Marco Fabbri mrfabbri

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

Create system drive

qemu-img create -f qcow2 alpine.qcow2 16G

Install image

Linux

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

References from my talk 'Without Resilience, Nothing Else Matters'

Hardening the USB Armory

As a good crypto nerd, I usually use an entirely encrypted linux FS: / but also /boot using grub LUKS support. It's a good setup but it's not perfect, the BIOS and the bootloader are not protected.

I recently got a USBArmory and I wanted to apply the same (or a better) setup.

I found some useful links but no clear howto. So this is my setup.

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import usb.core
	import struct
	from collections import namedtuple

	APPLE_VID = 0x05ac

	Target = namedtuple("Target", ["vid", "pid", "name", "model", "total_size"])

	#!/usr/bin/awk -f

	# This program is a copy of guff, a plot device. https://github.com/silentbicycle/guff
	# My copy here is written in awk instead of C, has no compelling benefit.
	# Public domain. @thingskatedid

	# Run as awk -v x=xyz ... or env variables for stuff?
	# Assumptions: the data is evenly spaced along the x-axis

	# TODO: moving average

	# LVDB - LLOOGG Memory DB
	# Copyriht (C) 2009 Salvatore Sanfilippo <[email protected]>
	# All Rights Reserved

	# TODO
	# - cron with cleanup of timedout clients, automatic dump
	# - the dump should use array startsearch to write it line by line
	# and may just use gets to read element by element and load the whole state.
	# - 'help','stopserver','saveandstopserver','save','load','reset','keys' commands.
	# - ttl with milliseconds resolution 'ttl a 1000'. Check ttl in dump!

	#!/boot/bzImage

	# Linux kernel userspace initialization code, translated to bash
	# (Minus floppy disk handling, because seriously, it's 2017.)
	# Not 100% accurate, but gives you a good idea of how kernel init works
	# GPLv2, Copyright 2017 Hector Martin <[email protected]>
	# Based on Linux 4.10-rc2.

	# Note: pretend chroot is a builtin and affects the current process
	# Note: kernel actually uses major/minor device numbers instead of device name