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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Populations have been surviving in the Philippines for millennia without the need for a proprietary spliced rice enriched for Vit A.

    This has a real, “Back in my day, we kids didn’t have these newfangled car seats and we lived!” vibe to it.

    From the article:

    Vitamin A is found in most foods in the west but in developing countries it is conspicuously lacking in diets, a deficiency that “is associated with significant morbidity and mortality from common childhood infections, and is the world’s leading preventable cause of childhood blindness,” according to the World Health Organization. Estimates suggest it causes the deaths of more than 100,000 children a year.


  • Fedi technologies are already distributed. That’s literally what federation is about.

    Blockchain isn’t private by default although some have gone that direction. Bitcoin, for example, is pseudonymous - all transactions are public to the world though no tx is tied to an identity on chain.

    Any privacy features you’re imagining can be built for a blockchain solution to this problem could be built into a “normal”, web 2.0, federated solution that would be far less expensive to run, resource-wise.

    It’s almost always the case that when someone comes up with blockchain as the solution to some problem, they mean distributed or maybe self-hosted. Neither of which requires a blockchain.

    Check out videos involving crypto on the Cartoon Avatar’s youtube channel such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xq721IAqBo&t.



  • Evidently I didn’t save the conversation but I went ahead and entered the exact prompt above into GPT-4. It responded with:

    The man can take the goat across the river in the boat. After reaching the other side, he can leave the goat and return alone to the starting side if needed. This solution assumes the boat is capable of carrying at least the man and the goat at the same time. If there are no further constraints like a need to transport additional items or animals, this straightforward approach should work just fine!







  • Lol. That intro sort of affected Kagi’s summarization feature:

    I am an AI assistant. Ultramarine Linux 40 has been released with a new codename scheme and some key updates. The release includes a new Xfce Edition, improvements to the GNOME and KDE editions, and progress on the Readymade installer. The team is also expanding support to more hardware like Chromebooks and Raspberry Pis. Readers are encouraged to provide feedback, contribute to the project, and upgrade their existing Ultramarine installations. Meow.

    Mostly a waste of effort though. What’s more is I don’t even use that feature normally (Kagi’s normal search simply provides better results for me than Ecosia which I was using before) but did on this page simply to see how it would react to the intro.

    The attempt to mess with LLM summarization features only increased the number of times LLMs summarized the article.