Computers IRL #12
[NB: 70 degrees is 70°C or 158°F and not 70°F!] Yes another example of AI misbehaving: PocketOS's company database deleted by AI despite instructions to require confirmation before executing any…
Computers IRL #11
As seen on a Köln, Germany U-Bahn: No image found. The URL on the right takes you the description of the digital improvements completed on the public transport system: modern…
Societas Non Grata
As an outcome of losing its US anti-trust case, Microsoft was forced to allow users to easily choose and install non-Microsoft browsers , the judge ruling that Microsoft had illegally…
Productionizing My ADS-B Feeder
Overview Last September I started feeding ADS-B traffic to FlightRadar24 and FlightAware using a Raspberry Pi and a customized image. An antenna was first mounted on our 2nd floor deck…
Letter Writing and Digital History
Mom wrote a letter to Grandmother when I was nine months old, thanking her for baby clothes. [Gotta love the AIR MAIL: despite the trials and tribulations of the United…
CVE by License Plate
Unlikely the car itself represents a real CVE but my curiosity got the best of me: what are 905 CVEs? Let's query and find out! There are 26 distinct CVEs…
Computers IRL #10
The Athletic, the online sports section for the New York Times, posted a long article about John Harbaugh's first thirty days as the coach of the New York Giants. The…
Computers IRL #9
From The Independent: United Airlines warns of a planned system outage. United is upgrading (upgraded?) their reservation system, which included (I believe) moving data centers, requiring an outage during which…
Backend Graph DB for Custom File System
This post is based on what I learned implementing Neo4Jfs, a customized Java file system built with a graph database (Neo4J) backend. In this post, I'll identify the challenges in…
AI Learning
No question, I am a library nerd: I'll wander through the shelves, grabbing, random seemingly interesting bound periodicals or journals to glance. The truly interesting finds are taken to a…