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Cake day: January 26th, 2024

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  • I recently thought about what I’m missing, and came up with something rather complicated (sorry, nothing simple haha)

    Basically I’m often compiling information in markdown text files. But images are still web hosted. Sometimes I use spreadsheets and wish I could do simple additions in markdown tables. Or I use bookmarks, but know websites will go down and wish I could just “backup” any website in a compact file and organize it without mucking around with files. Zotero does this partly. I also use “SingleFile” to save websites but it would be nice if it was something semi-compatible to web-archive. Or maybe just save a stripped down version of an article like you see in “reader view” on Firefox. And of course usable in both desktop and mobile.

    I do think Project Jupyter does something like this and there are also other note taking apps.

    Overall the state of computer science in 2025 is still deplorable. The very basics of storing data still don’t have good solutions.



  • they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity

    You’re making wild assumptions about people who disagree with your opinions. How ironic you accuse “them” of dehumanizing people.

    But I do agree that this gets to the core of the matter, the shock of a piece of software being able to produce intelligent text while clearly not having general intelligence is quite the shock. Same with creativity, while the entertainment industry produced equally empty content slop using human labor it’s a painful shock to our identity as humans. I suspect this is a reaction to disillusionment and the intellectual pain that comes from it.

    My opinion on LLMs is rather nuanced, the worst possible outcome I can foresee is the anti-AI crowd helping the oligarchs to establish IP ownership of all LLM models and monopolizing the tools, so that only they can have access to the “means of generation”. While the rest has to pay for the privilege of using it.