I want instead of being told “here’s what I think you want to see, now look at it”, “what do you want to see?” And be shown that.

Yes yes we claim the user doesn’t know what they want. I think that’s largely used as an excuse to avoid rethinking how things should meet the users needs and keep status quo where people are made to rely on systems and walled gardens. The goal of this article is UIs should work better for the user. What better way then to let them imagine (or even nudge them with example actions, buttons, text to click to render specific views) in the UI! I’ve been wanting to build something where I just ask in English from options I know I have or otherwise play and hit edges to discover what’s possible and not.

Anyone else thinking along this direction or think I’m missing something obvious here?

its not in the convo because these capital high intensities are the ones lobbying and owning the politicians. they're each other friends. taxes were always intended even in this country to be a thing applied to serfdom: we weren't in reality immune from the conditions we aimed to flee from Great Britain where kings and queens gained qualified immunity and sovereign status - sometimes it seems like are just a "free" slave nation.

Generating children doing NSFW is very illegal, in several jurisdictions even cartoons depicting children in a sexual setting is highly illegal. I would not take that risk if I were them.

As a former GTD Junkie and recovering productivity-a-halic myself, what did you settle on and how do GTD or not-do GTD today?

I totally gave up on any system. I trust my brain to remember the important things and don’t beat myself up when I forget. I was recently adhd diagnosed at age 46 so I might try something like atomic habits now that I know what’s going on. YMMV.

Isn’t the problem more so that nobody wants to buy it and Microsoft is leveraging its power and influence to successfully coerce and pressure people into buying them?

You using OpenAI’s products? Aren’t Microsoft getting cuts as owners?

Isn’t it kind of true that the systems we as servile people-pleasers have to operate out of are exactly these? The hierarchical status games and alpha-animal tribal dynamics are these. Our leaders who are so might and rich and powerful want to keep their position, and we don’t want to admit they have more influence than we do for things like AI now and so we stand and watch naively as they reward the people pleasers and eventually historically we learn(ed) it pays to please until leadership changes.

Interesting. How would you share you've noticed your code quality and agent work change after giving them access to this tool? I'm curious to try it but looking for a little personal experience from you first if you'd not mind to share.

Isn't this an underlying symptom of lack of accountability of our greater leadership? They do these things, they act like criminals and thieves, and so the people who follow them get shown examples that it's OK while being told to do otherwise.

"Show bad examples then hit you on the wrist for following my behavior" is like bad parenting.

I don't think they want you to follow their behavior. They do want accountability, but for everyone below them, not for themselves.

Yes that’s what I meant. Bad parents tell you to do something else, while showing you another example. Then they remain unaccountable to their behavior as parents.

any speaker can be tapped into as a microphone by a motivated government.

No, because the drive circuit for a speaker is the opposite of the circuit for a microphone. The output stage of a speaker amplifier is just that, an output. The only way to record audio from a speaker, which is totally possible, is to have also purposely built an input stage also attached to the speaker. Which at that point you might as well just use a microphone...

Audio input and output are not reversible.

I don't know what you mean here, I can plug a speaker into my mic slot and use that to record, just as plugging a mic into the speaker slot gives a (crappy) speaker.

> purposely built input stage

You moved your device to the purposely built input stage.

Not an expert, but your remark doesn’t compute with the parent comment

Because on your computer the engineers purposely put a switch that can direct the signal to either the input hardware or the output hardware.

It's not a mic slot, it's a general analog I/O port with a 3.5mm form factor.

A DAC and amplifier circuit is electrically incapable of processing input (on its own.)

Physically unplugging and moving a speaker to a mic input works, sure, but very few devices can do this switching electronically.

I think most intel HDA compatible chips can do this. You can specify which pins are connected to what.

on many cards they are, check out the tool `hdajackretask` from package `alsa-gui-tools`.

From a hardware point of view I've also noticed that speakers work like poor microphones (and LEDs like poor solar panels / light sensors), but is there any way to actually make this work on most devices without physically changing wiring? If the circuits aren't made to take measurements (or the software can't get at the readings) but only set a voltage on the wires, there wouldn't be a way to (ab)use this. I don't know enough about electronics to know whether this is commonly the case

Not that it's not a good thing to be aware of, but do you have any sort of source for what kinds of devices can have their speakers turned into microphones? Then I'll believe you about the government part

Many a soundcard supports changing jack "direction". Here's a StackExchange answer from 2012, on how to do it with the GUI tool `hdajackretask` : https://askubuntu.com/a/911961

Any was an exaggeration and less than honest on my part, I apologize. I think the speakers in most smart devices though can because they have the circuitry as another comment mentioned to record the input in reverse via software.

I think most speakers would have that today, most modern speakers. Plain speakers that just take a voltage signal though, probably not. Though how many people use those kinds of speakers today I wonder.

I don’t think they meant literally “any” but more like a device with a speaker could be delivered to you that has a speaker/microphone. Like a Bluetooth speaker you order of the internet. It seems it would probably have to be personally targeted to you, but in that case, there are probably simpler ways.

Most communication problems are hierarchical problems. Communication and relationships are inherently hierarchical and groups think and social behaviors, fitting in, understanding hierarchy and status runs communication more than we think.

Remember that most communication is non-verbal?