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.

I was asked many times before. And no, I don’t actually use Reddit or Twitter/X! Last time I “perused” Twitter/X the “tweets” were seemingly inaccessible anyway. I hope Reddit follows suit or even better yet, becomes login only (pretty please).

Governments and other truly open/public entities should wise up and future proof themselves already. Maybe it’s already happening?

In fact, I quickly prototyped this theme mainly to show that it’s probably not that hard. “Agents” are kind of a thing now. There are no more excuses.

I tried to make that post land on April 1st to make it more confusing but got busy and messed up. For the sporadic peruser, every other day is April Fools day anyway. (:

Another systemd tip is the analyze timespan and calendar commands for timers. They’re good for planning out timer sequences or explaining them to the microsecond.

I think I told someone back when that the safest program might just be ‘hello world’ in the safest language of your choosing.

And that came out more like a joke, but there really was a note on how to achieve an almost perfect sandboxing score in systemd. The trick is to not relax.

There’s another old interesting thing called the estates of the realm. These are the loudest voices in/on the social sphere, roughly.

If somehow (anything’s possible nowadays) the fourth through sixth become as distrusted as the first and second, then know that for the record I was simply a commoner… just one of the people. ;)