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moss_dog··on My Agent Setup
Thanks for the write-up! I'm interested in doing something similar. How are you sandboxing the agents?
moss_dog··on 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
What do you mean by "wrong"?

I reckon the actual color doesn't matter as long as it's blue-ish. There are no branding guidelines or anything. Even the size of the circle is unspecified, which IMO is a feature, not a bug. It's accessible :)

EDIT: I'm incorrect, there is a spec. Whelp! I still like my imagined more-flexible version of the flag.

moss_dog··on Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40
Yes, Tiny Leaders is awesome!

My own lil custom 40 card format is actually explicitly designed to be backwards compatible with any existing commander deck! You can just take a deck, draft from it (or just split it down the middle after a good shuffle), give one of the decks to a friend, and start playing!

Some more info here (if a little self-promo is OK, as a treat): https://scry.fish/microEDH

moss_dog··on Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40
Agreed. Playing the same pair of decks with a friend over and over is so fun -- you really start to learn the decks, and the early game becomes extremely tactical.
moss_dog··on Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40
This is cool. 40 card decks are great! In addition to being physically ergonomic, I find 40 cards to be a fun deck-building size. With about 17 lands, you get 23 choices to make of what to include outside of that, which feels like a sweet spot between deck-building expressiveness and decision fatigue.

As an aside, I'm convinced that a big reason WotC (and FLGS) are pushing commander so hard is because 100 card decks means you get to sell more cards.

moss_dog··on Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
I think this comment is unnecessarily harsh.

To anyone confused (like me), the commenters above had opposite recommendations despite having similar opinions of the book.

moss_dog··on Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
Wow, I didn't realize Zachtronics made Infiniminer. Fascinating!
moss_dog··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
It's tagged nonfiction.
moss_dog··on I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy
Great read! Thanks for sharing.
moss_dog··on Willingness to look stupid
Fantastic, thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard of this before. Very entertaining video!
moss_dog··on Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due
Great explanation, thanks!
moss_dog··on Why isn't LA repaving streets?
It's interesting that you frame building bike lanes and reducing car speeds as "punishing drivers", seemingly ignoring that such changes enable micro-mobility users to commute to work safely.
moss_dog··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
That's Neko! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_%28software%29
moss_dog··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
I'm generally of the opinion that capitalization is not necessary in many cases, such as at the start of sentences. That's what punctuation is for :)
moss_dog··on Flying Around the World in under 80 Days
Delightful read, thanks for sharing. The website design is very pleasant, too!

Also FYI the link to "Aves Æternæ" is broken.

moss_dog··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
I prefer xcancel in part because Twitter doesn't let you view replies etc when not logged in.
moss_dog··on Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]
Maybe Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1"?
moss_dog··on Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]
While we're Borges-posting, I recommend "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...

moss_dog··on Google removes AI health summaries
What's that?
moss_dog··on How I Left YouTube
IIRC HN typically removes the "How" from article titles like these, presumably to avoid clickbait titles.
moss_dog··on Qntm's Power Tower Toy
One of my favorites!
moss_dog··on Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
I was looking into this earlier -- presumably you'd also need to allowlist Claude itself (whatever endpoints it hits to run inference etc). VM firewall gets a little trickier with Claude's web search tool, too.

The solution I landed on recently was to locally modify the Chrome devtools MCP to launch the browser instance with strict network restrictions. I believe the implementation used `--host-resolver-rules`, blocking all URLs by default with an environment variable to control the allowlist (which, in hindsight, Claude can easily work around if it needs to -- I should probably just hard-code the allowlist).

moss_dog··on Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
Thank you for the links / info! I'm looking forward to digging into this.
moss_dog··on Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
I'd love to be able to lock down the browser to only allow certain URLs (e.g. localhost) so I can give Claude (and other tools) carte blanche to use browser automation (rather than manually approving each command). Is this something on your radar / roadmap?
moss_dog··on I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music (2023)
I use Navidrome [1] + an rclone'd S3 bucket on a Digital Ocean droplet. Works quite well for my purposes!

[1] https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

moss_dog··on Meta Segment Anything Model Audio
This is incredible! I wouldn't have thought it was possible to cleanly separate tracks like that. I wonder to what extent the model is filling in gaps, akin to Samsung's "ultra zoom" moon.
moss_dog··on We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
Any notable examples you can share?
moss_dog··on Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963 [video]
"it's real nightmare material" (11:18)
moss_dog··on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
Thanks for the recommendation, just downloaded a few episodes!;
moss_dog··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
I wish there was a link to the source of this information in the article! I'd like to read the updated version of these laws (if they're public).
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