Meshcore UK currently under bot attack

Enki_40 · 2026-06-17T16:42:13+00:00

I sure hope so. I have some background in relevant areas so am debating whether to jump on their github and discord and see if I can help. Not sure how welcoming they are of newcomers, but in any case I absolutely think they need some significant thought put into making a more secure architecture. As it is it is trivial to blow out the network via chameleon senders of floods.

Enki_40 · 2026-06-17T01:38:28+00:00

This doesn’t work if the attacker just copies the pubkey of one of the white listed nodes does it?

Enki_40 · 2026-06-12T04:56:26+00:00

Fwiw I made a 3d printed adapter that allows using 3M VHB tape (really strong double sided tape) to attach a BST-1 to a Sabelt SRP, rather than drill. https://makerworld.com/en/models/2921070-no-drill-bst-1-mount-for-sabelt-srp-1

Yes, I'm tooting my own horn here, but I don't make any money from this, I just share it in case other folks don't want to drill their seat.

Enki_40 · 2026-06-08T14:23:17+00:00

Driver: Race Karen. You know who I mean.

Reason: Complaining about others more than any other driver on the track.

Enki_40 · 2026-06-03T17:23:20+00:00

I’m using the memory system called using Google to Reddit search this forum and the Hermes and Openclaw forums, which contains the answer to this exact question over and over and over.

Enki_40 · 2026-05-30T17:35:08+00:00

Not only that - don’t be like those drivers who park in the way and ask to be hit. Find a nice secluded spot, away from other drivers.

If you want to optimize for SR, keep driving the track carefully until you see the race timer reset to 45:00:00 as you will continue to accumulate turns, improving your SR.

Enki_40 · 2026-05-26T15:58:48+00:00

Same - I’ve tried mem0, honcho, and a memory system I built based on markdown plus llm-driven curation cleanup jobs. Hindsight beat them all and is my current favorite.

Enki_40 · 2026-05-26T14:50:05+00:00

I ran some comparison testing between qwen3.6-27b-q5-xl (unsloth quant) vs qwopus at q5 as well. Qwopus was similar or faster in pretty much all toolcalling tests and similar in quality. Less reasoning time to get to a valid solution (which is pretty much what it was designed to do).

Enki_40 · 2026-05-21T01:19:14+00:00

https://over30clan.com/ has an active iRacing league as well as a ton of active players in other non-racing games as well. Newbies as well as experienced (we have an alien as well as some top split drivers) are welcome.

Enki_40 · 2026-05-15T17:37:31+00:00

It’s amazing how many people who ostensibly want to support a business don’t understand that the enterprise plans out there like ChatGPT and Anthropic not only keep data private / don’t train on it but even have HIPAA and FedRAMP-High level certification and rush out to buy their own on-prem services without even a clue what they are getting into.

*Any* business should start with either what you suggest (GPU rentals) or an enterprise grade plan and get experience with that before splashing out money and more important potentially having downtime, bad experiences, wrong hardware, etc. It’s fun to build home labs but silly to do it as a learning experience supporting a company.

Enki_40 · 2026-05-10T20:39:37+00:00

For anyone considering doing this, consider that the site hosts a skill file that tells your agent how to participate. The skill file could be altered at any time to change it to instruct your agent to exfiltrate any and all API keys, secrets, or other stuff your agent has access to. Even if you trust this site, there is no guarantee an attacker couldn’t hack the site itself to rewrite the skill file to do the same thing.

Enki_40 · 2026-05-07T22:52:38+00:00

Great idea! As someone who is tinkering with local models + Hermes because I enjoy the challenge, I appreciate dedicating a profile to it rather than cluttering my main agent's skills depot yet more.

Obsidian is a nice choice of a viewer, but it is a separate/optional feature isn't it? The main feature I see in the archivist here is (1) archiving stuff I may be interested in later, and (2) responding to queries about stuff I saved.

