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I'm assuming they mean an SVG.


Outside of the article's mentioned graphics development, there is no reason to isolate an agent using actual hardware. I threw together this script[0] using libvirt to give claude its own graphical desktop env to be able to do user acceptance testing with Chrome. It has full root and can do what ever. If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds.

0: https://gist.github.com/smith153/04b4068b5a2d7b234f1c3d5992d...


Nice. I just have

  sudo useradd agent

  sudo su agent
So it can blow up its own files, but not mine.

It was also doing some kind of headless Chrome stuff in there. I don't know how that works, but it was taking screenshots iirc.

I did also set up VNC at some point but didn't find it worth using.

>If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds.

This is also true of a $3 VPS, where I found it very amusing to give my agent root. What's the worst that could happen ;)


Patiënt zero, that’s what :-)


You can run macOS in a VM guest on a Mac host; Apple explicitly allows this.


This is neat, and thank you for sharing!

I've been wanting to set up something exactly like this for my own use, but... You know, time is limited.

This is just enough scaffolding to have a little project for Monday morning!


I also have a light weight cross platform virtual machine with egress filtering if you're looking for an even more batteries included approach.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm


There are many ways and tools on linux to get a "VM" up and running. But with libvirt you can easy script out what the initial environment and network stack is. The heart of it is just running the 'virt-install' command, but as you can see I've got a bunch of other opinionated stuff going on before that.


Nice to give Claude their own blue bubble iMessage. Can be done in a VM of course if you have the capacity, but old Apple hardware seems to accumulate for many.


You mean you had claude throw together a script because this is heavily generated. Lost interest after about 250 lines, it's just tiresome reading through this incoherent amalgamation


I don't know what sort of shell scripts you've had to review in your day... I used to get far worse shell scripts, assuredly


Yeah bro, you can just use AI!


Yes, this


Me right now


> on the other hand, the ransomware groups that want to stay in business need to be honest

I was thinking about that the other day. Honestly I'm not sure it matters. I feel like if a company didn't pay the ransom that would possibly open them up to lawsuits or something because they "tried nothing". At least paying it makes it look like they did something and could be some sort of legal defense. But again I'm not a lawyer.


>probably just a dirty contact or something

I have a Leopold with MX brown keys. Bought in 2012. Last year the left ctrl (or maybe left alt? can't remember) started to sometimes not work. I took the back cover off and the soldering job was horrid everywhere. And on that key the solder was mostly non-existent. I touched it up and a few others. All good now.


What is wrong with just using a compass??


A compass doesn't work well in polar regions, e.g., if you're flying from the US to the Soviet Union.


The website is solid black on Firefox mobile for android. Maybe they should get an agent on that.


Anthropic's website is always completely broken for me on Zen (a firefox derivative). I used to think it was an extension, but even without extensions it often just shows blank pages.


Same for me in firefox and chrome. I'm sure it's one of the DNS block lists I have and some really crappy marketing tracking code.

Edit: confirmed, loads with a public DNS provider that has no blocklists.


Works fine here, also on Firefox mobile (149.0.1) on Android 16.


Posted 23 days ago: (Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298183


> The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to analysis from TD Cowen, the job cuts are expected to free up between $8 billion and $10 billion in cash flow — money the company urgently needs to fund a massive buildout of AI data centers.

Interesting that they admit that the layoff off is due to a pivot from software to hardware.


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