Hey! Got it integrated in Omnipilot, it's the fastest way to get chatting with the model. It's free right now, I'll add a limit and paywall imminently if this picks up.
Very cool. maybe a way to go to market would be to sell it as a chrome extension to large corporates or even dev agencies by proving it will make their developers more productive?
i.e. spin up VMs for me when I go to any site, not just the sites which have chosen to use devbook.
I reckon that could make adoption a lot faster/easier and also it means the people/orgs directly receiving the value are the ones paying.
One tricky thing is to make sure that the code snippet can actually run. Often you need a bit of a bigger context to run the code. Like env vars or dependencies.
Congrats on launching! Don't stress about the low levels of response, I suspect that as you suggested, this will be more of a tool to help companies do tech support than a tool for consumers to get help.
Honestly so glad it's a paid service. I'm happy to pay for something I can trust to handle my messages, rather than using them against me to sell ads/send to shady data brokers!
Awesome work Eric, Tulir, and the whole Matrix team too!
I've been in the past few nights trying to build my own Matrix server with integrations to Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, IRC, Slack et.al. It is quite a lot of work, even with the Ansible script. First was the DNS SRV record, that is needed to federate with matrix.org. And the Signal integration happily sent messages to my friends, but I never got any messages back.
I have quite a lot of experience with Linux and server maintenance. And I know if I put enough time to this, I'll get everything to work eventually. I'm still saying that paying money for somebody else to do this feels like a nice investment at this point. The task of doing everything by yourself is quite tricky.
Need to add now I got everything working. Element running in my own domain, connecting Signal, Telegram, Matrix federation and IRC in a beautiful way.
It is a lot of work, some of the documentation can be a bit tough if you don't know how things work together and especially the DNS setup can take a bit of time to get the federation working.
Sorry, just to clarify - are you saying that self-hosting Beeper is a lot of work, or that self-hosting Matrix with bridges without Beeper is a lot of work?
$10/mo is steeper than I like for a chat app, but this is so huge to just roll everything into one place, and I like that it's OSS, so I'm happy to pitch in and support the devs even if I'm capable of self-hosting the backend.
Classic HN comment.
Yeah, $10/mo, + the time needed to setup everything + the time to maintain it + the security holes to patch yourself + the downtime because the instance rebooted for some reasons + the monitoring of the service + all the time wasted because you could have simply lived your life and paid the reasonable fees for the service in the first place.
Not at all, prosody and ejabberd both work flawlessly without all of that nonsense. If it's a shitty piece of software maybe, but then why even bother using it in the first place?
It's a future prediction, agree aggregate status don't show it yet, but the people who drive long-term trends (for example, the early adopters of Facebook) no longer use it, and the brand crisis I think is only going to continue.
Totally agree that Facebook isn't going to vanish any time soon, I'm just saying that basically they won't win because people are slowly but steadily losing trust in them, and they will lose their data & talent advantage.
People are also becoming more willing to pay for software over time, I think/hope the pendulum will swing back to the "user pays for product" model. We'll see!
So if you want to find out what Facebook knows about you, you have to download your data from Facebook. It's a JSON dump which does very little on its own to inform you what all of it actually means. We wanted to make a tool to easily analyse and understand the data.
You upload it to Ethi, but your data is encrypted in your browser before you upload, stored encrypted, and only decrypted in a serverless cloud instance to analyse and process it (there's a lot of data analysis that happens) before being stored encrypted again.
So we can't see your data when it's stored, and it's encrypted nearly all the time except when it's being processed or you're viewing it.
So the whole idea here is to analyze the data dump from fb. I have checked the website, but it seems that you put efforts to reverse-engineer the logic in the dump and how it is stored.
A follow up question. Other than data dump, is there any other sources you use?
The web has to mature beyond advertising as a business model. For this to happen people are going to have to open their wallets, pay for the services they use, and support independent businesses.
I hope it does! I'm banking on it too for my project.
We built Ethi because the only way to find out how companies like Facebook track you, what they know about you and how they use it was to trawl through their privacy policies and settings! And if you wanted to delete data from Facebook, it's almost impossible, you'd need to manually delete every action you ever took in their app!
We think that everyone should to be able to easily understand and control the data companies collect about them, and one day even use it for themselves.
We help you find out how Facebook:
- tracks you across the internet
- tracks you across the world
- collects hundreds of interests about you
- tracks your social life
- can even track your mood.
Then we help you delete what you no longer want them to keep! We're trying to put users back in control.
Our users are not the product at Ethi. We don't use your data for anything else. Instead of Ethi being totally free and us monetising by selling ads or data to a hedge fund, we ask users to pay so we can expand Ethi to Google, Amazon and others, and build a full toolset for you to decide who knows what about you.
Data is encrypted in your browser before you upload it, and is only decrypted to provide the graphs and analysis you see in Ethi.
Looking forward to hearing what you think! Sign up to try it out - if you want to subscribe you can use the code NEWHACKER when you sign up for 80% off (lets you use FaceErase our deletion tool).
