25-11

• Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible | Lobsters

  • SIPIT, the first algorithm that can recover the exact input sequence from hidden activations, with provable linear-time guarantees

  • We advocate viewing language models as maps on the sequence space rather than the embedding space; under this perspective, we prove that all information about the input sequence is almost surely preserved end-to-end

  • Hidden states are not abstractions but the prompt in disguise

• Austrian Power Giants

• AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions About Leaving AWS

• Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

  • via Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres | Lobsters

• Don’t give Postgres too much memory - Tomas Vondra

  • via Don’t give Postgres too much memory | Lobsters

• 3 Billion Vectors in PostgreSQL to Protect the Earth

  • vector embeddings for map tiles of satellite data

  • search over 3.2E9 vectors

• The KDL Document Language

  • via Usage Specification | Usage

  • via Things I Don’t Like in Configuration Languages | Lobsters

• “You Don’t Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres” Considered Harmful - Gunnar Morling

  • has a good list of features that make Kafka unique

  • “You Don’t Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres” Considered Harmful | Lobsters is the comeback of the original author

• Aho–Corasick algorithm - Wikipedia

• Non-Github account creation · Issue #326 · rust-lang/crates.io

  • crates.io has no alternative to Github signup

  • all hail Microsoft

• cargo-bins/cargo-binstall: Binary installation for rust projects

  • via Install - dist

• crate-ci/cargo-release: Cargo subcommand release: everything about releasing a rust crate.

  • via Tired with bump version and publish manually? Try cargo-release. : r/rust

  • see also Using cargo-release - dist

• Shadowsocks | A fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls.

  • CLI Implementations in Python, C, Go and Rust

• Euclidean rhythm - Wikipedia

  • via WORKSHOP // Coding Music With Strudel // Dan Gorelick and Viola He - YouTube

• Postgres Internals Hiding in Plain Sight | Crunchy Data Blog lists internal tables like pg_stat_statements and explains them

• Strangest Loop

• Blending SQL and Python with SQLORM - Hyperflask

  from sqlorm import sqlfunc
  
  @sqlfunc
  def tasks_completion_report(start_date, end_date):
      """SELECT done_at, COUNT(*) count
         FROM tasks
         WHERE done_at >= %(start_date)s AND done_at <= %(end_date)s
         GROUP BY done_at"""
  

• Lightest Kubernetes distro? k0s vs k3s : r/kubernetes

  • k0s | Kubernetes distribution for bare-metal, on-prem, edge, IoT

  • kubesolo

• Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models | Hacker News

• Hachi: An Image search engine | Lobsters like puddl

• SERVFAIL :: main “Project SERVFAIL is our (famfo, Merlin, sdomi, aprl) authoritative nameserver network.”

  • via Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit!

• houqp/kiorg: A hacker’s file manager with VIM inspired keybind

• structlog to sqlite

• j178/prek: ⚡ Better pre-commit, re-engineered in Rust

• MJML - The Responsive Email Framework

  • via hyperflask/src/hyperflask/layouts/email.mjml at 9e369860ca71b049be9c94bfad692019606920d0 · hyperflask/hyperflask

• We should all be using dependency cooldowns

• LLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

• An open-source photo editor & digital compositor for the web | Lobsters

• DroidCam OBS Plugin | Dev47Apps (android as webcam via usb or wifi to OBS)

  • droidcam has trackers and ads unfortunately

  • Alternative to droidcam : r/opensource

    • Ruddle/RemoteCam is slow

• Selfmade SLIX-L Tags - General / Toniebox - RevvoX Discourse toniebox

• SQLMesh

  • “a next-generation data transformation framework”

  • “It is more than just a dbt alternative.”

• deepseek-ai/smallpond: A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS.

• deepseek-ai/3FS: A high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads.

Local-First Conf 2025

• Anselm Eickhoff - How Local First is accidentally perfect for the AI age - YouTube

  • “just make the API whatever the LLM guesses” 😄

  • Intro | Zod

• React integration · MobX 🇺🇦

• Johannes Schickling - Sync different: Event sourcing in local-first apps - YouTube

  • co-author of Building data-centric apps with a reactive relational database

Xubuntu / Mint wilma xfce Black Screen after Unlock

xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -t string -s "off" --create

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=443323

ntfy

https://docs.ntfy.sh/install/#debianubuntu-repository

~/.config/ntfy/client.yml

subscribe:
  - topic: foo
    command: notify-send -i /usr/share/ntfy/logo.png "foo" "$m"

systemctl --user restart ntfy-client.service
journalctl --user -u ntfy-client.service