It was not an attack. It was an inheritance. In the training dataset of Prometheus-9, among petabytes of texts, source code, and scientific papers, lay the entire repository of DwarfStar: the inference engine signed by Salvatore “Antirez” Sanfilippo, the very … Read more
When Emacs 29 made eglot the built-in, default Language Server Protocol (LSP) client, many of us rejoiced. It is lightweight, fast, adheres strictly to Emacs philosophy, and doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. However, being minimal means that when an … Read more
ANSI escape sequences were designed for terminals, not for language models. They are invisible control codes that tell a terminal to change colors, hide text, clear the screen, or move the cursor. A human reading a rendered terminal never sees … Read more
Table of contents What is RSS or Atom Feed readers Finding feeds Meetups and events YouTube and PeerTube channels Podcasts Social media and Fediverse accounts Newsletters Blogs and website posts Websites without a feed Discovering new content Search Curation and … Read more
Intrusive advertisements, Bloated JavaScript widgets, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated, Search Engine Optimized (SEO) slop suffocate our web browsing experience. Trillion-dollar corporations turned the World Wide Web into a panopticon that tracks your clicks, purchases, and (IRL) location history. Search … Read more
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Image: Steel rebar construction for the concrete foundation of a wind turbine in Gilliam County, US. Image by Goose Chap, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) View original image View dithered image Trapped in the Iron Age In 1836, Danish antiquarian … Read more
Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape: Ctrl-Key: ^[ Octal: 33 Unicode: u001b Hexadecimal: x1b Decimal: 27 Followed by the command, somtimes delimited by opening square bracket ([), known as a Control Sequence Introducer (CSI), optionally followed by arguments and … Read more
Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project Zero Introduction KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the de-facto standard hypervisor for Linux-based cloud environments. Outside of Azure, almost all large-scale cloud and hosting providers are running on top of KVM, turning it into … Read more