28/01/2026
The Spark: Enter Clawdbot I’ve been really intrigued by the recent buzz around Clawdbot, a viral AI assistant causing a stir. The warnings about security caught my eye immediately: “Running an AI agent with shell access on your machine is… spicy,” an FAQ reads. “Clawdbot is both a product and an experiment: you’re wiring frontier-model behavior into real messaging surfaces and real tools. There is no ‘perfectly secure’ setup.” That…
10/12/2024
I’ve been playing with a couple of locally installed image generation models, having heaps of fun 🙂My journey began with Stable Diffusion, and working through the multitude of available models, and loras, I was quite happy with the results… until I found Pyramid Flow! I really should document my journey, challenges, tools and methods, but for now here’s a short video I knocked together
Too long without posts 3 things on my mind; orca, Starfield, Local Hosted GPT 🙂 Orca Few weeks ago I wondered into the living room & spotted the dark shapes bobbing through the inner harbour that I now recognise as orca! Picking up the binoculars confirmed this. I jumped in the car, and headed down to the local wharf to await their arrival… but they decided not to make it…
Okay folks, Debian ain’t all sunshine and roses when Nvidia’s involved. Mint, shockingly, might be the answer to my graphics card woes. Let’s dive into this…
24/09/2022
I’m in a routine of running update and upgrade each time I logon… today Debian returned an error dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libffi 8:amd64: I tried several things, configuring the erroring package, reinstalling, removing, purge… no success. So how did I resolve my dpkg dependency problems? Navigate to the Debian package management info directory: cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/ Burn all of the prerm files: sudo apt-get remove *.prerm Then update…
13/12/2021
My distro cycle continues, back to Debian I go. Installing my old SSD’s into my new box, Ubuntu wouldn’t load correctly with the display unusable… Manjaro funnily enough was OK. After recently backing up my Home directory it motivated me to make a clean OS install. I’ve read great things of Mint over the years, claims of its usability and security, but I didn’t last one day until I switched…
02/08/2020
Reading a Reddit post about new a new version of nano being releases, and between the vi/vim sysadmin comments someone mentioned how nano keyboard shortcuts can be edited 🙂 I’ve tried vim many times, and the commands don’t feel intuitive, nano has been the editor I’ve fallen back on since first using Linux; pico as it was known back when I used it at Uni on Unix. Even though I’ve…
02/08/2020
I came across a model that intrigued me enough to trial last night, a machine learning model that speed runs through Super Mario Brothers, cool eh? Here’s the git uvipen/Super-mario-bros-PPO-pytorch Introduction Here is my python source code for training an agent to play super mario bros. By using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm introduced in the paper Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms paper. Talking about performance, my PPO-trained agent could complete…
14/06/2020
Not sure why I haven’t got around to writing any shell commands / scripts in the past… here’s my first Bash :p Here’s an alias to check which country my VPN is connected to in 3 steps: ifconfig.me call to set IP address to a variable shows the IP address checks the IP variable on whois truncates the output to the ‘address’ output to see location alias whoami=’todays_ip=$(curl ifconfig.me) &&…
19/02/2020
For my birthday my best mate (aka son) presented me with some cash to buy a game. Rather than pick up a transient title that I’d play in passing I ordered the latest kit from HardKernel; the merging of two of my favourite pass times, Linux & Retrogames, then awesome handheld Odroid-Go Advance… & it arrived at the weekend 🙂 It only took half an hour to put together; the…
18/10/2019
Updated to Ubuntu Budgie 19.10… and no reboot! Windows could learn so much from Linux do-release-upgrade -c didn’t work, but a visit to Synaptic Package Manager and installing all of the upgrades worked a treat 🙂 Now to explore the new updates… Everything Important Associated to Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine/ Now I’m not going to format my hard drive just yet to enable a faster boot time by enabling LZ4…
13/10/2019
So this weekend my Twitter bot dropped this link onto my feed: Firebase ML Kit: AutoML Vision Edge I’m currently working with auto ML in a professional manner, trialing both H2O and Azures Auto ML packages, so this piqued my interest! Having built mobile apps before in the early days of Android, and looking for a project to play with again, the timing of this was perfect. I’m still messing…
07/10/2019
I search enough for useful Linux terminal commands, I usually rely on command history, but thought I’d start recording them here. Here are a couple for starters… Search recursive folders for files containing keywords, returning file name grep -r -l “linux” Search command history for keywords, history number returned history | grep linux Remove history line 2001 history -d 2001 Run code in background from terminal – I can’t believe…
22/06/2019
Today I discovered a new genre of game… and I’m hooked. DOTA Underlords DOTA Underlords is now available to play for free on Steam as Early Access; and from what I understand there will be no charge going forward, only for aesthetic additions. Dota Underlords is a new stand-alone game that pits you against seven opponents in a battle of wits that will have you building, combining, and leveling-up a…
15/06/2019
Tl;Dr Super Mega Space Blaster Special fun pick up and play shmup available on Steam for less than a dollar that also runs on Linux. I’ve paid heaps more for games I’ve played less. A compulsive fun title. Super Mega Space Blaster Special is a modern take on the retro arcade space shooter. It is a fast-paced frantic blast of a shoot ’em up (shmup) with bullet hell elements. Played…
05/04/2019
Against my better judgement given issues with past pre-releases I’ve been running Ubuntu’s Budgie 19.04 Dicso Dingo Beta… & it’s awesome 🙂 Everything working after an update using the terminal from Ubuntu 18.10. It seems slicker than usual, assuming this is due to the Memory and CPU optimisations featured in this update. I also like the new look and feel of the file manager. If you’d like to give it…
27/02/2019
I’ve been wanting to try the Ubuntu Touch phone OS since I heard of it pre-launch, although I’ve never had a device I can use it on; that is until a friend this week passed on his old Nexus 5 🙂 I’m so looking forward to giving this a try, and probably wouldn’t have picked up my OnePlus 6t id I knew this was coming… can’t wait for the day…
17/02/2019
I’ve had an Android phone since the Nexus 1, and haven’t been able to get KDE Connect to work… until now 🙂 https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect Easy as installing KDEConnect from the Android Play store, and I grabbed KDE Connect for Ubuntu via Synaptic… I didn’t know the full name to install it via apt-get 🙁 Think I’m going to use it mose to move files between devices… although the shared clipboard could…
17/01/2019
Just discovered Lutris [https://lutris.net/], a tool to make gaming more accessible and easy on Linux: Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface. Our goal is to support every game which runs on Linux, from native to Windows games (via Wine) to emulators and browser games. The desktop application and the website are libre software, your contributions are…
11/01/2019
In my quest to get sonic-pi to run on Linux, and also free up a port on my router, I’ve been trying to login to view Raspberry Pi Desktop from Ubuntu… as usual with any Linux endeavor, with limited success; but think that’s the attraction: a puzzle to solve, with a solution out there… I’ve just gotta find it 🙂 I had installed tightvncserver on the Raspberry Pi, and remmina…
