I know a guy who has all kinds of theories about sentient life in the universe, but noone to talk to about them. It’s because they’re pretty obvious to anyone who took a philosophy class, and too out there for people who are not interestes in such discussions. I tried to be a conversation partner for him but it always ends up with awkward silence on my part and a monologue on his side at some point.

So, he finally found a sentient being who always knows what to answer in the form of ChatGPT and now they develop his ideas together. I don’t think it’s bad for him overall, but the last report I got from his conversations with the superbeing was that it told him to write a book about it because he’s full of innovative ideas. I hope he lacks persistence to actually write one.

Trakt.tv has a lot of data, and they provide recommemdations

I’m not recommending Perplexity, but when trying it out I clicked some of the sources it used, and I haven’t seen such sites as search results in ages. Articles in personal sites, blogs etc. were not uncommon.

Now I wish for a search engine that would use results from these kinds of sites, without the LLM.

https://czkawka.com/

Brouter used to be capable of this, but it was configured with JSON.

I wish for something for summer months, I don’t care if the route is longer if I walk in the shade.

Edit: it’s a full blown programming language https://brouter.de/brouter/index.html

Quodlibet has a Random Album Playback plugin

Then where have you found it?

I like the federated network design and that the client is really polished. If only the cryptography in session protocol wasn’t broken I’d consider actually using it.

4,000,000 Square Feet = 37.161216 Hectares

4,000,000 Square Feet = 0.37161216 Square Kilometers

Skip the blog spam right to the maintainer’s announcement