Here is what I really hate about the modern internet - nothing lasts. If you post anything on any major platforms - Youtube, TikTok or X it is visible to people for an extremely short time, from a few minutes to a day at last. And good luck if your content gains some traction in that amount of time - it might be visible a little bit longer. But the principle is the same for everyone, no matter if you are big or small there is almost no tail. Back in the day you could create something, throw it in the while and people will still discover it years after. And it created completely different incentives. You were interested in creating something impactful and long lasting. But now it's just new stuff over new stuff again and again. People that were extremely popular yesterday get forgotten in a blink of an eye. So creators push themselves to the limit to produce something new every single day to not get lost into obscurity. So they burn out and force themselves to produce something when they simply have nothing to say, which leads to inevitable downfall.

And this is not an emerging property of the current scale of the internet. It is the choice that was deliberately made by the big tech as almost all the internet traffic gets so centralised, the little twerk of the dominant recommendation algorithm gets amplified tenfold and impacts millions of lives worldwide.

It is still a mystery for me why every economy around the world is measured in billions of dollars and not in terawatt-hours. Isn’t it obvious that it is the only currency the universe actually uses and everything else is just a proxy?

>The closer you are to the printer, the richer you become.

There are funny consequences of this game. People who are the closest to the printing machine cannot hold to their wealth either. So they always "invest" and "entrepreneur" to convert their paper money into something actually valuable. Or simply buying a lot of useless, worthless yet extremely expensive crap that cannot last. Sometimes from themselves as it was with Bezos' "space flights". This is the same reason why they are trying to do "most expensive wedding" and other stuff like that. They knew very well that if they do not spend their newly printed money right now it will be almost worthless tomorrow.

And while ones in power have to spend it all on the most retarded shit ever, the ones at the end of that food chain have to cover all the aftermath spending their lives working for nothing in return.

I am really surprised how useful the #Anagnorisis project has become for me over two years of development. Started as a local music player with an AI recommendation system that trains and adapts to my preferences, it has now expanded to visual and text modalities. While I haven't implemented everything I have in mind, I already use it daily for all my note-taking, listening to music, and managing my extensive personal photo archive.

I now have three instances running 24/7. One for me, for everything stated above. One for my kid, who can watch a well-maintained archive of cartoons instead of typical bs that YouTube’s algorithm constantly recommends kids to watch. And one for my mother for maintaining and labeling our family photos that go back almost a century. This is the kind of data I would be uneasy to trust to any cloud service out there.

I am still trying to figure out what to make of many different ideas that I have regarding the project, but my fuzzy goal is to make something like a personal, local Google for all your household data. Where a single tech-savvy person in the family can set up an Anagnorisis server, and everyone else can enjoy their shared data together. Keeping your important data close to the ground and not sharing it with any third party, while having all the main benefits of the search and recommendation services we're so used to.

I think one of the most important observations of mine is that recommendations are just another filter that we apply to our data along with many others that are possible. So it all comes down to data preservation and search. But now with complete control over the data and no need for any additional trust.

You can check out the open-source project here: https://github.com/volotat/Anagnorisis

#opensource #selfhosted #privacy #PersonalAI #DataOwnership #FamilyTech #photomanagement #decentralized

First tomato I grew myself in my whole life. Goal to a complete self-sufficiency almost achieved.

Because of a CD wallet like this one I still have my data from 2008. It was preserving things way before I realized how important backups are.

Writing less code is way more difficult than glueing a bunch of things together until it works. Less code requires structure that sometimes is really difficult to come up with. A noble goal for sure, just not always an achievable one giving real world deadlines and other constraints.

As Pascal once said - "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

Imagine for a second if millions of years of evolution were not wasted poorly, and the human brain is actually a Pareto-frontier of efficiency-generality of intelligence. And even in principle, we can only approach it with AI, never surpass it. If this is the case AI would never be able to truly replace humans and it would be always more financially meaningful to build specialist AIs that enhance humans, rather than trying to replace them completely. One good ending that is not that improbable.

Looks like somebody in apple's management discovered shadertoy. But to be honest all they need to do is to blur the background a bit more aggressively and/or add some color tilt to it. These few small changes would make everything much less chaotic and more readable.

The most important technological innovation at the moment, in my opinion. I really hope mesh-networks will catch on and develop well enough to completely replace modern over centralized internet one day.