The issue is that anyone who looks objectively at the technology knows that AI / LLMs can’t replace knowledge workers in a large set of tasks, yet you see week after week… month after month the pattern

• Some new company says going to replace x% of employees with AI…
• X weeks / months later… said company reports the attempt was a failure and are having to hire people back

It is as the thought of saving the money of firing all those people is too much to resist for “top management”.

You would think after the first batch of companies go through the same, other companies would learn, yet I just keep seeing the same happen again and again.

There is also the potential backslash. Specially if “management” is dumb enough to try and present firing hundreds / thousands of people like a a good thing… for example Duolingo’s case

My take on the scoring

Very Easy: Multiple easy install methods (e.g., one-command OS package, single binary, and/or Docker). If only one install method it should be single binary or OS package. Great documentation. 18–20 points

Easy: Limited easy methods or only one. Some configuration may be needed, good documentation. 15–17 points

Moderate: Docker is the only method or manual setup. Average to pool documentation 11–14 points

Hard: Complex setup, needs regular updates or custom config (e.g. DNS, spam) 6–12 points

Very Hard or Proprietary: Little to no self-hosting support, undocumented 0–5 points

Full points for Docker

In my opinion anything that only has docker installation should have points removed. Having it as an option is fine,but having it as the only option has several issues

1- Not every OS even has docker. Take for example FreeBSD

2- Many, non technical, people may not have or even know what Docker is. Having it as the only install option actually ads complexity for that group of people

3- Having to install docker for only one system that you want to install adds an entire layer of complexity and in some cases may even outright discourage someone from installing some software

And post as much disinformation as they want without “censorship”.

I use it to track everything…

Quick notes knowledgebase Follow up (personal and work)

The great thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is. The bad thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is… 😀

I have seen may people comment, or outright leave, Obsidian because because there was too much to learn… or too many plugins to explore…

Personally, I only look for plugins if I need something specific. Don’t see the point of trying random plugins. Is like spending time finding solutions to a problem you may not have…

Also, I work on tech and many documents are in markdown. Obsidian makes it easier to read those. Specially the collapse / expand functionality is really great for exploring large docs… as long as the creators properly used sections (basically # for level 1, ## for level 2…and so on)

I use Obsidian between Ubuntu and IOS… Sync is a bit erratic… It always… eventually, refreshes, but have not been able to find how to force sync on IOS. Sometimes end up doing trivial changes to see if can get the sync on IOS to trigger.

Ubuntu client shows when it does sync and it does appear to do it fairly quick.

The rest seem to be something moderation may help

Who will moderate? If it is a distributed system and moderation is also distributed bad actors can automate upvotes or whatever means we use for moderation to keep their bad content up.

Some of the ways abuse can happen

• Crawling false data / misinformation on a topic
• Putting info on search as part of a scam / spam campaign
• Putting false news about events that are happening, or have not happened at all
• Putting false information about a business competitor
• Putting fake reviews about a product

Just a few that I can think off… existing websites have the issues too, but what is different is how existing sites decide relevance and how often said algorithms weed out the bad content . In my opinion a distributed search engine will have a harder time at combating those, and other potentials for abuse, because there is less control about what is getting scanned there is an open policy of who can join the distributed scanning.

I think we will need a few more lawsuits such as Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its virtual assistant, Siri, recorded users’ conversations without their consent before this is no longer treated as confirmation bias or people been paranoid.

My wife used to tell me that her adds would change after discussing something and at first I did not believe her, but it just kept happening again, and again. It reached the point that we would put our phones away, discuss something and there is no change in ads about the topic. If we had our phones near adds would change.This would happen on things that we would not see adds for normally. For example we would discuss a trip to a place we have never been and she would start seeing adds about the destination after that.

I can’t even think of any valid reason why Udemy would need GenAI. Closed my account. This is the type of behavior I will not accept from a company. If enough people stood up to the Reddit’s and Udemy’s of the world they may, … maybe, be more responsible towards their users and their partners (in this case the people posting courses in Udemy).