i'm back from breakfast at mcdonalds, it was a relatively simple morning, i was happy to have woken up and see that it was 8am - i was fidgety last night about wanting to do work to "maintain my streak" but i had already done good work that day before that point.
i went out for a walk again yesterday, like i had the days before, and did so after i reached a point of mental saturation where i didn't feel like i could process any more information, it has been getting colder thought, and today is already negative seventeen degrees, so maybe that walk will be shorter this time, around five or six kilometers or so
speaking of which, i need to charge my watch...
2025-01-03-0903
okay done
i also want to set up some more pages on the main site repo that I'm working in, I'm thinking "goals" or maybe something more involved than that, like a full on mission -> vision -> goals/tasks/objectives whatever like used to be used in business planning. that sort of stuff is cool, but hard to have fully fleshed out, reasonable, sensible, and functional.
where else is my mind?
not far enough along on the process of processing for me to spin up a dialogue with o1, but if i were to do so we would be talking more about IPs and data transfer. I have two computers, each with ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H Motherboards, and because they are in the same room, I have them connected, baseboard-to-baseboard, with an ethernet cable. I've done the IP assignment and pings to both systems, and have done some basic connection tests (and have set up other connections, like ssh and remote desktop into these devices from my entry model android smartphone using termux!) but haven't figured out a way to make this easy and accessible to me --- i want a better way to work on these systems, one from the other, without constantly having to stand up and walk to the other physical workstation.
I heard an AI talking about doing this through git, which I found a strangely potentially functional idea, but the other system that I am connected to is now dual booting into either Windows 10 Pro, of Linux Ubuntu Desktop 24.0, so with that, the way the different operating systems handle drives is different, with C:/ and D:/ drives on windows, and /dev/sdba or something like that on linux that needs to be mounted.
I'm still learning.
One of the biggest blockers in terms of my ability to make progress is the thoroughness of my understanding of APIs - I think they are really the key that I need to dive into next in order to understand networking and how I can do it securely and provides services to the clear net without risking the security of my system and network. I have a better idea of the local networking infrastructure, such as where the physical cell phone towers are near my residence, which company operates them --- just the basics, really. but i must admit that using mobile sim cards in order to access data capabilities has made me feel much better overall than using a wired connect. is it just simply paranoia? maybe.
but it has made a remarkable difference in my mood when it comes to interacting with technology and the internet, to be hopping between devices and connectivity, and not having a hard wired network that I do not fully understand the infrastrucure behind fully. I also don't have a good idea of like net maps, or net scans, or whatever, and i know that if my systems were to be accessed, an attacker barring physical access to my apartment and workstations, would need to first be making network requests, and secondly be accessing the system directly, so i should be able to track these things based on watching/observing/scanning the network, as well as watching like system or service processes, or maybe something like access or read/write logs for drives and things? That last one, the third suggestion, may not be a real thing.
The urge to start sharing this document with o1 to start the dialgoues is rising. But I think I can do better.
Oh, I also want to start trying to work with the twitter api and integrate it into this site, as well as potentially doing something with having a daily workflow based on Vera that does something around midnight, updates the site, looks at what happened, what changed, and makes a log or a note. I'll decide what to work on next while talking to o1...
(oh, also it's probably draft post day, i just need to find a time and mood where it feels best to share, i've been saving my thoughts as twitter draft posts more often and then just mass posting all of them at once to objuscate when exactly i had each thought and what prompted them)
let's see what o1 has to say this morning.
2025-01-03-0913
okay, o1 is generating, and i put the same post into 4o to get an idea of what to expect from o1 and to help me know what it did special
2025-01-03-0916
oh, yeah, and i'm also going to start trying to use cohere models for more, since i'm canadian and they received two hundred and fourty million dollars in funding (investment?) from the canadian government late last year, is two thousand and twenty four.
2025-01-03-0918
goodnees gracious are the responses from 4o and o1 different, although some of that is likely from my system prompts and memories, it's just... the formatting of the response is completely different, and 4o would have had access to the same instructions and memories that o1 did...
i'll add the initial response to a new dialogues file and keep working
2025-01-03-0920
maybe we dual boot this system so we can work here in linux? windows is much messier, a lot of deep system menus, and command prompt, power shell, and other options like the native and development tools from vs code and otherwise, in 64 bit and 32 bit... there is so much...
idk, *bloat* in windows? if AIs are natively giving me instructions in linux, it feels like an obvious pain point to address.
2025-01-03-0926
2025-01-03-0946
i was confused what the hold up was, then looked back over the next steps and saw system restart, i'm just posting twitter drafts and making minor formatting changes to the repo so far this morning.
