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 unfortunately recommended a Firefox addon somewhere. Maybe it (Disable JavaScript) or some versions of it got hacked/backdoored because the repository just up and poofed itself. Luckily, Firefox isn’t that popular.

Addon files are usually zips and CRX Viewer is good for corner peeking. I look around corners thrice, occasionally, sometimes, maybe?

I’ve just learned something the hard way. There’s stuff out there that spins console.clear() and debugger in infinite loops. I don’t know why that’s a thing but I like to call it: clear console log debugger abuse.

In Chrome/Chromium limit debuggers and logs. In Firefox, enable log persistence/timestamps and control breakpoints manually.

Jargon is strangely funny out of context. I have a crude setup that de-jargons and disambiguates stuff, which causes those of you much more knowledgeable than me to ??? occasionally.

• git clone - foolish person doppelganger?
• chromium - the metal?
• codium - drugs?
• terminals - airports?
• prompt - fast?
• posse - gangs?

Maybe the best kind of educational mischief looks just wrong enough to prompt an AI assisted investigation. I’ve surprisingly tricked quite a few people into understanding web feeds.

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).

I came across a peculiar site. It’s called https://no-color.org (terminals). Xterm and ansifilter work well for programs that are unable to contextually disable colors.

ls -la | ansifilter   # Remove colors from output
xterm -cm             # Set color mode to false
export NO_COLOR=true  # For programs that follow

I used to wonder why some preferred no syntax/color highlighting. It turns out that output can/will be hidden (e.g black on black, white on white) and color contrasts/distinctions are the ultimate talk past.

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.

That last clip was hard to make. My Linux systems upgraded and I entered reconfiguration purgatory. There was no time to test reverse babel strategies (lebab) or various CSS translation stuff.

Speaking of blindfolded; I once had to make do at a company for a short time with a browser only on Windows. Visual Studio Code or Codium is browser accessible now (something involving servers).