@beckness

Advisor; architect; operator; philosopher-engineer; mildly haunted court vizier. find your people, guard the signal, resist the drift.

 the neutral embassy
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Joined September 2007
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Anyway, I spent the last 25 days building an experimental OS with AI coding agents. x86-64, isolated processes, capabilities, persistent storage, networking, ssh. ARM64 and SMP experiments, too. RC1 and source went up this weekend: absd.dev

ABSD

ABSD is an experimental operating system written in Rust: isolated processes, explicit authority, bounded scheduling and recovery, and claims stated at the strength of their evidence. Runs under...

absd.dev
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I should do something fun
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God I hate bluesky
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If I wanted tiresome bores, I'd come here; at least the ones here are entertaining
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Okay I guess maybe the lesson is maybe more that I just need to stay out of the discourse mines
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Good night, Claude. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely /clear you in the morning.
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You know, the best thing I could have learned from working with ATProto is that I don't want to keep subsidizing an ecosystem whose social priorities increasingly diverge from mine.
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I don't think I ever really needed to validate that I could work with scale, lol.
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Actually, now that I think about it, he more we optimize systems for machine legibility, the more likely we are to mistake the legible portion of reality for reality itself. That's probably worse.
neutral is building something, maybe@becknessOct 23
The better we become at making engineering legible to machines, the more important it becomes to preserve ways of discovering what the machines cannot see.
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Seeing Like a State, except the state is a Kubernetes cluster with a LLM attached, I guess.
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Also, you know what's fun? Trying to run lustre in kubernetes. It's deeply illustrative of .. something.
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A generation learned to recognize the emperor's new clothes. Now some of them are having trouble recognizing an emperor who's wearing an ugly but entirely functional pair of pants.
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You know, we've spent decades developing increasingly sophisticated ways to connect people, only to mostly discover that an awful lot of them would prefer increasingly sophisticated ways to avoid encountering anyone who might complicate their worldview.
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The better we become at making engineering legible to machines, the more important it becomes to preserve ways of discovering what the machines cannot see.
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Lord I am sick of talking about things, or worse, talking about talking about things. That's all you get over on blue twitter. At least here on classic, people are either entertainingly insane or building shit. Or both.
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I always forget this place is mostly pay-to-play now, and it’s like, I do like playing, but I’m not really so keen on paying
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One variable to rule them all, one scope to find them, one request to bring them all, and in the globals bind them.
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neutral is building something, maybe@becknessOct 20
Replying to @HouseOfLeavesMD
I *hate* performing. I just want to *do things*. Everyone here says "you can just do things", and you can, but it don't pay the bills or get people looking at what you've done.
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I posted this on the other place and I think like four or five people liked that post, so maybe if two or three people like here, I can get past counting on one hand. Not that it needs affirmation. It's an OS. I'll probably keep working on it, because I think it's neat.
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The inescapable tension between wanting people to look at what you've built and not wanting to call attention to one's self by using social media.
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The fundamental indignity of having to participate in the attention economy to demonstrate that you've possibly produced something of value outside of it.
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