renegat0x0
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Comment · 21 hours ago
Comment · 23 hours ago
The biggest change for me was transitioning to feeds for everything I can
I wrote something for myself that fits my style of link consumption. Uses sqlite tables for search
https://github.com/rumca-js/OfflineWebSearch
I also use my own search index to find domains, channels. I find less often distracted by some algorithm trying to exploit me
Comment · 2 days ago
I maintain my own index of domains. It contains also youtube channels, and github repos.
I do use search engines, and chatbots, but when I need to find a tool, a project, a channel, it is just easier.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
https://github.com/rumca-js/awesome-database-top - also a simplified, trimmed version of it
I don't rely on search engines that much any more.
Comment · 10 days ago
There is so much stuff in AI space. AI orchestrators, automations, harnesses. I often can't tell what is the difference between projects.
I started thinking is it something like 'ruflo', or 'mirofish', or is it something else totally
Comment · 13 days ago
We can analyse if flatpack are security nightmare, but what are alternatives? That was my line of thinking. Complaining without comparing to other solution may not be honest.
Comment · 13 days ago
Snaps are centralized, provided by one company. Sorry, but no. It can be 'better' for some reasons, but free software should not be limited to one or few app stores.
Comment · 18 days ago
Recently I have created a list of Ai related stuff. User can use one chat bot, but if someone wants to deep dive into structure, how it works, skills, mcp servers, configurations, harnesses, memory setups, then there is a lot of stuff.
Even if it is not a tool, there is much to learn
https://github.com/rumca-js/awesome-database-top/blob/main/l...
Comment · 1 month ago
Agree. Tried to publish my app through Google, and still no luck. Link below.
I was able to share it on f-droid though, and I am starting to think that it may be good just to publish app only through it.
Comment · 1 month ago
I hate other things with Google. I have a feeling that we lost something. A tool for discoverability. You cannot just enter a keyword, and see billions of pages in results. You cannot explore the web anymore. If I write "artificial intelligence" in the searchbox the result wil be swamped with content farms, some pages describing what it is, but there will be no 'resources', no 'tools' to be found by it. If I put "artificial intelligence tools" it will provide me some fake pages with AI slop, not openclaw, or n8n. It gives me rank pages instead of tools.
Comment · 1 month ago
I remember when Google was accused for forcing users to go through several pages for answers, because this translated into more clicks, and higher engagement. I am curious whether AI overview will be as bad, as people can tolerate for you to spend more time with it, more queries, which translates into more time spent with Google.
They can show numbers, how much people use their engine, and the numbers goes up.
Comment · 1 month ago
Link manager that is also a feed reader and has search capabilities. Free and open source.
https://github.com/rumca-js/OfflineWebSearch
I noticed that it is quite a challenge to publish anything on play store
Comment · 1 month ago
Sometimes I use my own index of domains and channels
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
I hate the very idea that destination location is opaque, and user can't verify if you are funneled toward malvertizing.
I hate even base64 encoded links in the results.
Comment · 1 month ago
There are various approaches toward AI. Some are radical. I often found extremism to be wrong in most cases.
I have a suspicion that people who reject AI related stuff is just scared under the hood. They fight against AI because of the fear against loosing job, money, or control.
There were many manual jobs. Lets say carpenters. They had manually created things, often pieces of art. Now many things are soulless, created by factory output, and by robots. It is true that we lost some artistry. It is true that every line of code will not be a work of art. There is no going back though. Adapt.
Comment · 1 month ago
For me programming is not art, and it is visible in my code. Code is a mean of achieving functionality. I can accept temporary workarounds, or ugly hacks. I often do them in a way to update them later on. Programming is fluid, parts can be fixed later on.
Comment · 2 months ago
I think there are more and more apps on f-droid.
On my end the experience was more pleasant on f-droid than on Google. On f-droid I had to manually push some things, in repositories. That I solved in a week or so.
On Google end I had to verify my account. Which was not easy feat.
- had to provide my ID several times, because it got rejected multiple times
- I uploaded driving license
- the verification process was stuck
- only after help ticket google employee pushed it forward
- I had to provide many more details, also had to use banking to pay substantial amount of money
- I currently trying to create app, but it requires 14 testers, and it can still be rejected, if their involvement was too poor
I am wondering what more things Google will invent to make my life worse.
By the way my app: https://github.com/rumca-js/OfflineWebSearch
From that list 731 are blocked in my rss feed. I do read and cache rest.
I sometimes check through website what new has entered the system. It is surprising to see something there new. It is so exiting to see something outside of my bubble.
YouTube algorithm has a lot to comb through, but I am too surprised how suggestion are bland, and unattractive. I am also surprised how difficult is to find new channels through YouTube search.