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Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by HappMacDonald »

benjaminoakes wrote: post #176

Something I've been working on: https://getoffpocket.com I hope it can help you

I'm not on pocket because I still don't know what it is. Just that it's yet another in a string of services my various flavors of web browser have tried pitching to me over the decades, and because it's hosted by a third party and apparently piquantly of interest to somebody else that I use it I tend to pass.

Although I am at least morbidly curious: what is it even?

My best hot take guess is "it's bookmarks, but probably even less useful somehow".

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by mlekoszek »

marknutter wrote: post #35
cainxinth wrote: post #3

I do this to determine if a person I'm talking to online is potentially a troll. I copy a big chunk of their comment and post history into an LLM and ask for a profile. The last few years, I've noticed an uptick in "concern trolls" that pretend to support a group or cause while subtly working to undermine it. LLMs can't make the ultimate judgement call very well, but they can quickly summarize enough information for…

"Concern troll" is usually just at term that people who want zero pushback lob at people who don't agree with them 100% of the time.

Explain this a bit. I'm interested, but I don't fully understand how you mean this.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by arkt8 »

More than Pocket... I really miss del.icio.us, that helped me a lot on begining of my programming journey 20 years ago. It was truly social, and generated a lot of well curated lists of bookmarks that let me discover much content relates on what I wanted to learn, much more than Google or Yahoo ever.

Sadly it was bought by Yahoo just to be discontinued, like many web pearls.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by apparent »

HappMacDonald wrote: post #201
benjaminoakes wrote: post #176

Something I've been working on: https://getoffpocket.com I hope it can help you

I'm not on pocket because I still don't know what it is. Just that it's yet another in a string of services my various flavors of web browser have tried pitching to me over the decades, and because it's hosted by a third party and apparently piquantly of interest to somebody else that I use it I tend to pass. Although I am at least morbidly curious: what is it even? My best hot take guess is "it's bookmarks, but prob…

It's a read later service, which was originally called Read It Later. I guess they should have stuck with the old name, if they wanted increase transparency for newcomers.

It's not less useful than bookmarks, of course. It's more useful because they fetch and save the content, and they present it in a reader-friendly (ad-free) viewer.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by dietr1ch »

ariwilson wrote: post #197
dietr1ch wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Internally at Google a toy tool to peek into your own personal advertisement profile was released and taken down within a week or two because it was creepy knowledgeable about you.

when?

Probably sometime around 2018 or 2019, I don't recall, but it was before the covid lockdown

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by tehlike »

formerphotoj wrote: post #112
justusthane wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies

Exactly this. The need to make money from a thing may well eliminate the value one derives from the thing, and even add negatives such as stress, etc.

Not really. I do software both as a hobby, and as a career.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by tehlike »

abrookewood wrote: post #151
justusthane wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies

100%. I am absolutely certain that I do not have a viable career as a professional surfer ... no matter how much I wish it wasn't true.

Eh. Software engineers are in demand, and surfers decidedly are not.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by tehlike »

cortesoft wrote: post #128
justusthane wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies

I believed this, which is what made me avoid computer science in college; I wanted to avoid ruining my favorite hobby. After a few years post graduation, where I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and I floundered to find a career, I decided to give software development a try, and risk ruining my favorite hobby. Definitely the best decision I could have made. Now people pay me a lot of money to do the thing I love to do…

It was my hobby. Then I did computer science, and now I'm at a faang, make more money in a year than my parents in their lifetime probably.
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