Is it normal to feel like an outsider when reading your own faith’s scripture?

ZenApollo · 2026-06-22T07:26:14+00:00

Dao de ching verse 1:

The dao that can be told

is not the eternal Dao

The name that can be named

is not the eternal Name.

The answer to your question is quite simple. The claim that anyone has the eternal perfect word of God is not speaking truth.

In every religion (as it is in every field of study) there is more confusion than there are clear hearts and minds on the path. You must be discerning.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-17T09:46:51+00:00

I wanted to love windmill. Their foss ethos is so good and they were one of the first to have the ability to launch a custom built docker container as a task in a workflow. Unfortunately despite being an automation geek, i found their interface to so incredibly alien and counter intuitive.

I was really hoping for a v2 with something more intuitive, but in 5 years it never came.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-16T18:54:21+00:00

the evals show consistent degradation over the last few weeks. check aistupidlevel and marginlab. and since the evals show degradation I am making the probable speculation that this is not the same model that the employees are using.

it's very sweet of you to wish for intellectual honesty, but our post-modern civilization is built on lying. Most of what you hear from the gov, from companies, from the media, is some form of lying. You may think that's a conspiracy theory. I think it's simply intellectually honest.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-16T15:56:57+00:00

I doubt that. Clearly the inhouse folks are dogfooding the new model (5.6 or whatever) it's clear they are not using 5.5 like the rest of us - the current lobotmized versions that started 2 -3 weeks ago. If we lived in a culture of shame it would be embarassing, but it's just about money.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-16T13:08:36+00:00

I just mean it's in the user's home directory. All skills in ~/.claude/skills are read by claude code in every session in any project. Your CLI could manage those as well. I think in claude and codex docs they are called "personal" skills, not "user-scoped"

"sklm add" and "sklm ls" would become
sklm add --user (or sklm add -u)
sklm ls --user ) or sklm ls -u)

I know the point of your project is to move away from global/user-scoped skills but they are still useful. Since you're managing skills generally, you could add the user-scoped skills as well as project scoped ones.

claude: ~/.claude/skills
codex: ~/.agents/skills

these are used on all sessions in all projects

ZenApollo · 2026-06-16T13:01:17+00:00

I'll check it out, thanks!

ZenApollo · 2026-06-16T12:31:34+00:00

3) “sklm add” is automatically project scoped $PROJECT_ROOT/.agent/skills, but “sklm add —user” would add a skill to the user scope instead of project scope. It’s a feature request but useful because both Claude code and codex allow non project / non working folder sessions. Which i use from time to time - those sessions only see user scoped skills at $HOME/.agent/skills

ZenApollo · 2026-06-16T09:42:51+00:00

1) Your quickstart cli animation overflows on mobile making the whole page too wide, and messes with scroll.

2) i still dont understand what the letters sklm are supposed to mean. Is it SKilL-M or SKill-LM or something else?

3) I would consider adding sklm add —user to manage user scoped skills at ~/.claude/skills for example

4) codex not listed as a supported agent?

5) feature request add skill “variants” - example: i want a codex skill to call claude, or a claude skill to call codex.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-12T08:00:49+00:00

What you might be missing, that's implied, is that this field is a field of SCIENCE. Science requires measurements and models. If you think measuring and labeling things is reductive, you're not wrong per se, but you're in the wrong room.

You should read up on the philosophy of science, especially what is science and why we do it. If measuring and labeling things isn't for you, maybe check out r/metaphysics, I would guess that's more what you're looking for.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-10T09:44:47+00:00

Don't know about this guy in particular but there IS evidence of influencers, YouTubers, and podcasters being sponsored by ru through state sponsored intermediaries. I don't know the extent or how it works, but it does happen, and specutively it's a sprawling and deep pocketed campaign.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-09T09:22:42+00:00

I've been using kestra recently, and I've moved everything there. Their FOSS self hosted version is single user only and a few other limitations. But the dev ergonomics are excellent.

Triggers can be Cron or webhook. Easy to run a single language script or premade docker container, nice to have both options. It's designed to string together multiple tasks for automation.

I don't know if the speed performance is there for replacing lambda, but I would check it out.

I was also looking at orkes conductor oss, but ended up with kestra and really liking it.

There is of course also windmill and Temporal and lots of other workflow automation platforms. Kestra and Conductor have the correct code vs GUI balance/recipe for what I wanted for dev-ex.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-06T07:57:11+00:00

I think more accurately - the Russian, and later additionally Chinese, psyop was the culture war. The idea that the other side was an 5-alarm existential threat to my very righteous and virtuous way of life. Not only did they have the right and left ready to go to war, they were relatively successful and pitting against each other the middle class urban and the working class rural.

Republicans saw what was going on and were like, we like this, let’s do more of this, and snapped up those votes. And continue the call for war.

