Very cool article on using the venerable telnet command. (Be sure to check out the home page as well.)

https://bash-prompt.net/guides/telnet/

Hi @Johncdvorak the AI fear mongering is probably because, with a few dominant players, it's time to pull up the ladder and lock out any subsequent competition.

This process is being accelerated because the assumption is that all queries will be to the AI (rather than search engines and such). Very few, easy to control -> only government sanctioned answers.

@Johncdvorak sorry to hear about your newsletter e-delivery hassles. If you composed on Wordpress, those of us using RSS would see it without middlemen. There's a plugin to auto-push to the Fediverse, and another to push to email (which could be Mailchimp).

I know, you're still living with the Mailchimp pain, but it's a start in moving people off an increasingly broken system.

There's a new trend in written thoughts--I just unsubscribed from Cliff High and Vinay Prasad. the former dumped out a ChatGPT-written essay because he didn't have time. The latter pushed out an essay written by ChatGPT, and didn't label it as such until later.

If you, a human, can't be bothered to write or draw it. Then I, a human, can't be bothered to read it or look at it.

Fuck off.

#ai #chatgpt

We are SO watching John Wick 4 tonight!

A really nice writeup on finding a deadlock during process shutdown in Linux. If you want a quick overview of the tools available, keep a copy of this article for future reference:

https://netflixtechblog.com/debugging-a-fuse-deadlock-in-the-linux-kernel-c75cd7989b6d

An article on cell phone cost--he has a hard ceiling of $250:

https://www.theverge.com/23719879/smartphone-price-budget-pixel-7a-editorial

While I agree with the sentiment, my current daily driver is holding up shockingly well at $90:

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/nokia-2780-flip

Props to Wouxun (maker of, among many other things, ham rigs). I plugged my "brick on a leash" into the charging cradle and seated my rig to charge it up. I finally noticed it was flashing red. Did that mean charging? I left it overnight. Still flashing red.

Turns out I plugged in a 18v supply, it wants 12v. Oops. I found a proper supply for it, and it's working.

Wouxun designed their charger to detect too-high voltage input, and flash a warning instead of burning out. I appreciate that!

A large scale survey on autoimmune disorders, showing a population prevalence of 10%. While looking for environmental and lifestyle correlations, I notice one common area of medical treatments is left entirely unmentioned.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_952084_en.html

Speaking as a Trekkie, this fan's creation of digital models of all the Enterprises is amazing:

http://roddenberry.x.io/