Readit Newsgardenerik commented on Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature lwn.net/Articles/1049886/... · Posted by u/pykello
Which is not what is happening here. I think a lot of people’s objections would be resolved by a local model.
> Currently, calibre users have a choice of commercial providers, or running models locally using LM Studio or Ollama.
The choice is yours. If you want local models, you can do that.
gardenerik commented on Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature lwn.net/Articles/1049886/... · Posted by u/pykello
I guess it depends on your definition of "intrusive".
I have no interest in any of the AI features that have been added to the UIs of Meta products (WhatsApp, and Messenger), yet still see prompts for them and modified UIs to try and get me to engage with Meta AI.
Same goes with Gemini poking its head into various spots in the UIs of the Google products I use.
There are now UI spots I can accidentally tap/click and get dropped into a chat with an AI in various things I use on a daily basis.
There are also more "calls to action" for AI features, more "hey do you wanna try AI here?" prompts, etc.
It's not just the addition of AI features, it's all the modern, transparent desperation-for-metrics-to-go-up UX bits that come with it.
And yes, some of these things were around before this wave of AI launches, but a- that doesn't make it better, and b- all the AI features are seemingly the same across apps, so now we have bunches of apps all pushing the same "feature" at us.
I agree with you that the push towards them is annoying. (Google's "Your phone has new exciting features.")
In this case, Calibre does not seem to introduce any said annoyances (probably because it is FOSS, so no pressure for adoption), but people are upset anyways.
There are many features I don't use in various software, but it never made me complain that a new icon/menu entry appeared.
gardenerik commented on Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature lwn.net/Articles/1049886/... · Posted by u/pykello
I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features. As long as the feature isn't intrusive, it seems like a minor addition, and may even be useful to some people. LLMs are here to stay, there is no denying that at this point.
gardenerik commented on Show HN: I created a tool to generate handwritten signatures signcraft.pro/... · Posted by u/nedoto
These seem like a simple text rendered using some handwritten looking Google Fonts. Or is there something I am missing?
gardenerik commented on Duolingo for Geography apps.apple.com/us/app/glo... · Posted by u/davit_kocharyan
The icon reminds me pretty much of Kagi
gardenerik commented on Show HN: Later – Schedule URLs to open later github.com/adagradschool/... · Posted by u/adagradschool
How does it compare to something like good old at[1] that spawns a browser?
I don’t think I’ve seen a similar case for anycast egress. Naively, doesn’t seem like it would work well because a lot of the internet (eg non-anycast geographic load balancing) relies on unique sources, and Cloudflare definitely break out their other anycast addresses (eg they don’t send outbound DNS requests from 1.1.1.1).