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Comment on My PKM journey in ~tech
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Comment on Unfuck Google Drive (It's Gemini garbage, of course) in ~comp
ackables Link ParentI would imagine that all cloud hosting services scan your files. I remember Kim Dotcom getting arrested for not moderating what people stored on Megaupload. It’s honestly appalling that the US...I would imagine that all cloud hosting services scan your files. I remember Kim Dotcom getting arrested for not moderating what people stored on Megaupload. It’s honestly appalling that the US could have him arrested for copyright violations for not removing copyrighted content from people’s drives when I’ve seen multiple public Google Drive links with pirated content. I have yet to hear about any Google executives behind bars for facilitating copyright violations.
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Comment on The hatred of podcasting in ~life
ackables LinkPodcasting is a weird industry. Earlier podcasts had a lot of actual independent journalism that came about from the lowered the barrier to entry compared to the limited availability of airtime on...Podcasting is a weird industry. Earlier podcasts had a lot of actual independent journalism that came about from the lowered the barrier to entry compared to the limited availability of airtime on the regulated radio waves. The quality of the early content legitimized the medium in the same way that we usually think of books as high quality sources of information.
The same way that Kindle Direct Publishing has now made it so anyone can write a book about anything and have it be seen as legitimate because it’s a book, anyone can make a podcast and people are preconditioned to think that the information is legitimate and good.
Now the flood of nonsense podcasts have delegitimized the medium and made it harder to find high quality journalism.
I don’t know what the big takeaway from all of this is, but it’s interesting how changing the barriers to entry for certain media industries makes creating new things easier for professionals, but also makes it harder for people to identify what information is good or bad.
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Comment on Double meaning Tildes post tag writing prompt in ~creative
ackables Link ParentJust thought of one for writing prompts. It can be a noun for a seed for writing, or be the action of writing prompts for LLMs.Just thought of one for
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Comment on What diagramming tools do folks use? in ~comp
ackables Link ParentI had pretty good success with ChatGPT generated Mermaid plots. I had to do some revisions to get it exactly how I like it, but it got it 90% of the way there. I find the Mermaid syntax to be...I had pretty good success with ChatGPT generated Mermaid plots. I had to do some revisions to get it exactly how I like it, but it got it 90% of the way there.
I find the Mermaid syntax to be pretty simple too, so it’s not very difficult to make my own after seeing how ChatGPT put it together.
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Double meaning Tildes post tag writing prompt
I was reading this post about the Tildes hierarchical tag system and it got me thinking about possible tags with double meanings. For example, the gooning tag could be interpreted in a sexual way,...
I was reading this post about the Tildes hierarchical tag system and it got me thinking about possible tags with double meanings.
For example, the
gooningtag could be interpreted in a sexual way, or interpreted as the act of being a goon/villain. To clear up the misunderstanding, you could make agooning.baddiestag, but that also has a double meaning.What are some tags that could be used for serious topics that can have a less serious interpretation?
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Comment on I like America in ~society
ackables Link ParentThe ambiguity doesn’t provide much guidance for discussion, but it does provide a lot of avenues for discussion.The ambiguity doesn’t provide much guidance for discussion, but it does provide a lot of avenues for discussion.
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Comment on What the hell are we doing with hierarchical tags? in ~tildes
ackables Link ParentThat would probably warrant the creation of the gooning.baddies tag.That would probably warrant the creation of the
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Comment on I like America in ~society
ackables LinkIt’s not perfect, but it’s my place. Doesn’t mean we can’t want anything to change though.It’s not perfect, but it’s my place. Doesn’t mean we can’t want anything to change though.
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Comment on What the hell are we doing with hierarchical tags? in ~tildes
ackables Link ParentLol a writing competition that uses the gooning tag may be a little too “Letters to Penthouse” for TildesLol a writing competition that uses the
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Comment on What the hell are we doing with hierarchical tags? in ~tildes
ackables LinkThe tag system is a bit difficult to apply, but I just try my best and trust that someone will add/remove tags later. I thought the tags on the recent gooning post were pretty funny though. I...The tag system is a bit difficult to apply, but I just try my best and trust that someone will add/remove tags later.
