Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

It just occurred to me that a lot of software, including client-side software, is infrastructure. Like, my email client and text editor are infrastructure. And therefore I hold them to different standards than I would a game someone made. I expect them to be free, not for profit, transparent (open source, open protocols, finances, etc.), and non-discriminatory.

I am willing to pay for such things, but if using it requires payment, I will look for any alternative.

I recently started using this Android application for medication reminders: https://github.com/Futsch1/medTimer

It'll make notifications on your phone based on your meds schedule, and you can mark off when you've taken them. Options to repeat or snooze notifications. It keeps track of what you've taken when, or skipped, and you can log that in more detail in the app (including non-scheduled doses).

It seems to work well, and I think I'll keep it.

@riesi I'm aware of it. It's occasionally an improvement.

Like, no one can make a web browser because the web is so complex, and we mostly use that complexity for:

• Running complex client-side applications in a cross-platform virtual machine. Which is really cool, but I kinda hate that the UI and the service are so often tied together.
• Bombarding me with distractions when I just want to read an article or watch a video or whatever.

And.. maybe a simple client would be better than a complex VM and layout engine a lot of the time?

So much of my experience of browsing the web is fighting sites over how I want them displayed, that I'm beginning to think that I don't want a web browser that renders web pages, and instead I want a web browser that scrapes content from web pages and displays it according to my preferences.

Today I learned that you can replace share/media/blank.mkv with whatever you want and Proton will (in theory) play it instead of the SMPTE pattern for videos it doesn't have transcoded. I feel like there's some meme potential here.

blisters from doing the evil hand rub too frequently

I am beginning to suspect that the labor exploitation in how LLMs are trained (tuned?) has a detrimental impact on the quality of responses. Basically, LLMs sound like someone who is being exploited, which comforts and discomforts entirely the wrong people.

I have set up a local LLM with a web UI on my laptop. It was pretty easy (for that I credit Arch/AUR). It barely runs but my laptop doesn't have a fan or discrete GPU so it's kind of amazing that it works at all.

(For the few things I use this for, I don't want to be there when OpenAI starts rent-seeking, and I'd rather not continue to inflate their numbers now.)

If we take the "it'll be too hard to tell who you're talking about" argument against they/them personal pronouns to its logical conclusion, we arrive at "everyone should have their own unique pronoun set". Which, has a certain appeal. Or maybe I just want my own unique pronoun set.