borg.org

I recently did something unusual, I created a substantial program, but I didn’t run the program before declaring version 1.0.0.

There is this idea that technology, the pseudo-intelligence we call “AI” being the hot trend, will become so sophisticated and powerful that it will take over and humans won’t understand what is going on.

Pet peeve: News people love the word “glitch”, every computer bug is a “glitch”, even in headlines were they are usually looking for short words, and “bug” is a lot shorter than “glitch”.

We are watching a program on Apple TV+ and it has venerable old actors in it who would know better, but there are flashback sequences, with young actors, shot by the B unit.

The news today was that thousands of pagers in southern Lebanon exploded.

I have always argued that using firewalls to protect computer networks is a mistake.

I realized that there is a very specific group of people out there (Hello!)

After many years (and a lot of dormant time) I moved my blog over to a new (and much cheaper) server.

Yes.

Everyone knows that a web server, for example, will be able to serve up a lot more traffic if it is written using Rust async code rather than straight OS threads.