Firesphere's musings
Firesphere's musings
Simon Erkelens
I'm a professional web developer with extensive knowledge of Silverstripe, secure web development, Laravel and Symfony, as well as security engineer. I also work with Python, and MicroPython, on a pile of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. Most of my development work is publicly available on GitHub and Codeberg.
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Powershop is in the process of updating all their clients to their new mobile/web application. With this change, the old import Powershop data from downloaded CSV, does not work anymore. That needs fixing, of course.
A "program", "community", or "collection", and then the human can download a real badge, that says that the works are made by humans! Case is making the case against them. Kai is inviting you to sign up.
Another wee while has passed, and I've been reading more and more books. Especially with my XTEInk reader, it's so easy to squeeze in a few paragraphs here and there!
I'm not happy about it, but putting in a heatpump isn't cheap, so I have to make-do with what I have. In this case, a gas heater. And a gas supply contract with Contact Energy, as they were the only one that supplied gas-only...
Yes. Again. More AI. Sorry, this stuff just won't go away on its own, so clearly, we need to help it along into its grave a little.
Where one would like to see less "meta posts", another starts a month of reply collecting... Gotta love the vibe there!
Joan writes about how they encounter people that bring an "AI Note taker" to every catch-up and meeting. Recording every word, and transcribing it. (Or is it mutilate? You never know with those things!). And they feel unsafe to say they...
As you may know, I read quite a few books. And when I saw Max' post about the Xteink e-reader, I was intrigued. Intrigued enough to want one too.
Rishabh asked some questions about bloggers' AI usage, or not-usage.
Ooooh and Aaah at the new KDE release, KDE 6.7! With PlasmaLogin instead of SDDM...
But, I mean, if you want to buy me a coffee...
I've had my old website since... 2006 or so. And this website now since 2023. And I've been writing articles on both since. I figured, it's time to look back at some articles, especially the ones I still enjoy.
Junited is a little blog-adventure invented by Robert Birming, writers of e-logs (or... blogs), share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way.
The Holy Sea published the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first Encyclical letter. And to my surprise, he speaks of how the world, humanity, should deal with AI, in great detail, and with great care. And clearly not a simple "AI bad,...
As Jan Lukas wrote, and as Patrick wrote, and as Kev Quirk wrote, it really does look like BitWarden, the go-to password manager since LastPass screwed up, is starting to sink. After LastPass, 1Password, and now BitWarden, it really...