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Telegram -> 1 Group/agent -> OpenClaw running on an old laptop
Using it for journaling and capturing ideas. Previous workflow as iPhone Memos. Now it's
voice message -> openclaw -> transcribe using parakeet -> git repo
I've been dabbling with STT quite a bit and built my own tool using Deepgram. But just tried Handy and it's SO FREAKING FAST! Love it.
This was recently shared on HN: https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/
For anyone interested in seeing how dithering can be pushed to the limits, play 'Return of the Obra Dinn'. Dithering will always remind you of this game after that.
- https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra...
Time to set up Pi-Hole on my Rapsberry Pi 4
I think that local search, retrieval, and filing will become much easier with LLMs.
There are already tools and products in the market that allow you to rename and organize files. I believe this is the future.
We have developed various systems over decades, but I anticipate with LLMs it'll be so easy to file and retrieve things that we won't even have to think about it.
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Ref: google.com/search?q=answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything
More than a Roman character, Catalina reminded me of "Howard Roark" from The Fountainhead. It's been at least a decade since I last read it, but I thought the movie was quite influenced by that book.
Been using the LLM cli by simonw and love it.
https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/
Pro tip: Use $pbpaste to inject clipboard contents in a prompt
I just 'star' the repos
looks promising, but after looking at the website I'm yearning to learn more about it! How does it compare to alternatives? What's the performance like? There isn't enough to push me to stop using ChatGPT and use this instead. Offline is good, but to get users at scale there has to be a compelling reason to shift. I don't think that offline capabilities are going to be enough to get significant number of users.
Another tip, I try out a new chat interface to LLMs almost every week and they're free to use initially. There isn't a compelling reason for me to spend $10 from the get to for a use case that I'm not sure about yet.
Been 4 months and I'm pretty happy with the following setup: PiHole + RaspberryPi + Tailscale
With Pihole running on a tailnet all my devices use it by default as long as they're on the same tailnet. That way I have seamless ad-blocking even when I'm on cellular data or my friends' wifi networks.
Recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4, spun it up and installed various things on Ubuntu running from an SD Card. I now have a server running in my room again after probably a decade!
I'm not 16. :p
On my 14in Macbook Pro I CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE AT ALL
Manual coffee grinder + French press
For someone unexperienced with ESP32 but wanting to dip your toes, I'd highly recommend M5Stack - https://m5stack.com/ . No affiliation whatsoever, but I started playing with some basic boards last year for the first time and the the tiny devices they build have so many different sensors, transmitters, etc that you can start with a lot of early experiments just using a single device and a USB-C cable.
Pretty barebones but working web servers are possible. Example: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-web-server-arduino-ide...
I read this article last year and found it to be a pretty good in-depth analysis of how Evernote had a lot of potential but lost in so many ways:
- [Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential |The Full History](https://nira.com/evernote-history)
oh wow, I would have never imagined that 'that' would be preventing me from running llama + llava! Confirming that I have Crowdstrike running too.
Yep, same issue. and the error message is unhelpful
I don't see how 'Tesla' is not top of the list here. For the 'Trouble Areas' I suspected they're normalizing over the 'length of ownership' which would bias the scores towards older car companies.
- An Indispensable Truth: How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet - Chen, Francis F.
- Elon Musk - Isaacson, Walter
Recently listened to her on Lex Fridman's podcast - would highly recommend. Made me want to dig out the raspberry pi's and esp32 boards from my closet and build something.
not losing momentum in a nerd snipe like this is CRITICAL
This line got me laughing! My nerd brain has tried so many times to convince me to splurge money with this exact line!
Have you noticed that in the last few months, Github goes down every Tuesday?
Dear Google, you've burned me so many times after I've fallen in love with your products. I have experienced the cold sting of disappointment far too many times. When you abruptly discontinue services like Google Buzz and Google Reader, you leave me stranded with no reasonable alternatives. This pattern of abandonment has plagued our relationship, instilling in me a sense of apprehension each time you introduce a new product.
I've tried so many different stacks over the years but I always ended up in the same cycle:
- Spend a lot of time finalizing the stack
- Spend a lot of time styling the new blog
- Migrate some of the posts from the old stack to the new stack
- Write a 1-2 new posts in the new blog
- Stop writing
- After a few months, I come back to writing a post and realize there are dependencies to upgrade, scripts to run, and what not. I give up for at least a year.
After 10 years of having gone into this cycle over and over again, I'm currently using the following setup:
- IA Writer -> Gitlab -> Cloudflare pages
To write a new post, I just have to create a new file in IA Writer and save it. That's all.
A bare bones shell script blog.sh converts markdown into HTML (locally on my mac), invokes git push to Gitlab. And there's a 'Pages' project in Cloudflare which listens to changes to my Gitlab repo, and just statically publishes whatever's in the 'site' directory.
I've written more posts in this new stack than ever before. And I think the best part is that I just need to 'create new file' and 'save'.
Came across the magazine for the first time and really liking the presentation, typeface and feature like saving highlights. Clean interface too!
Coincidentally started reading Solaris 2 weeks ago. About 60% in and really enjoying it. Love stories with novel sci-fi ideas and this one tackles a pretty interesting one. Would appreciate recommendations by the same author or other stories.
Other stories that I really liked because I had not thought about those ideas before are: Diaspora (Greg Egan), Permutation City (Greg Egan), Dark Universe (daniel galouye), Three Body Problem series (Cixin Liu)
ChatGPT is really good with ‘text’. So I’ve been trying to experiment with different file formats. Some notable ones:
- copy paste (emails for reservations) or type an event or multiple events and ask to convert it into ‘ical’ format. Copy output and save into file, import into you calendar
- convert natural language into json , yaml or other structured text with custom fields
Been using the RC build over Godot 3 and have been pleasantly surprised. There are several quality of life improvements - the biggest one being that you can set default font and just change font sizes without having to create a new theme for reach node - this is probably my most used new feature!!
Wonderful job Godot team, and huge congrats on the 4.0 release