Category: Technology
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions() options.add_argument('--headless') driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options) from…
By tadyas
Forget Snap and Flatpak, I use Vivaldi tarballs
The advantages/disadvantages of classic tar packages Back in the old days (long before Snap, Flatpak or AppImage), if a software producer wanted to offer a "universal Linux package" they would offer a tar package…
By ruario
Does Mastodon Have A Future?
On 2024-09-23 I read that another Mastodon instance is calling it quits. StrangeObject.Space will shut down at the end of the year. You can read their post at…
By publicwolf
AI: for good or ill?
I've just finished reading a rather fine book on this topic. It's called AI 2041 and is a book of short stories with accompanying essays on this rather important topic. The authors are Chinese/American experts on the…
By travellinbob
AI Programming has completely missed the mark
I recently read an article about outages from AI generated code, and I have read similar stories in the past year about failings in quality metrics when AI generated code is used. When I was researching Developer…
By lonm
A comprehensive review of common search engines
Hello and welcome to yet another technology-fuelled rant from yours truly! Today’s topic is search engines, those little websites all browsers use that allow you to find other websites, given a query by the user (that’s…
By willuk
The Machine Readable CV
In applying for a job, I've come to realise something is missing in online job applications. A machine readable CV format.…
By lonm
Un Semplice Omaggio
Grazie ad Austin Kleon ho scoperto questo fantastico sito-archivio…, che riporta praticamente tutte, ma proprio tutte le musicassette vergini messe sul mercato...
By palmbeach
Master vs Main - Building Better Branches
A few years back some of the bigger tech companies decided to start changing the terminology that they use to make it more incluse and accurate. In many cases I think these are good choices, like moving away from…
By lonm
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying - Ars Technica [2024-09-12]
One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the…
By canadianguy
葬儀社向けにAIの使い方セミナー
毎月、最初の金曜日に葬儀屋さんと付帯する職業の方々に初心者でもわかるAI（LLM）の使い方を教えています。 今年いっぱいは無料で案内をしています。来年からはサブスクにするのと、Discordでコミュニティを作っていきます。…
By yeyshonan
