One thinks there’s only one problem, but then when one looks, here’s more than one. Here’s what needs to be done and what I have done before.
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Deepseek or alternatives locally
Ideally, a distributed node in a network.
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sudo on raspbian
I have/had a problem; I suspect that my cron jobs were asking for permission to run which since they were batch programs is not the desired behaviour. I have done some googling, and think it maybe related to the sudoers file, i.e. additional command are needed. At the moment I have turned cron off and…
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The GIT credential manager
The need for this went away as they implemented gh auth login. I moved the following words from using github to here. It should be marked deprecated.
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Some thoughts on AI
Is there an alternative architecture? Can we build distributed open source rules bases? What is the learning layer? Some notes and links …
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AI & Search
There is some stuff written about how Google struggles between offering a great customer experience and profitability, but AI is changing that. Here are two articles that address Google’s continued anticompetitive behaviour, and AI become an interlocutor for search.
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Where are the chips made?
There’s probably a joke about British and American use of the word chips here, but in this article we are talking about silicon chips. Here is some stats I took 1½ years ago on which countries make them, taken from Wikipedia.
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GB Energy
What is this? How will it help the cost-of-living crisis? …
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Date (Use & Access) Act
A new law, good or bad? This article is a bit better now. is nowhere near finished, come back later.
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Scripting on the raspberry pi
This post talks about scripting on raspbian. I have two problems, cron and privilege and running a java script …
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UK/US Technology Partnership
Announced with a palavar, here are my notes & links. More to come.
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IT Sovereignty
Various things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS).
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Broken Links
As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.
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AI and images
I have been playing with AI image generators. See my notes …
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Copernicus & Brexit
The European Space Agency celebrated its most recent launch of a Copernicus Sentinel Satellite, which made me wonder how Brexit had impacted the UK’s participation in the EU’s space programmes. This post looks at what I found.
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