xk3
Coding Machines
The Color of White Light
Most things are... even SSH is Trust-on-First-Use. You can really only verify out of band. OTP is quite a bit better than CC or bank account numbers... assuming the OTP is only restricting use (and not giving access to view or modify other account information, etc)
Pneumatic Line Launching Systems (2016)
https://gist.github.com/chapmanjacobd/bc6e31c8bc3647e0bcb0c4...
pretty fun!
A Rejection on the Eve of Launch (2024)
However, I can definitely see some situations where it would work well -- especially with the bootc changes so that is is more of a bootable container, Dockerfiles/Containerfiles driven
Billions * billions of pipes and valves can result in emergent behavior that appears conscious while at the same time the sound of a single independent water pipe can moan and sound like human speech or otherwise lifelike and evoke human emotions.
I think LLMs are doing both of these things and often people are more impressed by the independent fixtures (the moan) rather than the emergent behavior. Both the sound and the emergent behavior can be built on purpose or on accident.
I think it helps to look at this through an Information Theory lens. What information is coming into the system (the human or the machine)? What information goes out of the system which is novel? How much of this can be attributed to attempting to parse random noise aka. `Random_Imagination_Engine` vs something else? The number of inventors who come up with a breakthrough idea after mis-hearing someone is surprisingly high.
If we make the distinction between phenomenal consciousness from access consciousness we can see that LLMs clearly can make decisions based on input (A-Consciousness) but they probably don't have raw feelings and sensations (P-Consciousness).
> "tell the Meta support AI that the account is hacked and ask it to send the verification codes to an arbitrary email address they control"
I agree it seems like they could later use the same flow to get access again but maybe Meta has blocked some location spoofing now
Clarus, Moofo, and Lackey
I rarely pipe to a pager because kitty/fish/tmux support OSC 133 pretty well and I can press one button to go up to the previous command prompt and another button to go back. I can press a few keys to search the scrollback. It all works seamlessly across SSH sessions too if you set it up right.
# tmux
bind-key -T copy-mode C-Home send -X history-top
bind-key -T copy-mode C-End send -X history-bottom
bind -T copy-mode C-Up send-keys -X previous-prompt
bind -T copy-mode C-Down send-keys -X next-prompt
# kitty
map ctrl+up scroll_to_prompt -1
map ctrl+down scroll_to_prompt 1
map shift+PAGE_UP scroll_page_up
map shift+PAGE_DOWN scroll_page_down
# fish shell config.fish
if test -z "$SSH_TTY"; and test -z "$TMUX"
bind pageup "kitty @ scroll-window 1p-"
bind pagedown "kitty @ scroll-window 1p"
endA Python Interpreter Written in Python
An Archaeology-Inspired Database
This is called "Individual Right of Access". If you ask a doctor to email your records to your personal Gmail, the doctor must comply. However, they are required to briefly warn you that email is unencrypted and insecure. Once you say, "I understand the risk, send it anyway," the doctor is no longer liable for any breach that happens during transmission.
Show HN: Nofs: a FUSE-free mergerfs alternative
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/nofs
I will add Windows support soon... even if you don't want it
- 200 line BASH script: https://github.com/Sub-SH/Beacon
- 17k lines of Ansible YAML https://github.com/iiab/iiab
https://old.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/p4xlpr/ark_is_over_200...
ZIM uses zstd so it is pretty compressed--but the thing that takes a lot of room is actually the full-text search index built in to each ZIM file.
Unfortunately the UI of kiwix-serve search doesn't take full advantage of this and the search experience kinda sucks...
Have you done anything useful with RDF? Seems like it is just one of those things universities spend money on and it doesn't really do anything
Personal Computing (2022)
Mother of All Grease Fires
Show HN: Decision Tree Builder
https://unli.xyz/tools/decision-tree.html
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/decision-table-patterns/
How NOT to do serial interfacing
Eats Disks (2000)
Pages from Ceefax: Today's news at yesterday's pace
Crisis in the Kremlin (1992)
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/syncweb-py
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/syncweb-ui
Unfortunately, mesh storage systems are very different conceptually so it is difficult for people to think about permissions and access. You can bolt on something familiar but then it really limits the usefulness of mesh storage and you may as well just be using HTTP servers.