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Michael Stapelbergs Website

Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix

Passwords and secrets like cryptographic key files are everywhere in computing. When configuring a Linux system, sooner or later you will need to put a password somewhere — for example, when I migrated my existing Linux Network Storage (NAS) setup to NixOS, I needed to speci...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Spatial Joins in DuckDB

Spatial Joins in DuckDB Extremely detailed overview by Max Gabrielsson of DuckDB's new spatial join optimizations. Consider the following query, which counts the number of NYC Citi Bike Trips for each of the neighborhoods defined by the NYC Neighborhood Tabulation Areas poly...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025)

Today's links Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed: The better things are for your boss, the worse they are for you. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Dr Bruce Sterling; Buddy Holly's overnight bag; Zombie postcapitalism. Upcoming...

Bert Hubert's writings Valid

Chatcontrol 2025 (resum, Catalan)

Molt breument, a instàncies de Dinamarca, molts estats membres de la UE exigeixen que els serveis de missatgeria com WhatsApp/Signal/etc. estiguin obligats a inspeccionar totes les nostres fotos i enllaços mitjançant IA. Si la IA té el més mínim “dubte” que pugui ser pornografia infantil, la vostra foto, ubicació, número de telèfon i altres detalls es comuniquen a Europol i a les forces policials locals. No s’especifica què passa després, però les vostres vacances a Xipre podrien acabar ràpidament amb vosaltres havent d’explicar les vostres fotos a la comissaria de policia local.

Bert Hubert's writings Valid

Chatcontrol vzor 2025 v kostce

Ve zkratce: pod vedením Dánska mnoho členských států EU prosazuje, aby služby typu WhatsApp, Signal a pod. byly nuceny zkoumat všechny naše fotografie a odkazy s pomocí AI. Pokud AI nabude jakýchkoli “pochybností” že by mohlo jít o dětskou pornografii, vaše fotka, poloha, telefonní číslo a jiné údaje budou nahlášeny Europolu a místní policii. Co se stane pak není určeno, ale vaše dovolená na Kypru by mohla skončit tím, že budete muset vysvětlovat vaše fotografie na místní policejní stanici.

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor

too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor Useful reminder from Geoffrey Huntley of the infrequently discussed significant token cost of using MCP. Geoffrey estimate estimates that the usable context window something like Amp or Cursor is ...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting The Bluesky Team

Mississippi's approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky. The Supreme Court’s recent decision leaves us facing a hard reality: comply with Mississippi’s age assurance law—and make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive ...

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DeepSeek 3.1

DeepSeek 3.1 The latest model from DeepSeek, a 685B monster (like DeepSeek v3 before it) but this time it's a hybrid reasoning model. DeepSeek claim: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think achieves comparable answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly. Drew Breunig poi...

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ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory

ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory The feature I've most wanted from ChatGPT's memory feature (the newer version of memory that automatically includes relevant details from summarized prior conversations) just landed: With project-only memory enabled, Chat...

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Pebble 2 Duo is in mass production!

TLDR P2D is in production!! Waterproof update - 20m water resistance What you need to know about Pebble 2 Duo Address confirmation email…

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing

TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing

A few years ago, I admit it was rare to find someone running Arm hardware more powerful than a Raspberry Pi in a homelab (or more serious) setting, outside of cloud providers running Ampere or custom Arm CPUs.

Radxa Penta SATA HAT on Pi 5

But as Pis and Rockchip boards have become more powerful (and efficient), and Apple's M-series silicon has become more interesting (the M4 mini being an excellent value proposition for a quiet, tiny server), and even Ampere Altra pricing coming down a bit since it's an 'old' server CPU now, still offering 64 or 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4... I don't think I'm weird in suggesting Arm is a viable platform for reliable, even powerful servers.

Even for storage.

Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

Build log: Macintosh Classic

Build log: Macintosh Classic

Continuing the retro computer series, I've recently completed the first part of a restoration of my Aunt's old Macintosh Classic.

Macintosh Classic on desk

This Classic was handed to me alongside my Uncle Mark's Apple II, which I'll probably cover later (we've played a game of whack-a-mole with issues on that machine! Well worth it but I haven't hit a point where enough things are working to cover it well, heh).

The Classic is a strange Mac—it was introduced in 1990 as a budget version of the 1986 Macintosh Plus, with a 68000 CPU in an era when the 68030 was the new hotness.

Jeff Geerling

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Radical juries (22 Aug 2025)

Today's links Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DIY TSA universal keys; Steve Jackson Games raid +20. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin'...

Bert Hubert's writings Valid

Konversacia kontrolo 2025 (mallonge)

Mallonge dirite: Gvidante per la registraro de Danio, multaj EU membraj landoj volas ke WhatsApp, Signal (ktp.) devas traserĉi ĉiujn sendatajn fotojn kaj ligilojn per AI. Se la AI havas suspekteton ke la enhavo eble temas pri infanmistraktado, via bildo, via aktualsituo, via telefonnumero, kaj pliaj detaloj estas raportata aŭtomate al Eŭropol kaj loka policejo. Ĉe Grekio. La artikolo estas ankaŭ legebla alialingve en la bulgara, la dana, la franca, la germana, la itala, la kataluna, la nederlanda, kaj la rumana.

Herman's blog
• herman

The ROI of exercise

The math on why exercise is a good deal.

Xe Iaso's blog Valid

My responses to The Register

A copy of my best quotes they didn't publish

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting potatolicious

Most classical engineering fields deal with probabilistic system components all of the time. In fact I'd go as far as to say that inability to deal with probabilistic components is disqualifying from many engineering endeavors. Process engineers for example have to account ...

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Quoting Matt Garman

I was at a leadership group and people were telling me "We think that with AI we can replace all of our junior people in our company." I was like, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. They're probably the least expensive employees you have, they're the most leaned into your AI tools, and how's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything?

Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services

Tags: ai-ethics, careers, generative-ai, aws, ai

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" (21 Aug 2025)

Today's links Melissa Mendes's "The Weight": Graphic novel as emotional roller-coaster. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Windows 10 killswitch; Ashley Madison copyfraud; Ulysses pacts; "Blackheart Man." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...

DYNOMIGHT Valid
• dynomight

I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion

I was persuaded