On a trip to Connecticut last weekend, we saw plenty of mushrooms 🍄 and a few frogs 🐸. 📷
In Criticism of Kagi news
Yesterday, I posted about the new Kagi news and shared it with Nat. Nat is very skeptical about AI in general, and reminded me of the main problem he has with AI technologies like this one: the authors get no credit. In this case, the writers of the news articles who are used in the summaries have no idea, and probably get nothing in terms of profit, when I read these articles.
Even if I only read a small portion of the article (the summaries are small, only a paragraph or so) and each summary is made of a mix of many articles, the problem remains. Makes me wonder if there’s a better way to handle this…?
Kagi news looks really good, and I appreciate their principle of updating the news only once a day.
The news section is a “stream” of titles that expand when you select one into a short blurb (another core principal of theirs is that they need to take five minutes to read, no more) for more information. Each one of those “nuggets” of information is curated from several sources, which are all listed at the end of the article. I’m guessing the text is AI-generated, so some sentences may feel a bit odd, but nothing too bad.
On my way for a walk in the afternoon, met a neighbor from a nearby yard.
And for my next Synolog DRM adventure, I decided to… not really adventuring. I’ve been thinking of setting up Owndrive, from there went towards Nextdrive, and after reading a few opinions in general, I landed on Kevin’s review of both. As usual, it resulted in a head nod and a silent agreement.
FreshRSS is up. Kinda.
My FreshRSS server is up. Mostly. With some hiccups. And boy, do I have more appreciation for LLMs now. I’ll expand some more sometime soon, it’s late, I need to sleep…
There Will Be Blood, 2007 - ★★★
It's not a bad movie, but I didn't finish it. It's unsettling to watch Daniel Plainview, played by Daniel Michael, destroying himself piece by piece. I might come back to it at another point when I'm in the right mood.
Didn’t sleep well last night, but I’m kind of grateful for that because I managed to fix my Docker FreshRSS container and now I’m getting RSS feeds to Elfeed again. So much explaining to do…
Been trying to get FreshRSS working with Elfeed. Kimi (Kagi’s recommended LLM for Assistant) was very helpful, and I got it running on Docker correctly. But between setting up an API and accessing it from a browser and telling Elfeed where it is… Yeesh, it seems really complicated.
The Big Lebowski, 1998 - ★★★½
Every time I watch this movie, I pick up some other meanings I didn't before. Sometimes you just need to shrug it off and go bowling.