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Archive for July 8th, 2026

Paul Schoe: “… Many people confuse the benefits of automation with a perceived need for AI or LLMs …” – Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/08

The very to the point post [Wayback/Archive] Paul Schoe: “@dentangle You are totally c…” – Mastodon

You are totally correct.

Many people confuse the benefits of automation with a perceived need for AI or LLMs.

They don’t want ‘intelligence’ to do things for them. They want to implement a set of rules that they themselves define, to be done automatically instead of having to do it themselves. That is automation.

was a response to a more precise post [Wayback/Archive] Brett Sheffield (he/him): “I see people recommending LLMs repetitive tasks …” – chaos.social

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Generative AI, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Full logging of the HTTPS connection in your browser – jawj/subtls: A proof-of-concept TypeScript TLS 1.3 client

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/08

This is cool: [Wayback/Archive] jawj/subtls: A proof-of-concept TypeScript TLS 1.3 client showing both the bytes and the decoded meaning of the data structures they form.

A demo is at [Wayback/Archive] https://subtls.pages.dev/

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

Based on / related:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, SMTP, TCP, TLS, Web Development | Leave a Comment »