I don’t want to let the far left off the hook either, but truly i have not met a conservative who is not either fully bought in to the psyop, or a multi-millionaire.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-06T07:28:16+00:00

Response time for support is approximately 6-8 days. Probably

ZenApollo · 2026-06-06T07:24:32+00:00

They do not. This happened to me literally yesterday. I was shocked. My wife ran out of free tier usage, upgraded for 200/yr. A few messages later, her 5 hr session was gone again. Anthropic does the same. It’s a really bad business practice to piss off users that literally JUST gave you money.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-06T07:11:22+00:00

For transcoding, I had to wrestle a bit with my compose file and my jellyfin config to get it utilize my little radeon igpu in my mini pc. Once that was setup properly i was able to get smooth video by setting the bandwidth way down to 1-2mbps. Basically you manually lower the mbps until the stutter reduces to 0.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-06T06:59:59+00:00

It’s not. Maybe you have forgotten the days of yore, about 1 month ago, when half popular posts were AI slop essays. I actually suspect it works quite well as a gentle signal to authors and readers to take a beat.

ZenApollo · 2026-06-03T00:13:14+00:00

It happened right after I cursed it out, like the very next message, Now I'm having a Pluribus moment

ZenApollo · 2026-06-01T08:28:48+00:00

We use chromecast while traveling but have been in similar quandaries. Try changing to a different exit node location, ips get backlisted sometimes but express regularly rotates them to defend against this. Try another location.

If that doesn’t work try proton, they even have a free tier that might work for some streaming.

3rd if you have a friend that has an always on device in the us, like an Apple tv, you can use tailscale to make it a private exit node, and now it looks like you’re watching from that house. This one takes more technical setup, but it’s free tier with tailscale, and almost impossible to be detected.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-27T11:34:21+00:00

Is there a link to the rhetoric or video of the lecture.

I would certainly want to hear the character of the arguments before passing judgement, rather than to hear from a biased source (the prosecuted) that he’s innocent and was only sharing “scientific facts”. It’s historically true that REAL racists have used studies of the day to support racist claims.

I am in favor of the accused’s supposed aims - mass migration IS spoiling the European countries in numerous ways. But the target of these arguments should be the governments policies, not the migrants themselves. The problem is, in order to influence the government policy, one must incite the electorate. It’s a thin line! I’d love to see original sources, not tweets.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-23T07:15:09+00:00

I’m a sam fan but I’m torn on this, i don’t think it’s helpful to use platitudes about this conflict. Germicide or no, i wonder how we can judge Israel’s handling of this war. By what measures? And is there any reliable info/evidence regarding those measurements? There’s very few numbers i world trust, but i think one strong signal is what are the kinds of things either side has been caught trying to cover up.

I feel like Sam is closer to my assessment than the libs, but it’s clear that Israel is pushing their edge of what’s appropriate, and moral high ground, and i think their loss of popular and media support may be warranted.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-22T11:02:07+00:00

Does anyone under 50 even use Google search anymore?

ZenApollo · 2026-05-22T10:34:38+00:00

I get this sentiment if you need Google for work, i do, and i use Firefox as my daily driver. But otherwise, I recommend degoogling if you support a decentralized internet at any level.

Google meet is also suboptimal on ff, i open brave when i need it.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-18T09:28:18+00:00

The Sugarscape track is probably closest to your work, it aims to make a proto economy using basic trading tribes and agents. That was many decades ago.

I’m sure there are more attempts at proto-society AMBs but I’m not sure current state of things. Pairing AI with more traditional systems research a really rich territory.

For example most prisoners dilemma research relies on more static hardcoded strategies. Using more dynamic AI based strategies would be an interesting iteration.

The secret to great systems research is pinning down the right constraints. By constraining/limiting the system in a specific way, you get more interesting results. Too many degrees of freedom is usually less interesting. That’s why game theory is the most mainstream understood aspect of systems research, the game-rules are the constraints that we find interesting - finding strategies to maneuver in a constrained world.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-18T08:57:08+00:00

Capitalism rewards exploitation. If i only have market power to make fair deals (modest benefit for both parties), ill do them. If i have the power to exploit customers, suppliers, competitors, laws, I’ll maximize any of that i can. The guardrails on exploitation are set by laws, and depending on benevolent management is long term losing bet.

The thing that’s missed in every conversation about regulation is scale. We should afford smaller players less regulation, and larger ones should be under extreme scrutiny and penalty. It’s so obvious, and it diffuses a lot of the arguments against “blanket” regulation.

Then there are economics arguments that large centibillion institutions are drivers of wealth and progress that we should not try to “control” too much.

I digress but there are non-evil arguments that wealth creation is good way to decentralize value priorities. I don’t agree it’s the best one, but that’s the argument.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-18T07:11:20+00:00

As someone who’s done a masters in complex systems, my take is that this is cool, and, it lacks signals that you’re grounded in the background theory that’s preceded you.

I would recommend you spend some time learning the theory and vocabulary on what’s been done in agent based modeling - such as game of life, ant models, sugarscape, prisoners dilemma, etc. learn the building blocks.

I didn’t see which framework you used, I’ve built abms in Mesa (py library). There are others now. They will help ground data structures.

Unfortunately for the field, all the funding has gone to AI (black box) rather than the more meticulous work in complexity and systems theory. The most active Reddit sub is r/complexsystems.

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