MAGA - Make America Grovel to Asia (coming in a few years). Trump is the single best thing that ever happened to China.

That was an excellent rabbit hole to go down while eating lunch :)

I wouldn’t call this next-gen SQLite. How can it be when the “QL” of SQLite is “Query Language” and this doesn’t have one? This is an object serialization library.

Exactly. SQLite is in use in millions[1] of places, all using SQL. If you want something else don't try to steal the name.

[1] this figure is based on no research

Not really. This db allows traversing the (deeply nested) data structures without loading them into memory. Eg. In Clojure you can do ``` (get-in db [:people "john" :address :city]) ```

Where `:people` is a key in a huge (larger than memory) map. This database will only touch the referenced nodes when traversing, without loading the whole thing into memory.

So the 'query language' is actually your programming language. To the programmer this database looks like an in-memory data structure, when in fact it's efficiently reading data from the disk. Plus immutability of course (meaning you can go back in history).

I didn’t realize AI could interact with browsers like this already (guess I’m naive). Isn’t this setting up for the scenario where the AI is duped into logging into your bank account and transferring your money away? Not sure I have enough trust to allow an AI to touch a browser.

People are already going full Leroy Jenkins with this stuff, and OpenAI, other labs are snarfing up their usage data. Hopefully with their brave sacrifice, they can figure out all the security pitfalls before it becomes common enough that someone with a clever jailbreak ends up pulling of a billion dollar heist, or orders pizza for half the country.

It's 100% absolutely not safe yet. You can effectively copy and paste Pliny prompts and pwn any of the frontier lab models. Anyone with a little time and creativity can tailor a unique one and set hidden text traps for AI browsers or agents, and depending on what access you've given the software it could be very dangerous.

Great time to be an offensive security researcher specialising in researching LLM adversarial attacks.

Yeah - the red team folks probably have one of the most fun jobs in the world right now.

Depends on your definition of "fun"

There are folks on X running vibe-coded Polymarket arbitrage bots playing with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some people have pretty wild risk tolerances!

That's a valid concern. I took a more constrained approach for web searches for exactly this reason. Instead of giving the LLM full browser control, I built a Firefox extension that only handles web search client-side.

When my local LLM (llama.cpp) needs to search, it opens DuckDuckGo in a new window, loads the result pages in tabs, extracts content with Readability.js, and feeds it back. You stay in the loop - can see what's loading, solve captchas if needed. Less autonomous than Comet/Playwright, with a narrower use-case, but also less risk.

Its still a prototype though: https://github.com/tbocek/llm-local-web-search

It's totally setting up for exactly that scenario. You need to ensure the browser that it uses is totally unprivileged if you're going to do this, or at the very least that it can only access a small set of trusted destinations.

Wow, that’s a lot more challenging than it looks. I agree with another commenter that the 3d blocks look confusing - they appear to cover two spaces.

I was going to skip the article until I read your comment, and wow! You’re totally right - my hard won understanding is there, including things I sort of knew but couldn’t put into words before. Going to share this with my adult kids.

It’s supposed to help reduce clotting, and thus help a bit to prevent a heart attack, at least that’s what I understood from my heart doctor. Generally you’d take the 81mg “baby aspirins” for this, not a full adult dose.

or in this case one fizzy tablet every three days? Are tehre people doing this long term? Doesn't sound all that compatible with colon.

After a heart procedure my doctor told me to take the 81mg daily for the rest of my life. It’s been about 20 years now, with no side effects that I know of.

Why was this downvoted? Seems like the best approach if you have to use the apps a lot?

I bet some people got offended by the techbro moniker, but it seems pretty warranted considering the underhanded tactics of these companies and their employees.

Maestral is a cross platform implementation of the Dropbox client API which I use on low end Linux machines.

Thanks for the tip - I’ll take a look

For me it's LSP servers taking 2 gigs of RAM. With Antigravity, Google managed to go beyond this, it is totally unusable for me (but other VScode clones work fine, apart from the 2 Go LSP servers).

This can happen sooner than you think too. I asked for what I thought was a simple feature and the AI wrote and rewrote a number of times trying to get it right, and eventually (not making this up) it told me the file was corrupt and could I please restore it from backup. This happened within about 20-30 minutes of asking for the change.