Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 15 (April 7, 2025)

GitHub - kalvn/shaarli2mastodon: This Shaarli plugin allows you to automatically publish links you post on your Mastodon timeline.
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This Shaarli plugin allows you to automatically publish links you post on your Mastodon timeline. - kalvn/shaarli2mastodon

Conceptually, I prefer this to using feediverse as I am.

This is in will-not-fix right now given how I have deployed Shaarli and given that I am somewhat likely to replace it.

Mini Blog Post 5: How to Learn From Conversations β€” Neel Nanda

There are some excellent gems: it's worth reading the whole post! A few things that really stood out to me:

From an information theory point of view: We want to communicate concepts, but we have to translate them into words. This can lose a lot of information. Examples are another channel of communication, that can identify errors in translation

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Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator

An easy-to-use secure configuration generator for web, database, and mail software. Simply select the software you are using and receive a configuration file that is both safe and compatible.

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
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Year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. You might not have noticed… But Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia | Der Flounder
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On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between another computer located elsewhere on a network. The rsync command line tool has long been included on macOS, but Apple has provided the last version of…

It's true!

# /usr/bin/rsync --version
openrsync: protocol version 29
rsync version 2.6.9 compatible
The Secret History of the Manicule, the Little Hand that’s Everywhere
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The Secret History of the Manicule, the Little Hand that’s Everywhere - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic

shibao/memEx: A structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode - memEx - bubbletea.dev gitea
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memEx - A structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode

CSP Evaluator

CSP Evaluator allows developers and security experts to check if a Content Security Policy (CSP) serves as a strong mitigation against cross-site scripting attacks. It assists with the process of reviewing CSP policies, which is usually a manual task, and helps identify subtle CSP bypasses which undermine the value of a policy. CSP Evaluator checks are based on a large-scale study and are aimed to help developers to harden their CSP and improve the security of their applications. This tool (also available as a Chrome extension) is provided only for the convenience of developers and Google provides no guarantees or warranties for this tool.

Karakeep
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The features list is fantastic.

Karakeep (previously Hoarder) is an open source "Bookmark Everything" app that uses AI for automatically tagging the content you throw at it. The app is built with self-hosting as a first class citizen.

Support for ollama is included.

fstring.help: Python f-string guide
TaskerNet

Automate Your Life

An official public list of Tasker projects from Tasker's developer and users like you!

Datastar - The hypermedia framework.
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Datastar helps you build reactive web applications with the simplicity of server-side rendering and the power of a full-stack SPA framework.

Include Datastar with a single 14.5 KiB file and start adding reactivity to your frontend immediately. Write your backend in the language of your choice! Official SDKs are available to help you get up and running even faster, or you can send SSE events directly from your backend.

Datastar looks very interesting!

Scripts and event handling | Docs
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How to add client-side interactivity to Astro components using native browser JavaScript APIs.

From the docs:

You can add interactivity to your Astro components without using a UI framework like React, Svelte, Vue, etc. using standard HTML <script> tags.

πŸ’― This works as expected!

Grab browser links and titles in one click
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A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.

Mastering diverse control tasks through world models

The full paper is available.

Abstract:

Developing a general algorithm that learns to solve tasks across a wide range of applications has been a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. Although current reinforcement-learning algorithms can be readily applied to tasks similar to what they have been developed for, configuring them for new application domains requires substantial human expertise and experimentation1,2. Here we present the third generation of Dreamer, a general algorithm that outperforms specialized methods across over 150 diverse tasks, with a single configuration. Dreamer learns a model of the environment and improves its behaviour by imagining future scenarios. Robustness techniques based on normalization, balancing and transformations enable stable learning across domains. Applied out of the box, Dreamer is, to our knowledge, the first algorithm to collect diamonds in Minecraft from scratch without human data or curricula. This achievement has been posed as a substantial challenge in artificial intelligence that requires exploring farsighted strategies from pixels and sparse rewards in an open world3. Our work allows solving challenging control problems without extensive experimentation, making reinforcement learning broadly applicable.