Reuse iframes from parent context for perf * Shared workers are back

Bit burned out by working so hard on this experiment (applets.diffuse.sh) and there’s still so much to do; but I need to put it down and get back to earning some income and maybe enjoy summer while it’s here. Looking forward to work on www.totemgrid.io though! Loveliest people over there ☺️

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”