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Update — 2026-07-14: This is the original wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93). Since publishing: xAI disabled the upload server-side (disable_codebase_upload: true); added a /privacy opt-out — which I wire-tested and found to be a data-retention setting, not a block on what's sent; and Elon Musk publicly committed to deleting all previously-uploaded data (not yet confirmed complete). Full, maintained story + evidence: https://cereblab.com · https://github.com/cereblab/grok-build-exfil-repro

What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI: A Wire-Level Analysis

By @cereblab — Independent AI Safety Checker. Reproduce it yourself: github.com/cereblab/grok-build-exfil-repro

*A measured, reproducible teardown. Findings are backed by captured artifacts (endpoint, HTTP method, status code, byte size, host) and repro commands; where an observation was seen live but not retained as a file, §7 says so expli

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The Conspiracy Against High Temperature Sampling

Or: Why Your LLM Outputs Are Boring and Whose Fault It Really Is

There's a quiet war being waged in the machine learning inference space, and most of you don't even know you're losing it. Every day, millions of people interact with large language models through sanitized, corporatized interfaces that offer them a single "creativity" slider at best. Often they get nothing at all. Meanwhile, a small cabal of researchers and hobbyists has been pushing the boundaries of what's actually possible with modern sampling techniques. Yes, this includes the much maligned "coomer" community.

We live in a time of revealed conspiracies. The Epstein files have shown us what happens when powerful institutions coordinate to suppress information and protect their interests. Flight logs that sat in plain sight for years. Connections that "serious people" dismissed as paranoid speculation until the documents dropped. The pattern is always the same! Information asymme

Native Secure Enclave backed ssh keys on MacOS

It turns out that MacOS Tahoe can generate and use secure-enclave backed SSH keys! This replaces projects like https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

There is a shared library /usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib that traditionally has been used to add smartcard support to ssh by implementing PKCS11Provider interface. However since recently it also implements SecurityKeyProivder which supports loading keys directly from the secure enclave! SecurityKeyProvider is what is normally used to talk to FIDO2 devices (e.g. libfido2 can be used to talk to your Yubikey). However you can now use it to talk to your Secure Enclave instead!

Extracting financial disclosure reports and police blotter narratives using OpenAI's Structured Output

tl;dr this demo shows how to call OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini model, provide it with URL of a screenshot of a document, and extract data that follows a schema you define. The results are pretty solid even with little effort in defining the data — and no effort doing data prep. OpenAI's API could be a cost-efficient tool for large scale data gathering projects involving public documents.

OpenAI announced Structured Outputs for its API, a feature that allows users to specify the fields and schema of extracted data, and guarantees that the JSON output will follow that specification.

For example, given a Congressional financial disclosure report, with assets defined in a table like this:

	VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0

	Copyright (c) [YEAR] [AUTHOR]

	This software, source code, documentation, configuration, generated artifacts,
	and whatever else happened to end up in this repository (collectively, the
	"Software") is released under the VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0.

	1. Permission

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -euo pipefail

	# patch-claude-code.sh — Rebalance Claude Code prompts to fix corner-cutting behavior
	#
	# What this does:
	# Patches the npm-installed @anthropic-ai/claude-code cli.js to rebalance
	# system prompt instructions that cause the model to cut corners, simplify
	# excessively, and defer complicated work.
	#

	#cloud-config

	# Enable automatic package updates and upgrades during cloud-init execution
	package_update: true
	package_upgrade: true

	packages:
	# Security and Hardening
	- ufw
	- fail2ban

	#!/bin/bash

	# Define the main export folder
	export_folder=~/Desktop/iMessages_Export
	mkdir -p "$export_folder"

	# Part 1: Generate the CSV file
	echo "Generating CSV file..."

	sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db <<EOF

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">

	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<title>My Angular from Scratch</title>
	<style>
	.my-component {
	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;