I've been using my reMarkable 2 a lot more recently, and have gotten started with actually hacking on it. It's a bit overdue, since the main reason I purchased it in the first place was that it is built on top of Linux and doesn't require any special jailbreaking/rooting. I…
tl;dr: A new browser extension allows you to automatically export Claude transcripts to Markdown. You can install it for Firefox. Claude is the primary LLM I use these days, but they don't have a builtin way to share your sessions, which I find pretty useful to learn from. Simon Willison…
There's a viral Mastodon post that demonstrates a supposed deficiency in large language models (LLMs), specifically ChatGPT, because it apparently can't count the number of letters in the English word "strawberry". > How many R's are in the word strawberry ChatGPT: There are two "R's" in the word "strawberry." >…
I like Simon Willison's framing of using large language models (aka LLMs, aka "AI") to enable side quests of things you wouldn't normally do. Could I have done this without LLM assistance? Yes, but not nearly as quickly. And this was not a task on my critical path for the…
I'm finally back on an unlimited internet connection, so I've started running the ArchiveTeam Warrior once again. The Warrior is a software application for archiving websites in a crowdsourced manner, especially when there's a time crunch when a website announces that it's closing or planning to delete things. Currently the…
Back in February, Mastodon and the connected Fediverse faced a spam attack caused by unattended instances with an open signup policy. Bots quickly registered accounts and then sent spammy messages that were relayed through the Fediverse. It was annoying and the normal moderation tool of limiting or blocking entire instances…