Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@glyph There's no standard library way to do it, but IIRC `tzlocal` migrated to use `zoneinfo` a while back, so if you trust their heuristics you can use that to get the name.

@adamchainz I think if I weren't concerned with licenses I could just google image something up pretty easily, but I'm trying to keep all the images CC-0 or CC-BY so that when the deck is done I can open source it. I am considering trying to go on fiverr or something to outsource the illustrations, because they're really quite time consuming even using generative AI, but unless I can find someone who will churn out a ton of quick illustrations or AI-generated images for pretty cheap, I think getting a hundred example sentences illustrated might be outside my budget for the project.

@adamchainz I kinda wonder if the early "hands with too many fingers" and bizarre extra limbs and stuff made people try to put huge penalties in for bizarre stuff like that, and it gets penalized when you actually *try* to generate something weird.

@adamchainz I am putting together an Anki deck to teach my son common sight words (to supplement our phonics-based reading). I have a sight word for him to read, then a simple example sentence, and when we finish the sentence it reveals an illustration.

I had the sentence "I have three eyes" as an illustration for "have", and I wanted to have a three-eyed lemur or something (kids love funny stuff like that), but no matter what I tried I couldn't get any image generator to give me something suitable.

I ended up going with a different example sentence, but I found it curious that image generators *really* don't like extra eyes.

@adamchainz Yeah, tried mind's eye, lots of terms like that. Just tried Ajna chakra and I got a bunch of lemurs with glowing balls at all their *other* chakras...

Tried to go extremely stereotypical, specifying the "three eyes" multiple ways. The closest I got was a lemur with a little yellow light on its forehead.

“a three-eyed lemur; the lemur is sitting in a lotus position and all three of its eyes are open. The third eye is centered on its forehead. highly detailed digital art trending on artstation”

Anyone have any good tricks for getting AI image generation models like #dalle or #stablediffusion to produce animals or people with three eyes? I was hoping to get a lemur with a typical "mind's eye" third eye, but all the models seem to ignore the third eye condition no matter how frequently I specify it.

#promptengineering

"Papa, I hate Swiper."

Yo también, little buddy.

@brianokken I tend to be opposed to proprietary services like Discord and Slack in general, but even if it were totally open source and decentralized I think I would hate Discord. Every time I need to use it, it is a confusing and unpleasant experience for a bunch of reasons. My $0.02: do not use discord.

Nothing else is what I would call "good", but it's so a far sight better than discord. Matrix is probably the best of the "spin up a chat room" type services.

Thanks to [this response](https://mastodon.social/@ryanprior/110860614998463071) and [this one](https://fosstodon.org/@hanno/110860898443987704), I realized that I Orgzly actually _can_ be used with the local file system, I was just trying to sync a whole folder hierarchy and Orgzly wants to do it folder-by-folder (and manage everything in one big flat file).

I've been using it for about a day now and it's actually working for me! Thanks @ryanprior and @hanno!

#android #org #emacs #linux

@ryanprior Interesting, when I tried earlier I thought it was trying to manage all the `.org` files itself (not importing stuff that already existed), but I think the actual issue is that it doesn't recursively look into folders, and all my `.org` files are organized into folders.

The problem I have now is that orgzly seems to use a completely flat file structure, which is feeling a bit unmanageable to me, since I organize by folders.

Practically speaking I only really touch a few notebooks frequently, so maybe "sort by last modification" will work for now.

Thanks!

@dimentium Yes, I looked into it: https://qoto.org/@pganssle/110860523437818336

From what I can tell, they aren't in the App store because they would get rejected for having over-broad permissions.

They aren't in F-droid because their syncing thing (which I don't care about) is proprietary (I don't know why they don't supply a way to build it without that part).

The way to get it is to either download an APK from their website (no thanks) or add a custom repo to F-droid that basically downloads an APK from their website.

None of this gives me particularly high confidence in the quality and security of this app...

I wanted to try #logseq, but their release method is "download an apk from our website" for some reason?

It is unclear why they aren't on Fdroid or the play store: https://github.com/logseq/logseq/discussions/4548

I hate to link to reddit, but this is a disheartening thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/12cgnr4/quick_recap_of_the_state_of_org_mode_apps_for/?rdt=62792

There's an emacs port on f-droid, but when I tried to use it it's not exactly a native app experience. Opening a file involves typing the full path to the file!

I am really disappointed by the current state of org mode (or just note taking in general) on Android.

I really want a simple, dedicated app where I can:

1. make a simple list or takes some notes
2. have that be saved in some plain text format that can be edited in vim or emacs on my computer
3. have that file be accessible in a way that Syncthing can pick it up
4. Pick up changes made on the file system

Orgzly seems to want to do its own thing and fails at 3 and 4. orgro is read-only. Every other note-taking or list app I've seen just stores stuff in its own little database in its own format.

#android #org #emacs #linux