I thought the tags on the recent gooning post were pretty funny though. I wonder if the
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Comment on Supermarket rewards card- yes or no? in ~finance
ackables Link ParentYeah I was trying to say that shopping at Trader Joe’s is harder for families due to their smaller portion sizes. I think this is also why some people claim Trader Joe’s is very affordable and...Yeah I was trying to say that shopping at Trader Joe’s is harder for families due to their smaller portion sizes.
I think this is also why some people claim Trader Joe’s is very affordable and others say it’s expensive. It’s cheap for single people or couples who, for example, don’t need to buy 2lbs of tortellini at a time, but more expensive for families who do need to buy 2lbs of tortellini.
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Comment on Supermarket rewards card- yes or no? in ~finance
ackables Link ParentAt least in California, Trader Joe’s is plentiful and Aldi is harder to find.At least in California, Trader Joe’s is plentiful and Aldi is harder to find.
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Comment on Supermarket rewards card- yes or no? in ~finance
ackables Link ParentI like Trader Joe’s because of the lack of options. If you go to a traditional grocery store, you have to compare a bunch of equivalent items and make a decision about quality vs price. In Trader...I like Trader Joe’s because of the lack of options. If you go to a traditional grocery store, you have to compare a bunch of equivalent items and make a decision about quality vs price. In Trader Joe’s, you walk in and grab what you need without having to put extra thought into it.
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Comment on Supermarket rewards card- yes or no? in ~finance
ackables LinkIt’s very upsetting to me that grocery stores have started forcing everyone to join their rewards programs. The “deals” you get by becoming a member aren’t even deals. Grocery stores have...It’s very upsetting to me that grocery stores have started forcing everyone to join their rewards programs. The “deals” you get by becoming a member aren’t even deals. Grocery stores have increased their prices for non-rewards members and allow you to purchase groceries for a normal price if you swipe your rewards card.
I don’t know what the equivalent in the UK would be (maybe Aldi), but in the US, Trader Joe’s is affordable and doesn’t have a rewards program. The only downside is that it has smaller portions that make it harder for families to do their shopping there.
If you are already an Amazon member, Whole Foods uses your Amazon account as the rewards account. If you shopped there, you at least wouldn’t have to give away personal data to additional companies.
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Comment on Not sure if coincidence or I should give up (on USB flash drives) in ~tech
ackables Link ParentWhat do you think about something like this? Does running RAID 1 even make sense nowadays?What do you think about something like this? Does running RAID 1 even make sense nowadays?
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Comment on Does anyone use AppleScript on macOS? in ~comp
ackables (edited )Link ParentThere must be something to it because I had the exact same idea. The way I am using ChatGPT and AppleScript separately could be an easy agentic AI feature. I’m already talking to an LLM to help me...There must be something to it because I had the exact same idea. The way I am using ChatGPT and AppleScript separately could be an easy agentic AI feature.
I’m already talking to an LLM to help me generate a todo list based on goals I’m communicating to it. Would it be such a stretch to have it generate a todo list in a specific manner that an AppleScript can parse and use to generate reminders?
I always thought the big hurdle with agentic Siri on Apple devices was due to apps all operating in their own containers and limited APIs for inter-app communication, but Apple already solved this back in the 90s.
What’s even more surprising to me is that 3rd party developers haven’t created an agentic do-it-all AI that at least runs on MacOS.
The one thing that may hint at why Apple has been fumbling with Siri is something I learned about the internal structure at Apple from an employee. Apple is so focused on preventing leaks that their NDAs prevent internal discussions between teams about ongoing projects. Even the QA people don’t know exactly what they are testing; They will run a prototype through a set of tests and hand the results back to the team that built the prototype. The QA people don’t know what has changed inside what they are testing, they only know what they input and what they receive back. They even run privacy screen protectors on their computers so that coworkers sitting next to them can’t see what they are doing. Integration is the focus of only a select few teams who only work on making all the modules fit together properly.
