If anyone has great examples of using llms.txt, CLAUDE.md (etc) to poison LLMs, please share. I’m aware Anubis tried this at one point. I’m thinking Nuclear semiotics, “nothing of value here”, that kind of thing!
Start the Week today was excellent. Naomi Alderman, Corey Doctorow and Oliver Moody https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002md19
@etchedpixels @Gina in the UK, a significant problem IMHO is you can book flights and thus plan travel 6+ months ahead of time but not UK mainline rail tickets (approx 3 month horizon)
PSA: a test throwing a stack trace on failure is not friendly. Related: tests which reference deeply-nested dictionary keys without checking the components exist are hostile to people debugging with them.
A blog I just discovered: Version Crazy: “Celebrating vinyl / CD / cassette / memorabilia releases of musical gems and curiosities from the punk era onwards”
http://www.versioncrazy.com
http://www.versioncrazy.com
I thought I would power through some stuff today on a MacBook Pro but things didn’t go according to plan. Xcode refused to install metal sdk which is mandatory for OpenJDK (I think), and I couldn’t resolve it so ended up ssh’d into my threadripper instead.
@fazalmajid @neil oooh their N100 (8”) is the class of device I’m looking at. Hadn’t heard of them before. Thanks!
@neil I’m on a quest for something a bit like this; the closest I’ve seen in modern stuff is a 7” GPT Pocket clone or something styled similarly. Not a phone though
@mirabilos @harrysintonen this is a pretty widespread behaviour in existing tooling: systemctl and bin/su suffer it as well. It wasn’t thought worthy of a CVE for those. I’m actually surprised OG sudo doesn’t
A wayland bug I keep meaning to debug more but haven’t got around to it: on Debian trixie, with KDE and wayland, it crashes as soon as I press any keyboard key.
@purpleidea @miek @federicomena no expert here either :-) Either way, just checked my /bin/su and it does it too
@purpleidea @federicomena @miek in front of a computer now. Just checked: it's systemd. If you kill the process before submitting the typed password:
$ systemctl daemon-reload
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon ====
Authentication is required to reload the systemd state.
Authenticating as: Jonathan Dowland,,, (jon)
Password: Terminated
$ the password I wrote but did not submit is echoed here
@purpleidea @miek @federicomena I’ve seen that exact same bug somewhere before… either original sudo or systemd. From what I recall it isn’t considered fixable and wasn’t issued a CVE.