iamacyborg

I’ve not followed the market much but I suspect some fine press editions of Stephen King’s work would be up there. Of course, tons of standard paperback editions of those that could be pulped.

There are plenty of rare and precious books with ISBNs.

My guy, stop asking me to do all the legwork for you.

The problem is your content both looks and reads like low effort slop. Not that AI tools are here to stay.

Which might be true if the content weren’t also AI slop.

The content generally reads like Claude slop. Lots of self-narration, throat clearing sentences, overuse of verbs like “lands”, overuse of tidy sentence conclusions.

It’s all fixable with a modicum of effort but combined with the slop styling I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve other than just pushing slop online.

If the website looks like slop, why would anyone believe the content in it to be anything but slop too?

Hard to look past the claude slop design

Not sure what the point of this is when gmail has a subscription centre built in.

My whole setup is, suboptimal, to put it delicately. It’s just running on a NUC that’s crammed inside my AV cabinet, antennas would be crammed in there as well. I mostly buy zigbee stuff but it’s hard to ignore how cheap the Ikea Matter over Thread kit is.

My Matter over Thread stuff keeps occasionally falling over in Home Assistant and becoming unavailable, probably a router issue as I’m using a homepod mini but still endlessly frustrating.

The principles for the strategy appear to be published in this paper https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0015198X.2019.1...

You’re being polite, this stinks of Claude.

Hard to take this seriously when it has all the hallmarks and annoying tics indicating it has been written by Claude.

> And AI chatbots are very much targeted at the second group, not the first.

I suppose this is why the AI labs are famously not releasing developer-oriented tools.

> It was never any better than Myspace, and gradually got much worse.

I might be misremembering a bunch but myspace never had a feed that showed you your friend’s updates.

It also wasn’t able to magically show you the people who were at that random house party you went to the night before that you hit it off with but were too drunk to get their number.

You might want to read Hamilton’s defence of Elgin to understand how they saw the difference between legitimate and illegitimate acquisition of antiquities.

I’m quite fortunate on the family history side of things. Not sure a chatbot is what’s needed but I’d be happy to make digitised files public that relate to things that are in the public interest. This ancestor for example was key in the acquisition of the rosetta stone and the parthenon marbles and was the recipient of one of Canova’s “Ideal Heads” that can now be seen at the Ashmolean in Cambridge. There’s a lot of history associated with those 3 events.

They’re not “friends”, they’re people paying a small fee to conveniently access pirated media.

There are lots of folks self-hosting the music app Roon and paying for it.

They’re at my aunts house, I’ve just not had a chance to read them or ask my cousin to digitise them and send them to me.

One day I really should dig up my great great great great grandfather’s[^1] diaries to see first hand how he justified bringing back so much stuff to the UK.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Richard_Hamilton

> The real solution to this would be to give everyone and their dog a standardised online server with legally enforced privacy, and have sandboxed apps manage data in and out in a interexchangeable format, but I feel like I'm asking for peace on earth.

That sounds like Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

No, no, they’ve all moved over to Salesforce.

I am aware, that’s why I don’t have one in my flat (and I don’t own a car for that matter so none there either) but they’re still a hell of a lot of fun.

If my Instagram feed is anything to be believed, apparently we all need to be taking extra electrolytes in now.

Subwoofers are really fun though.

Calling it a “fucking idiot” seems to do the trick

I swore at it a few times and it did the same thing.

It seems to be getting distinctly dumber and pulling more and more irrelevant context from historical conversations.

Oh very cool, thanks for the link