You're welcome and yeah .. Print to PDF is really useful. It retains so much information - the URL, the time you visited, the content, tags if the site defines them, and so on.
I don't know why folks haven't caught on to this technique - it's so obvious. Plus, it's like having my own little Internet whenever I'm offline .. digging through random selections from the 80,000+ files I've collected is extremely rewarding.
Hell no, that's ridiculous. Israel is a wholesale violator of human rights at massive scale, along with its criminal 5-eyes cronies, and it is in the midst of an imperialist genocide, murdering children every single day. If a state cannot defend itself against children, it is failed and should be refactored by its citizens, immediately and with haste.
We also strike the USA off the list, which cannot even take care of its peoples' most basic needs.
Switzerland. The answer you're looking for, is Switzerland. /s
I worked on an educational title in the 80's which taught people what computers were, and how to use them. It focused on the basics - what is memory, how does a computer use it, what are files and folders.
I had a few thousand happy customers and would hear from folks whose computing competence had been lifted by the titles I worked on .. that they finally 'got it' when the difference between memory, storage, files and folders was finally clear to them.
It is incredibly frustrating to realize that these apps I wrote in the 80's are still entirely relevant today. Too many times I've been in someones business office, and observed some new generation folks not quite understanding where things are stored, how they're stored, why and when to the use ~/Documents and ~/Downloads and ~/Desktop, and so on. Some folks just put everything on ~/Desktop and wonder why they can't find anything. Some folks thoroughly enjoy being coached through creating their own organization systems, for the first time, at the filesystem.
For the past 30 years I've been printing to PDF every interesting web page I've ever read. I now have a collection of 80,000+ .PDF files, in one folder, a huge collection of my personal knowledge and interests. It is immensely rewarding to "ls -l | grep <some interesting subject>" and get a sorted list .. to see also how I have revisited certain subjects over time ..
And now I'm faced with the issue that I just really want to data-mine this archive, so .. of course .. I'm looking at using an LLM to organize it all. One of the very first things I want it to do is sort everything into folders, by subject, and soft-link files into these hierarchical folders so that I can view the tree as a form of ontology. This is the filesystem, becoming very valuable to me as a user.
Yet, everything the OS vendors seem to be doing lately appears to be to remove the users control over their filesystems. I wish there was as much effort in making the File Browser/Explorer as useful as, say, has been put into making the browser the operating system. Sometimes I think the File Explorer versus Browser dichotomy has been seriously mis-managed by the major players over the past few decades.
I hope we see new paradigms for dealing with ontologies emerge into the mainstream .. else, I suppose, I'll have to build one myself ..
It always impresses me that technology ideas once exposed in the nefarious background of the Snowden revelations, has now become mainstream, almost passé among the technocratie, but then I remember that there is a very dominant event horizon where all technology is weaponized/de-weaponized according to the intentions of its users..
It's going to been pretty wild to see QuadRF being applied for things. I can only imagine there are weapons-technologists who will bolt this onto hunter/killer drones at some point. A lynchpin technology for the inevitable drone wars.
It always impresses me that technology ideas once exposed in the nefarious background of the Snowden revelations, has now become mainstream, almost passé among the technocratie, but then I remember that there is a very dominant event horizon where all technology is weaponized/de-weaponized according to the intentions of its users..
It's going to been pretty wild to see QuadRF being applied for things. I can only imagine there are weapons-technologists who will bolt this onto hunter/killer drones at some point. A lynchpin technology for the inevitable drone wars.
There are wars coming. The prices are not going down.
We are in a bubble which will be burst the moment the world starts retaliating against the US' 20+ year history of supporting genocide and committing war crimes unabated.
My favourite space probe is Psyche .. I hope I live to see the day that the asteroid named Psyche 16 is harvested for its immense wealth. It would amazing to see rocket motors 3D printed up there ..
1. cd <myVeryImportantProject.repo>
2. start_AI_agent_REPL
3. "hey AI, analyze the code base in this repo, and find any and all bugs related to 'e.g. porting from 32bit -> 64bit architecture', create work branches for the bug fixes, submit a PR at the repo site for each fix"
4. Goto 3.
I want to be able to treat my AI/ML assistant as a daemon I can turn on and off for any repo - I do not want it to be running all the time, I don't want an email interface to it, I don't want it to analyze my system to try to help me, I want it to be treated like any other system service I will enable and disable, per-directory, manually.
Everything else - the desktop app, the in-built browser, the Obsidian note-taking system - is pure noise, and it immediately disqualifies Rowboat from any investment on my part.
Just a simple daemon style approach, with a REPL, an interface to Git, and THAT IS ALL.
There will be a time and place for a whole new radical UI to AI/ML in my personal laboratory - that time is when I get a brand new machine dedicated just to AI/ML and only put things on it that I want to put on it. Not my personal machine, not my development machine - a machine that will only function as a junior AI/ML-based software developer in my team, with an interface to Git that is standard and battle-tested over years and years of actual work - and nothing else.
I know this tool is out there. I continue to swim through the junk to find it, however.
Rowboat is instantly disqualified from my environment by bringing in too many bells and whistles - all of it junk, because I will have to learn to manage it all anew, and that is not what I want in an AI/ML agent.
Anything which detracts from having AI/ML sandboxed as a daemon and its only interface through the current .git/config for the repo I'm applying it to, is noise and nonsense.