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colinsane
·40분 전·discuss
the options available to small web hosts are:

1. do nothing: everyone gets page loads of 30s if not worse.

2. put the content behind anubis -> load drops by 80% and page loads are back to "a couple of seconds" (including the client-side challenge).

3. take the content offline -> load drops to 0.

which of these would you prefer?
colinsane
·어제·discuss
just their smallest dataset looks to be 6 TB _compressed_. not a thing you can really ship as part of the agent. but if somebody made a fetch_url tool that sharded that across all users of it, i'd give it a try. could probably just layer that on top of bittorrent or IPFS or something.
colinsane
·그저께·discuss
ironically (?) i prefer to improve Pi by connecting MCP servers instead of native extensions in part due to this (process-level sandboxing is trivial; anything more granular -- as would be required for in-process plugins -- is far more intimidating).
colinsane
·10일 전·discuss
i installed the playwright MCP to let my agent access walled sites (specifically ebay and WSJ). i noticed that 90% of the time it was bounced from a site, it just reached out to a different site that wasn't walled, and i think it's the right move: most information exists at multiple places on the web, it's cheaper and _faster_ to just skip over walled sources.

for the forum example: many forums have a policy to only allow access to attachments to logged-in users. i can't remember the last time i registered at a new forum just to view an attachment: the effect has always been to drive me elsewhere. no complaints -- these solutions work if your goal is to reduce load. i'm suspicious that they can drive monetization outside of a very few niches.
colinsane
·12일 전·discuss
that's somewhere between saying "use Android, just switch to Graphene if/when they lock it down", and saying "just switch to postmarketOS/Ubuntu Touch/whatever flavor of Linux takes off".

i've watched friends try that route; i've been through this before. taking a downgrade is never fun: if it's a thing you're likely to care about in the future, then sometimes it's better to place yourself in the right ecosystem early.
colinsane
·12일 전·discuss
AgentWorld is _fantastic_. i just migrated "down" from the 122B A10B qwen model to agentworld (35B A3B) because it feels as capable, easier to steer, and it's 3x faster.

also i like that if i drop more sophisticated tools into my harness (e.g. any of the NLP/RAG-based search tools in place of grep/rg), the agent will actually reach for them and make progress faster; previous models have been reluctant to embrace new tools.
colinsane
·12일 전·discuss
i like that people are taking the privacy argument seriously, after however many decades. i think there are other arguments to be made for running these locally which are less settled, but IMO the Fable debacle drives it home: the surest way to embrace this technology without worry that it will be taken away from you down the road is to physically own the compute.
colinsane
·14일 전·discuss
the _one_ downside i've seen is on an airplane serviced by Starlink: UDP was extremely lossy to the point that whatever recursive resolver i was using at the time would mark half of all nameservers it saw as "unhealthy" and start returning NXDOMAINs to the clients before even trying to hit the authoritative NS.
colinsane
·15일 전·discuss
Buy Bitcoin.

look, i'm sorry, but this is a thoroughly solved problem by now.
colinsane
·19일 전·discuss
the companies which have the power to alleviate these shortages are the same companies who are profiting most from the shortage. scarcity is an asset, it's not irrational that a concentrated marked will produce more of that asset.
colinsane
·19일 전·discuss
can those macs boot linux? i've heard about Asahi but have no idea how far along they are. i've got my fleet configured with nix and sure, nix can target darwin, but there's a _lot_ of sharp edges there: i don't really want to pull that thread unless i have to...
colinsane
·19일 전·discuss
i asked gemini and it replied with "Error: 400 Your prompt was blocked by safety filters. Please revise and try again."
colinsane
·26일 전·discuss
curl used to have rust in it, dropped it 1.5 yrs ago. AI doesn't help with the hard parts here i don't think. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21/dropping-hyper/
colinsane
·28일 전·discuss
a huge aspect of open source is the user -> contributor -> maintainer pipeline. maybe they mean well, but in fact they're constructing a wall between those last two groups.

especially in larger projects where maintainership duties are heavily delegated, the last thing i want is some tool that can only be used by me, because suddenly i can no longer share the workload that tool targets with people who aren't "technically" maintainers.
colinsane
·지난달·discuss
good for bitcoin
colinsane
·3개월 전·discuss
sure.

git clone https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs

ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=<make_an_account_on_openrouter_and_get_this_from_the_settings_panel> claude --model qwen/qwen3.6-plus:free

> This repository has two ways of packaging Nix packages: defining them via pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix (the old way); or defining them via the pkgs/by-name directory (the new way). Let's port my_example_package over to the new way.

i'm not actually working in the nixpkgs repo -- i'm trying these in a private repo that has very similar structure. i'm also a n00b with these tools, so probably a bad prompt. but Qwen 3.6 actually conflates "the old way" with "the new way", attempts to do the porting in reverse, and just gets stuck. gemma-4 E4B does better. even gpt-oss-120b, an open weight model from a _year_ ago, does the full port unattended.

so either it's shit at coding, or i'm using it wrong. curious to hear other anecdotes.
colinsane
·5개월 전·discuss
Windows and other OSes have application launchers that open whatever app you want, and those apps may have issues that cause it to download and run arbitrary code. if that's the logic here, then every application launcher is vulnerable to similar RCE.

if there's really nothing more to this 8.8 RCE CVE than that, this will finally be the thing that's makes me blackhole cve.org.
colinsane
·7개월 전·discuss
for public torrents, skip the trackers and just run a DHT crawler like bitmagnet. it'll take a month to "catch up", but after that you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker & it'll be way snappier.
colinsane
·9개월 전·discuss
> Why hasn’t there been a fork of nixos? And the folks who want to do things in a certain politically leaning way gravitate towards that and those that don’t stay.

v.s.

> Why hasn’t there been a fork of nixos? And the folks who want to do things in a certain politically leaning way stay and those that don’t gravitate towards that.

now let's spend the next few years arguing which of these is the correct proposition.

sure, it's more complicated: there's questions about _what_ to fork (Nix is an _ecosystem_, not necessarily a single repository), there are certain things which can't trivially _be_ forked (e.g. a multi-hundred-TB S3 cache that's actually critical infrastructure; project websites, wikis, uncountable automation services). how do you coordinate all the details of forking, if forking isn't actually as trivial as pushing the "fork" button? that requires highly capable leaders, and if the ecosystem were good at finding and promoting that type of leader, then it wouldn't be in this place to begin with.

more optimistically, various parts of this ecosystem _have_ been forked, or reshaped, by various entities. things happen; sometimes that happening is just a lengthy process.
colinsane
·2년 전·discuss
how many people in PRISM had such clearance? and how many of them would i trust? precisely zero.