I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon. The marketing material for coins have seemingly vanished. Now it’s AI, AGI, ASI, or GAI adverts shape-shifting every couple of weeks.

First it’s C, then C again, then P, then another C, then that C again, then G, then some other G, then L, and then D, now it’s Q or one of the G’s again.

How’d they switch products so fast? That’s ultra human. I’ve never 10-100x’d with these tools, but many have. What is an ‘AI agent coin’? I wonder if any of you remember the ephemerally fun AI Dungeon?

I get amusing emails sometimes. I guess briefness is obscurity, and obscurity, self fulfilling contradictory absurdity (coins). I posted an informal lay of the bot land some spaces ago.

My trying to be serious brief was, “When you consult the AIs, the AIs consult me and then I consult you” or something. This AI web crawler was the only one recursively eager to learn then.

That was actually surprising, but now, many crawlers appear like locusts in a recursively starved swarm, refeeding on every single word (the new normal).

Apparently, this is entertaining? Struggling to be brief my scribbling mimics the mainstream and becomes unintentionally obscure. My inbox has been overflowing with ads selling agents (AGI) lately.

On VS Code’s marketing page there is/was a demo where the (pre?) AGI was asked, “What steps are needed to create a wordle clone?”

My answer: “You only need one step. To make a wordle clone just git clone another worldle clone” (no code: I was trying to be funny this time).

There was a beautiful (or not so beautiful) set of fireworks in the sky the other day. Is this the first episode of Rocket Girls?

I read a bit into Starlink and it’s the sometimes cheaper/better option locally and apparently in the rest of the world too.

It’s increasingly tempting but I don’t use it because I’m locally biased.

I know there’s a lot of interest in meshes (and alternative networks). I tried out a yggdrasil mesh for a good whole ten minutes or so some planets ago. I have notes running around somewhere in the (a)ether.

• GNUnet
• Zeronet
• Freenet/Hyphanet
• Invisible Internet
• The Onion Router
• Inter–Planetary File System
• WireGuard
• Yggdrasil
• Gemini

If I can hack a good intuition on networking this (new) year, I’ll perform my final pseudo disappearing act.

I occasionally revisit this wonderful shell scripting bible. On a whim, I checked the home page and it says something along the lines of “having taken up farming”.

Sardonic, maybe. I thought I had 12 (or 13) followers on GitHub but apparently it’s 10. Two (or three) must have betrayed me. Seriously though; I’m considering a bit of CSS to hide the distracting metrics.

I was helping someone out recently. This social protocol table is informative and perhaps there are more in the making.

Thinking back now, the design here is somewhat tongue in cheek. Hopefully it inspires not, anyone who stumbles thereupon.

There’s a smart aleck quip I can write here about economics but I don’t remember what it was.

I read a nice rant article yesterday. The video sources were also fun. Perhaps the greatest demonstration of marketing genius (maybe it’s serendipitous), is setting up the classic us versus them (catnip), but on generalizations that are stealthily ambiguous (intelligence, consciousness, reasoning, and thinking).

It’s somewhat out of context, but Dijkstra (a computer scientist) practiced a very exceptional and very brief kind of philosophizing.

I just heard about the Microsoft Recall program. What a strange name? I’m used to hearing “recall” in relation to product defects as in “A company issues recall program on product B”.

Someone asked if they were recalling PCs (the title speed–reads that way). I’m in a cave on Windows news.

I take it that Zeitgeist was a bit too early? The sadly unsurprising (or surprising) part is that by consensus, a recall program is something that most would probably consent to.

I recovered some junked DLINK DIR 615 I1s a while back. These routers were soft bricked (on-and-off remote access). A peek online hinted at a built-in recovery/safe mode.

That failed in modern browsers. The suggestions here didn’t work either. Why? Who knows? They were made in 2012 and discontinued 2017. Using the “recreate the developer’s environment” trick, a 2012 browser (Opera) revived the custom firmware updater! Now they work again. The end.

Default firmware: https://tsd.dlink.com.tw/