Convergence vs TransferenceConvergence vs Transference
I previously wrote a blog post titled Considering Convergence [1] about the possible ways of using a phone as a laptop. While I still believe what I wrote there I’m[...]
Source Code With EmojiSource Code With Emoji
The XKCD comic Code Quality [1] inspired me to test out emoji in source. I really should have done this years ago when that XKCD was first published. The following[...]
Ubuntu 24.04 and BubblewrapUbuntu 24.04 and Bubblewrap
When using Bubblewrap (the bwrap command) to create a container in Ubuntu 24.04 you can expect to get one of the following error messages: bwrap: loopback: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not[...]
Software Needed for WorkSoftware Needed for Work
When I first started studying computer science setting up a programming project was easy, write source code files and a Makefile and that was it. IRC was the only IM[...]
ML Training LicenseML Training License
Last year a Debian Developer blogged about writing Haskell code to give a bad result for LLMs that were trained on it. I forgot who wrote the post and I’d[...]
Links March 2024Links March 2024
Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about his workshop on reimagining democracy and the unusual way he structured it [1]. It would be fun to have a security conference[...]
The Shape of ComputersThe Shape of Computers
Introduction There have been many experiments with the sizes of computers, some of which have stayed around and some have gone away. The trend has been to make computers smaller,[...]
Android vs FOSS PhonesAndroid vs FOSS Phones
To achieve my aims regarding Convergence of mobile phone and PC [1] I need something a big bigger than the 4G of RAM that’s in the PinePhone Pro [2]. The[...]
Links February 2024Links February 2024
In 2018 Charles Stross wrote an insightful blog post Dude You Broke the Future [1]. It covers AI in both fiction and fact and corporations (the real AIs) and the[...]
Release YearsRelease Years
In 2008 I wrote about the idea of having a scheduled release for Debian and other distributions as Mark Shuttleworth had proposed [1]. I still believe that Mark’s original idea[...]