Let me start off this post by apologizing. I forgot my glasses today, and even though I am not blind, writing and editing this is a chore. But even with it being a chore, I enjoy writing these posts. I tell you this because I am sure there are things I missed during my review
I have spent most of my life working with technology, and I am a huge proponent of it. But one of the things that has always irritated the sin out of me is people who abuse this technology to prey on individuals who just are not as proficient with it as others are. So, let’s
When people think of Open Source software, many think of it as free software. But is that all it is? Just free software? Is that the definition of Open Source software? Well, let’s look up the definition of it. I am sure that there are many definitions of open source, so I will choose the
That’s right, Google. Your analytics just pissed me right the fuck off. For anyone else who might be reading this, this is not a tutorial. My suggestion to you if you need a tutorial? Don’t bother. Use AI. Fuck, I just wasted two fucking hours setting up Google Analytics with custom values so I can
This is a subject that I have wanted to cover here, but for whatever reason, I just haven’t. Other things seem to catch my interest, and I keep blowing it off. But because I am beginning to volunteer at a senior center, and seem to be becoming everyone’s tech guy they run to, it’s time
Most geeks are the ones with the cutting-edge electronics, or at least the best they can afford. Trust me, I’m one of those people. But recently, I found myself in a position where I needed to replace an electronic device. And honestly, I just couldn’t afford the most expensive or the best that was on
Okay, the last couple of articles I’ve written have gone pretty deep into tin-foil-hat territory. I had fun with them, and I hope you did too. But let’s peel off the tin-foil hats for a while and get back to the real world. I get a lot of my ideas for blog posts from a
Nuclear fusion. This has been one of the ultimate goals of nuclear power research for what seems like forever. Every few years, we hear about another breakthrough. Researchers achieve something that has never been done before. An experiment works. A new record is set. Another major obstacle has supposedly been overcome. And then we hear
Chuckle, don’t worry. The image is clickbait. But the question is still valid: If AI becomes self-aware, how will we know? Recently, I came across an article in the news, Signs of Introspection in Large Language Models, which is what brought on this particular post. The article discusses research by Anthropic into whether large language
I spend a lot of time at the senior center where I live (yes, I am old). Somehow, a buddy and I have been identified as the tech support here for the other seniors. Today, a gentleman came in and asked us how to print something from an AI chat on a government website from
