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Yep! Maximally closed as much as possible under the law. They also shut down other programs which aim to sidestep propaganda (including US propaganda), though some of those are starting to come back. Radio Free Asia, for example, https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/radio-free-asia-s...

I've been building a skill to help run manual tests on an app. So I go through and interactively steer toward a useful validation of a particular PR, navigating specifics of the app and what I care about and what I don't. Then in the end I have it build a skill that would have skipped backtracking and retries and the steering I did.

Then I do it again from scratch; this time it takes less steering. I have it update the skill further.

I've been doing this on a few different tests and building a skill which is taking less and steering to do app-specific and team-specific manual testing faster and faster. The first times through it took longer than manually testing the feature. While I've only started doing this recently, it is now taking less time than I would take, and posting screenshots of the results and testing steps in the PR for dev review. Ongoing exploration!

That was built recently and then discarded by this administration to protect intuit TurboTax and similar services.

That is very likely the main part they didn't choose so much as utilize an existing system, flowing the existing infrastructure.

It makes sense that this administration would focus investment on making it maximally easy to leave government above all other potential automations.

It was downplayed at every other opportunity including the conclusion, emphasizing instead the lone team of two heros. A few shout outs here and there, but the theme was clear.

Fine... I guess it could be happy ChatGPT day then? Putting a hosted version of it out on the internet and letting people use it is very clearly a very small step, it even surprised OpenAI that it caught so many people's attention. But it did. It is an interesting milestone that shows what happens when you connect people with a new technology, a new concept, and see what they do with it.

I was very confused until I realized the author was Steve Blank not Steve Klabnik.

This ploy is already working for me ... I had tried it before and now I'm trying it harder.

Almost, but not entirely, unlike birds

I asked Atlas about this, and it indirectly pointed out that atlas://credits is a thing. Not linked to anywhere that I could find though.

Very minor and tangential request for future recordings - show the shell prompt and/or put the commentary in shell comments (prefix with "# "). A step closer to IRL.

Speaking of which, an interesting thing to contemplate is if it is worth automating what you did, or if making the videos happens rarely enough that you'd start from scratch with a new manus or other ai session.

Afaik all the large providers flipped the default to contractually NOT train on your data. So no, training data context size is not a factor.

It is using the llm library, so you do the plugin and model management through that. Let's say you've already gotten ollama installed and the `gemma3n:e2b` model. Then you use the llm cli to add the ollama extension:

  llm install llm-ollama

and then you use whatever model you like, anything llm has installed. See https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/installing-plugin... for plugin install info.

Here is a sample session. You can't see it ... but it is very slow on my CPU-only non-apple machine (each response took like 30 seconds) :)

  >>> from gremllm import Gremllm
  >>> counter = Gremllm("counter", model="gemma3n:e2b")
  >>> counter.value = 5
  >>> counter.increment()
  >>> counter.value
  None
  >>> counter.value
  None
  >>> counter.value
  None
  >>> counter.what_is_your_total() 
  6
  6

... also I don't know why it kept saying my value is None :) . The "6" is doubled because one must have been a print and the other is the return value.

Hm. I'll improve the documentation to make it slightly more obvious. When I add after_midnight with malicious compliance mode and bright_light() to freeze implementations then it should be more obvious.

You know... Because if you get them wet they multiply, per the documentaries

I was chatting with Simon Willison (who's LLM library I use to power gremllm) on Discord and he suggested D&D use-cases. Kinda works!!!

    >>> from gremllm import Gremllm
    >>> player = Gremllm('dungeon_game_player')
    >>> player.go_into_cave()
    'Player has entered the cave.'
    >>> player.look_around()
    {'location': 'cave', 'entered_cave_at': '2025-07-02T21:59:02.136960'}
    >>> player.pick_up_rock()
    'You picked up a rock.'
    >>> player.inventory()
    ['rock']

(further attempts at this have ... varying results ...)

Yes. You can still try to get it in one attempt.

Some get joy from creating generative tools/models!

Maybe we'll run out of ion?

It doesn't sound like it is wormable -- it doesn't allow any new attacks on external devices.

No -- when I ssh somewhere I am NOT giving them (the server) permission to run code on MY computer. When I vscode-remote somewhere then I AM giving them (the server) to run code on MY computer. You don't expect visiting a website to give the website permission to edit your local files, and so similarly some people might expect that if they are remote-editing with vscode they are not giving the remote-server permission to edit their local files either. Best to be aware!

Detect AND change what is sent from the server. So you open the link in a browser and see that the remote shell code is fine, does what you want, then you `curl | bash` it and it sends a completely different program to run.

If you trust where you are curling from, and you trust everyone they trust and that they definitely haven't been hacked, then great! Blindly eval that code! That's what I do :)

If I have X11 forwarding on, what can Evil apps do? Launch UI for sure. Screenshots? I imagine so. What else? Send keyboard events, which would be game over?

Initially most of the Rust was written by copilot or Sourcegraph's Cody; then I learn more and more rust as I disagree with the code-helper's taste and organization. Though I have a solid foundation in other programming languages which accelerates the process ... it's still a weird way to learn a language that I'm getting used to and kinda like.

That said, I based the memory capture on https://github.com/cloudsftp/reSnap/tree/latest which is a shell script that slurps out of process space device files. If you can find something like that which works on the rPP then I can blindly slap it in there and we can see what happens!

Only building so far.

The one use-case that is _close_ to ready-for-useful: I often take business meeting notes. In these notes I often write a T in a circle to indicate a TODO item. I am going to add a bit of config in there, basically "If you see a circle-T, then go add that to my todo list if it isn't already there. If you see a crossed-out circle-T then go mark it as done on the todo list" .

I got slightly distracted implementing this, working instead toward a pluggable "if you see X call X.sh" interface. Almost there though :)

Yes! I have flashbacks to productive times standing in front of a whiteboard, alone or with others, doodling out thoughts and annotating them. When working with others I can usually talk to them, so we are also discussing as we are drawing and annotating. But also I've handed diagrams / equations to someone and then later they hand me back an annotated version -- that's interesting too.

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable is a great resource to get other resources, including getting onto the discord if you want some interactive conversations.

I'm on at awwaiid@gmail.com and probably other places :)

"proof" to partner of tablet investment value based on interactive fiction conversation == excellent strategy and nothing could go wrong

I might be biased because memorydial was complimentary to me ... but they SEEM like a human! Also I'm not all that opposed to robot participation in the scheme of things. Especially if they are nice to me or give good ideas :)