I once watched a 2 part DVD movie in the wrong order and I thought it was a bold director’s choice to not introduce any of the characters or explain the background.

I hate that every product has added “for AI” to their name and homepage.

I guess the investor are asking for it, but as a customer I can’t tell what products actually work for my use case anymore.

Visually this is gorgeous

Really nice work!

This looks great.

Lord knows I have to make enough mermaid renderings of these UML diagrams.

Will be giving it a try

Passwords are one I happily pay for someone else to worry about

That’s about my most valuable digital data

In a different direction now is a good time to start looking at how local AI can liberate us from big tech.

No, not I don’t self host my email which is where a lot of the trouble comes from

I don’t remember having any issues with it ever. That was a concern so I did slowly transition to the custom domain

That’s pretty much my setup, it is not super hard to get working, it’s basically just copying and pasting the magic numbers they give you

Three R’s to deGoogling: Reduce, replace, remove.

I would say start by changing your browser and search engine (lots of options out there today), and then set up your own domain for email hosting so you can try different providers.

There isn’t another YouTube with all that content out there, so that one is tough, but you don’t have to 100% de google, 50% is still good. 15% is still good.

Those had the vibe of a Perry Bible Fellowship comic, bit with less existential crisis

And it was good.

Weirdly I’m polite to all LLMs, but Gemini sets me off and I end up yelling at it.

Open webui lets you install a ton of different search providers out of the box, but you do need sn API key for most and I haven’t vetted them

I’m trying to get Kagi to work with Phi4 and not having success.

I keep seeing this on serious sites and it makes me happy

I’m new/planning to get more into self hosting

I have a crappy NAS in the basement I archive to and copy my borg repos to.

Then I pay for a Dropbox style cloud service and I copy my borg archives there. It’s kind of janky but it’s cheap and works.

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

If you set up something like Garage with borg with a bunch of other people you could create a network where you essentially swap hard drive space to ensure you’re all backed up.

But I think Garage assumes very high trust with your fellow hosts, so this doesn’t scale beyond direct social connections.

The object storage (S3-compatible) platform MinIO created a bit of a stir this week with a PR that removes a ton of functionality from the interface of its community edition. When questioned, users were directed to the enterprise version of the platform. In unsurprising open-source fashion, a fork has already been created by the community while others have started migrating to existing alternatives like Garage.

How are people finding Garage? Does anyone have a good comparison vs seaweedFS?

I don’t hate AI, I hate how it was created, how it’s foisted on us, the promises it can do things it really can’t, and the corporate governance of it.

But I acknowledge these tools exist, and I do use them because they genuinely help and I can’t undo all the stuff I hate about them.

If I had millions of dollars to spend, sure I would try and improve things, but I don’t.

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

But you are right