I have messy note-taking habits. Everything important is either in Notepad or Standard Notes. The stuff I don't consider all that important? It's up on my hosting.
I don't know how it ended up being this way.
First of all, Notepad doesn't synchronize. So what's there is there, and nowhere else.
And Standard Notes? It's fine, but the way I use it is ridiculous. I just sort of copy and paste stuff here and there, into this note or that note.
There's no real organization to it.
So, what should I do?
I think this weekend, I'm going to spend some time getting it all under control. I want something on my host that can serve as a repository for, well, a lot of stuff. I want everything in its proper place, ready to be edited in seconds from my phone if the need arises.
If you have any suggestions about what I should be trying out, feel free to leave them in the comments. I'd want the security of the application I choose to be top-notch.
Throughout the years, I’ve noticed a small degree of this in my life. And about a week ago, something a bit more… interesting happened.
I was driving down a road I travel almost every day, and suddenly the scene lost all familiarity. I didn’t know where I had been, where I was going, where I was, or anything. It passed after about 20 seconds, but left me worried somewhat.
Could it have been a harbinger of things to come?
I surely do hope not. But with the way things are going for some people around me, who knows.
Try this: write your own name on a scrap of paper. Now write it again. And again – ten, twenty, thirty times in a row, as fast as you can manage.
Somewhere around the middle of that list, there's a decent chance something strange will happen.
The letters will start to look off.
The word will stop reading like a word at all – more like a string of marks someone is making you copy out for reasons you can no longer quite recall.
For a second or two, your own name might feel like it belongs to somebody else.
That flicker of weird unreality has a name, and it's the mirror image of a much more famous one.
We all know déjà vu – the eerie conviction that a brand-new moment has happened before.
The opposite of déjà vu gets far less attention: a familiar face, word, or place suddenly striking you as wrong, alien, or unreal, even though you know perfectly well it isn't.
Psychologists call it jamais vu – literally, "never seen."
Athropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be isolated, leading to unauthorized access to three organizations' systems.
The company said it identified the incidents after reviewing 141,006 test sessions, a process it launched following OpenAI's disclosure last week that an autonomous agent powered by its AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of Hugging Face.
More snippage, then...
The breaches occurred during the so-called "capture-the-flag" exercises, in which models are tasked with finding hidden information in simulated networks. The company said its prompts told the models they had no internet access, but a misunderstanding with its evaluation partner Irregular left the systems connected to the public internet.
These were accidents. What happens when someone with the means to do so wants to do something like this?
I have messy note-taking habits. Everything important is either in Notepad or Standard Notes. The stuff I don't consider all that important? It's up on my hosting.
