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11. https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/what-worries-me-about-ai-ed9df072b704

Algorithmic influence over people's minds is exactly why we should be trying to get our friends and family off of corpo social media and onto less sophisticated systems like the #fediverse

If everyone stays on Facebook/Twitter/Tiktok/Instagram we'll have more and more people getting puppeted even harder than mass media has been already.

https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/what-worries-me-about-ai-ed9df072b704

I generally have a lot of anxiety about "big" purchases (anything over 100 dollars TBH) so I end up deliberating whether it's worth it for literal months if not years before doing the purchase.

I think part of it too is that I have an aversion to having any unnecessary "stuff" in my life. Especially since my lack of object permanence means that once I put something away I'll literally forget it exists unless I have an explicit need for it.

2. Nreal Air #AR display. I tried a shittier version of this in the past (Mad Gaze) and it was almost good enough for typical use. I think this thing will be a good companion for when I'm on the plane and want to do some productivity stuff or maybe walking around. Might also be useful once there are #monado #OpenXR drivers for this thing and I can use @stardustxr with it.

https://www.nreal.ai/air

1. BOOX Mira USB-C #EInk display. I have a little Boox e-reader and have been liking it for reading manga on the go. I'm currently using an LCD USB-C monitor so the form factor works great. I think this would be useful for improving battery usage + working outside.

https://shop.boox.com/products/mira

Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

Feeling generally pretty good about my life trajectory these days.

Work stuff seems to be getting more realized and stable.

Finding more of a work/life balance in general.

Working on building up my meatspace relationships more.

The springtime breeze is helping. (If only the snow would melt soon too!)

Catch me using the `Blob` API along with the `ReadableStream` API accross all my #JavaScript projects. 🥰

Really happy that I can start using primitives that aren't scoped to just Node.js.

How insufferable would it be for me to use thou/thine pronouns for people instead of you/your?

Finally, I will look into taking a small screenshot or something with the contents so that it may be displayed while the initial load is happening.
And what's more, I can block the initial load until you actively focus the window for the first time.

That way we can save on CPU and you can still navigate to whatever "tab" you had opened previously and it'll still have the right title/url/location displayed in the window in your desktop window manager

First thing I'll do to improve this is to have the URL that was used to "last load the page" saved as a var, and to use that to save to the crash/shutdown file.

This property will only get updated upon a successful load.

Now when I load without internet, I can avoid losing URLs.

Next would be to save the title and pre-supply it to the window title before the data even loads for easier navigation in the window manager.

So I generally have like a dozen windows open at a time and this means that on initial load all the loading traffic is noisy and causes me to take way too much CPU time when I load.

One other thing, if I lose network connectivity when I do the initial load, the "onload" will not fire and I will lose the URL in the logic which saves the URLs upon browser close (and periodically for crash recovery)

This is absolutely informed by my desire to bring up information sources from as many places as I can without having extra UI "cruft" and the fact that I have a "ultrawide" monitor which is my daily use.

So, Agregore is super weird from other browsers in that it doesn't use tabs and relies exclusively on your OS's window manager for managing them.

A side effect of this is that having a bunch of tabs open feels like more physical clutter and means that you'll likely close them more or might arrange them spatially on your desktop.

Alright. I'm going to do a bit of coding for fun and maybe improve load times in Agregore further.

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