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Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
This air quality monitor costs $250. It's called the Air Lab, and I've been using it to measure the air in my car, home, studio, and a few events over the past few months. And in using it over the course of a road trip I learned to not run recirculate in my car quite as often—more on that later.
Networked Artifacts built in some personality:
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep -- an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites -- after KrebsOnSecurity revealed Onerep's founder had created dozens of people-search services and was continuing to operate at least one of them. Sixteen months later, however, Mozilla is still promoting Onerep. This week, Mozilla announced their partnership with Onerep will officially end next month.
DYNOMIGHT
• dynomight
It's so easy
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
Out of the box, if you buy a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, install it on the official CM5 IO Board, and install a fan on it (e.g. my current favorite, the EDAtec CM5 Active Cooler), you'll notice the fan ramps up to 100% speed after you shut down the Pi.
That's not fun, since at least for a couple of my CM5s, they are more often powered down than running, creating a slight cacophany!
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
Out of the box, if you buy a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, install it on the official CM5 IO Board, and install a fan on it (e.g. my current favorite, the EDAtec CM5 Active Cooler), you'll notice the fan ramps up to 100% speed after you shut down the Pi.
That's not fun, since at least for a couple of my CM5s, they are more often powered down than running, creating a slight cacophany!
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet's top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites. But security experts say doing so may have also triggered an impromptu network penetration test for organizations that have come to rely on Cloudflare to block many types of abusive and malicious traffic.
IT Notes
• Stefano Marinelli
Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic [...] triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system. That feature file, in turn, doubled in size. The larger-than-expected feature file was then propagated to all the machines that make up our network. [...] The software had a limit on the size of the feature file that was below its doubled size. That caused the software to fail.
— Matthew Prince, Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Tags: scaling, postmortem, cloudflare
the website of jyn
• jyn
You have backups for your critical data. Do you have backups for your critical infrastructure?
One of my favorite programming books is Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom. It teaches you how to build a programming language from scratch. Along the way, you learn about text parsing, data structures, virtual machines, and several other skills that make you a stronger developer.
I was re-reading the book recently and realized that its introduction is delightfully effective. Developers are terrible at writing introductions, so it’s worth studying what makes the Crafting Interpreters intro so compelling.
- Support for nested schemas in Pydantic, thanks Bill Pugh. #107
- Now tests against Python 3.14.
- Support for YouTube URLs as attachments and the
media_resolutionoption. Thanks, Duane Milne. #112- New model:
gemini-3-pro-preview. #113
The YouTube URL feature is particularly neat, taking advantage of this API feature. I used it against the Google Antigravity launch video:
llm -m gemini-3-pro-preview \
-a 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOVIGsqCuY' \
'Summary, with detailed notes about what this thing is and how it differs from regular VS Code, then a complete detailed transcript with timestamps'
Here's the result. A spot-check of the timestamps against points in the video shows them to be exactly right.
Tags: projects, youtube, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, gemini
Three years ago, we were impressed that a machine could write a poem about otters. Less than 1,000 days later, I am debating statistical methodology with an agent that built its own research environment. The era of the chatbot is turning into the era of the digital coworker. To be very clear, Gemini 3 isn’t perfect, and it still needs a manager who can guide and check it. But it suggests that “human in the loop” is evolving from “human who fixes AI mistakes” to “human who directs AI work.” And that may be the biggest change since the release of ChatGPT.
— Ethan Mollick, Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
Tags: gemini, ethan-mollick, generative-ai, chatgpt, ai, llms, ai-agents