Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 42 Miles

    A few days ago I set a new personal record for the farthest distance traveled by bicycle in one day. My previous record was just under 26 miles over the course of about seven hours, and on Tuesday I rode just under 42 miles in about five and a half hours.

    I didn't intend to ride that far. There is a trail near us, of which I have cycled several portions, and I wanted to ride down as much of it in one go as I could. Before I knew it, I'd cycled over 20 miles in one direction, and I found that I needed to cycle all the way back.

• Technology and Free Software

  • AI will improve your productivity by 10x

    * AI will improve your productivity by 10x!

    * So my salary is increasing 10x?

    * Ha! Of course no!

    * But I get to work only 4 hours a week, right?

    * No, still 40 hours a week!

    * Then things are going to be 10x cheaper ? * No! What are you, a communist?

  • Software to keep photos organized

    I have a lot of photos that I have been carrying since a long time, this is certainly my oldest files that I was able to not lost over 20 years. It has been stored as a hierarchy since then, and it had very poor metadata information, and poor ability to be browsed. It was time to improve on this.

    My goal was to fix metadata on my pictures, but also put geolocation metadata on them because I really enjoy see a map with thumbnails of memories (just make sure to trim this metadata before sharing). Then I found about "modern" features like face recognitions, which allowed me to easily sort pictures by people, which I found handy when I want to view photos of relatives who are no longer with us.

  • Not yet, but soon, why bother? 🙁

    Someone organised a group card for a friend's birthday. I could have just said "happy birthday", but I wrote a limerick. I hope he enjoyed it. But it took me a few minutes effort. I could have asked an LLM chatbot to do it.

    I met a former colleague at the pub. He was excited about MS co-pilot. He doesn't need to write email any more. He just writes some notes and gets co-pilot to write the message. I pointed out that the recipient might not be reading it, but getting co-pilot to summarise it instead.