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Mini-grant program for GPU computing projects. Providing small-scale funding to help researchers and developers access GPU compute time on modern hardware.

Damn, well put!

I did this for a university project. It streams to S3 (of Azure or Digital Ocean) encrypted, the client downloads it from there.

It's very rough around the edges but if you are up to contribute it's a good base.

https://github.com/tcz/choicecam-server https://github.com/tcz/choicecam-client

The client is a React Native project, should run on Android or iOS.

About 20 years ago when I was a teenager Microsoft did this in my country with rock-paper-scissors. XML-RPC-based web services were new at the time and they promoted it this way. You hosted your own web service and they called it to play, I think 10 or 20 games against each opponent in your group. Obviously you can't get an edge against someone playing completely randomly but they placed a bunch of simpler bots in the groups that you could detect (e.g, always playing a pattern). Group winners made it to the final. It was awesome, thanks for reminding me of that memory!

I get what you are saying but don't you think that Facebook selectively taking down some pages based on political considerations actually increases their power and not decreases it?

No, not dumb. That's what I wrote my BSc project on.

The way I see it, an important argument is that it won't solve the problem: these organizations take advantage of network effects to build monopolies and that mechanism won't go away. A good book on this is Who Owns The Future by Jaron Lanier.

Of course, forbidding anti-competitive acquisitions would have helped in that maybe then we'd all be using an independent Instagram under the leadership of its original founders and Facebook would be dying. But that still wouldn't change the fact that it would be more than likely to be a quasi monopoly. That's just the nature of social networks.