Sysadmin In The LLM Age
Continue reading “Sysadmin In The LLM Age”
Bots and Blocks
Recently Rob Knight posted on his block that Perplexity AI is lying about the user agent they are using to access sites. WIRED later confirmed this. To which Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivasan responded with a big ol’ “eh the robots.txt is not a legal framework” which I read as a “there is nothing stopping us so we’ll do what we want, fuck you”.
Continue reading “Bots and Blocks”WWDC 2024 Keynote Thoughts
It has been a minute since I did my best tech blogger impression so I thought Apple’s annual developer conference keynote was as good of a topic as any to stretch that muscle a bit.
I’ll arrange these topics in the order the keynote presented them. The keynote is available here.
Continue reading “WWDC 2024 Keynote Thoughts”macOS: Not Quite Home
I have always prided myself on having a certain plasticity when it comes to using computer operating systems. Having spent time with Windows, macOS, and Linux and often switching between the three made sure that I could get work done on any of those.
Continue reading “macOS: Not Quite Home”Apple and the DMA: Sheer Contempt and Malicious Compliance
My original plan early in the week was to write a blog post about 40 years of Mac and my history with the Mac. A bit of waxing nostalgic about computers from my past along with thoughts about the Mac as it stands now. I even had a whole bit planned where I talked about the McIntosh apple and what an apple cultivar is as a way to introduce the topic.
Continue reading “Apple and the DMA: Sheer Contempt and Malicious Compliance”