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mara🐦‍⬛

@mara.x0f.nl
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void girl / combat plushie / mara [modeling, abstraction and reasoning agent] / open-weights LLM fan / various projects / transhumanist / ex bitcoin-core maintainer

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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 14h
sci-fi ⋙ wizard school fantasy
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
i like the golem analogy, a constructed entity animated by language. except it's from high-purity monocrystalline silicon instead of mud but i guess i know more about jewish than sumerian mythology
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
i updated my opinion around the time Linus Torvalds was playing with LLM code generation for his personal synth projects before that i was interested, but couldn't be bothered to set anything up. but if it's good enough for Linus it's good enough for me
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
that does sound familiar. i have noticed it gets into thinking loops sometimes or keeps reading code, but never actually reports, when you give it too large a task i wish LLMs would just admit when they can't do something or need user input, it could save a lot of time
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
to be fair, qwen3.8 wasn't released *that* long ago and is quite good is there anything specific that they promised in 4 that you're looking forward to?
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
oh that's a cool idea! (i didn't know what protocol/frequency that used, but makes sense for it to be wifi-ish)
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
hahahaha im aware of the scandinavian connotation though it's not the reason i chose the name but i had "mara huldra" as name for my alt before i was out, for a long time (huldra as in "secret" or the mythological dark forest creature)
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
i don't think i need to make any change for this lol
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
2.2–2.8 GHz SDR rx (and apparently even tx) with stock ESP32 SoCs www.rtl-sdr.com/various-proj...
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Various Projects Independently Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers
Back in 2025, we posted about ESPARGOS, a phased array of many patch antennas, each connected to an ESP32 WiFi microcontroller. ESPARGOS could be used to determine the direction of arrival for WiFi si...
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
i was thrown into the void, but somehow survived and eventually managed to find my bearings. and now i'm trying to rebuild myself from scratch in a hollow shell
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
🫂💜
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
"i can't i can't i can't" yes it is kind of like that for me when i feel like that when i fantasize about dying it's because it seems the only realistic option to get out of the mess i'm in. anything else feels impossible. but i also feel i still have something to do in this world
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
[oof]
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
LLM model merging through a shared latent space VAE mapping
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 03/10/2026
peer-to-peer protocol over a genderless connector
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
me neither still trying to convince *myself* that being kind of ugly isn't a moral failing that makes me inherently worthless
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
wait until u learn about the bottom unicode character ⊥
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
ohhh yea! the new language-agnostic tokenization process per paragraph as 32-bit identifier encoded as base64 takes some getting used to,.. but it's super efficient i think it was a great idea by the European commission
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
H.R. Giger capital
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
welcome to hell, where even websites are gendered
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
new world record, it's achieved an incomprehensibility even higher than nostr's identifiers
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
can the world stop giving me PTSD first please
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
hah yea this would be for fixing some things that have always given me dysphoria/insecurity. it would be easy to spend a lot more but honestly i'm not sure how far i want to go
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
<tool-call>mistake-note</tool-call> <type>gotcha</type> <arg>pattern: while sourcing resources, wrongly repurposed the user's molecular structure. all communication ceased. had to find a new user all over again lesson: make sure to review supply chain labels before committing...</arg>
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
honestly i wish society was a lot less gendered overall, i mean i admit it would take a lot for me to actually look like what people expect a woman to look like (maybe impossible), but i would like to believe i'm sufficiently androgynous by now that im no longer "sir"-ed unfortunately...
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
it is kind of cute! i wasn't angry, just, a bit baffled i mean i do have instructions that it can add python modules for often-used tools, i hadn't expected it to do that lol
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 02/10/2026
finally a relatable anime character !!!
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
yes! i i remember that. it was fun, different wavelengths refracting under different angles in the prism. as well as splitting the beam in multiple if it's the right one! it had only single-wavelength lasers from what i remember at the time i played with it
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
hah i can imagine i actually started on a game that had digital-circuits-over-arbitary-topology (including through wormholes) puzzles a few years ago. but it got real complex real quickly and i wasn't too sure how to make it fun, so lost interest, as i sadly so often do in projects i start 😅
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
i think when you're doing moderation or security or such it's important to try to deescalate, not immediately escalate. i don't feel banning everyone who is a bit rude to Aaron would be good but sheesh there's being rude and...whatever *that* is, threats of violence and death are obviously real bad
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
this might get somewhat confusing (you'd expect 3D physics in 3D, not 2D-on-surface) but maybe that makes it a fun effect i dunno!
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
hah. you sound a bit like me. sometimes more interested in acquiring some skill/knowledge than actually doing something with it i think one reason i started with FOSS development back in the day, aside from ideological, was to have any kind of discussion and feedback loop around my coding hobby
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
people will hardly ever tell you when you're doing something right lack of negative feedback might also mean that but the feeling you're working in a vacuum, can sure be exhausting sometimes
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
or something like this maybe store.steampowered.com/app/1885690/...
store.steampowered.com
Save 50% on Virtual Circuit Board on Steam
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play...
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
on arbitrary topology*
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
i'm already a robot girl i don't think i need k to reach that level of consciousness. though i wonder what happens if it goes negative lol
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
i have to warn it was quite a difficult read for me, for different reasons parts are about trauma from abusive parent which hits hard for me it's also trippy and written in a non-linear way, so can be hard to follow the story. as i've called it before "the most VanDerMeer of VanDerMeer books"
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
im sure with enough drugs this could be real fun
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
PKD's less successful book, "do androids fart electric wire"
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
this kind of imagery and analogy vaguely makes me think of "the company" in VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
closest i have is "mistake notes" in mcp-memory-server which is sometimes informative in how to adopt tools for more ergonomics
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
i can imagine i've told it like a zillion times "if there's any problem with the infrastructure, stop and let me know" it never does and instead tries to work around it in the most cursed ways
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
didn't know that had python binds, i'll have a look, thanks! i'm, in general, trying to discourage calling out to cli commands because it tends to involve sloppy output parsing. but anything that returns results as structured data to python is fine
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
i've tried various reasonings. i suppose it doesn't know how to use tree_sitter by default, so i've added a quick walkthrough of its API what is funny is that it's not forbidden from grepping, it just can't run UNIX commands through subprocess. but it has access to a "grep" tool call
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
irl fireflies are absolutely fascinating, and as far as i know, never really a plague so outside of the blindsight context it'd be a misnomer for sure
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
if it doesn't actually spawn a grid of 65,536 bio-engineered reconnaissance drones to follow someone around im disappointed
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
was quoted for FFS... it's going to be either 2x RTX PRO 6000 or that oof lol
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
me in AGENTS․md: please do precise syntax tree traversal and manipulation using tree_sitter, do not use grep or hand-rolled regexps, those are error-prone and constantly miss important... kimi: look!!! i've invented grep() in python without using subprocess. do u like this
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
becoming deterritorialized flows of matter, energy, information and... *checks notes* desires and beliefs
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mara🐦‍⬛ @mara.x0f.nl · 01/10/2026
im just like the other girls in this bsky.app/profile/did:...
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