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Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
Any time I show power consumption graphs for the SBCs, computers, and servers I test, I get a number of comments asking for more details about the setup.
It's quite simple, really: using my Home Assistant Yellow's built-in Zigbee radio, I connect a number of ThirdReality Zigbee Smart Outlets to it, and then I use ApexCharts Cards to add graphs of power consumption over time on my Home Assistant dashboards.
Jeff Geerling June 14, 2025There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI. Individuals who can play this role are highly sought-after by businesses, but the job description is still coming into focus. [...]
Skilled GenAI Application Engineers meet two primary criteria: (i) They are able to use the new AI building blocks to quickly build powerful applications. (ii) They are able to use AI assistance to carry out rapid engineering, building software systems in dramatically less time than was possible before. In addition, good product/design instincts are a significant bonus.
Tags: careers, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms, andrew-ng
Why Bother? So, why would anyone bother making PCBs at home? The truth is that not many people do any more. In the year 2025, we have the ability to order high quality PCBs form China for next to nothing. If you just want a high quality board and you don’t mind waiting a week or two, these are a great option. I however, don’t like to wait. I want a PCB in my hands the same day I finish the design.
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more resilient and incestuous than previously known.
It's this blog's 23rd birthday today!
On June 12th 2022 I celebrated Twenty years of my blog with a big post full of highlights. Looking back now I'm amused to notice that my 20th birthday post came within two weeks of my earliest writing about LLMs: A Datasette tutorial written by GPT-3 and How to use the GPT-3 language model.
My generative-ai tag has reached 1,184 posts now.
I really do feel like blogging is onto its second wind. The amount of influence you can have on the world by consistently blogging about a subject is just as high today as it was back in the 2000s when blogging first started.
The best time to start a blog may have been twenty years ago, but the second best time to start a blog is today.
Tags: generative-ai, blogging
Agentic Coding Recommendations
There's a ton of actionable advice on using Claude Code in this new piece from Armin Ronacher. He's getting excellent results from Go, especially having invested a bunch of work in making the various tools (linters, tests, development servers etc) as accessible as possible through documenting them in a Makefile.Armin also recently shared a half hour YouTube video in which he worked with Claude Code to resolve two medium complexity issues in his minijinja Rust templating library, resulting in PR #805 and PR #804.
Via @mitsuhiko.at
Tags: go, ai, llms, rust, ai-assisted-programming, coding-agents, generative-ai, armin-ronacher, anthropic, claude, claude-code
DYNOMIGHT
• dynomight
correlation still doesn't imply causation
Troy Hunt
• Troy Hunt
It's time to fly! It's two months to the day since we came back from the last European trip, again spending the time with some of the agencies and partners we've fostered at HIBP over the years. This time, it's the driving
Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
This is a big one. It's very easy to demonstrate that Midjourney will output images of copyright protected characters (like Darth Vader or Yoda) based on a short text prompt.There are already dozens of copyright lawsuits against AI companies winding through the US court system—including a class action lawsuit visual artists brought against Midjourney in 2023—but this is the first time major Hollywood studios have jumped into the fray.
Here's the lawsuit on Document Cloud - 110 pages, most of which are examples of supposedly infringing images.
Tags: ai-ethics, midjourney, generative-ai, training-data, ai, law
Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
This is a big one. It's very easy to demonstrate that Midjourney will output images of copyright protected characters (like Darth Vader or Yoda) based on a short text prompt.There are already dozens of copyright lawsuits against AI companies winding through the US court system—including a class action lawsuit visual artists brought against Midjourney in 2023—but this is the first time major Hollywood studios have jumped into the fray.
Tags: ai-ethics, midjourney, generative-ai, training-data, ai, law
