megous · HackerLangs

18 saat öncediscuss

Forking and maintaining Linux does not take teams of people. I've been at it for > 10 years and maintained support for my 15 or so various SBCs/mobile devices, writing drivers, debugging, cleaning things up. It's a weekend project every 3 months + whatever you want to put in for development.

And there are others doing it for projects like Armbian, openwrt, etc.

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evvelsi gündiscuss

US should be split up so it can't do any more damage to the world. Americans can't be trusted with putting that much power in the hands of a few people anyway.

megous

3 gün öncediscuss

Say you have something easily paralelizable, like 150 decompiled binaries, and you want to produce documentation for what each does. You can run 50 subagents in parallel (eg. kimi swarm) to analyze it all in a few minutes in 3 batches instead of doing it serially which would take half a day.

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3 gün öncediscuss

Most of the software is this way, it seems. Military intelligenece in our country were recently changing configs on peoples routers without their knowledge or consent to get rid of similarly dangerous thing on several types of tp-link routers.

And if you ever looked inside the firmwares of these IoT Linux boxes (be it sip phones, payment terminals, ip cameras, routers, modems, etc.) you'd not want it anywhere near anything that needs to be secure. OpenWRT or your own thing, or very strict isolation, or nothing.

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3 gün öncediscuss

I actually tried a few of the steps, but whatever.

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3 gün öncediscuss

The problem is not that you can make LLM perform whatever tool calls you want.

The problem is that those tool calls are not scoped to what you can access. Eg. tool call should not allow the LLM to access anything that you should not be able to access if you had access to the tool calls directly.

So in a sense the problem is not string interpretation confusion (like with SQL injection), but data access controls.

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4 gün öncediscuss

You can certainly make it produce a lot of design rules of thumb. You can make it do the research for each of those based on the literature. And you can then make the machine sort out the rules of thumb by effect and quantify them meaningfully.

Then you can make it process existing good designs and make it propose a general design/routing methodology (and it's own scripts/tools for calculating/optimizing the "thumb" rules that would be used throughout) for initial placement/routing of key components based on all the collected data.

Then you may have enough context and tools to have it make use of them during design.

megous

5 gün öncediscuss

What's special about it, other than more constraints, more things to take into account, and having to simulate/test more - so the need for some specialized SW?

They are different constraints than the ones in SW development, but is there some fundamental difference that prevents replacing the human in the loop with AI in the loop?

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5 gün öncediscuss

Americans are always funny,... being proud they can have one day a year where they can breath a highly toxic air created by others or are forced not to ventilate their house and spend their day with a >2000ppm CO2 headache/drowsiness (or from the other PoV, proud they can inflict this on fellow Americans, even better).

"And if you don't like this, you can just git out!"

All the while they're stripped of dignity in the eyes of people abroad, by their aggressive/genocidal government's foreign policy actions.

megous

8 gün öncediscuss

It's still better general OS than any alternative. :)

megous

9 gün öncediscuss

Recent update resulted in 100% permanent CPU load in the background, when doing nothing with the app. Basically unusable on a notebook (hot+noise, unexcusable for do nothing "api/command coordination" terminal app). Dunno if they fixed it, since I could not use it on the notebook and I do not have this issue on my workstation.

megous

12 gün öncediscuss

Messaging protocols are useful even if everyone is not on the same app. In the past I was chatting with my google using friend via some third party jabber server where I had an account. It was useful and didn't require us to be "in the same app". We both were using both different apps and different server providers.

megous

14 gün öncediscuss

To add to others. You can tell Kimi or whatever these days to write you a GTK4 mobile apps for a lot of pet use cases and it will. The result will also be a few C files and a meson build file, that will build on the phone itself with just gcc/binutils (I run arch linux, so no separate dev packages for deps like gtk, etc. that I need to install). You can install opencode or whatnot on the phone itself, and tell the phone to build you an app, and it will. If you need it changed, you can just ask for the changes on the phone itself and agent will update the app's code and re-build it on the phone itself. It will not need the 30+ GiB monstrosity of whatever Adroid needs to just build a hello world app and a separate computer.

The app will also build and run on your desktop without any/many changes, if you need that.

I got a fairly nice linphone GTK4 phone frontend app this way. So it's not just for toy apps. FOSS/Linux phones are well positioned for this self-building/self-updating prompt based software development, because you don't need separate computer and shitton of SDKs and a permission from the overseer to build/install the apps, and while phone UI is shit for manual programming, it's not at all shit for writing prompts.

megous

14 gün öncediscuss

OV5640 will not get better just by aging. You should adjust your expectations.

megous

14 gün öncediscuss

You're behind times. We call it upstream and downstream these days... it also brings so much more of the needed clarity.

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17 gün öncediscuss

He's a prince of whales.

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19 gün öncediscuss

So prosecute them for those other things, no? Instead of helping criminals grow their business by banning non-harmful stuff and giving them monetary growth opprotunities.

megous

19 gün öncediscuss

You're turning things on their heads. Currently there's some modicum of privacy. Politicians are trying to force removal of this on everyone.

megous

21 gün öncediscuss

I mean I know all English words, but this test has a problem that most correct answers are the longest ones.

megous

21 gün öncediscuss

Not really. Difficulty of the attack matters. If your attack chain is silently doing an sql query over 20 year stable database format, vs something that may involve extraction of a master key from some hardened process, or tricking the user to reveal the master password to you, odds of you raising alarm in some anti-malware software raise significantly, because now you're not just reading a file, but you're using some deubgging APIs, etc., that common software does not use.

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