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I have to admit that it’s breaking my heart to watch a new generation of anxious parents think that they can address the struggles their kids are facing by eliminating technology from kids’ lives. I’ve …

The launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 20221 marks the beginning of the new AI era. We’ve had many AI cycles in the past going all the way back to 1966. However, the last year …

The government violates the privacy rights of individuals on pretrial release when it continuously tracks, retains, and shares their location, EFF explained in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In …

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Most hams seem to have a tendency to buy more handheld radios than they actually need. I've also bought a lot, kept some of them but also sold some of them. In my search for …

Alex Garland’s Civil War puts the front lines of his titular conflict in Charlottesville. The problem is that fact was already stranger than his fiction. Why Charlottesville? I am asked this often by people still …

It’s time again for another one of Tampa Bay Techies’ Saturday morning study groups! As usual, it’s happening at Joffrey’s Midtown from 9 to noon, and this one’s going to be focused on focusing on …

Joseph Cheriyan is on the faculty in the Combinatorics & Optimization Department of the University of Waterloo—see here. He is also an organizer of the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ray Fulkerson’s birthday (August …

This screenshot basically sums up “the internet as we know it”. For the past decade or so the social internet has consisted of a handful of websites that the vast majority of people frequented. The …

May 2021’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, April 2021 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.Note: I …

A recent change was announced to the NetBSD commit guidelines which amends these to state that code which was generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) or similar technologies, such as ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot or Meta’s …

I’m very excited to announce my first proper album: Melodic Guitar Music. It’s ten original guitar tunes, inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins. I’d describe the style as “Django phrasing + Chet …

How to set up a custom domain with a shared IPv4 address on Fly.ioFrom 1 February 2024, Fly.io stopped providing dedicated IPv4 addresses for free and started charging for these. If you don't need a …

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from …

This week I’m midway through my now-annual lecture series on folktales from the history of computing at AHO (the Oslo School of Architecture and Design). The idea is that I trace an admittedly idiosyncratic path …

If you've ever broken an ankle, gone through a procedure that immobilized part of your leg, or done anything else that required you to use crutches, you were probably very thankful for them. When you …

Here’s the latest installment in the series on working with LLMS: https://thenewstack.io/the-future-of-sql-conversational-hands-on-problem-solving/ I keep returning to the theme of choral explanations (#4 on my list of best practices), and it’s especially relevant in the SQL …

I've been working on Carl, my IMAP e-mail client, for the past few months. Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML video. You can download the video in H.264/AAC format instead. I need to work …

Incidentally, Becky and I just visited Matsuyama for the first time a bit over a week ago, so I was surprised (and delighted!) when RubyKaigi's head organizer Akira Matsuda announced that next year's event will …

Monitoring Zerto with Open source tools like Grafana and Prometheus The post How to visualize Zerto metrics using Grafana appeared first on Justin's IT Blog.