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A Bad Unit of Inventory
The business model that funds most of the internet runs on a single assumption: that what you do is a truthful readout of who you are, and that the readout is theirs to t…
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brain-rag
For a while my proudest build was a RAG stack over 784GB of the world's knowledge. 341 Kiwix ZIMs on a USB drive: Wikipedia in full, medical field manuals, engineering re…
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An Agent That Only Knows One Thing
The first two agents I wrote about live inside my knowledge base. Orin reads it and flags where it contradicts itself. Youmu goes in and fixes what Orin finds. Between th…
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An Agent With Hands
I wrote last time about Orin, an agent whose entire job is to read my knowledge base and flag where it lies to itself. She can look at everything and touch nothing. That …
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An Agent Built to Doubt Me
Everyone is building agents that do things. Book the flight, write the migration, close the ticket. I built one that refuses to touch anything. Its entire job is to read …
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The 429 Was Lying
My agents run on GLM-5.2 through z.ai's coding plan. For most of a day they were fine. Then, with no deploy, no config change, and no new prompt, every single request sta…
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Wired Quest 2 VR on Linux
Wired VR on Linux with ALVR and a Meta Quest 2 Everyone building Linux VR tooling assumes you're streaming over WiFi. The defaults are tuned for it, the documentation cov…
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They Already Showed You
The pitch for putting the whole internet behind a government ID is always the same: it's for the children. Verify every user, attest every age, prove you're an adult befo…
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Transparency Runs Uphill
They want to put the open internet behind a government ID. Age-attest the whole population. Prove you're a person before you're allowed to read a forum. The people pushin…
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A Proposal for Defendant-Performed Decryption with Adversarial Witness in Compelled Decryption Orders
I am writing to propose a procedural reform to the execution of compelled decryption orders: the requirement that decryption be performed by the defendant in the presence…
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blog.pax.moe is live
Moved the blog off static HTML and onto its own subdomain. Posts are markdown files now, rendered by PHP, managed through a web panel. No database, no CMS, no dependencie…