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You have to think in ‘information dimensionality’. A yes/no toggle is 0D, a list is 1D, a list of lists (std hierarchy) are 2D, a list of list of list are 3D etc. All information storage types are one of these dimensions. Think of a graph-base file system with nodes and edges between everything. Now, imagine a filesystem where you flick a switch and the whole structure shows another pov ? Maybe you want the whole thing to be shown as file-type hiearchy, or only parts of it. Maybe you need to show movement in the structure, so everything are in a temporal/spatial hierarchy, maybe you are only interested in dependencies ? Relations ? Other ‘weird’ metrics ? …and so on. The main problem is to manage, find and show the needed information in a higher-dimentional fs.

Technically a normal file is also a list, or another ordered structure, but in this sense, they are just a node with further dimensionality.

There’s a TON of information layers locked away in our normal filesystem hierarchy, so OP are perfectly right, and people here have no imagination or even a world model of information structures…

Not sure why people defend an archaic organization form here - reflex ?

You are perfectly right that files and folders are simplistic, and should naturally adapt to the pov that are more information rich/valuable. Hoomans tend to collapse a high-dimensional structures to 0D to 3D, so we can manage the information. In that sense, a std hierarchy is only ONE pov over a ton of pov over the same content. A standard hierarchy is only a low 2D dimension structure that are our first attempt at organizing information. It’s not wrong - just imprecise af.

Anyway, hardlinks are a small step up, can build wild static structures (like a oneshot filesystem in Guix), but is cumbersome to control in multi-dimensional information structures. Likely not what you want, but look into fuse file systems if you want to move on to a dynamic file system hierarchy. An interesting one is a tag file system. It turns a standard limited hierarchy into a much more dynamic file-structure where a file can - and does - belong to a bunch of tags - file type, size, group, comments, whatnot. There are many many fuse fs that can convert anything into a better structured file system. Tagging is a step up from a dumb 2D hierarchy, but maybe a graph file system is the ultimate freeform dynamic filesystem that can present all the pov’s we could possible need ?

Go for it.

Alternative idea for the adventurous lot - or extreme self-hosters: Buy an old Xeon datacenter server with 1.5tb ddr3 ram (separately). Ddr3 still costs around a dollar pr gig (a month ago), so this rig with two xeon and 24 * 64gb ddr3 ram will cost ~1900$ + transport: ~2k.

(OR an older pc motherboard with 4*64 channels or similar)

DDR3 is a bit slower, use more power, and the server is big/noisy, but the difference in price is unbeatable, and it’s a hell of a KVcache (for ai) if you put a gpu in it.

Note though, that power expenses are going up in the West.

Not helping here, but I heard a guy with Guix did that. Guix just builds a profile with the extra desktop parts, run it in a local container if you want and add that profile to the local software stack. Not a vm but maybe you don’t need it ? Both the system, home and the desktop profile are declarative, so very mobile. I think he had his DE user profile remote also, so extremely minimal/air-gapped and stable solution with almost zero local data: system, home, desktop-profile, remote user profile (ldap etc).

In declarative operating systems, you describe what you want, and the system builds it for you. Your whole system configuration is a few files of std code (learning experience ;). Personally, I’m done with the usual monolithic distros. They are too error prone for my taste, and not really moving with the dev flow of operating systems imho.

Anyway, just a loose rumor/idea, I have no links and don’t actually know how to do it, sorry.

Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so … no judging please !

How unfortunate to speak ‘AI’, when people are currently scrambling to build ‘AI detectors’ that removes AI speak from their feeds. Good luck buddy 😵

Great that you chose weights for the final evaluation. Black, and whitelists are just too …0D/binary for any advanced use, and are unfortunately used everywhere.

Yes, every neo-liberal ceo they have had, are dragging mozilla towards a full commercial strategy, while loosing market shares af! I don’t think US have many non-neo-liberal leader types…Anyway, they and their anti-community attitudes have the full responsibility for the multi-year dive.

No, you can access something like ‘localhost:8080’, so if you have your ollama/webui or other agent/llm listening there, FF will show that interface in the side window. Summary etc still works. You just chose ‘localhost’ as your provider.

Better search, but it looks like this: browser.ml.chat.provider http://192.168.1.83:8080/

Everyone’s sick of AI

But not everyone are ! But a group of people have gone to the ‘hate the tool’ corner, are very aggressive and feel that ‘everybody else hates it’. But ‘we’/‘they’ don’t - some do.

Any software/tool that leaves it up to the user if they want to use such a feature or not, are okay. Open source and Foss doesn’t exclude the use of AI, and ‘catering’ to a special group of angry people that just want to remove the option entirely for everyone else, is not very ‘community’ aligned in my view.

There will be plenty of clones that pull out this or that part of the official source tree, so nobody will lack a normal browser. I currently use ‘Zen’ and I had to ‘force’ AI on. Other will just remove it entirely.

Classic Capitalist behavior and problems, now just amplified by the Capitalists new super tool… Monetary/greedy slop amplified by a new tool, jobs ruined in an archaic system that enforces jobs to survive, stolen ‘copyright’ that are only a leftover from this warring ideology, and so on.

AI is currently a tool, and people should hate the users that causes harm with the tool, or better yet, hate the underlying combative system of market capitalism that forces tools to be used like this, forces slop and structural problems, and creates enormous problems for ordinary people. They should not hate the tool - a hammer is only bad in a bad environment.

As long as we keep believing in a combative society paid for, and controlled by the ones with the mightiest tool, it won’t ever get better. Capitalism are sponsored by, and benefit only, the rich, and everyone else are the victims of their behavior, and the automatic consequences it have in all of our social lives.

I could be wrong, but it seems he just mounted ‘/porn’ directly as ‘/’ ? Efficient, I guess.

…actually, there seem to room for more improvements; I’m not sure there’s any need for an ‘operating system’ on the system - a small fap-app ™ could likely handle all content on the system ? Work documents could be injected in to the fap-stream © when he needs to stop ? That would release many gb for even more fap-ability © ?

But at what cost ? …no, wait… never mind…

Coping and blaming…

Jeebus a bunch of propaganda nonsense. US Plutocracy really goes all in !

All corps are scum psychopaths - its in the market playbook…

‘Betrayal’ is a harsh word for optimizing trivialities with a closed source model. Whether it was a success or not, doesn’t really tell us why it’s a betrayal. I guess this has to do with the current wave of ‘AI-hate’ reactions we see everywhere.

The title doesn’t sound bad at all - unless one irrationally hates AI. The fact is that the Distro is bad, and it have nothing to do with ‘AI’ integration, or the attempt to do so. Hate the Human behind the release, or the Capitalist religion that enforces ‘Slop’ on all scales - but hating everything that have ‘AI’ in it - is just f’ing moronic…

I a year you might have an agent to manage them all. They could be edge devices, or different nodes in your/your ai’s work flow. Don’t get rid of them unless you hate AI, or for good causes.

Probably just inserted the Magic word “Profit” into the sentence. Any psychopathy is allowed from that point onwards…