Last year a report found that isolated indigenous groups have been found to have lives just as happy as many groups in highly developed nations. The lead author stated “I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis.”
Continue reading “Encouraging News for Mathematically Minded Environmentalists”Have you seen the robot floor scrubbers?
Today I noted something I hadn’t seen before in a store I don’t often frequent – a floor scrubbing machine was roving around the aisles among the people, beeping and flashing a light, with no person riding or controlling it. These BrainOS devices apparently integrate in to regular sweepers, with addition of some sensors and a marked off, blocked off seat (saying, don’t hop up here and try to control this 🙂 And they have been doing so since 2018?
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Last year, the well known Diaspora node Diasp.org announced it will be shutting down… April 2025. Reasons stated include liability for anything posted within a server an administrator controls, and maintenance and the disk space growth and general expectation that the service should be more like other social media companies.
Continue reading “One week until Diasp.org shutdown – have you downloaded your data?”Bluesky vs Twitter – how many are really moving from the X?
In the past months many have moved away from a well know social media company that has been said to be degrading over recent years.
I had never done much on the Twitter other than testing and integrations for coding, and browsing news and accounts. So I thought it interesting that recently an open source alternative of Twitter reached mainstream. Let’s see how popular it is – among some of those accounts that have both an X and Bluesky account:
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2024 Year in Review
2024 brought some very timely articles to our readers…
Continue reading “2024 Year in Review”Escaping planned obsolescence with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Within the last decade, many things have got faster and better, with more memory, more power, more efficiency. However some things have not gotten better – like some of the limitations of versions of Apple software and their hardware they leave behind at times.
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If you have had a very old Ubuntu/Linux server that you had recently noted does not receive security updates (without paid subscription), you may have certainly looked in to the pros/cons of creating an entirely new server of a newer Ubuntu, vs Ubuntu upgrade process. There may be more advantages than you think, to start an entirely new droplet:
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There has been much research in recent months making LLMs give helpful and useful information. Unfortunately it is often wrong or inaccurate. Today I show how some simple tasks for radio amateurs are given back with incorrect information in Claude, ChatGPT and Bing AI assistant:
Continue reading “AI Attempts at Ham Radio Help”Laravel update breaks Eloquent queries
Laravel is generally known to be compatible from minor release to minor release, but a recent update breaks many queries and has been reported by several coders!
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