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Dolt – it’s MySQL but with git in it, so you can have version control in your database?! On AI: Risks and controls for multi-agent systems , report commissioned by the Australian federal government looking at how AI agents communicate across organisational boundaries. Agentic Code Review , an insightful look at why reviewing code is now the bottleneck in software development. canary , “a QA…
I’ve had some of these articles sitting open in Firefox for almost two years now wanting to write about them but it seems like it will never happen, so just to get them out of my browser and down somewhere for reference, here are a bunch of interesting links:
Unless I’m mistaken or have been doing it wrong for years: at some point in the last couple of weeks or months, Google appear to have changed Gmail so that you can no longer filter like: from:noreply@example.com and have it just give you emails ONLY from that specific address. You now need to do from:"noreply@example.co" otherwise you can … Continue reading "Gmail “from:” Operator Search Behaviour…
Two issues upgrading this server from Debian buster to bullseye:
Windows 10 lets you specify a folder for background images (Settings -> Personalisation -> Background menu), but by default it will only use the images in that base folder. If you have other folders in there in which there are other images, they won’t get included. You can trick Windows into loading a bunch of … Continue reading "Getting Windows 10 to Use All Images in a Folder for the Background"
I’ve had this issue on and off for the several months that I’ve owned a Synology NAS – trying to copy files greater than a few hundred megabytes in size, the file transfer will work for a few seconds, then the transfer rate will slow, stall, and eventually throw some connection error (which I forgot … Continue reading "File Copies to/from Synology under Windows over Tailscale Slowing and Stalling"
Had an issue recently on a relatively old Ubuntu server that had had a distribution upgrade between LTS versions. Months after the upgrade, I realised that at least some of the rsyslog log files were logging new lines to the .log.1 file, not to the .log file – for example, any new SSH logging was … Continue reading "logrotate causing logs to only log to .log.1 after upgrade to Debian 10"
I had to download a large (~60GB) Google Takeout file today; asking Google to split the file into chunks of 10GB resulted in this: I tried to download the file twice in the browser; both times it completed and then vanished from my disk drive. Then I was told I couldn’t download it again. So … Continue reading "Downloading a Google Takeout file with curl"
I am currently trying to resolve a small issue where some of our users need to work with a particular type of Adobe Acrobat form, built with an old form system called XFA. XFA allows users to create forms that can be submitted directly from within Acrobat Reader. You can send these forms out, have … Continue reading "The Mysteries of Remote Desktop"
I recently needed to recover some information from a PGP Virtual Disk (a .pgd file) that I created back in about 2012. This drive was created with PGP Desktop v8. After a long adventure, it turned out that the information I wanted wasn’t even stored in this disk, but it was such a hassle to … Continue reading "Resurrecting old PGP Virtual Disks with PGP Desktop v8"