Users without passwords

About fifteen years ago, while debugging a database probem, I was horrified to discover that we had two root users - one with the password I had been using and one without a password.

What am I missing about AI?

Last month I blogged about how the mainstream media is focusing on the wrong parts of the Artificial Intelligence/ChatGPT story.

Enough about the AI Apocalypse Already

After watching Democracy Now’s segment on artificial intelligence I started to wonder - am I out of step on this topic?

Cranky old timers should know perl

I act like an old timer (I’ve been around linux for 25 years and I’m cranky about new tech that is not easily maintained and upgraded) yet somehow I don’t know perl.

Electron doesn't like negative layout coordinates

I got a second external monitor. Overkill? Probably, but I like having a dedicated space to instant messaging (now left monitor) and also a dedicated space for a web browser (right monitor).

Doing whatever Gmail says

As we slowly move our members to our new email infrastructure, an unexpected twist turned up: One member reported getting the Gmail warning:

Web caching is hard

Web caching is hard. And also, maybe I’m not that good under pressure?

Fine tuning Thunderbird's end-to-end encryption

I love that Thunderbird really tackled OpenPGP head on and incorporated it directly into the client.

Deleting an app won't bring back Roe v Wade

In some ways it feels like 2016 all over again.

A very liberal spam assassin rule

I just sent myself a test message via Powerbase (a hosted CiviCRM project for community organizers) and it didn’t arrive.