Internet Discoveries between 4 May and 11 May

  • Search Rebuilt for AI
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Tab groups
  • A First Glimpse of the Starlink User Ternimal
  • Urtext /ˈʊrtekst/
  • Possibly a serious possibility
  • I’d rather read the prompt
  • How to Harden GitHub Actions: The Unofficial Guide
  • KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat
  • Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee
  • Clippy Desktop Assistant
  • Mycoria
  • LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text

Interesting details

Search Rebuilt for AI - Yet another fascinating AI product: exa.ai. It crawls the Web, but you can get a list of results via a ChatGPT-prompt. It does extremely well for when you’re at a “loss of words” for what to Google for. Very stoked Exa is building this. Desperately needed.

Dead Reckoning - This story is assembled from contemporaneous first-person accounts. As such, quotations contain some antiquated spellings, grammar, and phrasing.

Tab groups - Starting from Firefox version 137, you can use tab groups to manage open tabs in Firefox by grouping them together and labelling them. The label you select will be visible in the tab bar.

A First Glimpse of the Starlink User Ternimal - Starlink is a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet service provided by SpaceX. Users connect to near-Earth orbit satellites through a user terminal, which then connects to the internet via ground gateways.

Urtext /ˈʊrtekst/ - Urtext /ˈʊrtekst/ is an open-source library for plaintext writing, research, documentation, knowledge bases, journaling, Zettelkasten, project/personal organization, note taking, a lightweight database substitute, or any other writing or information management that can be done in text format.

Possibly a serious possibility - Sherman Kent was rattled. It was March 1951 and Kent, a CIA analyst, had found himself in a troubling conversation about some recent intelligence.

<a name=’I’d rather read the prompt’>I’d rather read the prompt</a> - The downsides of Euler angles make them difficult to utilize in robotics. It’s important to note that very few implementations employ Euler angles for robotics. Instead, one could use rotation matrices or quaternions to facilitate more efficient rotation representation.

How to Harden GitHub Actions: The Unofficial Guide - That compromised PAT was used to grant a temporary, malicious user spotbugs/spotbugs repository access  The write access to spotbugs/spotbugs was used to push a malicious workflow to a branch, leaking the Github secrets – including the PAT of a mutual spotbugs and reviewdog contributor  The revi

KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat - Have a natural, spoken conversation with an AI! This project lets you chat with a Large Language Model (LLM) using just your voice, receiving spoken responses in near real-time. Think of it as your own digital conversation partner.

Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee - A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into running a malicious version of a widely used open source AI image generation tool.

Clippy Desktop Assistant - Clippy lets you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s. It’s a love letter and homage to the late, great Clippy - and the visual design created by Microsoft in that era.

Mycoria - Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants. It values freedom of connectivity and aims to imitate the curious and adventurous spirit of the early Internet:

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text - We introduce LegoGPT, the first approach for generating physically stable LEGO brick models from text prompts.

All this was saved to my GetPocket over the week