Pete's activity stream. (Sometimes not chronological.)

2026-06-17T06:25:17Z

pete commented Jun 17, 2026

> After further investigation and on the advice of [@pete](https://github.com/pete) from the Zulip chat (who analyzed it in much more detail than I…

2026-05-15T04:12:17Z

pete commented May 15, 2026

> [@pete](https://github.com/pete) ***@***.***> i did review the detailed posts, lot in there and find it complicated to respond. @sureshnaps I thi…

	#!/bin/rc

	# "The hell was that?"
	# A substitute for mashing the error message into a search engine:
	# · Reads /dev/text by default; see -i and -a.
	# · Tells the clanker to explain what the hell is going on.
	# · The clanker attempts to explain what the hell is going on.
	# · Dumps some stuff in /tmp to debug and also to integrate with other
	# local tools.

	# Plan 9, obviously (See also: https://stream.debu.gs/?id=1696 ), and
	# clankers have no idea what the hell they're doing if you show them Plan 9
	# stuff but I rarely say "What the hell was that?" on Plan 9, and sshing
	# to a Linux machine from a Plan 9 machine means I can use the Plan 9 UI
	# niceties, so I usually talk to Linux via Plan 9 anyway. The advantage
	# for playing with clankers is that nearly everything in Plan 9 is a text
	# stream.

	# You could probably do something like this that runs on Linux by getting
	# the contents of your terminal's scrollback out of screen/tmux/whatever and
	# doing a similar transformation and piping it through. emacs. I don't know.
	# It's certainly possible to get this information.

	# I think it might be kinda fun to have a clanker sit there and do running
	# commentary in one acme window on whatever's going on in the active window.
	# I'm currently just playing with it, but I can `tail -f` a log file and
	# tell the clanker to look at that window (by doing something like, e.g.,
	# `the-hell-was-that -i /mnt/wsys/wsys/11/text`, or /mnt/acme/$id/body)
	# and it will usually (usually) respond with something sensible. The
	# `dixq` model that it defaults to is qwen3-coder with a custom prompt,
	# nothing fancy. (If you've read Neuromancer, you can probably guess what
	# the name means.)

	rfork en

	out=/fd/1
	host=aku:11434
	diag=/dev/null
	temp=0.65
	input=/dev/text
	window=auto
	model=dixq:latest
	# Conservative; English prose is 3-4, code is 2-3, CJK is 0.5(!).
	# Empirically, at 2 it blows out the context window.
	tok2byte=1.5

	while(! ~ $#* 0){
	switch($1) {
	case -a ; input=body; shift
	case -i ; shift; input=$1; shift
	case -e ; out=/fd/1; shift
	case -h ; shift; host=$1; shift
	case -m ; shift; model=$1; shift
	case -t ; shift; temp=$1; shift
	case -w ; shift; window=$1; shift
	case -W ; shift; window=auto
	case -r ; shift; tok2byte=$1; shift
	case -v ; diag=/fd/2; shift
	case ; echo bad args: $ >[1=2]; exit usage
	}
	}

	if(~ $input body) {
	~ $#winid 1 \|\| exit winid
	cd /mnt/acme/$winid \|\| exit no
	}

	if(~ $window auto) {
	# Attempt to use the current context_length to avoid thrashing:
	window = `{hget http:// ^ $host ^ /api/ps \|\
	tee /tmp/last-ollama-ps.js \|\
	gojq -r '.models \| map("\(.name) \(.context_length)\n") \| join("")' \|\
	awk -v 'model=' ^ $model '$1 == model{print $2;exit}'}
	if(~ $#window 0) { # Fall back to defaults:
	hget -p '{"verbose":false,"name":"' ^ $model ^ '"}' \
	http:// ^ $host ^ /api/show > \
	/tmp/last-ollama-show.js
	pfx = `{gojq -r .details.family < /tmp/last-ollama-show.js \| tee $diag}
	window = `{gojq -r '.model_info["'qwen3'.context_length"]' < /tmp/last-ollama-show.js \| tee $diag}
	}
	}

	bytes = `{echo 3k $window $tok2byte 'p' \| dc \| sed 's/\..//'}
	body = `''{tail -^$bytes^c $input \| awk -v 'w=' ^ $bytes '
	BEGIN{
	# Give it the date so it doesn''t say "All these log entries are
	# from the future! Something is terribly wrong here!"
	"date -t" \| getline date
	preamble = sprintf("This is the output of a terminal session. The current time/date is %s. What the hell just happened? Explain what you see and what is going on; make sure to respond in English. If there are errors or warnings, make suggestions; otherwise, just try to help understand what''s going on.\n\n", date)
	}
	{f=f $0 "\n"}
	function fix(str) {
	if(length(preamble str) > w) {
	str = substr(str, 1 + (w - length(preamble str)))
	}
	str = preamble str
	# For whatever reason, \ and " behave differently in substitutions.
	gsub(/\\/, "\\\\", str)
	gsub(/"/, "\\\"", str)
	gsub(/\n/, "\\n", str)
	gsub(/\t/, "\\t", str)
	for(i = 1; i < 32; i++) {
	gsub(sprintf("%c", i), sprintf("\\u%04x", i), str)
	}
	return str
	}
	END{
	printf "prompt: %s (%d), w: %d\n", f, length(f), w > "' ^ $diag ^ '"
	printf "\"prompt\":\"%s\"", fix(f)
	}
	'}

	wopt = ''
	if(! ~ $window 0) {
	wopt = '"num_ctx":' ^ $window ^ ,
	}

	bpl = '{"model":"' ^ $model ^ '","stream":false,"options":{' ^ $wopt ^ '"temperature":' ^ $temp ^ ',"top_p":0.9,"stop":[""]},' ^ $body ^ '}'

	echo $bpl > /tmp/last-ollama-payload.js
	echo http:// ^ $host ^ /api/generate → $model > $diag
	echo ' ' $bpl > $diag

	hget -p $bpl http:// ^ $host ^ /api/generate \|\
	tee /tmp/last-ollama-resp.js \|\
	gojq -r .response > $out

	gojq -s '[
	{role: "user", content: .[0].prompt},
	{role: "assistant", content: .[1].response}
	]' /tmp/last-ollama-^(payload.js resp.js) > /tmp/thehell.js

Pete's activity stream. (Sometimes not chronological.)

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Ask your computer what the hell just happened.

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Change the dep for older Go

Verbose build for the fluoride systems

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