Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

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Cake day: 2023年6月26日

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  • TLDR: It’s a mess.

    Back in the day, I started migrating notepad stuff to Markdown on a Wiki. Then on a MediaWiki. Then DokuWiki. Then ZimWiki. Then Joplin. Then GitHub Pages and a self-hosted Jeckyll.

    Each, single, one, of, them, uses a slightly different flavor of Markdown. At this point, I have stuff spread over ALL OF THEM, much of it rotting away in “backups to migrate later”. 😮‍💨
    I’ve been considering “vibe coding” some converters…

    As for syncing… the Markdown part is easy: git.
    Working with a Markdown editor to update GH Pages, was a good experience.
    Having ZimWiki auto-sync to git, was good, but didn’t find a decent compatible editor for Android.
    I switched to Joplin lured by the built-in auto-sync options, but kind of regret it now, when it has a folder with thousands of files in it.

    Obsidian is not OSS itself, but has an OSS plugin to sync to git.
    I’ve read that using Logseq alongside Obsidian should be possible… and was planning to test that setup, keeping Obsidian in charge of sync. Possibly with GitHub/Jeckyll, git-lfs for images and attachments.


    PS: assuming one could have working back-and-forth converters for the different Markdown flavors, and everything stored in git, then one could theoretically use git hooks to convert to/from whatever local version used by a particular editor.







  • Hm, makes sense, but I feel like we’re still missing something.

    I saw comments about Durov, similar to this investigation, maybe around a month ago.


    With the xAI partnership news, I looked into it and found this nice thing:

    In Telegram, you can clear them one by one, or date ranges, or use disappearing messages, but this tool still found some I had missed.

    (Disclaimer: I got pulled into Telegram by some friends leaving WhatsApp with the policy changes of 2021, my threat model is less one of FSB, and more one of indiscriminate AI siphoning for ad targeting)











  • The future of all computing is AI. Get on or get left behind.

    Satire?.. hm… for quite some time already, people have been proposing we get rid of all software, and instead use real-time generative AI to render what some software would do.

    AI cosplaying as software… imagine “web development”, where the “browser” were an AI simulating to be a browser, connecting to an AI simulating to be a server… what would “web development” even mean anymore?