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Anyone on #Linux have a favorite method of containing the access and permissions of #AI agents (besides abstinence)?
"packnplay" by @obrajesse is a new option: https://blog.fsck.com/2025/12/10/packnplay/
Are there other options you like?
For example: If the task at hand is to help with a coding project, limit the file system access to only that directory and maybe some supporting tools,
If you are interested in more effective and secure use of AI coding agents,
@jesse has been busy with a serie of posts and tools this fall. Follow him for the latest!
@jesse Thanks for working on AI agent security!
I've just released the first version of a new Claude Code plugin that helps it remember what it was doing yesterday, why it changed direction, and every conversation it has with you.
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/23/episodic-memory/
I wrote a bit about packnplay, the tool I built to make it easy to give my coding agents nice, safe containers to run wild in.
we’re on a road to nowhere
NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by 22% in six months
Within the CRZ, which covers Manhattan streets at or below 60th Street, average daily peak concentrations of PM2.5 dropped by 3.05 µg/m³...Across New York City’s five boroughs, pollution levels fell by an average of 1.07 µg/m³, while the broader metropolitan area saw reductions of 0.70 µg/m³.
Problem: I wanted to share music library between a work and personal laptops without storing the collection on a pay-per-month cloud service.
Solution: I installed Navidrome on my home Linux server, then installed Supersonic app for Linux to access it. Success! Whole process took less then 30 minutes.
The History of Earth as a 24 hr clock. Humans have only just arrived.
Note: I first came across this image through UW-Madison geology. #science #history
@infosec812 If your tastes along with John Buckman's, you get some ideas from the ~10,000 albums on Magnatune, which can be previewed there and then found on other platforms now that Magnatune is no longer accepting new members.
Chat, are any of these platforms recommendable?
![A bunch of icons of musci services...
Apple Music [A white 1/8 note on a dark orange background]
Spotify [Three slightly curved white lines on top of each other on a bright green background]
Youtube [A white rectangle with smooth edges and red triangle inside on a red background]
Youtube Music [A white triangle surrounded by a thin white circle on a red background]
Pandora[A white P on a blue background]
Deezer [A pixelated black heart on a purple background]
SoundCloud [A white cloud that's interrupted by stripes in the left half on an orange background]
AmazonMusic [A white curved arrow and the word music on top on a deep blue background, shaded]
TIDAL [Four white squares rotated by pi/4. Three of them are horizontally aligned, while the last one is vertically aligned and sitting below the middle square]
Napster [Some outline vaguely resembling a head wearing headphones on a blue background]
Yandex [A spark of light radiating towards the bottom left on black background]
Audiomack[A Signal/Wave in dark orange on black background]
Boomplay [A light blue or torquiose B Cut by two black stripes that connect the inner part of the B to the outer part on a black background]
Anghami [An a drawn by 4 parallel lines in purple, blue, green and yellow from inside to outside]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/673/541/515/524/447/original/36f8e2bfdd36e121.webp)
Hey Mastodon #music, If your musical tastes do not run in the mainstream, how do you go about discovering new bands/albums/projects/mixes? My best option so far has been last.fm, but I'm not really getting great suggestions. I have tried Spotify, YouTube Music, Pandora, etc... It seems that if your tastes are not mainstream, these services don't really help. Thanks in advance!
@Michigander Time to start logging show shoveling as a cardio workout.
Unless the snow is particularly wet, then strength training.
My Strava app is probably checking the obituaries for my name
@ben I saw that Magnatune is in the hospice phase. I happen to have one of the lifetime accounts that allows me to download the entire catalog DRM-free, so I’m making a new daily habit to download and try a new album each day, mostly from artists I haven’t heard of before.
So far an enjoyable experiment!
I finally canceled Spotify and have no regrets on ethical grounds, but man, their UX is so much better than any of the other music services I’ve tried so far.
Thing I wish existed:
Listen to my meetings but don't transmit anything to the internet. At the end, give me a summary of the most important points and any action items. Do not use a cloud or connected service provider for this at any time - do it all on-device. Throw out any transcripts: never save them, on-device or elsewhere.
@qlp I agree with your comment here. I'm interested in the idea of immutable distros myself, but don't see how it's relevant to that question.
If anything, it really does seem like point /against/ immutable distros. Like, either's something you can change in /etc/ to get the hardware detected that you could do without without immutability, or you can't fix it at all on an immutable distro without the extra effort to rebuild the whole OS.
Some Linux users are better with computers than people.
I'm a #Linux guy now, thanks Mastodon
💚 Made by a community, not a corporation
💚 Designed for my comfort and control, not for someone else's profit
💚 No company pushing weird crappy products I don't want
💚 No auto-launching bloat killing the computer's performance
Why did I wait this long?! I LOVE IT
@qlp Immutable, like is that a promise that the hardware will never be detected in the future either?