The teams working on Siri probably run into lots of obstacles trying to figure out how to get Siri to operate agentically when they don’t even know what is going on inside any of the modules making up Apple devices and software. It’s up to the individual teams to create the necessary APIs to give Siri the access it needs, but I somehow doubt there is much guidance on what APIs they need to build.
All of these internal obstacles make it very difficult for an all encompassing agentic Siri to be built for Apple devices, not to mention makes the progress very slow as information does not travel fast between teams.
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Comment on Does anyone use AppleScript on macOS? in ~comp
ackables Link ParentI’m kind of surprised that it’s still around. It must be foundational to macOS in some way since it was created in the 90s. What really surprised me is that Automator and Shortcuts exist in macOS...I’m kind of surprised that it’s still around. It must be foundational to macOS in some way since it was created in the 90s.
What really surprised me is that Automator and Shortcuts exist in macOS at the same time. Automator just seems to be an old clunky version of Shortcuts and Apple doesn’t usually leave legacy software lying around when they have new software that fills the same role.
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Comment on Does anyone use AppleScript on macOS? in ~comp
ackables Link ParentI totally forgot about Shortcuts! I was trying to use Automator at first, but it was very clunky, so I went straight to AppleScript. Shortcuts looks like Automator, but actually usable. It’s very...I totally forgot about Shortcuts! I was trying to use Automator at first, but it was very clunky, so I went straight to AppleScript. Shortcuts looks like Automator, but actually usable.
It’s very strange for Apple to have two versions of visual scripting on macOS at the same time. They don’t usually leave legacy software lying around.
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Does anyone use AppleScript on macOS?
I heavily utilize ChatGPT to generate .ics files to populate my Apple Calendar with various events, but I have been wanting to upgrade my time management and also use the Reminders app. I recently...
I heavily utilize ChatGPT to generate .ics files to populate my Apple Calendar with various events, but I have been wanting to upgrade my time management and also use the Reminders app.
I recently used ChatGPT to help me populate a Trello board with tasks associated with a project I am working on, but I was getting annoyed with having my workflow split across Apple Calendar and Trello. I exported my Trello board as a CSV and was trying to have ChatGPT turn it into a file I could import into Reminders, but as it turns out, this is not easy.
.ics files do contain syntax for reminders tasks with due dates that populate the Apple Calendar, but generating an .ics file with only reminders tasks and importing into Calendar doesn’t actually work. Calendar recognizes that the .ics contains Reminders tasks and opens Reminders to import the tasks, but Reminders returns an error because it doesn’t support import, it only supports export to Calendar.
I found that Reminders has a Reminders.scpt dictionary file within the .app package that details .applescript commands that can create new tasks, so I fell into the world of AppleScript. The issue with AppleScript is that it was created in the 80s and hasn’t been updated since 2013. It has no native CSV support and is pretty clunky.
AppleScript does have text file support, so I was able to have ChatGPT convert my CSV into a .txt that I could parse with AppleScript. This allowed me to automate the creation of tasks in the Reminders app from my Trello CSV, but it was annoying and I still feel like there must be a better way.
Does anyone here use AppleScript regularly and know its full capabilities?
Also, are there any good resources out there for learning more about AppleScript? The Apple documentation is very out of date and it seems like more of a legacy language than something Apple regularly maintains.
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I think the reason why OP doesn’t like Obsidian is that Obsidian is more of a notes engine than a fully featured notes app. All the features OP wants is available in Obsidian, but it requires a lot of setup to download the right plugins and write some custom JavaScript to implement more niche features.
I had an Obsidian dashboard setup for one of my previous jobs where I was able to have separate files containing unordered tasks for a variety of categories. I had a main dashboard view that would populate tasks from the raw task category files into a Todo List, in progress list, and completed this week list. Tasks that were completed more than a week ago could be viewed in an archive board so I could keep records of what I had done.
It took me about a week to set this up in a pre-AI world and with no JavaScript experience. It could probably be done more quickly now if you vibe coded the custom portions or were familiar with JavaScript.