"The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss." -Sparrowhawk
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mjones (@numinit) retweeted
Excited to announce that I'm launching a new startup, @LilithSemi , together with Sebastian Kraus! 🚀
With Lilith Semi, we're building open-source tools for hardware development and security-critical infrastructure.
Our first release is Chock, a security-first harness for AI coding agents.
Since 2026, AI agents have become good at tasks beyond simple web development. As companies start dealing with real workflows, enterprises, especially in regulated industries, are becoming more conscious about how they handle sensitive data.
I've been dealing with supply chain security for a while, and one thing I've learned is how important it is to work with safe AI harnesses. When you're dealing with sensitive data, the risk simply isn't worth it.
That's why Chock sandboxes AI agents in a using standard sandboxing primitives.
We're currently working on micro-VMs as the next step.
👉 Check it out: chock.ws
And if you're at NixCon 2026 in Kraków, come find us and let's talk.
#AISecurity #AIHarness #SupplyChainSecurity #DeveloperTools #OpenSource #NixCon2026
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Opus 5 guesses at what the Lontium LT8912B drive strength registers do and fixes HDMI output on a badge with a mismatched ground plane. When pressed on why it came up with the magic undocumented values, it says it made them up
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One minor seam in this plan — and that's on me.
Report: US almost boarded Chinese ship over hallucinated AI arms report arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/r…
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The amount of esoterica I have discovered in the past few weeks about the Sophgo SG2000 Cortex A53/RISC-V C906/C906L/8051/TPU core complex is astounding. It has been mind bending to attempt to mainline drivers into NixOS on a chip this haunted
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mjones (@numinit) retweeted
If AI companies actually thought Al was existentially dangerous, they would be doing a lot better job with their sandboxes
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"let us monitor your activities for you, it's for your own good"
i won't lie to you, i think open source will be banned before too long after some major disaster. and when the day comes, you'll agree with me. i hope kimi and deepseek etc keep making models but keep them monitored on an api where they should be
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streaming tormentedradio.com over wifi and bluetooth on the nixbadge
look ma, no wires!
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mjones (@numinit) retweeted
my #nix #nixos #nixpkgs magnus opus:
fzakaria.com/2026/09/04/any-…
Go try it out, live now: trynix.dev/
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Round 3. Having trouble debugging TrustZone because something is setting SPIDEN (Secure Privilege Invasive Debug ENable), or it's just high by default. RISC-V was easy sauce and is a much more poorly hardened platform :)
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