kepano

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by kepano 1mo ago
We're in agreement. And it's not only the technological advances that came after, it's all the small life moments and personal accomplishments too. That's why I connected this to the Henry Ford example. How can we determ
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by kepano 1mo ago
That is exactly the point I am making (echoing the author of the linked piece). Those tools did change the world. But I do not know how you go about measuring the net effect of it all. I can certainly share many anecdotes but what is the su
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by kepano 1mo ago
I agree with you. For example, [[links]] are a useful affordance for thinking that wasn't as popular before Obsidian. However the original piece was asking: > Has there been a meaningful increase of understanding and creation thanks
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by kepano 2mo ago
Indeed. My point was to agree with the author in their rebuttal of the original piece.
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by kepano 2mo ago
Asking "what have note-taking apps accomplished?" is like asking "what have spreadsheets accomplished?" or "what have cameras accomplished?". A tool doesn't accomplish anything on its own. A tool is a mean
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by kepano 2mo ago
This essay was published in December 2018.
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by kepano 2mo ago
Obsidian Web Clipper has a nice reader mode that works for ChatGPT transcripts (disclaimer: I made it)
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by kepano 2mo ago
Why not use Obsidian CLI? https://obsidian.md/help/cli
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by kepano 3mo ago
I really don't understand how one could come to that conclusion. The blog post states that "Obsidian Community is not a store". I wrote that so that the community explicitly knows we are not going in that direction. The new
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by kepano 3mo ago
> the chance of a paid plugin marketplace might signal a shift in the community Where the heck are you getting this from? We are explicitly not doing this.
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by kepano 3mo ago
(context: I help make Obsidian) Canvas can be disabled in Core Plugins, like most other features. In general I mostly see the opposite criticism: that Obsidian out of the box is too barebones and that it requires plugins to be useful. I ten
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by kepano 3mo ago
In what way is Obsidian going downhill?
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by kepano 4mo ago
As far as I can tell, every issue you flagged in this article is now automatically caught in the new plugin review system launched last week. The new system prevents plugin updates from being released/downloaded if any of these issues
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by kepano 4mo ago
The two are not mutually exclusive?
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by kepano 4mo ago
On the other hand, that may be part of the reason why Obsidian has such a rich plugin ecosystem. Perhaps there is less of an incentive to build a good plugin API if you can just tell people to fork instead.
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by kepano 4mo ago
Obsidian has an entire plugin category for syncing, and recommended alternatives to the official Sync service. https://community.obsidian.md/search?type=plugin&categories=... https://obsidian.md/help&#x2
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by kepano 4mo ago
I apologize for being so feisty. I found your initial comment extremely disheartening: > No permissions system, nothing resolved. I could not let that comment stand because it's simply not true, and you probably wouldn't say it
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by kepano 4mo ago
I'm trying to have a real conversation with you but you seem determined to disagree with me, twist my words, and put up these straw man arguments. Why are you trying to pin me as anti-sandbox/permissions? I'm not. I don'
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by kepano 4mo ago
It's not tacit, it's explicit. People should have the freedom to do dangerous things as long they understand and accept the risks. I'm not interested in making software that imposes limits on what a person can do with their o
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by kepano 4mo ago
It doesn't say "we don't use AI" but I guess the assumption nowadays is everything uses AI? In my opinion the burden should be to state that something does use LLMs, not that it doesn't. The post has instructions
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by kepano 4mo ago
Obsidian doesn't collect any telemetry data but my estimate is that less than 10% of Obsidian users use plugins (might be closer to 1%). Most people don't even activate any of the built-in core plugins that are off by default.
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by kepano 4mo ago
1) Yes. Working on it. (You can already partially do this e.g. ?score=90) 2) Yes. You will see these radically improve over the next few weeks. As stated on the scorecard itself they are a work in progress. You have to consider that overnig
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by kepano 4mo ago
As I wrote, yes, a permission system is planned. But 1. we cannot oversimplify the problem of getting from here to there, 2. permissions are not a panacea. If you look at the scorecards for a few plugins you'll immediately see issues t
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by kepano 4mo ago
I certainly feel that I am losing brain cells here :)
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by kepano 4mo ago
Thank you! It means a lot <3
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by kepano 4mo ago
It seems like you have not read the blog post.
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by kepano 4mo ago
We've been working on the project for nearly a year, so no. https://github.com/obsidianmd/eslint-plugin/commits/
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by kepano 4mo ago
It isn't. Doesn't involve AI. Read the post :)
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by kepano 4mo ago
Yes they are mentioned in the blog post in the bullet point about disclosures. You can think of disclosures as the first step towards permissions. See my previous answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110592
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by kepano 4mo ago
The blog post describes this but there are still manual reviews, similar to what you are asking for. We just need to expose that in the UI. AI is not used in the review process. The system is primarily based on our open source eslint plugin

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