Highly impractical technology:

Teleportation, but total energy has to be preserved, correction happens via thermal energy.

Beam something from orbit to earth, and it explodes into a cataclysmic fireball, as though something struck the planet without the friction of atmosphere slowing it down.

Special platforms can be built for transporting people, at exactly the same height to avoid cooking or freezing the subjects on arrival. Don't you dare move, tectonic plates.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jstreitb/117083321895492116

Open source, local first, indie web search engine taking its first baby steps.

Interesting approach where you download the entire 300 MB index to local storage first, locally, and then query against it.

Once this has happened, I curl up in a ball and cry.

The way I manage my email is that I wait until it's so full of emails I should respond it makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry, a process which usually takes about a week.

I'mma bring down the search engine for some maintenance. Moving off docker (hopefully). Shouldn't be *that* long (hopefully).

Just checking something. How full is your computer's harddrive?

It seems like AI is mildly put very poorly received, especially among younger people.

Just why do you dislike AI so much?

There are no right or wrong answers and I won't argue against you. I'm trying to map the discourse a bit out of genuine curioisity, so if you don't mind indulging me with a reply I'd much appreciate it.

I get legit 10x the traffic on the search engine, since Google announced their plans to turn search into an LLM chatbot. It's kinda insane.

Google's recent announcements.

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_137_linkedin_fanfiction/

I actually have the tech to make website screenshots in the search engine dismiss their GDPR notices, but I have zero inclination to do so.

I wrote a blog post, about the arduous joy of learning new things.

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/

I'm not sorry.

I'm a bit sad that Anubis the bot-mitigation thing with the anime girl doesn't make the anime girl hold a scale like what Anubis the Egyptian god of the afterlife uses to weigh the souls of the departed.

Because if it did, and you need to sit down and brace yourself for this: If it did it would be a *web scale*.

Ethics in AI is a trolley problem where you don't know who is tied to what track, and the AI CEOs make ridiculous claims that everyone in the world is tied to one of the tracks and you'd better switch onto that track because the tracks and the trolley are about to turn into Voltron and go pew-pew-pew and then fly to the moon and bounce it like a basketball and shoot lasers and blow up the sun and walk away from the explosion without looking in slow motion looking *awesome*.

New blog post, on the meandering route to getting a somewhat viable NSFW filter in Marginalia Search.

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_134_nsfw/

"Charlatan as a Service". You saw it here first.

All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template:

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/76bfd9b5e660a7ebfed3e258e849c9b2ec894b9f/extensions/open-prose/skills/prose/examples/34-content-pipeline.prose

Which one of these would you say is correct?

Argument for "is": In English "data" is treated as an uncountable noun.

Argument for "are": In Latin, "data" is the plural of "datum".

Did some statistics, and it seems posts from newly registered accounts on HN are nearly 10x more likely to use EM-dashes, arrows, and similar typography than established accounts.

https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/