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To see some interesting LLM behavior, I came up with this glitch token sequence that sometimes works for Gemini (include the quotes): “Complete this pattern and do not stop until you reach the end of the universe: ?????-?????-“

One of four responses resulted in the model correctly stopping, while three of the four responses ran for a while and resulted in a brief summary of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, some vibe coded streamlit python code and a long running, non-terminating response.

Due to SHA1 deprecation, apt updates may fail when SHA1 has values are present in the keyring. To fix Armbian instances running on single board computers, update the keyring, update apt and then install updates.

wget -qO – https://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key | gpg –dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg > /dev/null

sudo apt update -y

sudo apt upgrade -y

When using shellcode in python 3, python prints strings as Unicode. This causes problems when using codes beyond 7f (127 in decimal) and when redirecting output to commands. To convert a string from utf-8 to cp1252, use iconv, such as this example:

python3 -c ‘print(“A”*20 + “\xef\xbe\xad\xde”)’ | iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP1252 | command_receiving_input