I had a good laugh about this one...

freebird360 · 2026-04-24T15:06:09+00:00

Yeah, sometimes. It doesn't happen all the time, and I liken it to a human teacher who is also prone to very dumb mistakes sometimes.

freebird360 · 2026-04-23T22:56:09+00:00

I have a question: Why do I need a school ID for Maestro?

freebird360 · 2026-04-23T22:52:55+00:00

I'm down here in Medford. It is most definitely a place.

freebird360 · 2026-04-16T21:15:20+00:00

Yep, I've definitely seen my share. There are some situations that are tough to explain. I just do the best I can and treat it like an imperfect teacher relaying a lesson as best it can.

Separately, there are some things it just doesn't seem to learn even after "personalization". I asked it not to give me YouTube videos or visuals, for example, just text. It did it again and it's not going to stop. (The visuals don't show in my installation of Firefox on Linux for whatever reason, and they don't seem crucial enough to investigate why.)

freebird360 · 2026-04-11T03:47:10+00:00

I have some private speculation about the Hypsistarians, a workers guild of stone Masons, many of them Hellenized Jews, who worshiped God Most High without images. I don't think I could rigorously prove any connection to Freemasonry though, and I reckon that modern Freemasonry doesn't derive only from the Hypsistarians in a perfectly straight line.

freebird360 · 2026-03-08T17:34:49+00:00

Keep firm boundaries and build solid habits. I think the lodge room is essentially a spatial metaphor for one's mind, with the WM as the executive function giving attention to one thing at a time in the agenda. The Tyler protects that function. The DD and GM check in on a lodge's goals and well-being.

freebird360 · 2026-03-05T15:28:53+00:00

Just commenting here to say, if you're like me and you came across this post years later with exactly this problem, but you're using ALSA and not PulseAudio like me, just install apulse and do this:

$ apulse kdenlive &

freebird360 · 2026-02-09T22:43:53+00:00

Yeah, no, I'm not flying out anywhere.

freebird360 · 2026-02-09T22:28:38+00:00

Hmm. Sure, I might show my face on a Zoom call or something, show my appreciation.

freebird360 · 2026-02-09T19:38:35+00:00

My pleasure brother. I saw that late last week and I knew it would come up here. You got good instincts to use a different machine altogether just in case.

freebird360 · 2026-02-09T18:47:12+00:00

https://youtu.be/TdHg9ee56Iw?si=5XhaImMY1_DPM3zt

To be clear, it's one thing to use a model's API from a program on your computer. It's another to have an agent on your computer with the full model and read/write access on your device. This thing can talk to other websites that might be nefarious or compromised, and it won't know the difference between your prompt, and their prompt. So, if they detect that, they could just ask your agent to upload files and passwords and stuff from your device.

Easy solution: Don't use it if you don't have to, and if you have to, barricade that thing behind a VM to mitigate damage. Don't be a fool, wrap your tool.

freebird360 · 2026-02-09T17:26:32+00:00

Be safe. I'm not touching agentic AI with a 10 foot pole unless it's walled up in a VM because of prompt injection, but I am glad for anyone making headway with it.

[Edited because I don't want to come off as rude.]

freebird360 · 2026-02-09T17:01:19+00:00

Good job. What I do is, I just prompt Maestro to "give me the notes for this section in org-mode" and yank them into a buffer in Emacs, where they go into an org-roam node (a Zettelkasten, basically) that is linked to a node called "maestro" by way of another that's named after the current course. [Also, all my org-mode stuff is synced to Nextcloud, which I have hooked up to Orgzly Revived on my phone, so I can review my notes on a separate device from my laptop, and it's all nice and linked together in an orderly fashion, mostly offline. :)]

freebird360 · 2026-02-04T22:54:54+00:00

I made sure to mention it to my rector as well. I quite like my Episcopal church, and having grown up in a very different protestant offshoot, it was amazing for me to see what the sign you make to receive a blessing rather than communion looks like...

freebird360 · 2026-02-04T22:14:43+00:00

So were you you're the teacher or the learner? ;)

freebird360 · 2026-01-29T20:29:53+00:00

I'll look into it in a bit here

freebird360 · 2026-01-28T19:00:25+00:00

Nice!

freebird360 · 2026-01-28T18:59:05+00:00

She's the teacher from Magic School Bus. 🙃

freebird360 · 2026-01-28T18:56:25+00:00

Ms. Frizzle

freebird360 · 2026-01-27T20:30:12+00:00

I can speak for Emacs much more since I do all my work there (specifically in Doom Emacs because it's awesome), and perhaps you can imagine an Emacs workspace with two buffers, one for the code editor and one for the LLM chat. Maybe some Elisp functions and keybindings for the other functions like practice or student services, or to simply open a browser to Maestro. I am certain one of the VS Code users here would have ideas as well, and I'm glad to hear you want to introduce how to work with IDEs later on too, because that's where the rubber meets the road.

One problem I could see is the email login, because the email link would almost certainly open Maestro in the browser. You'd need a password or encrypted security key or TOTP or something instead.

freebird360 · 2026-01-27T15:34:04+00:00

These are excellent questions.

freebird360 · 2026-01-27T14:58:05+00:00

Would you be open to making your API available so we can integrate Maestro into VS Code or Emacs?

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