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. How did that happen?

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? In any event, I made the following mistakes while trying to debug a web site using our nginx cache that bit the dust under heavy load today:

FINE TUNING THUNDERBIRD'S END-TO-END ENCRYPTION

I love that Thunderbird really tackled OpenPGP head on and incorporated it directly into the client. I know it’s been a bit rough for some users, but I think it’s a good long term investment.

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. Wait, nope, there it is in my junk folder with a spam score of 6!

LVM CACHE SURPRISES

By far the biggest LVM Cache surprise is just how well it works.