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New comment by bheadmaster in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"

bheadmaster — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:51:43 +0000

VMs and containers are fairly isolated and reproducible. A separate user on your machine still depends on the programs installed locally.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Who manages the agents?"

bheadmaster — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:27:36 +0000

For the first time in human history, military power doesn't require advantage in numbers. The rich will simply build an artificial army and use it to control everything. Kinda like Mr House from Fallout New Vegas.

New comment by bheadmaster in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

bheadmaster — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:11:36 +0000

Exactly. You've hit the nail on the head.

And quite frankly, your AI slop garbage radar is not just an indicator of good taste — it's the essence of humanity that keeps you above it.

New comment by bheadmaster in "CarPlay Is Additive"

bheadmaster — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:41:21 +0000

I can get the same thing with an aux cable

New comment by bheadmaster in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

bheadmaster — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:18:08 +0000

In some corporate networks, everything is locked tight, and if you want any access (outbound or inbound), you have to send a request with business justification.

What we had was many devices behind such corporate networks. Instead of requesting exposed ports for each device, or setting up OpenVPN (never done it so I'm not sure how much the red tape would it be), I requested only outbound access to our bastion server's SSH. Since SSH is pretty standard, admins usually allow it fairly quickly.

There were also a few cases where non-HTTPS connections were also banned, so we set up an HTTPS proxy that tunneled the SSH reverse forwarding... But that's probably not needed in most cases.

New comment by bheadmaster in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

bheadmaster — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:35:40 +0000

How do you use -J to connect to a device that isn't publicly reachable?

New comment by bheadmaster in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

bheadmaster — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:07:10 +0000

There's an old blogpost I wrote at the time I came up with this method [0]. I think it contains most of the technical details.

Let me know if anything is confusing, I'll answer it here.

[0] https://paskozdilar.github.io/blog/entries/zero_code_ssh_jum...

New comment by bheadmaster in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

bheadmaster — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:05:58 +0000

How would you use ProxyJump with Reverse Forwarding?

New comment by bheadmaster in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

bheadmaster — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:15:12 +0000

If you have many different remote devices behind NATs or firewalls, a cool trick to access them all via EC2 server (or such) is to setup Remote Forwarding via UNIX socket on the server side, to devices' port 22. Preferably, UNIX socket filenames should start with a common prefix, so an SSH config can be written that will use ssh+socat in a ProxyCommand to establish the connection.

It's amazing how lightweight this method actually is. I have managed to connect hundreds of devices using a single EC2 nano instance.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

bheadmaster — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:19:22 +0000

Maybe superficially, but most of them are unbalanced, leading to a handful of meta builds being overpowered.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

bheadmaster — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:41:14 +0000

Meta-gaming is a natural progression in all human games. Chess players find "metas" like openings. It's just that video games are too simple and have very restricted meta set.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

bheadmaster — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:48:17 +0000

By themselves, they don't. But quantum probabilities are unique. They cannot be explained by missing information about local, pre-existing properties. Therefore, to maintain determinism, you are forced to accept extreme alternatives like non-locality (actions here instantly affecting the other side of the universe) or the existence of infinite splitting universes. If we reject those unobservable overheads, non-determinism is the most direct conclusion.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

bheadmaster — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:07:41 +0000

Any interpretation that asserts a deterministic universe must invent a "hidden" mechanism which causes the apparent non-determinism, and which we cannot measure nor predict.

By Occam's razor, it is more probable that the universe is simply non-deterministic.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

bheadmaster — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:22:31 +0000

Care to elaborate?

New comment by bheadmaster in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

bheadmaster — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:17:54 +0000

> Reality is non-deterministic (not actually, but in practice).

At a quantum level, it is also actually non-deterministic.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

bheadmaster — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:15:11 +0000

Sounds like a Death Note internal monologue.

New comment by bheadmaster in "I'm So Tired of Ads"

bheadmaster — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:08:34 +0000

What would constitute "consent" to being communicated information to?

With physical contact, speech can signal consent or lack thereof. How would you consent to speech itself?

New comment by bheadmaster in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

bheadmaster — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:07:27 +0000

> When you write Rust long enough you settle on certain architectures (message passing, event loops) that go well with the borrow checker

So basically Go?

New comment by bheadmaster in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

bheadmaster — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:21:48 +0000

> And if you have a local app, how do you take a dependency on whatever random model is installed?

Why not ship your own model? In the age of Electron apps, 10GB+ apps are not unheard of.

New comment by bheadmaster in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

bheadmaster — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:16:02 +0000

It will take a few years until scheduled data center construction finishes, and together with software optimizations that may come up in the meantime, it may cause a significant decrease in token price.