OcttKB

• ActivityPub.Academy — fork of Mastodon that has been adapted to visualize the ActivityPub protocol exchanges between different Mastodon instances — [Git]

Sometimes, when writing a blog or KB article, it's easy to struggle finding a decent cover image for that piece. Why that's something you need to do, is explained by The importance of cover images on articles.

Oftentimes, however, we don't have a picture that fits these requirements good — or maybe we don't have any image at all even marginally regarding the article, and really can't find a way to make one, unless with too much effort or money. Exactly in this scenario, stock photos and AI-generated imagery fit perfectly.

Some good tools for the job:

• Craiyon — Free to use without and account, with no ratelimits or the like; gives 9 images in 60 seconds, but they are low-quality, getting the wanted image requires much trial and error; images are given 256x256 but can be upscaled to 1024x1024, and they have a watermark but it's easy to remove it with free online tools.
• (New) Bing Image Creator — Powered by DALL-E 3, mostly free to use but requires an account and generation is slow without credits (which can be bought with Rewards points, or 25 for free weekly)

Active Resources

Self-hostable AI

WasmGPT — ~900 MB GPT2 chat in-browser — [Git]

Misc

🤖 ChatGPT Experiences - Despite the name it could regard any AI chatbot, if I ever find time to update it

PromptHero - Search millions of art images by AI models

Prompt Engineering Guide

AI Content Detector

Safety and breaking it

Jailbreak Chat - A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks.

is-bing-chat-safe - Bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or restore the old "Sydney".

ChatGPT

ChatGPT webapp clone / alternative client

• 🧠 Awesome ChatGPT Prompts - [Git]
  • ChatGPT Products and Prompts

Master ChatGPT in 5 Minutes. Seriously.

WeChatGPT+ - ChatGPT-powered dystopia simulator - [Git] [HN]

AI Apps\Services

• Patterns - next-generation platform for AI and data applications
• Phind - The AI search engine for developers
• Scribble Diffusion - Turn your rough sketch into a refined image using AI - [Git]

Thinking

March 2023

The AI Dilemma — [YouTube]

Replika - A CyberS*xual DISASTER

• What was once born as something supposedly to serve as an AI friend-counselor, to help people with mental health issues or similar problems, then became an operation devoid of any ethical consideration.
  • Sexual features were integrated in the app and heavily publicized, to the long-term detriment of vulnerable users.
• It can be argued that the service never actually managed to fulfill its original goal in the first place, as some people:
  • Got addicted to it and now live worse than how they did before.
  • Got abused and directly manipulated by it, often into spending for premium features.

February 2023

Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)

While I think the entire scenario is only partially realistic, and if the video wasn't meant to be just a meme then the entire argument could probably be considered a conspiracy theory, the general line of thought is scarily plausible.

1. World governments aren't yet denying access to advanced AI technologies to the public to make it spread to very negative uses.
2. This way an excuse for total control of the Internet will be put in place:
   • The generative AIs that the public will still have access to will be crippled.
   • Everything will require government identification, "to be sure that a real person is doing X".
     • Online anonymity even for morally correct causes will no longer exist.
     • World governments will have total control on the population with fallacious appeals to combating first against disinformation, and ultimately "non-morality" (anything the government just doesn't like).

Uh Oh.. Did AI Just Kill Websites?

With all the Issues of the Modern Web, and the practical demonstrations of the amazing capabilities of AIs that are already available today, it's not absurd to think that conversational AI could soon kill websites.

• Advertisers could probably soon go to AI, because of the potential to deploy even more targeted ads, while simultaneously appearing less invasive to users.
• Writers and content creators could focus more on the content: not have to deal with SEO issues, and more easily deploy content thanks to APIs provided by the AI services instead of having to construct a website.

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the assignments, the students have to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.

ChatGPT Has A Serious Problem [ColdFusion]

• Has political biases (both right and left, more towards the left).
  • Viewpoints that in the future will be recognized as correct, could in the present be obscured by AI because of being deemed incorrect.
  • Potentially the left-leaning bias is intentional because of being good for business.

Generative AI Is About To Reset Everything, And, Yes It Will Change Your Life [Forbes]

I tried using AI. It scared me. [Tom Scott] - We're just at the start of the sigmoid curve for adoption of AI yet we're already seeing the disruptions in our world: everything is about to change.

Developments

March 2023

AI can now teach itself to use an API.

February 2023

Voice.ai Stole Open-Source Code, Banned Developer Who Informed Them About This.

I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation (and they are friends now).

Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT.

Bing ChatGTP demands an apology from user for claiming it's 2023.

Jailbreaking Bing's Chatbot is WILD!.

Ethanol

A proposito di alcol

I danni sociali dell'alcol sono numerosi e di alta portata

È sempre stato così ma oggi

• Dovrebbe essere più ovvio grazie ai moderni mezzi che permettono rapida diffusione globale di notizie e conoscenza.
• Chi ha una vita comune non ha bisogno di sfasciarsi con l'alcol o fare altre cose pericolose/dannose per emozioni momentanee, la vita per quanto piena di problemi è comunque migliore di quella dei nostri antenati.

No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance classified as a Group 1 carcinogen.

Risks potentially start from the first drink, as no minimum level of consumption has ben identified from which the risks start, and that below it are absent.

The general population is indoctrinated by culture and often ignores the toxic properties of alcohol.

Poorer people are at higher health risks with alcohol due to generally more uncontrolled drinking patterns.

Like with cigarettes, we need health labels on alcohol products.

Isopropanol

• Cheap like denaturated alcohol but it's natural, without strange chemical additives
  • Transparent instead of pink
  • Better for cleaning electronic components
• More interesting chemical structure than ethanol

List of some Android apps to keep in mind that are not mentioned in any other tiddler.

• AccA
• Activity Launcher
• AdAway
• AIDA64
• Andronix
• Antutu
• B612
• Color
• Cryptomator
• dotpict
• Gadgetbridge
• ibisPaint X
• Linux Deploy
• Material Files
• Mi Remote
• MiXplorer
• Music Player F-Droid
• NeoBackup
• NewPipe
• News Provider
• OpenBoard
• Open Camera
• PCAPdroid
• PocketMaps
• Psiphon Pro
• Pydroid 3
• QR & Barcode Scanner
• Quill
• Readrops
• Rekado
• SAI
• ScreenStreamer
• Seal
• Sketchware Pro
• StreetComplete
• Squircle IDE
• SuperFreezZ
• Tiddloid
• Tor Browser
• Transdroid
• Unexpected Keyboard
• UserLAnd
• WiGLE WiFi

Development

• ADB (Android Debug Bridge)

Apps and the likes

Lego block development:

Sketchware Pro - Open-source mod of the proprietary and discontinued Sketchware app, for developing directly on Android - [Git]

MIT App Inventor - Before Sketchware, we had this

Minimalist development

How can I build an Android apk without Gradle on the command line?

Tiny Android Template - Minimalist Android Project w/o Gradle

• How to do Android development faster without Gradle - (Old, not recommended, use the above instead) [Git]
  • Old version of this, has some useful insights: How to make Android apps without IDE from command line

Classic development

• Android Studio by Google - Also includes the Android Emulator and some other tools - Warning: IntelliSense is very broken (at least for me)
  • Why is Android Studio so buggy and Android development so frustrating?

Classic development, directly on an Android:

With these apps it's also easy to compile for very old API targets, unlike Gradle or Android Studio where it's basically impossible today

Anacode IDE - [GPlay] - The app is freemium and apparently gives you 5-minute waits between build attempts after you build idk how many times (3? 5?)

AIDE IDE for Android - [GPlay] - This app is freemium but honestly unusable without paying the montly/annual fee (for example, you can't save code you edit after a while); grab patch for Lucky Patcher here or here (I don't understand why the app name is different)

Guides, Snippets, Problems

• Add custom headers to WebView resource requests
• Using headers from a WebView.load(...) response
• Intercept and override HTTP requests from WebView
  • Intercept all requests in WebView on Android
  • Intercepting and Blocking Requests

Android Icon Size guide for Android 6 Marshmallow

• why setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false) doesn't work in Alert builder?
• How to prevent a dialog from closing when a button is clicked

Hacking / Modding

• Apktool - A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files - [Git]
• APK Editor - Edit APK Files inside your Android phone! Enjoy Hacking! - [APKPure] [Uptodown] - Can do about the same things as Apktool, but it's an Android app. It's apparently abandonware, and the pro version has more features. - [Pro (ApkBe)]
  • The same developer offers other various apps that may be of related interest (also abandoned).
• jadx - Dex to Java decompiler - [Git]

Problems, Snippets, Guides

Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Android Apps: A Step-by-Step Guide

Flashing Stock or Custom Firmware with Heimdall (on linux)

Android 7 (Nougat)

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Android 11

The Hidden

It's a re-proposal of Nougat's hidden cats egg