Here’s an obligatory shoot yourself in the foot joke that I just came up with:

You’ve just learned about a gun that makes it impossible to shoot yourself in the foot. To check, you load in a set of bullets, switch the safety lever mode attribute to recursive, and confidently pull on the trigger. To your surprise the gun explodes recursively. Everything is intact, except your two feet which have been nix’d into two billion pieces.

I’ve just remembered this micro blog. There are these rare ‘how do you know this stuff!?’ moments. And, that’s from lurking niche distributions in high school like Bedrock or Puppy.

NixOS is roughly Ubuntu’s age actually. Guix is technically the really new/shiny. I used to do CentOS (with SELinux) personally too, but I’m mainly back on Alpine and Debian.

I’ve been asked about power outage trackers occasionally. And, the thing is… BPL (or was it Bahamas Grid who knows) has an outage tracker.

There’s a service hub for submitting anonymous reports and an outage dashboard.

There’s a WhatsApp Channel too, but I dare anyone to explain the difference between “searching” channels, groups, communities, et cetera.

Here’s a neat tip that may stop working eventually. If you have a difficult problem that you want answered or you need free r&d, then put an elaborate problem statement somewhere and say that artificial intelligence will never ever solve it. It works almost every time.

I’ve had my tech news feeds filtered into /dev/null for a while now. I temporarily unmuted the agent keyword and did I learn more about the “rogue” agents operating illegally in The Bahamas? Yes, that and the coming apocalypse!

Mainstream tech news is not worth the time (in my opinion). But, maybe it’s a fun waste of time? Fun fact/joke: Newton predicted that the world would definitely not end before 2060 (a true pessoptimist).

If you’ve ever wondered, there are actually scans like this on the net:

curl --resolve a:80:127.0.0.1 http://a/b/c
curl --resolve *:80:[::1]     http://-

For anyone still wondering, I just read the tea leaves. As far as I’m concerned, insiders don’t predict the future, they just tell you what they know or are about to do (all things being equal). In fact, if you check all mentions of the word insider, they’re mostly bang on, and I definitely didn’t get them all!

Ever notice that at the right angle and distance 777 can look like three question marks??? There’s also a thing called the glottal stop, and then there’s Squamish, the language.

I came across an awesome comparison of older/newer text extraction methods while looking for something totally unrelated.

I guess some like the humor here? Whenever the will programmers be replaced question comes up, I skim global market job stats/details, and end up replying with a tongue-in-cheek variant of: I thought, like farmers, we replaced them already (ap, hmi). You can’t replace what isn’t really there?

It was a painful search, but I finally found the video. I had an odd deja vu experience skimming these sandbox escape headlines. Almost a decade ago experts were already exploring the realistic expectations/implications of having/needing to sandbox ‘a malevolent AI’.

That discussion was awfully optimistic though. Sandboxing has inherit limitations, but increased friction usually incentivizes little to none. I still think ‘malevolent humans’ physically/quietly attached to a network are far more scary though. AIs are haphazardly rowdy, pushy, and loud.