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Written by Mike Loukides on 2025-01-13 at 21:56

Yeah, I'm not a Linux admin, but I feel your pain. My one big software accomplishment is a ham radio logging program that kept everything in an easily greppable one-line-per-record format. For various reasons, I went to someone else's open source program--which stores everything in a database. And can be serialized in an inscruptable "standard" format that's sort of a bastardized xml. (We love angle brackets, don't we?)

Give me grep anyday.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2025-01-04 at 18:05

Backyard murderbird! Immature red shouldered hawk. #birds

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2025-01-01 at 20:07

Another periodical gripe about Apple, xcode, and licensing: Surely it's a violation of the GPL to require me to agree to the xcode license to use GNU Bison? I find myself forced to agree to this license every few months just to use some software that Apple had no role in developing.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-12-26 at 15:35

Reading about how AI solves captchas better than humans. I've never been fond of captcha, BUT--as an alternative--how about captchas that AIs can solve, but humans can't? Like "what are the letters" in which the letter color is indistinguishable from the background color to a human?

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-11-12 at 14:49

Last night at about 2AM, I saw the brightest meteor I've ever seen. Looked it up this morning, and we're at the peak of the Taurids.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-11-05 at 18:42

Voted early for the first time (this is the first year it's been available in Connecticut), and now I don't know what to do with myself on Election day...

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-10-23 at 15:15

Excellent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2024/oct/23/ta-nehisi-coates-interview-palestine-kamala-harris

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-10-19 at 16:57

Yeah, that's precisely it. I like the hardware (though I have an Android phone), but the software is increasingly a problem.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-10-16 at 20:18

I'm not a M$ fan, but the way system updates are handled on Windows is so much better than on macOS. A few minutes instead of a half hour or more; no need to log in partway through. Somewhere along the way Apple lost its clue. (And not just wrt updates, but that's what I'm bitching about now.)

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-10-10 at 18:39

Random technobabble: I'm on vacation in PDX, and noticed that my phone is on 5G. Signal is good. So I did a performance test (I only have 4G LTE at home).

5G is worse on all metrics (latency, download, upload.)

Not sure how to explain this, except that I've always believed 5G was seriously overhyped. Anyone want to make bets on 6G?

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-09-15 at 23:13

A good way to test them is to use something like a first generation iPad.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-08-21 at 14:35

Merlin thinks Sharp-shinned or Coopers. Both are good possibilities.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-08-21 at 14:28

Feeder birds! Probably immature red shouldered hawk on a feeder pole.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-05-29 at 22:24

Red Banded Hairstreak on the deck. Tiny little thing, maybe half inch tall. Guilford, CT--about at the northern end of its range.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-05-29 at 12:05

What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs: Excellent advice for AI developers. First of three installments. By Eugene Yan, Bryan Bischof, Charles Frye, Hamel Husain, Jason Liu and Shreya Shankar.

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-we-learned-from-a-year-of-building-with-llms-part-i/

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-04-23 at 18:44

Insane project that I'm not taking on, but would like to know if anyone has: Has anyone tried to map dependencies between open source (or even commercial) projects? (Interested in the context of xz and supply chain attacks)

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-04-13 at 14:00

Is there any way to tell Win 11 permanently that I do not want any of Microsoft's OneDrive (etc) crap?

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-04-09 at 22:07

BBC article: Myanmar's army massacred Rohingyas. Now it wants their help https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68730994 I'd like to understand this phenomenon. My grandfather was conscripted into the Turkish army during the massacre of the Armenians and Greeks. He deserted (ending up in the US.) He died young, so I never heard his story--just the family myth. Is conscripting the people you're killing a thing? Perhaps so.

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-04-08 at 19:24

Eclipse! Guilford CT, about 10 minutes before maximum

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Written by Mike Loukides on 2024-04-08 at 17:35

Saw a pair of red-shouldered hawks mating in the yard. Going to be hawk babies! (Though I thought this was very late for them.)

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