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AI service from government doesn't sound all that much better.

Authentication is happening where I live via electronic ID, but once you authenticate you could still use agents on your behalf to compare messages / request public services.

I still envision a deterioration of quality of responses we will be getting. At least in cases where we really need help not something that should have been a button in the first place.

Just think about consequences of that. Soon all public institutions (in addition to private companies such as Amazon) will be swamped with agents requesting them to act (refund packages, parking tickets etc.) and won't be able to keep up. It means, after a while they will stop reacting completely.

It looks like a pretty bleak future to me ...

I am the opposite. I have CommitMono, Iosevka, Source Code Pro installed, but I always come back to Fira Code/Mono. At the same overall density of text, I find that I can skim through the text faster when the font is wider.

It's interesting how personal font choice (among many other things) is!

I'd like a reliable and inexpensive router with OpenWrt.

It's a difficult market though:

- Vast majority people use router provided by ISP. - Some unhappy with ISP hardware quality buy whatever they find online (in my country usually TP-Link devices) - Enthusiasts flash OpenWrt on cheap devices, home servers or buy MikroTik devices (or similar). - Non enthusiasts, but caring about quality and support still have some good (but more expensive) devices to pick from like Fritz!Box in Europe

People wanting pre-flashed OpenWrt will be fraction of a fraction of overall market, so you'd need to charge a lot, which puts you in direct competition with options above.

I have followed that up with removing all algorithmical feeds from my life (I recommend News Feed Eradicator extension for that) and then setting phone to Focused mode from 9am till 2pm. It's been life changing.

I thought people at work would be mad, but everybody adjusted instantly.

Next up I'd like to pre-plan blocks of focused work - an idea I got from the Deep Work book.

Handling cash is expensive too, so what EU does is probably beneficial (as in cheaper) to the society as a whole.

I wonder if true transaction cost even reaches the 0.2-0.3% or could be further lowered.

Wonderful. I'll be among buyers the day it releases

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I'd definitely be interested in moving towards such setup if I could reliably and easily accomplish it. There are already people who vibe code all the tools they need.

Personally, so far I got best results by carefully selecting a small number of apps and devices with good track record and community around them (think Emacs that's been around for decades, but also KOReader, Linux, AntennaPod on Android and many others) and supporting those in various ways. I might vibe code an extension or config for the apps, but then I still understand what it does and why.

AI is yet to change that. I use LLMs daily at work, but software maintenance remains problematic. Producing stable software in unstable times is actually what pays my bills.

Edit: And yes - if you fork, upstreaming is a problem. It's unfair for original software maintainer to need to review, test and integrate vibe coded code.

Thanks! I'll look into why my battery is draining so fast.

I can't and don't want to maintain all software I use. I need to be picky.

There's a big difference between putting money or time into a community of builders and learning in the process (myself or growing others) and maintaining a vibe coded project. That's why I want to know right away which projects are vibe coded so that I don't put any effort into them.

You're free to apply different criteria to software you use, but we're talking about having information to make an informed decision here.

I have Kobo Sage but it's not a great device.

Very bad battery life. Maybe 8hrs of reading with wifi off, BT off and only low screen backlight. I need to charge it daily or every other day at best.

Physical buttons are comically bad and often don't register presses.

Built-in book reading app is slow, lacks some critical features and hangs in many epub books. I replaced it with KOreader which finally made the device usable.

It's a great screen size though (9" would be even better).

I think so too. I wish all projects had a tag with amount of AI usage.

It's not that vibe coding is bad on its own, but it makes me worried about project's future (ease come, easy go).

Walt https://walt.is/ is building exactly that in Europe. They claim first tap to pay will happen later this year.

Some European banks including mine offer NFC payments via their app as well. You don't need Google services.

It does and it's unfortunate. Perhaps Codeberg might try to block AI crawlers access to the entire website. I know it's all jazz nowadays, but I'm not in favor of using other's people work to train AI without explicit consent.

