Surely typing/saying the below Alpine command to install Firefox is way easier than who knows what multi–stage process other operating systems require.

apk add firefox

Google’s search box (rather tongue in cheek) is the most popular command line interface in use today. With NLP, installing and running firefox would just be a phrase equivalent that compiles to:

firefox

On NixOS, we can already do stuff like that. Of course, NixOS lacks a translation/encapsulation layer for imperative to declarative specification — so user friendliness suffers dramatically.

Larnyx/Rhasspy is an excellent/fast offline text to speech program. There’s approximately 50 voice samples.

It would be trivial to turn this into an API that reads articles/posts, but it’s on Python so packaging it “directly” (there’s a docker container) is way harder than actually using it.

Apparently we were supposed to be entering the era of web4 right about now. “Intelligent personal agents” does sound like a nice marketing jingle. Also… I just learned that web5 is a thing?

Delta Chat is the premier waiting room to be in until the big boys end their chat app/protocol wars. What does it do? It turns your email into a full blown chat application. Yes… it’s an email messenger.

I was finally able to smoothly convert my last Signal contact. To persuade others, first prioritize email communication — ruthlessly. Then say: “Who in the world wants 10+ chat apps to talk to everyone?” If there’s agreement — you win ;-)

Supports: iOS macOS Windows Linux

HTML Sucks Completely (HSC) is a fitting name for what might be one of the first of many static site generators (SSG).

I’ve got so many feeds in my feed reader that selectively filtering terms is a necessity — it gets real meta huh? I know all I need to know about Next.js at this point, no more :-)

Follow a sufficiently diverse set of RSS feeds and you’ll eventually see filter bubbles in “real time”. Across countries, technology, corporate blogs, politics, news, food, entertainment, you name it — there’s selective information filtering. All of us are in our own distorted perception of reality.

I finally “get” why most social media web designs use a narrow 2/3 base column layout. There’s a lot of practicality involved. For example, it’s easier to control media delivery and responsiveness with narrower dimensions.

I’m not too fond of narrow holy grail layouts. If time allows, I’ll add options for swapping between a few “cool” base layouts.

Everything cryptocurrency purports to solve has been “technically” solved, but it’ll become indispensable because of the elusive idea of post scarcity.

The perceived ownership of this message and the surrounding content (my blog) can be trivially duplicated a million times over at little to no cost by anyone.

I don’t care about that, but I guarantee you that a lot of other people do. Cryptocurrency brings scarcity to a post scarcity (digital) world. This is something that people desperately want.

I now think (lost a bet) that there’s a pathology that drives genres (tags) in content propagation. If you observe people “consuming” content then you’ll inevitably realize that there’s an overwhelming consensus for just more of the same, but not forever.

Diversity and homogeneity

Organizing content “strictly” into genres is a compromise. Auto–generating tags looks like a trap though. Is this even a muse?