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mofosyne··on Agent memory as a file format
Ah good to hear!

Well regarding how CSV didn't quite work for you. Have you checked out recutils?

Its a GNU Project and at least does basic relational database operations on plain text files. You can easily install it in most linux package managers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recutils

mofosyne··on Agent memory as a file format
Instead of having to regenerate a zip file everytime you add/delete a memory... could we just use a git repo of markdown pages?

This buys you incremental writes, commit hash pinning and diffs for free. In addition to having a git archive outputting a zip export as well?

Main wrinkle is you would need to gitignore the sqlite database as it doesn't store very well in git (binary, changes lots per insert). But it's easy to regenerate anyway as a rebuild-able cache.

mofosyne··on Do AI Models Have an Inner Monologue? – The J-Space –- Strad Slater [video]
Found this video quite interesting. One bit was a bit funny where telling the AI model to not think about it, it ends up thinking about the concept in it's J-Space and the word "Dammn" as well
mofosyne··on Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
Wonder if textlog have an ssh interface as well
mofosyne··on Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
Reminds me of when railways attempted to attach linear barcodes on their train and read it using a similar method
mofosyne··on scScript for Linux
Can this trans-compile to C? (And vice versa?)
mofosyne··on Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
Got the Prusa MK3S+ and it's been perfectly reliable for years
mofosyne··on Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
Religion and Automation is not a new thing... cue...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel

mofosyne··on What Happens When Pathogens Get Smaller Than Viruses? [video]
Kinda like the demoscene of the pathogen world
mofosyne··on WriterdeckOS
There's a youtube video about this OS if you want to see what it visually looks like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWx1Rn76Gg

The Linux Distro For Writers --- Mr and Mrs Linux

mofosyne··on Universities should be more than toll gates
Wonder if this problem would be reduced by some mechanism of incurring cost on job positions that advertise for more requirements. (A heavy handed approach would be to charge an additional fee/tax if you require university educated persons for a position not requiring one)
mofosyne··on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
Hopefully it has at least a checksum
mofosyne··on Strain gauge made out of PCB
I'm sure there's a general rule of thumb where this approach works best as an approximation (such as a simple on/off switch)... which may give us opportunities to simplify the BOM list further with cheaper parts at cost to accuracy which wouldn't apply to PCB anyway.

Where I mostly seen this approach is with 3D printers where we just want to know if the nozzle is touching the print base.

But if we can quantify the general worse case variation between most PCBs then maybe we can create a recommended strain sensor element with a semi-quantified level of accuracy so it's not just an on/off sense.

mofosyne··on Great Watchdog Timers For Embedded Systems (2016)
Be interesting if there is a rad hard watchdog. Maybe you could end up having standard off the self parts and then use a reliable watchdog to intervene as needed.

Especially if such watchdog has the ability to switch to a secondary or third backup...

edit: Shoutout to wildzzz for pointing out ISL706ARH Active Rad-Hard, 5.0V/3.3V µ-Processor Supervisory Circuits

mofosyne··on I sent an Ethernet packet
You may want to also consider ENC28J60 'Stand-Alone Ethernet Controller with SPI Interface' which lacks a hardware TCP/IP stack and is purely an Ethernet MAC and PHY accessible over SPI. This simplicity means it should be easier for you to get started with sending an ethernet packet. But of course if you want TCP/IP you will need to supply your own software implementation instead.
mofosyne··on Funding restored for man-page maintenance
Yeah the principal here is mutual aid not charity
mofosyne··on USB-C PD for an industrial Cisco IR829 router
Provided that isolation is not required... it be nice if there is a 'type-c power/data router' where you can plug multiple devices to and get both power and data though. The box itself just needs to have a gigabit port and a power port.

Requires device makers to make port be both PD and at least USB ethernet host. The router perhaps can try simulating usb ethernet gadget or something.

mofosyne··on We need more zero config tools
Or maybe we could have 'layered' configs with shared community layers? Thus in that sense it becomes a series of defaults good for people in specific context like different countries or professions.
mofosyne··on Cores That Don't Count [pdf] (2021)
This is about unstable cores that randomly output incorrect calculation and ways to mitigate it via better hardware testing and duplicating parts of the core that can fail often.

I did however thought initially from the title that it's about 1-bit CPUs like the MC14500B Industrial Control Unit (ICU) which is a CMOS one-bit microprocessor designed by Motorola for simple control applications in 1977. It completely lacks an ALU so essentially cannot count, but is designed for PLCs.

mofosyne··on Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils
One issue might be discoverability of these programs
mofosyne··on SVG: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2021)
Something similar to the CBOR diagnostics format but formalized would be nice... since being able to tag semantics would make consistent interpretation of data content easier.
mofosyne··on Betula – federated bookmarking software for the independent web
It be nice if there is a way to sync this with mastodon
mofosyne··on Eight years of organizing tech meetups (2023)
Do you know of any alternative we can do to escape the meetup ecosystem? I would have hoped by now we got at least a federated alternative like mastodon.
mofosyne··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
The status change and signaling by ICQ is something I wish other instant messaging did more.
mofosyne··on Stupid Filter Corpus (2007)
I wonder if anyone remembers the stupid filter project around 2007.

There was an attempt to filter out stupid comments in social media using a vector filter as a plugin for wordpress initially. Project somewhat fell though since it turns out it's quite hard to filter out stupidity in the internet.

While the main source code may be outdated, the corpus may still be of some use in training modern LLMs based content moderation or at least a historical curio of humanities attempt to stem the tied of stupidity.

I've converted the original MySQL dump into an sqlite database and csv file so it should be easier for anyone interested to give this corpus a shot with new machine learning advances these days.

mofosyne··on Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD
It be nice if manufacturers provide a way to downgrade SSD to SLC via some driver settings.
mofosyne··on Micron Ships Crucial-Branded LPCAMM2 Memory Modules: 64GB of LPDDR5X for $330
Wonder if this would potentially allow for swappable memory in GPU cards. Might be suitable for midspec GPUs.
mofosyne··on TIL: You can open man or info pages in Firefox by man:<page> or info:<page>
Addendum from https://mastodon.social/@mofosyne/112385581085525369

Turns out that it's because KHelpCenter in some linux distros hooks to these uris. So typing this uri would autoopen these man entries in KHelpCenter.

mofosyne··on Bytecode VMs in Surprising Places
Looks like you are correct https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/ed8f7154f4e3e0a8b01e6778de...
mofosyne··on Sync.love a dedicated website for Ann and Yue to sync together
Just was randomly domain searching and found this. It's pretty cute from a Unix Philosophy perspective but applied to relationships and website design.
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