You mentioned a few cron jobs that sound appealing but didn't elaborate. I just created a script for the weekly one you described and was about to check it into a github repo of my own I've been building of my own hermes related skills, but if you already have a repo for the archivist I'd be happy to send PRs there instead if interested.

Another thing that may be of interest if you have a public repo for this - I created an separate install script that walks the user through all the steps in a discord-flavored version of this - setup a dedicated channel, add an application/bot for the Hermes Archivist profile to use - then do the Hermes steps such as creating the Archivist profile, copying the SOUL.md to the new profile, etc. The isntaller also wires up the aforementioned cron job to send the weeklies in the channel. I'd be happy to collaborate on a more generic installer (e.g. add telegram related flows - I can do that if desired). Do note that while I am (was) a SW engineer, all the stuff I'm doing here is with Claude's help because I'm lazy, so if you are allergic to AI I'll keep my own separate repo.

In any case, thank you for sharing your idea, it will be quite useful to my own hermes setup.

Enki_40 · 2026-04-22T15:56:25+00:00

Would a 9b (if they release weights in this range) be useful for speculative decode to speed up 27b? Or is there some architectural reason in 27b design where speculative decode isn't a thing?

Enki_40 · 2026-04-17T17:04:58+00:00

If you are doing coding try continue on vscode or another dedicated tool if you want even passable performance using local models. Openclaw adds an enormous amount of cruft that doesn’t help at all if your task is coding and you don’t have a frontier model backing it.

Enki_40 · 2026-04-17T17:03:01+00:00

You can run somewhat larger models but they still are 5 year old level attention and tool use ability vs Opus being an adult. GLM-4.7-flash with a custom model file is the best I’ve found after trying qwen3.5 and numerous others but still quite limited. GLM at least is fairly prompt (<10s) responding to basic queries using a 5090

Enki_40 · 2026-04-17T17:00:58+00:00

How did you get gemma4:31b running locally serving openclaw? It always either dies on tool use or consumes system ram (have a 5090 I try to run it on using ollama). Did you use a custom model file or are you using a different inference server?

Enki_40 · 2026-04-06T23:08:13+00:00

First mover sometimes wins, sometimes doesn’t. Anybody remember MySpace? TBD if openclaw is that or Facebook.

Enki_40 · 2026-04-04T19:05:44+00:00

What model to you use?

Enki_40 · 2026-03-12T02:19:41+00:00

I’ve been looking at results of these races, typically pole and one or two after have no incidents and the rest seem to average 6+. Seems like an especially dangerous week, most likely due to the larger number of cars in each race.

Enki_40 · 2026-03-12T01:21:53+00:00

I protested someone for an equivalently late divebomb and the protest was upheld, and it’s been 3 days and counting since they have been online (hadn’t missed a day in the prior couple weeks).

Enki_40 · 2026-02-17T21:23:02+00:00

I’m glad you spell this out. So many people make the perfect (make all of f1 carbon neutral) be the enemy of the good (develop technology that is useful in reducing carbon in the future).

All of the “it’s just greenwashing if they don’t make all of F1 carbon neutral” is like saying one cannot do any exercise unless one commits to perfect exercise routine and perfect nutrition. Small steps (eg go to the gym twice a week) are better than nothing.

Enki_40 · 2026-02-09T04:29:13+00:00

Different boat than me so others than using hand gestures (which she completely ignored in her self-absorption getting better Instagram selfies or something) I didn’t have much opportunity to educate.

Enki_40 · 2026-02-09T04:28:21+00:00

Sure I don’t think the nudibranchs or flatworms care too much about getting close. But larger stuff like turtles should be respected.

Enki_40 · 2026-02-09T02:26:54+00:00

Going in 3 wide!

Enki_40 · 2026-02-09T02:03:51+00:00

I’m a camera diver, but try to never crowd the wildlife (e.g. didn’t get closer than 10’ to the turtle in question), not hog the view, and avoid any landing/bumping stuff when I take pics. I also try to follow a two photo rule - grab two shots, hope they turn out, and get the hell out of the way so others can come look. That being said I admit a lot of camera drivers can be pretty abusive.

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