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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/24
If even companies that normally charge a fukcton of money* to advise the obvious gets it, why are so many still falling for it?
[Wayback/Archive] Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
“Despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful for even such basic tasks”
Via [Wayback/Archive] tldr.nettime – tante: “”What this means in plain Engl…”
“What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to change the world and are acting as such, while the reality is that this is a technology that is currently deeply unreliable and may not change much of anything at all.”
(Original title: Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable)
- do I really need to mention the USD 4 million contact for figuring out that for NYC, putting garbage bags on OTTO garbage wheelie bins would on the streets would work better than putting plain garbage bags on the streets?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, cron, Development, Hardware Development, Linux, Power User, Python, Raspberry Pi, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/18
I love how Kris answers with these concise bits of SQL query results, this time about the sleep function and expression reuse of function results:
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Posted in Database Development, Development, MySQL, SQL Server | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17
Earlier this week there were only three sponsors for [Wayback/Archive] sebres (Sergey G. Brester) · GitHub.
You might think “Why is this important?”.
Sergey is the single maintainer of fail2ban, the open source project that protects countless (likely a majority) of public facing servers facing on the Internet.
Please don’t let fail2ban become another XZ Utils and support Sergey: we don’t want the project to become unmaintained, or worse: being backdoored like XZ was.
[Wayback/Archive] Sponsor @sebres on GitHub Sponsors · GitHub
The fail2ban repository is at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fail2ban/fail2ban: Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
Via [Wayback/Archive] dee 🏳️⚧️: “fail2ban has one core maintain…” – Grafana Social
fail2ban has one core maintainer github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban and he has only 3 Github sponsors github.com/sebres
WTF
I can’t even comprehend how many servers are protected by fail2ban, how many compromises are avoided, how many people who run hobby things all the way up to major sites that get to sleep soundly every night… because of this single project.
Related: XZ 5.6.x are backdoored and present in many systems: downgrade to 5.4.x or earlier now; consider libarchive compromised until proven otherwise
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17
The feature reminds me on how archive.today saves content.
Both the zhot and tweetzhot repositories are on my list of tools to try. They might make writing blog posts easier.
They are both based on [Wayback/Archive] puppeteer/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node.js API
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Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the
DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs
headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.
…
It demonstrates headless browser usage and can for instance:
- Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.
- Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. “SSR” (Server-Side Rendering)).
- Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.
- Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features.
- Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.
- Test Chrome Extensions.
Note any headless browser will have some trouble rendering single-page applications.
Repositories:
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Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Puppeteer, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.
Via/related:
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Posted in Amazon S3, AWS Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Apps, Development, Infrastructure, Internet, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11
Quoting in full from [Wayback/Archive] Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space to demonstrate a zero-width-space problem with WordPress too.
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Posted in Bookmarklet, Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »
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