Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this
A few days ago, my jazz piano teacher sent me the new fall/winter schedule for my private jazz piano lessons — 13 different dates — as a JPG (mine are outlined in green marker): I was too lazy to go make 13 entries in Google Calendar, so I decided to see if Claude could help […]
Postgres as a Search Engine
Build a retrieval system with semantic, full-text, and fuzzy search in Postgres to be used as a backbone in RAG pipelines. Search is hard. It’s a critical part of many apps, but getting it right isn’t easy. This is especially true for RAG-pipelines where the quality of retrieval can make or break the entire process. […]
Serpent OS Prealpha0 Released
Well, it didn’t take us that long, really … Our technical preview, prealpha0, is now available for testing! Head to our download page to grab serpent-os-prealpha-0.iso now!
Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
As part of our zoom reading group (wow, 4.5 years old now), we discussed a paper that uses LLMs for automatic root cause analysis (RCA) for cloud incidents. This was a pretty straightforward application of LLMs. The proposed system employs an LLM to match incoming incidents to incident handlers based on their alert types, predicts […]
Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015)
Date: April 26, 2015 Author: @JohnLaTwC Defender Mindset A lot of network defense goes wrong before any contact with an adversary, starting with how defenders conceive of the battlefield. Most defenders focus on protecting their assets, prioritizing them, and sorting them by workload and business function. Defenders are awash in lists of assets—in system management […]
Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I’m a tech nerd rare coin & currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here: https://www.rarity7.com/ About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff – hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing […]
Birds Aren’t Real – How to Create Your Own “Bird”
Did you know that birds aren’t real? They are actually mobile devices that have cameras and microphones to maintain surveillance by the government. You may be asking yourself why they do not just use the cell phones in everyone’s pocket; hey, I don’t know; I don’t make the rules. Now that I have completely destroyed […]
AMD’s Radeon 890M: Strix Point’s Bigger iGPU
AMD’s iGPUs have seen plenty of recent success. Handheld gaming devices like Valve’s Steam Deck and Asus’s ROG Ally both use AMD integrated graphics. AMD’s last generation mobile offering, codenamed Phoenix, already did well against Intel and Qualcomm’s competing products. Strix Point, AMD’s latest mobile chip, looks to continue that strong performance. It gets an […]
Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
Description This is an implementation of PaperWM-like scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm. If you like Sway/i3wm’s commitments to stability, avoiding scope creep etc. but dislike the window management model, papersway might be of interest. On each workspace, windows are arranged in a row. By default, two of the windows in the row are visible at […]
Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Pavel Durov, billionaire co-founder and chief executive of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV said, citing an unnamed source. Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France. The 39-year-old […]