To be able to automatically turn on and off a projector from my jukebox , I recently purchased an Irdroid Infrared Transceiver v3 . On my laptop it shows up like this: usb 3-5: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd usb 3-5: New USB device found, idVendor=04d8, idProduct=fd08, bcdDevice= 0.02 usb 3-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 3-5: Product: USB…
This newsletter: How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization caught my eye on the fediverse today . It makes a sound argument for calling all things AI by what they are, instead of the - in the beginning cutesy - anthropomorphised terms that seem to have settled in. It is fun, word-wise, to pretend that computers and programs are people, but at some point it can start to…
.... the BioPython project is contemplating the problems with Large Language Model-generated code. Peter Cock put it pretty well: I on the other hand rather hope the current AI-assisted coding boom is just a passing trend, and will be looked back on like asbestos The more you think about it - it's a pretty good analogy.
Now that GNOME has disabled the middle mouse button pasting , I am left wondering what clicking the middle mouse button does instead by default? How do you paste with the mouse in GNOME now? Is that a keyboard-only activity? So I literally have to move my hand from they keyboard to pick up the mouse, select the text I want to copy, move the mouse to where I want to paste it, and then move my hand…
In January I added a new jail to my fail2ban configuration: apache-aibots . It's a simple regular expression match of two AI crawlers that do not respect robots.txt . Because of course they don't . This evening I noticed that there was a bunch of hits to my demo calendar website from these AI crawlers, and they weren't getting blocked. Oh no! I haven't figured out why fail2ban started failing me -…
Novonesis has an open position for a project manager and developer in the department I work in: Senior Platform Lead, (Scientific Data Applications), Novonesis, Lyngby . If you like working with a lot of data (billions), distributed over a lot of machines (50+), processed by a cluster of even more machines (1000s of cores), with scientific stakeholders, keeping things on track and making sure we…
In case you are trying out my NNTP-based blog engine Lantern with Gnus, here are some useful parameters to set on your Lantern topic/groups: ((message-syntax-checks '((long-lines . disabled) (quoting-style . disabled))) (posting-style (eval (auto-fill-mode -1))) (message-shoot-gnksa-feet '(cancel-messages canlock-verify))) I also have a hook to change the Content-Type: to text/markdown in the…