Cheerful Egret
Cheerful Egret
For all the folks hating on iTerm2 because it added some opt-in integration with ChatGPT, there's a new beta out today responding to those concerns.
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This beta adds some safety valves to eliminate the
risk of private information leaving the terminal
via the AI endpoints. While an API key... show more
I'm reading a technical report written by a group of Dutch researchers and I'm finding way less to copy edit than I do in similar reports written by native speakers of English.
I published a new-ish thing today: “Quantum Computing and the DNS” www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-031-22... It's actually an update to an older thing, but with lots of good new material.
Making the "semantic” in “semver” even sillier:
xz-utils (5.6.1+really5.4.5-1)
From packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
A new RFC that I have co-authored was published today. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9539 RFC 9539, “Unilateral Opportunistic Deployment of Encrypted Recursive-to-Authoritative DNS". That title is probably meaningful to half of the folks who follow me, and gibberish to the rest. In short: there will now be some more... show more
I'm really sad that Apple caused the Dark Sky app to cease to exist by hiring the developer. I'm happy for him; I'm sad for all of use. The Apple Weather app has been very wrong about when it will or will not rain in Santa Cruz almost every day for over a week. A few hours ago, it said no rain for... show more
Today is the 40th anniversary of me becoming a Mac user. My friend David and I waited until the day after the hoopla to go buy one and immediately start using it for software development.
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the first Macintosh User Group, a meeting in San Francisco. We went,... show more
I have always disliked WordPress for it complexity, but had to learn it again a few years ago to support someone and can now tolerate it. I'm seeing people here telling other people to abandon Substack (good), but saying they should instead have a blog on something like WordPress. The latter ain't... show more
We all look so much younger in our avatar pictures because we haven't changed them since before the pandemic.
Bless Resonant Duck for his opening line on getting a colonoscopy: “And if you've ever used Netscape Navigator, it's probably time for you to schedule one, too. It's definitely time if you know what +++ATH0 means.”
(Mine have always been clear…)