Matrix is a pretty drop-in replacement for discord and has encrypted video calling. The framerate on screen sharing can be kinda ass but iirc video was better, tho I don’t use it a lot so ymmv.

People would need to have matrix accounts to join your video feed but they’re easy to make and don’t require phone numbers. I’m not sure there’s any way to stop viewers from talking/showing video as well, so if those are things you want to avoid it may not be ideal, but check it out if it interests you because I might be wrong on that part.

I also really like Small Form Factor form factors

(sorry couldn’t resist)

Did you use a heavily quantized version? Those models are much smaller than the state of the art ones to begin with, and if you chop their weights from float16 to float2 or something it reduces their capabilities a lot more

It’s come a long way recently, I’m currently using piefed on voyager rn and it works great

It works in the sense that the operations are performed on binary numbers, so text handling works the same way it normally does assuming the handler function is encrypted to match. Once you have multiplication and addition, you can make logic gates and general computing follows from there - although with the noise being amplified thru each logic gate, the more complex the functions the more bootstrapping is required and the less I see this being doable in the short term.

For a working example, check out apple’s homomorphic encryption page, they use it for landmark identification and afaik will be using it for siri whenever they get to that update. It’s slow but it’s already usable - I’m not personally convinced it’ll be used everywhere, but the technology is super cool and I hope it shows up more

I need soft circular bears in my life

This is a really good overview, but a big piece of news it’s missing imo is that Apple is already using FHE in production so this has already moved past the theoretical “maybe in the future” stage the article implies. It’s super exciting to me and they’ve open sourced their swift library for it so I’m hoping to see many more companies getting on board with this soon

This really feels like it didn’t need an announcement

Does anyone have a source on this? It’s 100% believable but I’m not turning anything up and this seems like something worth knowing more about

Wow it’s almost like if they didn’t tell you, you wouldn’t know, and you’d continue to think this was accurate

The same bug occurs adding images to comments, now that I test that

This seems like the perfect use case for federated software to me