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Language Detection Basics Language detection usually operates on the basis of giving some text to answer the question of "What language is this text in?".

The Access log Format The access logs are written as text files with one independent JSON object per line for each request. level: log level, set to info for most requests, sometimes error ts: Timestamp of thee request, format is configurable logger: An i…

At 39c3 I visited with one main quest: Talk to as many beings who have anything to do with search engines as possible.

SQLite is permissive by default SQLite is famous for working with the absolute minimum of data specification.

What this post is about This post is abut the claim of: We need a sovereign European search index!

Why be Polite on the Web?

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What this is about This is a guide on how to install a Forgejo-runner on alpine Linux using rootless Podman running as its own user.

The Problem On 2025-04-08 element HQ released the update for synapse 1.128.0.

An Article I Think is Worth Reading Outrage Warps Reality How mass paranoia and uninformed outrage will hurt the Fediverse, and what we can learn about the drama regarding VLC's AI and Google's newest service.

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How Search works Articles that dive into how a Search Engine works under the hood.

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Why combine S/MIME and LDAP?

What is xdg-settings?

TIL: This thing is very useful IMHO … what ???

What am I Talking About If you've been shell scripting for some time you have most probably seen the following construct: [ -n "$something" ] && foo This runs the foo command, but only if $something isn't empty, a very useful and common thing to check for…

What is Templating?

Why this page exists Many things in our world interoperate because they are standardised.

What makes your shellscripts break?

Just like a real Railstation this page gets you to a lot places, the only differences are that you don't need a ticket and don't have to wait.

What happened?

Pinout of the ATmega328P and how it maps to the Arduino UNO R3.

What and why?

XPath is a way to select tags from an XML Document, it works a bit like a File-path and a bit like a CSS-Selector.

Atom and XSLT what?

Most Problems I had with Smartcards or Security Tokens just boiled down to missing packages.

SQL Query Anatomy Most databases don't like it when the SQL clauses are out of order.

Setting Up Before starting to use git one should take the few minutes to set it up.

last time we took apart xdg-open, the freedesktop file-opener and found out that xdg-mime provides the mapping from file to application.

What is xdg-open ?

What is the problem?

Environment variables are basically inherited, named arguments to processes with a huge impact on how a Linux or other *nix systems work.

What is Fontconfig?

ANSI Escape sequences are some standardised byte sequences that make most Terminals do some thing other than just printing characters on screen.

Null or zero termination or separation is when one uses a null byte to separate records, which is different from the newline usually used in shell pipelines.

What is Unobtanium?

This page intends to give an overview what kind of projects out there are open source (or preferably free software) making use of speech recognition without relying on some well known cloud providers.

Scanning Under Linux one can scan an image with the scanimage command provided by the SANE framework.

Why I created slatectx To put my usecase and workflow in a few sentences: What I'm mostly doing is editing textfiles, writing code, configuration, notes and so on.

You may or may not have heard of NAT, Network Address Translation, here is how it works, why you don't want it and why you probably have to use it anyway.

Accordion elements on the web seem to be everywhere and almost everyone seems to implement them in a way that only works for the well sighted user with a modern browser with JavaScript enabled.

In General While IPv4 and IPv6 have different terminology, they share some concepts.

Overview Visit echoip.slatecave.net This service was born out of a combination of wanting to learn rust, not being very happy with the echoip service by mpolden which had some features missing that I wanted in my echoip service.

A serial port (i.e. for programming a microcontroller) can have multiple reasons why it is not working.

While arduino-cli is an awesome tool, unfortunately most guides skip right past it and assume you use the Arduino IDE, this page is a collection of common patterns for arduino-cli.

How To Read Resistors Color Value Multiplier Tolerance Black 0 1Ω Brown 1 10Ω ± 1% Red 2 100Ω ± 2% Orange 3 1KΩ Yellow 4 10KΩ Green 5 100KΩ ± 0.5% Blue 6 1MΩ ± 0.25% Violet 7 10MΩ ± 0.10% Gray 8 ± 0.05% White 9 Gold 0.1Ω ± 5% Silver 0.01Ω ± 10% Resistors…

Overview This script uses fzf hooks to make it possible to search with "live" result preview for manpages or RFCs, it also contains some experimental special syntax logic which is supposed to be used for filtering sections of manuals but that part doesn't…

Note that these are mostly about IT and (I think) well known podcasts.