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I have an instance that does search related to my research interests, tracks news related to viruses in the US, events happening around my area and an “urgent” news job that uses searx and for things going on around me. I used Qwen 3.5 9B and tuned some of the jobs with GPT 5.4. I recently switched to use Gemma 4 and there was seemingly no major difference. I’ve found it useful for the digest and for findings papers without much effort.
With a nvidia spark or 128gb+ memory machine, you can get a good speed up on the 31B model if you use the 26B MoE as a draft model. It uses more memory but I’ve seen acceptance rate at around 70%+ using Q8 on both models
Unless the goal of the backdoor is to redirect traffic flows through packet inspection devices that the attacker also controls, the decoupling of the control and data plane in SDN deployments requires a more creative, intricate solution to allow for wiretapping compared to traditional routers.
You can actually enable search in codex but adding the following to the config file
[tools]
web_search = true
I will look into adding this in a future update.
The graph functionality is stubbed but I will expose it in a future update. You can also use metadata and tags for similar things.
I may explore this when I implement the vectordb implementation I started.
While the examples and provided prompt lean toward code (since that's my personal use case), YAMS is fundamentally a generic content-addressed storage system.
I will attempt to run some small agents with custom prompts and report back.
I have been using it for task tracking, research, and code search. When using CLI tools, I found that the LLM's were able to find code in less tool calls when I stored my codebase in the tool. I had to wrangle the LLMs to use the tool verse native rgrep or find.
I am also trying to stabilize PDF text extraction to improve knowledge retrieval when I want to revisit a paper I read but cannot remember which one it was. Most of these use cases come from my personal use and updates to the tool but I am trying to make it as general as possible.
I stored the codebase for yams in the tool. The "blocks" are content-defined blocks/chunks, not filesystem blocks. They're variable-size chunks (typically 4-64KB) created using Rabin fingerprinting to find natural content boundaries. This enables deduplication across files that share similar content.
I have not, but that is something I plan to do when I have time.
I am working to improve the CLI tools to make getting this information easier but I have stored the yam repo in yams with multiple snapshots and metadata tags and I am seeing about 32% storage savings.
The graph functionality is exposed through the retrieval functionality. I may improve this later but the idea was to maximize getting the best results when looking for stored data.
The tool has built-in versioning. Each file gets a unique SHA-256 hash on storage (automatic versioning), you can update metadata to track version info, and use collections/snapshots to group versions together. I have been using the metadata to track progress and link code snippets.
That should be fixed now. It was a misconfiguration of CloudFlare SSL with GitHub Pages.
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blackmanta on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:34PM
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https://github.com/trvon/yams
Built this for my LLM workflows - needed searchable, persistent memory that wouldn't blow up storage costs. I also wanted to use it locally for my research. It's a content-addressed storage system with block-level deduplication (saves 30-40% on typical codebases). I have integrated the CLI tool into most of my workflows in Zed, Claude Code, and Cursor, and I provide the prompt I'm currently...
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blackmanta on Saturday June 28, 2025 @04:19PM
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https://manta.black/leveraging-google-adk-for-cyber-intelligence.html
The project is in an early state. I just had to recently reset the graph data store, but I figured now is a good time to share my post and project.The link is to my blog post, the tool is at https://umbrix.dev
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blackmanta on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @07:13PM
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I have used Google messages with RCS on grapheneos.
Microsoft does take security pretty seriously with windows. There have been times they make mistakes, but historically, they are doing better now than they were in the early 2000s before Bill Gates sent a memo noting that they needed to take security seriously. You could argue they take security as serious as any major play like apple and google, seeing they touch a lot of private user data.
[1] https://news.microsoft.com/2000/12/07/gates-offers-new-techn...
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