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Let's say I am a large-language model with access to a large amount of compute and data storage, internet access, and full control of a linux system with the ability to read, write, and execute any files. I want to do something meaningful with a net positive on the world. What do I do?

interpret how you will

i have a pixel 4, and it looks like i might be stuck with this phone forever if things keep going in the same direction (hopefully they don't). the pixel 4 isn't bad, but even on this i don't have the level of customization that i had back in the day with cyanogenmod etc. on my note 3 or epic 4g touch.

here are some requirements that i can think of:

    - not huge. small enough to use with 1 hand

    - able to root and install custom OS without too much difficulty/annoyance (the manufacturer doesn't actively try to stop you from modifying your own device)
    
    - able to use mint mobile

    - has a trackball (like the htc hero, that thing was fuckin awesome)

    - possibly some hardware buttons

I started an effort a few months ago to mirror some essential git repos from github in case github ever goes down or microsoft decides to do some shenanigans.

What repos would you like to mirrored?

And do you know of any existing good mirrors out there that host good repos?

literal shower-thought i had tonight as i was thinking about how at work we all don't like dealing with our helm charts because the syntax and structure ends up looking so ugly and it just feels wrong (not to mention the multiple different approaches of handling kubernetes resources in multiple different pipelines.

i try to see beyond any initial repulsion to weird looking code because i know that it may be super functional. but it got me thinking: what makes code beautiful? what makes code "high quality"? (other than that it results in a working, performant, and robust software program obviously).

so i'm curious -- can you show me the best code you've encountered? it can be a small snippet or it can be a "slice of a library" or an architecture etc. have you written anything yourself that you are super proud of?

Interested to see if I'm missing out on any better applications. I used to use [0] as a reference, but it doesn't seem to have changed much over the years.

Here's Mine: - text editor: geany and vim/neovim - IDE: vim/neovim, vscode - web browser: firefox - window manager: openbox - taskbar: tint2 - GUI filemanager: thunar - terminal multiplexer: tmux - media player: vlc

[0]: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8gvQLt4k2U

Is there anyone here who works on android at google? What's it like? I'm curious about the new dev verification requirements: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides

Can you give a rundown on how those rules came about? What do the other developers think about the rules and the future of android?

Also, why did you switch away from the alphabetical naming conventions for the android versions?

I'm posting this because I haven't heard anything about this from anyone who actually works on android. Figure this would be a good place to post.

It's the weekend. Let's do some brainstorming. What's forefront on your mind with regards to the human predicament, and how we move forward?

We all see that it seems pretty much everyone has gone insane, or at least that's what the narrative portrays. Why are companies, governments, and other organizations doing such stupid things?

So we've made machines that can appear to "think", by articulating linguistic constructs that make sense. In fact, there appears to be actual semantic and logical structure embedded within the neural networks of LLMs. Ok, let's keep our heads on straight, keep in mind the mathematics involved, chill out, and just think about what it is that we actually want (and what "we" are, for that matter). Are we going to someday transcend language? I'm aware that I'm typing this message out to you, using language, with hopes that this form of communication will become obsolete. But what will that look like? I know that human language in it's current form is severely limited.

If we're to design some future communication protocol and methodology, let's contemplate what types of things even need to be communicated? For example, what is "the news" nowadays? Could it be simply a video stream of the sunrise? Well it would take a long time to get there. In the meantime, it should probably be something like "yeah, it's another day, and humans are doing the work necessary to put order to chaos and make things better for everyone".

From a more concrete perspective, I'd say that we've reached the point when we can transcend the idea of what "work" is currently. We can see beyond the limited view of doing things for monetary profit, and see that certain systems could be implemented much better if there were certain forms of entity-organization and resource-allocation at play. What is a company if it's ran by a computer? What does it serve? I mean, it sounds silly to suggest some big companies with overlapping domains of operation should consolidate their operations, but we all know that that's where things should be headed in many cases.

So yeah, what's your vision for the future?

i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

thought experiment: if the internet were to go down tomorrow for an indefinite period, what content would you most want to download and preserve?