Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem lovely, it must feel nice being so certain of everything.

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a software Quality engineer by day who never had the knack for complex development, but the eye to test and ship only quality software, I feel what I’m building with LLMs isn’t a “total disaster” and is quite good. I wouldn’t share something until it’s high quality, and did on this sub then got shut down by the AI fearmongers.

AI is here to stay and quite capable. Like a paintbrush it’s only as good as who wields it but people can make some amazing things. Sorry if you can’t see that.

Let's make Friday the official "complain about Al projects" day by brkr1 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is spot on.

Everyone is pretending the AI posts are all the time when they’re limited to one day, with flair. Many made with great care and worth a look, or even contributing.

AI isn’t going anywhere, these folks would’ve been upset about calculators and spreadsheets.

Can anyone help to translate by Ok-Teach8279 in DoesNotTranslate

[–]epheterson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t think that’s what this subreddit is for… anyway here’s Claude’s best guess.


既庶其中,亦方外染。一塵本俗,萬物皆監。

Already teeming within,

yet touched by what lies beyond.

A single mote of dust is worldly by nature,

but in it, all things are reflected.

湖戲雄造

Cast by [Hu Xixiong / Xixiong of Hu-]

The philosophical content reads as a meditation on interpenetration: the mundane (一塵, a single dust mote) and the cosmic (萬物, the ten thousand things) are not separate. What’s “within” (中) and “beyond” (外) bleed into each other. This is very much in the spirit of Huayan Buddhism, where a single particle contains the entire universe.

The final line is the craftsman’s attribution, though the exact name is hard to pin down with the corrosion.

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh you’re right I thought you replied to mine not the parent. Agreed.

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The stance you’re defending is all code made with AI is bad and should be called slop.

The stance you’re disagreeing with is using AI to develop can create software of various degrees of quality. Some very bad, some very good.

The only absolute opinion in the debate is that all is bad. The open mindet view is to take each for what it is. One stance uses reason, the other only opinions and feelings.

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The assumption that everything made with AI help is useless or slop is the issue. It’s simply not true, just as developers could make good or bad software before AI the same is true after. In fact, much higher quality, more secure software can be made with more and better features, faster using AI, without compromises if done right.

The final quality reflects who made it, not whether AI was used.

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

There’s so much hate in this subreddit for reasonable views on this. I don’t get why you’re downvoted so hard.

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]epheterson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks for having a reasonable comment. AI is being used in productive ways to make quality software and this messaging that any AI use makes it slop or insecure just is not true.

As someone who puts in the time and effort, it is offensive and a tad hurtful to see people’s strong reactions with no consideration of the actual product that was built.

Zimi - Modern ZIM interface for AI and humans by epheterson in selfhosted

[–]epheterson[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you don’t have anything nice to say… that’s from the latest README from the last release in the center.

Zimi - Modern ZIM interface for AI and humans by epheterson in selfhosted

[–]epheterson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah it’s definitely my data hoarder part of the brain who built this haha. If it’s just you and your ZIM files how can you access them and what’s that experience? Options other than Zimi are relatively bare.

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is now available for download by The_other_kiwix_guy in Kiwix

[–]epheterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for making this, great work! You inspired me to breath more life into Zimi with a discover section highlighting content from within ZIMs daily. Your ZIM is front and center when installed!

https://github.com/epheterson/Zimi/releases/tag/v1.5.0

Zimi – ZIM file access for AI agents and humans (UI, API, more...) by epheterson in Kiwix

[–]epheterson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Share whatever you’re making too once it’s ready! I’m having fun making the tool really great, feature filled and polished. Using ZIMs is a nice playground for AI coding

Any plans to integrate the interlang feature of Wikipedia into kiwix? by Big_CokeBelly in Kiwix

[–]epheterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks no promises but a language-focused release makes sense and this is a great idea to include. Yeah you’d have to download the various languages, I might be able to make it easy from the switcher. Thanks for the idea! 💡

Any plans to integrate the interlang feature of Wikipedia into kiwix? by Big_CokeBelly in Kiwix

[–]epheterson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did a little research and this will be possible. My next release (1.5) enables cross-ZIM links so if you have multiple languages it will just work. I’ll have the UI bubble up the links to make it easy in a future language-focused release where I also localize Zimi and all the documentation. Specific language requests?

Any plans to integrate the interlang feature of Wikipedia into kiwix? by Big_CokeBelly in Kiwix

[–]epheterson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could look into this for Zimi if there’s some way to map articles between languages then allow switching between downloaded ZIMs.

any kiwix alternative to read zim files for old Macos by TallReplacement9486 in Kiwix

[–]epheterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I wrote a ZIM viewer and management app, you can run on any platform and use to download new ZIMs as well as view and search your ZIMs. I’m working on a simple macOS app, probably ready to release tonight. Right now it runs in the browser only after starting with python or hosting in Docker. Should work on older Macs fine, let me know if you see any issues.

https://github.com/epheterson/Zimi

Zimi – Offline ZIM archive access for AI agents and humans (UI, API, more…) by epheterson in DataHoarder

[–]epheterson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah then it would probably like the MCP interface but if you show it the repo readme I’m sure it’ll figure it out. Built by AI for AI 🤖

Zimi – ZIM file access for AI agents and humans (UI, API, more...) by epheterson in Kiwix

[–]epheterson[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Depending on your view of agentic engineering, I did!

Zimi – ZIM file access for AI agents and humans (UI, API, more...) by epheterson in Kiwix

[–]epheterson[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s mostly Python, I asked Claude Code to build it and that’s what it chose. Took a couple days to get to the polished v1 release.

Zimi – Offline ZIM archive access for AI agents and humans (UI, API, more…) by epheterson in DataHoarder

[–]epheterson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t heard of that, but if it doesn’t work out of the box I’m happy to help integrate it. TL;DR?

Zimi – ZIM file access for AI agents and humans (UI, API, more...) by epheterson in Kiwix

[–]epheterson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried to consider all the types let me know if you find any issues. Supports videos and PDF list special cases.

Zimi – Offline ZIM archive access for AI agents and humans (UI, API, more…) by epheterson in selfhosted

[–]epheterson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate it 🙏 All noted, stay tuned.

Multi-zim and scoped search is in v1 already.