YOOOOOO that’s friggin AWESOME

Great idea!!!

Sweeeet desktop first, that’s the gap cuz Voyager iOS is SO good

Right after posting, I changed my mind about the proxy guess… (sounded wasteful to have to kinda [briefly] mirror so much Lemmy) Thinking direct API calls. Oh yeah indeed client-side rendering, so like:

A Lemmy instance (Lemmy.World, etc) maybe is like kinda a pump station, while Alexandrite is like a high-end faucet. It’s not actually producing or storing water but it sure makes it much better to use than simply having an open pipe.

Well at least perhaps we know the phrase “client side” out of all that!

(One final analogy attempt: we can download a Lemmy app from an App Store and use Lemmy pretty much directly. What if the app was hosted somewhere but nothing else changed? That’s Alexandrite in my mind.)

Thanks 😎

alexandrite.app - neat, Lemmy World proxy/interface?

Next time you wonder whether you already shampooed:

Grab a stretch of hair between thumb and middle finger. Pull/away from head. Listen for squeak. If you hear the squeak, put the shampoo down!

We have the technology

TIL shampooing non-head hair

You are right

At the same time

I can’t whataboutism limited resources

Ya so we wouldn’t expect everything to be optimized or all “features” (traits) to be useful right?

Beautiful Dude

Awesome, what’s keeping you busy these days? (If this is an account where it’s OK to share that on)

Come on tell tech daddy where you go on weekdays & weekends for how long at what speed with how many passengers!

I daily DDG but !g bang out to Google 80% of the time

Hit the back button once this month though - DDG was better than Google!!!

Has only happened twice I’ve noticed in a year!

DDG, pls use my data to be less terribly terrible (and stop rearranging results, as reported years ago)

PS: will get Kagi once I find a job cuz too lazy or something to get into SearXNG properly like I should. And Mullvad’s got Leta btw which like bundles searches for privacy

Google AI: quality you can rely on (when you’re blacked out)

Hannah Temple Montana

Interesting, wonder how the economics work for the different players. Also, tangentially:

A decade or two ago, a lady working in dealer finance lamented how internet bank rate comparisons had really rained on their parade

“I want this rate”, she explained customers would say, pointing at a printout or their phone and expecting a match.

Imagine how fat those margins would’ve been when they knew a customer hadn’t yet called around researching rates!

Ethicsmaxxed route

I can’t imagine a court in the country seeing a problem with the call and cancel trick. Although,

Glad I revisited this thread and caught this. Thank you!

Great term, AI slop.

What would we think if we saw a human-quality image generator tomorrow - would labeling be more or less important, would we call it slop due to inherent nature or be more accepting, etc.

🫡

I need to find an open source project with poor UX and high personal utility (e.g. in a space I’m comfortable in). I could help!

I will say something I enjoy quite a bit is dictating long rambling monologues to a nearly flawless machine transcription system. Then I make multiple language models try to mock up and wireframe my ideas. They might be mostly or totally non-functional, but still communicate my vision very clearly & effectively.