Weekly Shaarli
Week 15 (April 7, 2025)
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.
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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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.
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.
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 ofβ¦
It's true!
# /usr/bin/rsync --version
openrsync: protocol version 29
rsync version 2.6.9 compatibleThe Secret History of the Manicule, the Little Hand thatβs Everywhere - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic
memEx - A structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode
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.
Automate Your Life
An official public list of Tasker projects from Tasker's developer and users like you!
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!
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.
π― This works as expected!
A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.
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.