Category Archives: Technology

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

Posted on October 6, 2026 by Anton McClure

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 You’re wrong that the Web site you cannot connect to at all is down as an irrelevant out-of-date cache of a downtime indicator said it was online several days ago!”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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Hey Hi, The Future Is Now?

Posted on October 1, 2026 by Anton McClure

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

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Anton McClure

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?

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Anton McClure

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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Tech Optimism and Pessimism, When Extreme, May Harm You

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Anton McClure

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

Posted on August 13, 2022 by Anton McClure

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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