IT mixology and other thoughts about tech, life the universe and everything
TL;DR The attention economy dynamics for AI chatbots and agents are very different from social media, and so we re seeing a whole new approach to capturing (and keeping) our attention. This comes down to fundamental human nature the strongest fuel for groups is outrage; and whilst it might burn dirty and contaminate everything around [ ]
TL;DR As Internet of Things (IoT) devices become more commonplace managing the risks they bring becomes more of a bother. I ve chosen to deal with this by having different network zones for different trust levels; implemented mostly with OpenWrt. But it s still a compromise where various security risks are accepted as OK given the effort [ ]
TL;DR If you re migrating between hosting services that both use Cloudflare then don t be surprised when you see the old site after cutting over DNS to the new provider. Your request is going into the new IP, but being served from the old cache. The old provider needs to be de-provisioned so that Cloudflare can [ ]
Pupdate The whole of July has been hot and sunny (more on that later), so quite often the boys have been having an early morning walk in the shade of the woods before it gets too hot. The apple tree seems particularly bountiful this year, so they ve both been enjoying the windfalls (particularly Milo). Bath [ ]
TL;DR The AI infrastructure bubble has reached a point where companies just can t actually spent all the money they might (notionally) have allocated. There might be money on a balance sheet somewhere, but good luck exchanging it for actual GPUs, or HVAC, or HVAC installers, or When the sums of money get large enough it [ ]
Pupdate The start of the month saw the raspberries coming out on the bushes in our garden, so Milo (in particular) got busy harvesting what he could reach (and barking at any birds that dared to come nearby). Max seems to be back to normal after his back trouble last month, and Milo has finished [ ]
TL;DR Conway s Law tells us that organisations create systems that mirror their communication systems. Jamie Dobson coin s Miell s Law in a post about the work of our mutual friend (and his colleague) Ian Miell in his forthcoming book Follow the Money : Organisations that design systems are constrained to produce systems that reflect the financial structures [ ]
Pupdate It was Milo s 5th birthday on the 12th, which meant a post about how he s getting on. Sadly Max has also needed to visit the vets, with (we think) back ache, which might be the dreaded Intervertebral Disc Disease (IVDD). He s been on reduced activity, so shorter walks, but thankfully seems pretty much back [ ]
Milo is five today, which he s mostly celebrating by snoozing on the office sofa behind me. He s nearing the end of his fourth (modified) CHOP protocol, with just over 4 weeks and 3 more vet visits to go. Since going into remission at the start of the year things have proceeded mostly uneventfully, which is [ ]
TL;DR There s an aspect to the web user interface of Sodola switches that s far from obvious, and not documented :/ When setting up trunk ports it s necessary to select all the VLANs that will be carried, and the default is only to select VLAN 1. Background I m starting to accumulate a small selection of things [ ]