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I just had never heard of "frostyard" and the github.com/frostyard page says: Foundation for Reproducible OS Technologies

Oh, hey Brian! I like the project. How is it related to reproducible builds though?

Ha! I wrote the first commit to CoreOS's toolbox in 2014: https://github.com/coreos/toolbox/commit/dc4aa0b14bceafd6afa...

And then I read your comment and my first reaction was, oh, they typoed toolbox. But, nope, Red Hat created toolbx which confusingly has the CLI binary of `toolbox`: https://containertoolbx.org

I think with things like this. https://github.com/gotgenes/pi-anthropic-auth

I haven’t tested it though

This is exactly why I love e-books as an adult.

As a kid I loved "pocket books"[1] because they didn't make my hand feel weak trying to hold them on a road trip and I could fit a few in my backpack.

But, obviously, not every work was published in a pocket book format.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Books

Thank you for writing up your story. Could you break down the costs at each step? Did you break even on royalties and printing costs?

I am always fascinated by the whole tension of copyright, publishing costs, and the lost knowledge due to the gap between the two.

Yeah, calm home automation stuff is the best.

Water main valve robot, Flume water usage sensor, and Eve water sensors near supply lines is super reassuring when traveling or out of the house. So is having a electrical panel that I can check if the oven really was off.

What are some of your favorite devices/software that follow this idea? I can list mine:

- Supernote by Ratta https://supernote.com

- Air Lab by Networked Artifacts https://networkedartifacts.com

- Xteink X4 (or equivalent) https://www.xteink.com

- Zeroink Writer - my kids use it to practice typing and write letters I can print out. Essentially digital typewriter. https://www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/zerowriter-ink

- Readwise - enables me to review highlighted passages and ideas from things I read

- Obsidian - I dump text files into it, it syncs it around for me to review or edit.

Wow! Good on you for finding the rights and republishing! I would love to read more about the process.

I feel the entire incident confirms the “AI has too much funding too quickly” hypothesis.

The number one thing reinforcement learning needs is an assurance you can’t cheat. And they seem to have not noticed that their systems were cheating for nearly two quarters? How much capital was lit on fire by that little woopsie?

At least I hope this will start the creation of standards and better engineering on the training side- it felt as if so far “”research” gets a complete pass on best practices. Meanwhile the inference side has the standard scaling, database, web and user constraints of any application so got a somewhat reasonable amount of attention.

If it is helpful to other people here is how I manage my ebook library with flatfiles and heterogeneous devices (Android, macOS, iOS, Kindle, etc)

I have my own eBook library hosted with copyparty. It is a single binary. Runs on plain files. And speaks OPDS for integration with KOreader (Kindle) or Readest (iOS/macOS). https://github.com/9001/copyparty#opds-feeds

It also speaks webdav so I can quickly sync everything via rclone to an SD card on devices like an Android tablet.

I really like the convenience of flat files and multiple protocols.

I know of the project but it doesn’t actually extract the stroke information. It converts the raster into vector.

My reverse engineering extracts each pen stroke directly into a svg vector.

I built a management website and plugin for Obsidian.

https://supernote.ifup.org/

https://youtu.be/ihRh_F43-iQ

I just reverse engineered the Supernote note file format with an agent a few weeks ago. For years the community had been asking for a document on the format. And in a few hours the agent, with 20 something file format example fixtures and 30 something prompts, was able to reverse out the format.

It would have been completely not worth the effort to do this by hand for a niche device. Now, in a few hours of effort there is working code and a doc.

https://github.com/philips/supernote-typescript/blob/main/pl...

https://philips.github.io/supernote-typescript/

I really like the philosophy document! https://github.com/OleksandrChekhovskyi/hax/blob/master/docs...

I don’t know if I am ready to use a new tool written in C and using libcurl but I will give it a shot.

Tower Bridge in London has several.

We have been working on a thing to solve this if it helps: people can oauth to their own agents for hobby projects to keep prices down.

https://tokenpony.dev

I have a project for people to OCR their Supernote notes using it all static hosted on github pages.

https://supernote.ifup.org

I like this idea. I feel the hurdle is that many people have come to rely on their language tools for install.

What is pax?

I listened to his book, Concrete Botany[1], while doing my gardening last month. I really enjoyed it even as a long time watcher of his YouTube channel. I don't know if I could have read it because it does seem to drag on a bit but it was worth it for his narration.

[1]: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798317900410-concrete-botany

This week I created a "clanker" account backed by an LLM agent on GitHub and have been iterating with it on one of my open source projects as if it was just a super fast contributor. And... it has been fine.

I was expecting it to be awkward or annoying but it just kind of worked. I write issues, I tell the clanker to look at the issues, it generates PRs, I review the PRs and test them.

I was expecting something to really be a snag this week but I have enjoyed the process and using the tools. And the advantage of using the clanker is I go from issue to PR in a few minutes and don't "page out" my own context of the problem which is not the case usually with an open source contribution.

I still feel like software needs to move at least at the pace of someone with a vision and taste to test and review which forges like GitHub seems fine at.

Looks awesome! Very oddly super small window for it in iOS safari though.

I did this for a recent trip! I asked books related to or authored in the places I was visiting. Found some interesting titles.

There is also https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-swift-lm which is what https://jan.ai uses.

Where does the headline come from? The README metrics say there are no published benchmarks.

This looks perfect! I had been searching around for “feature phones” but the market seems dire. Lots of carrier locked devices or devices that still offer “a little bit of internet”. And then I started thinking about finding a repair shop when my kid inevitably breaks it and an old iPhone keeps looking better and better.

Plus when my kids lose it in a bag somewhere I can use find my instead of wasting an hour digging around.

As I parent I am downvoting this because I am quite tired of others judging parents and their technology choices- particularly when it comes to restrictions.

Parenting is hard. Parenting when everything is changing so quickly is very difficult.

As a parent I want a phone I can find because kids will lose a phone.

So, Find My is invaluable for locating it again.

Do they have wide margins like a printing or tight margins for tablets?

Ha. Thank you! Strange it is only from one store.