jodoherty

Beautiful! Thank you for making this.

I've been trying to find something to use for enriching my own self-hosted LLMs and agentic tools with information I find useful. Metasearch tools like SearXNG make it less likely you'll get blocked by bot detection tools when finding information, but usually it's something I've already found, read, or seen that I want to incorporate into my tooling.

I came to the conclusion that a self-hosted content storage system with a search engine and a browser extension that can extract and save web page content and metadata was the ideal setup for me. Preferably with some sort of federated content sharing ability and the ability to import creative commons content like Wikipedia and Gutenberg.

This looks almost exactly like what I wanted.

It'll be a few weeks before I have time to audit the code and deploy it, but I'm really looking forward to trying it out.

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

If I get some time to circle back, I'll be sure to incorporate these into some new tests and address them.

I want to set up a qemu-system emulator based testing approach so I can incorporate things like AppArmor and SELinux into end to end tests that include different environment configurations.

Part of that will be setting up software defined networking so I can have things like DNS and wireguard VPN servers in a box and then test and evaluate the wg-wrap behavior at the packet level.

I worry too. American consumer credit card debt sounds like it's rising pretty quickly, and many people I talk to have a lack of free will and carry a sense of unfairness in the system they live in.

However, people can also adapt pretty quickly.

Those grocery shopping "optimization" skills are making a big come back (and have been since Covid). There are plenty of YouTube and TikTok videos popularizing how to get more out of their grocery hauls.

Lots of people are also learning how to budget, how to invest, etc. and sharing their excitement about it too. For some folks, they finally learn this stuff in their 40s and 50s, but there are also a lot of young adults learning these skills thanks to the Internet.

So I also have hope.

I just don't think the lack of basic math and budgeting skills displayed by average consumers are a problem so much as a symptom.

I think most people don't care about optimizing an extra $10 out of their weekly grocery run.

Probably a better example is figuring out the cost of a loan. Just multiply the amortized monthly payment by the term and compare that to the loan amount. If the difference makes you balk, then go ahead and walk.

How many people even realize that loan interest is a significant cost and would bother to do that? Or know how to do that? Most people just try to minimize monthly payments to something they can bear and sign the paperwork.

One of my undergrad degrees is in math. As you study it, you learn to identify your assumptions (axioms), find or build interesting abstractions, prove properties about them (theorems), and then map all sorts of other things into those abstractions by figuring out that they're really the same thing. It's even more interesting when you start to find things that are different or question things you always took for granted.

Math gives you the ability to leverage the very structure and relationships of pure abstraction. It's quite the super power.

None of the specific things you learn studying math will be nearly as useful as the ability to think mathematically.

I would hesitate to judge based on what's "easy to type" on the keyboard in front of me.

A lot of editing tools and processes automatically converting `--` to `—`, so folks editing markdown or using a Word processor might get the emdash automatically. Similar things are often done for matching double quotes. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few WYSIWYG CMS systems do this conversion too.

There are also a lot of input methods that make it trivial to write special characters.

Apple famously uses the Alt/Option key to make inputting a lot of special characters simple. Look at any place that does a lot of writing and publishing, and you're bound to see a lot of Macs.

On Windows, you can memorize and input code points pretty easily as well if you have a number pad. Just hold Alt and punch in the 4-digit character code.

I hop platforms a lot, so I commonly use digraphs with Ctrl+K in VIM, or TeX input in Emacs to insert unicode characters. I'll also use `Ctrl+x 8 <RET>` to insert characters by name in Emacs when I need to search for something specific.

That makes sense. Mine runs every few minutes sometimes in heavy rain.

Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like 100Ah LiFePo4 batteries are pretty easy to find too.

I might get this for my basement sump pump in case the power goes out during a storm.

The problem is platforms moved away from S3 sleep. I've heard people claim it was mostly so managed Windows laptops could force updates with the lid shut and the laptop suspended.

Now I have to worry about my laptop randomly overheating itself in my backpack and even catching fire.