Author Archives: Anton McClure

LLMs Shouldn’t “Answer” About Real-Time Anything

They need to stop it from “answering” anything about real time events. For another example, I tried going to SDF and noticed my SSH connection attempts immediately failing. Some additional commands showed some more info. If the cdn.redhat.com pings weren’t … Continue reading →

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A Good Case for Making Search AI Summaries Explicitly Opt-In

Hey hi! You’re wrong that the Web site you cannot connect to at all is down as an irrelevant out-of-date cache of a downtime indicator said it was online several days ago!” (Gemini’s output in a nutshell) Google Gemini is … Continue reading →

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Photos: St. Mary Church in Akron

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The following photos have also been uploaded on my userdir at ocelot.aperware.com. If you are going to link to them, please do so from the copies there rather than here. The photos were originally taken following the 1PM mass. Judica … Continue reading →

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Hey Hi, The Future Is Now?

GitHub claimed over 50% of code was now being done with LLM tools. Further information shows that is not exactly the full story. The Vervint article in the introduction there says: “GitHub’s own data shows that while Copilot might suggest … Continue reading →

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Ohio Notes is Not a Tech Blog

What would be the point of being a blogger about tech when there’s already better tech journalism than I’m able to reasonably provide? A lot of the on-line tech spaces comes with the baggage of left-wing politics, though. If you … Continue reading →

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Rustaceans Are Going After OpenBSD Now?

So, on the OpenBSD Ports mailing list, David Uhden Collado appeared with an interesting request: add the Rust Rewrites of the GNU CoreUtils with conflicting names, despite their known incompleteness and bugginess. Thankfully, Theo de Raadt didn’t immediately cave like … Continue reading →

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Testing 2

This is a test of my return to weblogging. The main difference is that it is now on a new domain name, and isn’t self-hosted anymore. The 2022 articles that weren’t just old Web site specific announcements have been partially … Continue reading →

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Tech Optimism and Pessimism, When Extreme, May Harm You

There are the “tech optimists”, which are the people who believe that technology is great, and it will make the world a better place. There are also people known as the “tech pessimists”, which are people who believe things ranging … Continue reading →

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Petition Web Sites Should Stop Spamming Messages

In the past month, I’ve received hundreds of emails and occasional texts, all because I signed a few petitions. To help try and get support, too many of them would write names of politicians in the “to” field. Tons of … Continue reading →

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Testing

Welcome to my new experiment in weblogging. THIS IS A TEST of the blogging software. No action is needed.

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