There are various levels of AI here

Storing embeddings/vectors in a search index can make your searches smarter and more relevant. The embeddings squeeze related concepts closer together than pure keyword approaches, which if done well increases retrieval quality.

RAG tools and AI searches are just a layer on top of your index. When done well these can be really useful in annotating your results and speeding up finding things.

That’s useful when you’re searching say an error message and the AI is able to iterate on keywords and skim a Guthub issue about it and skip to the resolution.

Similarly it’s good when you’re researching something but don’t have the exact words, AI search can iterate and capture your intent, then run several queries based on that.

I don’t find the hallucination problem significant in practice with a lot of AI search tools, but I have found AI is vulnerable to certain types of SEO spam that a human would never fall for.

As an example most companies have a “comparison to” or “alternatives to” blogpost. The AI does not critically look at the fact that a service is hosting a blogpost shilling their own product. So asking search AI for options is actually poor quality because it will return the shilled results that appear in search first.

AI also search adds an additional silent layer of filtering, which you need to be conscious of.

Potentially that would be a good application of federation and distributed computing

An Internet archive like distributed tool, that then feeds into local tokenization and indexing.

Alternatively a centralized service that generates indices and then locally they are queried would save a lot of energy.

TimyRSS looks interesting, noticed they have extension support (freshRSS seems to too) so marine that’s the best route to what I want

It looks like there are already some extensions that do a bit of what I’m looking for

https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions

I’ll have to look at the API to see if I can add tagging or something.

Yeah that’s what I’m thinking of.

What I’m envisioning is articles group by topic (international, tech, etc.) and something that groups articles on say Ukraine like Google News does.

A lot of RSS is like an email inbox and I want a news feed.

That looks great

The list of related software they use is also very handy

I think what I want is RSS plus categorization, like a Google News type app.

RSS alone can be kind of overwhelming.

But maybe I can build this on RSS with ollamma.

I have big regrets buying a WD MyCloud device.

It sucks. Massively sucks. I have it robot nightly or else it stops working.

Wish I’d started with a Synology.

You’re coming in loud and clear here in the great white North!

How was the process of setting up self hosting?

That actually seems attractive to me, but I’m unsure where I stand yet. It’s pricey, I just want a box I can put in the basement and then connect everything to over wifi.

They can’t swipe your password if it’s wrong

They could of course enter it on the target website and see it’s wrong though, so this only works against the crappiest phishing attempts

I’ve adopted a policy of always ebetering my password wrong the first time.

It started by accident.