I've actually been thinking it'd be nice to have something like GitHub, but only for hand-written code. If anything, for now I'd like to learn primarily from and perhaps contribute to projects that have human involved at all stages.

But I don't think it will be easy to detect AI written code especially with frequent releases of new models.

From System76 website:

> Our lightest ultraportable, the Lemur Pro, now comes in a 14" and a brand new 16" option with 2K display, weighing just 2.2 lbs and 2.96 lbs. Enjoy multi-day battery life, the latest Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, and Linux engineered from the ground up.

That's what I'd probably do, but I'm a software engineer and devops person that also likes to tinker, so I like to have a lot of packages available. Fedora with its 80k packages (~30k apps) has been a blessing.

In comparison, Arch official repos only have 15k packages (~10k apps). There are ways to plug the gap (such as compile missing packages, add Nix package manager), but it's even better if you don't have to.

I've been CatchyOS curious, but AUR is exactly what's been keeping me using Fedora.

I hope official, veted Arch repositories grow over time.

Zig by Example seems to target Zig 0.14 at the moment. The links I posted should hopefully target version 0.15+

Simplicity is one thing Zig excels at (at least from my early observations).

I just looked this up yesterday so sharing some more up-to-date resources for those interested in Zig:

- Learning Zig by Karl Seguin: https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/

- https://zig.guide/

- Free project-based online book Introduction to Zig by Pedro Park: https://pedropark99.github.io/zig-book.

- Ziglings, almost working programs you need to fix: https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises

The thing with VC-founded projects is that there's some kind of rug-pull, ads, privacy violation or "feature enhancing" subscription likely coming and as users we should know.

I don't really like services that stress how idealistic they are when this is the upcoming reality.

Better charge money for services or if you're truly idealistic start it as a non-profit. At the very least communicate what's the monetization plan.

The problem with VC-founded projects is that there's some kind of rug-pull, ads, privacy violation (e.g. using repos to train AI) or "feature enhancing" subscription likely coming.

As a user who would need to invest time and effort in using Tangled, I think it's fair to ask to have the plan explained. I'd rather see explicit price for services than see enshittification happen.

I don't say you specifically have bad intentions or that VC money is all evil.

But now you need to grow fast, which greatly increases the risk for me as your potential user, so you should at the very least write a post to make sure you're aligned with your users not just with your angels.

How are you going to use the money? What's the business model? How do you ensure you're around in 10+ years? How are you going to please your overlords with that business model and what will you do if they force you to squeeze more money out of the business?

I hope you succeed, because the competition is good for users, but VC-founding is a liability not a strength.

Tangled is VC sponsored. It doesn't scream stability to me, but rather "we need to grow at all cost". I don't see the appeal.

Even though it's federated, when development stops, who will be there to fix bugs and maintain it?

Campaigns like this need more info. This page doesn't answer any basic questions.

How much money do you currently get? How much money do you need and how will you use it? Does it even go directly to Thunderbird development or will be used up by Mozilla for other projects?

Edit: I found some info here: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/

Still, my point stands that communication around it should be super clear and available on all pages where they collect money. It shouldn't require me to search for it.

My favorite reads of the year:

- Futu.re by Dmitry Glukhovsky (author of Metro 2033 series). Interesting take of how life would look like if humans became immortal.

- Blackout by Marc Elsberg. A semi-realistic depiction of a 2-week long blackout in Europe caused by a terrorist attack.

- Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larson. Murder mystery in Sweden. Really enjoyed the setting.

Thanks for sharing! I've found your perspective interesting. I mostly listen to audio dramas, which are linear so I indeed didn't think about non-linear listening.

I agree that adding by URL is a must. I find other features like ability to download an episode or "Mark as played" as super useful too.

> I’m likely further hamstrung by the fact my content is high-brow & long-form, which comes at a disadvantage in the contemporary media landscape.

I think it comes at an advantage for building a loyal fan base in audio drama podcasts though. The kind of fan base that may want to support you financially.