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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • I used to read (books, newspapers, cereal packets, everything, even fricking Cosmo) a hell of a lot before t’internet. Now I struggled to read a magazine in one sitting. I have a diet of RSS feeds and the linked articles.

    I’m thirty years older, as we all are pre- post- net, so that probably has an effect but it’s upsetting me how little I read (read) now.

    I have a old Kindle (circa the first paperwhite series) which I find is devoid of battery power whenever I pick it up and I forget to replace it on my wireless phone charger (buy the kindle a wireless charging client with a microUSB plug from Amazon/AliExpress to put between the cover you necessarily bought and the Kindle) when I remove my phone.

    Thinking buying a dumb phone might be the way forward to kill my died of short articles which maybe killed my attention span.











  • I’m not sure about good suggestions, per se!

    I have two on Firefox - I could not choose between them and never deleted the one I favoured - “List Feeds” (updated 2023) and “Want my RSS” (updated 2024). One looks lousy and gives multiple false positives sometimes, but the other doesn’t detect so well and looks pretty.

    Ironically FF, back in the day, had its own RSS feed detector built in and Moz ‘deleted’ it because no-one used it.

    I haven’t looked for replacements in a while. I periodically look for replacements for my add-ons.










  • You can use it for anything that requires a little logical multi step thought (anything single fact based is a straight web search with your search engine of choice)

    For example,

    • Rewrite your CV.
    • reply to a letter
    • write some code for a particular task.
    • debug your computer problem.
    • form a legal analysis to a situation ( https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/09/over-40-of-lawyers-now-use-ai-to-accelerate-their-work/ )
    • have a conversation about a topic to help you understand yourself or a thing better. (“How do I build a ceph storage cluster in Kubernetes on Talos Linux with a raspberry pi, a mini pc …”). Then you can ask about alternatives solutions or whatever.
    • come up with a business idea and talk it through with some’one’. Pricing etc.
    • summaries of text.

    At the moment they don’t always spit out correct answers to factual questions; they’d rather give crap than say they don’t know (without anthropomorphisising). When I asked Claude for equivalent sections in another jurisdictions legislation I got crap back on several occasions rather than the correct answer, but the false ‘facts’ were easy to check. However, the analysis was correct. ChatGPT gave the correct answer (to the original question). And I’ve had it the other way around too. So for the moment, pair them with Google or something similar for any fact output requested.

    They’re excellent tools for analysing situations and providing feedback. The code it writes is pretty good.

    Hopefully they never get trained on social media.