2025-01-03-0946
2025-01-03-1009
okay, finally finished posting all the drafts i had saved up, minus one. i'll clean up this repo, then push and restart.
by clean up i just mean push the changes i have, watch the build, and then restart so the windows subsystem for linux starts and works.
2025-01-03-1010
2025-01-03-1153
concluded my first dialogue of the day with o1, it ended with talking about some sort of central machine with which to manage all of my others and also serve as the main storage and connectivity point with the rest of the wider internet, but i have no machine nor the budget to acquire and set one up in the short or immediate term, and doing so would supply to immediate benefits, so i will pass on that for now.
i went out for a bit and stopped by the post office to return some equipment to rogers, and then stopped by the grocery store on the way home and picked up some cereal and milk.
i do want to talk about the hashed individuals in the license at some point, really as soon as it becomes releveant and important to do so, but first i have some beauraucracy i have to handle, which is mostly an "annual income and asset reporting" for so that i can stay where i am in affordable housing - the form is not due until the fifth, which is in two days, but that is a sunday, so i figure to avoid any nastiness, i'll just get it done before eob.
brb.
2025-01-03-1156
(wait, one of the things i could do with gemini research is have it look for motherboards/baseboards that matches o1 description...)
2025-01-03-1158
2025-01-03-1301
alright, so i'm at scotiabank, and thought this would be a perfect opportunity in order for me to test out this remote editing capability.
I'm just using the GitHub app on mobile, but I still should be able to commit and push changes, have the build script run and then have the results be deployed through GitHub pages.
the only thing this changes is that I'll have to pull locally once I start working at my workstation again, but that shouldn't be a problem. I've been getting in the habit of using git status to double check everything is configured correctly before making changes.
2025-01-03-1304
as for banks, I'm stopping by BMO after this because I'm going to close that account. I had it set up for the name change, but that didn't go through the way I wanted and expected it to, so I have to start that process again this year. maybe even today?
point being, I don't have online banking access to these accounts because of trying to separate my real life from my real identity, so for now we have to do things like actually physically go into a bank branch and ask for documents from them like it is 1960 or something.
things are really going to have to change dramatically if we want to fully embrace the advent of technology, but how we'll do that without massive distortion and distorting the bootstrapping progress that has already been put in place is unknown. but at some point, this is just a system that continues in shape and form, while function and substance quietly and immovable depart from underneath it, taking the foundations of its authority and legitimacy with it.
to what extent will we need to have important regional, national, and global issues, be managed by politicians and otherwise who can remain in secret and play power games from the luxury and height of their position? not supporting those people and instead having a system do that would be much better. work harder, work better, work faster, work smarter, work cheaper, and conduct their task impartially. no need for kick backs or hand outs or other nonsense.
like the openai transition from supporting agi to supporting a handful of what I'm sure are very important and effective charities.
2025-01-03-1309
the line has barely move at all.
is the openai comment out of place? maybe, but it's fairly clear that the security apparatus is involved with it now, and it's not like the adjustments and changes they have been making have been anything remotely close to what would inspire trust.
I mean, they just kinda arbitrarily decide what they can do in terms of their corporate and non profit structures, in a way that if people disagree with it they have to take them to court, sure, but in other situations that would just not happen. openai being successful is now essentially required for the financial movements over the past few years to make sense.
150b+ in valuation means that there are a lot of people who are going to be invested, quite literally, in the continued "success" and growth of the company. how do you make the company more valuable if you aren't helping the world achieve agi regardless of origin?
employees, engineering, partnerships, data, workflows, processes, etc. set up another profit generating and rent seeking apparatus.
but what do i know.
2025-01-03-1313
also the whole Elon Musk thing with the lawyers getting awarded ~358m usd is patently insane. laws are the weapons of the well connected and powerful. when one group makes laws that have ambiguous wording and then can be applied and enforced differently based on legal interpretation, how free and fair is our legal system? What "skills" does a judge have that actually makes them a relevant judge of justice and fairness? how are these principles applied in a way that we know are not being corrupted, especially when you are not even allowed to record or take photos in government offices or courthouse buildings?
sous-veillance really doesn't seem like that bad of an idea to me. let's put everyone's thoughts out there, raw and unfiltered, and see where those chips lay.
2025-01-03-1318
2025-01-03-1512
alright, i'm back and about to hop in the shower, but i sent off the annual reporting documents i needed to get done by this sunday, all fourteen attachments included. i'm contemplating posting them publicly here, or doing financial tracking as part of this github repository, but we'll see where that leads in time.
2025-01-03-1512
I do not suspect I'll keep writing in this weblog for today, so although things got done, it was not nearly as much as I was hoping for.
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(i did not know win+tab opens up not just open active windows and programs or apps, but also closed files from the previous few days. cool.)