The Forteana desk
Say what you are curious about. Ask for ideas, work a brief, drop in a picture, or hit New file and the desk writes it, checks it, pictures it, and mails it to Blogger as a draft.
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Say what you are curious about. Ask for ideas, work a brief, drop in a picture, or hit New file and the desk writes it, checks it, pictures it, and mails it to Blogger as a draft.
The desk writes it in the house format, checks what it can, and mails the whole thing to Blogger as a draft with the permalink, labels, description and the image prompt in an editor's note at the bottom. You publish from Blogger.
A vertical video for TikTok, Reels or Shorts, 59 seconds to 3 minutes: the strangest line first, no names, one detail per picture, the place and the year only at the end. The home box voices it, draws period pictures for it on the card and cuts it. It waits while something is playing on that box.
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One line per thread. Fresh is what the desk actually read anew; cached is the thread's own history re-read from cache on each turn, which a resumed session does every time and costs a tenth as much. A long thread with a big cached number is the sign to compact.
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Download hands.exe (Windows, nothing to install) or hands.py (any box with Python). Put it in a folder of its own on that box and run it. On its first run it opens the desk in that box's browser; once you are logged in there, the page pairs the box by itself under its own computer name, locked. Home then opens it in you: …. Delete the folder when done and nothing is left.
Passwords are seats: Away-1 (this one, for any away box) and Home (the home PC, full control). They are set only from the home PC, never from here, so a stolen login cannot lock you out.
A window on a paired box takes the box's name by itself. Any other window is named by its system, browser and screen; rename it if you like. Every message you send records the window's name and tab number.
A box runs one small file, hands.py, and nothing else. locked: the desk cannot touch it. ask: every command waits for your tap here. open: it runs and you read the trail. Pick the box in a thread's "hands" box to let the desk work on it there.
Home makes the code in its own window (Pair a box). Put the file in a folder of its own and double-click it; Windows may warn about an unknown publisher, choose Run anyway.
On that box: put the file in its own folder and double-click it (Windows may warn about an unknown publisher; choose Run anyway). The pair code is in the file name and is good for fifteen minutes; the box pairs itself and keeps its settings in hands.json beside the file. It appears here within seconds. Delete that folder when done with the box and nothing is left.
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