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rcarmo
31,678karma·6,896submissions·July 17, 2013
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I remember when 8-bit machines ruled the Earth, IOS was a Cisco thing, and e-mail bounced around via dial-up, back before the first AI winter.
I'm now enjoying the new AI spring and doing all sorts of fun stuff.
Profile and secondary social links at https://carmo.io, blog at https://taoofmac.com, @rcarmo@mastodon.social.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/rcarmo; my proof: https://keybase.io/rcarmo/sigs/dPUWksGTynvLR6kAjasNUx4K65ETkwsM3_vFZ_dcDFA ]
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I ran it for a couple of days in a VM in my Proxmox cluster. It was cute, but so amazingly insecure (systemd + sudo + installing whatever it wanted, plus requiring Telegram for access - or another SIM…
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This is lovely. Having architects in my extended family I'm going to have a field day with it :)
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Yep. I've been into spec-driven development for a long time (when we had humans as agents) and it's never really failed me. We just have literally more attention (hah!) from LLMs than from h…
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Everything outperforms skills if the system prompt doesn’t prioritize them. No news here.
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This is indeed feeling very much like Accelerando’s particular brand of unchecked chaos. Loving every minute of it, first thing in our timeline that makes sense where it regards AI for the masses :)
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Am I reading this right and it doesn’t need any DOM or browser engine at all? That would indeed be awesome.
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I certainly hope they support themes. I have been using a Mac OS 7 Platinum theme on all my XFCE desktops for years and I want to keep doing so :)
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I follow too many people, so I built https://feeds.carmo.io with summaries. You might enjoy the selection there and upgrade to the original feeds as needed.…
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We're here for you, Carol.
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As someone who has been lurking in 9fans for ages, I understand the sentiment but we need to have some sort of standardization for regular folk to be able to discuss things and create new knowledge da…
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I love this because it uses UDP _and_ a CYD (Cheap Yellow Display, which is what we hardware nerds have taken to calling these). I have two or three of these around, one as a 3D printer remote, anothe…
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As someone who's been blogging since 2002, I can tell you first hand that you get a fair amount of outreach. But I even though I have had to put Simon's feed through a summarizer to be able …
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I don't buy it. It might be very useful for a few use cases, but despite all the desktop automation craze and "Claude for cooking" stuff that is inevitably to follow, our computing mode…
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I posted it this a few days ago, but I’ve since added a dashboard feature that lets you easily keep track of dozens of container TUIs in real time, and that you can just click through to access direct…
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Well, I built https://github.com/rcarmo/agentbox - which I run in a VM, with a dedicated container per project. Right now most of them are running Copilot CLI, others Mistral Vib…
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I would convert it to a Discourse forum.
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I use https://github.com/rcarmo/agentbox inside a Proxmox VM. My setup syncs the workspaces back to my Mac via SyncThing, so I can work directly in the sandbox or literally step …
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Cue Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack. Seriously now, the people who claim octopi will be the next civilization on Earth seriously underestimate raccoons.
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I beg to differ: https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/01/14/0830 …
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The point where that breaks down is “next time it’s aware of the CLI and uses it”. That only really works well inside the same session, and often the next session it will create a different tool and u…
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It had to happen. I was constantly annoyed at having to RDP over to a Linux box to try stuff. And I might end up doing a Plan9 RDP server as well.
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The Python libraries are themselves written in C/C++, so what this does performance-wise is, at best, cutting through some glue. Don't think about this as a performance-driven implementation…
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Dis is not an implementation detail for Inferno, though. And I wish it had gone much further.