Background noise

OSS feed

Side note: created an issue to start the discussions around integrating my very own pi-ollama-cloud extension into pi core itself.

#sharing-is-caring

One Markdown app on Apple Store

This is a great way to edit markdown on the go that has a decent preview and sync with dropbox. No web app, agent, whatever needed, and that’s intentional, it’s the raw material I edit on my (lazy) “second brain” while on the go.

I know obsidian is great, but I already pay for dropbox and didn’t want to mess with third party obsidian extensions for the sync. Also, obsidian has a lot more than I need, I just need an editor on the go :)

Chaotic Echo Chamber

Mostly notes for future me

  • Pick Up What They Put Down (Shawn Wang / Swyx) - “The Ultimate Hack for Learning In Public”
  • As We May Think | Wikipedia - “As We May Think” is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society"
    • The actual essay - “Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
    • Memex animation - Vannevar Bush’s diagrams made real | YouTube “This is a recording of a Macromedia Director application that was built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bush’s 1945 “As we may think” paper in the Atlantic.”
  • The case for creative clutter - “Mess isn’t always bad. Sometimes, our unsorted piles are where interesting new ideas grow.”
    • They quote Francis Bacon: “I feel at home here in this chaos because the chaos suggests images to me”
  • mem.ai - Second brain as a service?! “Dump your ideas, meetings, and research into Mem—and get it all organized for you.”

TIL

PEBCAK

Acronym of problem exists between chair and keyboard.

Here in brazil we usually say PEBKAM (between chari and monitor)

Cryptomnesia | Wikipedia

Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original.

Fun fact: every now and then I come up with idea that I eventually find out has been done already an I have already came across it in the past. With these days information overload I think it’s a phenomenom more common than we’d expect, specially in tech.

Quotable quotes

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/604289-with-words-we-begin-to-leave-traces-behind-us-like

With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne’s thread. Now people leave paper trails.
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2055242130944065585

I find myself doing a lot better work, being more satisfied, and also learn a lot more+faster when I do the hard work and don’t outsource it to AI.
As in, I’ll use AI as a tool with substasks, additional research: but I don’t turn off my brain or kick back, assuming it can do the work for me.
Every time I “hand over the” hard work part to AI and mentally turn off, I either regret it or find myself eventually needing to go back and spend more time on it.
I also see slop work coming out from people who assume the AI does better work than they would.

On AI Generated Content Disclosure

Lots of stuff happening on that front, some links worth skimming

Proposal: Meta Tag for AI Generated Content

The proposed ai-generated meta tag provides a standard method for website owners to express that their content was (partially) generated by AI. It would promote transparency and respect for website users, contributing to a more ethical web environment for AI.

Buncha links from that thread:

Digital Hoarding

Things open in my brand new CHAOS tab group on Brave for when time permits