Piping curl into sh is sadly a very common install method these days

But you are right

“Hey computer, I don’t like when you ask for that confirmation, just do it”

“Oh, -y, I got you”

The moment I loved the FOSS community was when I went on an Linux IRC channel, complained about my wifi not working, and some stranger messaged me detailed instructions with a patch in 20 minutes that completely fixed my issue.

There are various levels of AI here

Storing embeddings/vectors in a search index can make your searches smarter and more relevant. The embeddings squeeze related concepts closer together than pure keyword approaches, which if done well increases retrieval quality.

RAG tools and AI searches are just a layer on top of your index. When done well these can be really useful in annotating your results and speeding up finding things.

That’s useful when you’re searching say an error message and the AI is able to iterate on keywords and skim a Guthub issue about it and skip to the resolution.

Similarly it’s good when you’re researching something but don’t have the exact words, AI search can iterate and capture your intent, then run several queries based on that.

I don’t find the hallucination problem significant in practice with a lot of AI search tools, but I have found AI is vulnerable to certain types of SEO spam that a human would never fall for.

As an example most companies have a “comparison to” or “alternatives to” blogpost. The AI does not critically look at the fact that a service is hosting a blogpost shilling their own product. So asking search AI for options is actually poor quality because it will return the shilled results that appear in search first.

AI also search adds an additional silent layer of filtering, which you need to be conscious of.

Potentially that would be a good application of federation and distributed computing

An Internet archive like distributed tool, that then feeds into local tokenization and indexing.

Alternatively a centralized service that generates indices and then locally they are queried would save a lot of energy.

Prediction: this gets used to surveil dissidents and minorities disproportionately.

TimyRSS looks interesting, noticed they have extension support (freshRSS seems to too) so marine that’s the best route to what I want

It looks like there are already some extensions that do a bit of what I’m looking for

https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions

I’ll have to look at the API to see if I can add tagging or something.

Yeah that’s what I’m thinking of.

What I’m envisioning is articles group by topic (international, tech, etc.) and something that groups articles on say Ukraine like Google News does.

A lot of RSS is like an email inbox and I want a news feed.

That looks great

The list of related software they use is also very handy

I think what I want is RSS plus categorization, like a Google News type app.

RSS alone can be kind of overwhelming.

But maybe I can build this on RSS with ollamma.

I have big regrets buying a WD MyCloud device.

It sucks. Massively sucks. I have it robot nightly or else it stops working.

Wish I’d started with a Synology.

My current work is going through this

They dropped an open system we used but the team managing the new one is so bureaucratic and disconnected from the people actually doing work it’s ridiculous.

They reject every proposal/change unless it’s 100% perfect. I had a project delayed by four weeks because I didn’t end single line docstrings with periods. They didn’t review the substance of the pr, they just commented on the docstrings and stopped as if the rest had no merit. It was two weeks between review cycles, so it took three cycles to actually fix what could have been one.

That whole team is just clearly a make work program. They nitpick and bike shed on every issue. But they aggressively document all the make work they do so they look super busy and important to the execs.

I just want to get work done, but instead it’s a Sisyphean effort.

You’re coming in loud and clear here in the great white North!

How was the process of setting up self hosting?

That actually seems attractive to me, but I’m unsure where I stand yet. It’s pricey, I just want a box I can put in the basement and then connect everything to over wifi.

If your work lets you have iCloud accounts (I think usually managed) then you could use the shortcuts app.

This depends a lot on your companies device acceptable use policy.

The pixel is a secondary device I got for a job but they let me keep, so it’s not a bother for me.

It does prompt you to unmute but it’s very easy to forget to turn it back on.

It’s not a good solution, but I like that it’s an option

I see you already got an answer, but one thing I do is disable the microphone and camera on my pixel.

I keep them in the notification drawer because I just don’t trust keeping them on, but obviously I have to trust the OS is don’t that properly.

I don’t think it’s just marketing, the early Macs got a lot of performance out of their graphics routines, and then Mac OS had tight integrations with postscript which made it good for graphical design.

I think these days yes a powerful graphics card will get you very far, but overall macOS feels much less hostile to me than windows. I think Linux is kind of a mess for graphics stuff, there are a few good open source tools, but the major design suites aren’t well supported.

Linux is not UNIX