Your Org, Your Tools: Building a Custom MCP Catalog
Iām Mike Coleman, a staff solutions architect at Docker. In this role, I spend a lot of time talking to enterprise customers about AI adoption. One thing I hear over and over again is that these companies want to ensure appropriate guardrails are in place when it comes to deploying AI tooling.Ā For instance, manyā¦ ā Read more
I finally took a closer look at OpenRouter today, added some credits, and used it with the Kilo Code VS Code extension to vibe code (or at least guide the LLM to code) a bit on the wedding website Iām building for next year. I used the Grok Code Fast 1 model most of the time. Furthermore, I also switched this blogās AI plugins to use Mistral Small 3.2 for summary generation and image caption generation. ā Read more
āAIā assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
An extensive study by the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC highlights just how deeply inaccurate and untrustworthy āAIā news results really are. āAIā sucks even at its most basic function. Itās incredible how much money is being pumped into this scam, and how many people are wholeheartedly defending these bullshit generators as if their lives depended on it. If these tools canāt even summarise a text ā something ā¦ ā Read more
Stephen Hawkingās Time Travel Party ā Read more
When I wasnāt given time to finish a feature properly ā Read more
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Hmmm š§ I'm annectodaly not convinced so-called "AI"(s) really save timeā¢. -- I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers... -- But, there is one benefit... It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess I wasnāt talking about the speed of interesting text/context, but more the āslownessā of these tools. I think I can build/ solutions and fix bugs faster most of the time? Hmmm š¤ I think the only thing itās able to do better than me is grasp large codebases and do pattern machines a bit better, mostly because weāre limited by the interfaces we have to use and in my ase being vision impaired doesnāt help :/
Hmmm š§ Iām annectodaly not convinced so-called āAIā(s) really save timeā¢. ā I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbersā¦ ā But, there is one benefitā¦ It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.
The most infuriating 3 seconds of using this Mac every day are the first time I run man and it calls home to see if Iām allowed to do that.
Tuckr - Stow alternative with symlink checking
Iāve been using Stow for a few years now. At the time (2020) Stow had a bug where it would just fail with a cryptic error and the maintainer didnāt have time to fix it, the bug was there for 2 years or so. So I got fed up and decided to try and fix it but I didnāt know perl nor did I want to learn it, so I decided to rewrite Stow and fix the issue. To fix it I decided that I track all symlinks and give users a nice way to see what was going on. So the entire project was based on having a n ā¦ ā Read more
Highlights from CNCFās first Open Observability Summit
Itās about time open observability had its own industry-wide, vendor-neutral event. This year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finally made it happen with the inauguralĀ Open Observability Summit, bringing together contributors, practitioners, and end users forā¦ ā Read more
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Advent of Code will be different this year:
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think if I was younger, with more energy, and wasnāt blind with leberās disease (look it up) Iād be fineā¢ But yeah I get the whole āexhaustingā apart. Iāll join you this year, since thereās only 12 puzzles and as you say, we can ātake our timeā it might actually be fun! (as opposed to exhausting and pressured).
Ukrainian drones strike major Russian oil refinery near Moscow for sixth time this year. ā Read more
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@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, lots of people are welcoming this change, saying they are relieved that there are fewer puzzles. And ngl, I, too, have been very exhausted at the end of the month. Itās a lot of fun and I loved it each time, but yeah, it can be exhausting.
Soulmates. The one who always knows when itās dinner time. ā Read more
Climate change is turning global wildfires into monsters
Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our worldās weather systems itās getting harder and more important to get right. ā Read more
Trump Said He Wouldnāt Touch the East Wing. Then He Tore It All Down.
Luke Broadwater, Ā ReporterĀ - Ā The New York Times
_Stephan:Ā How symbolic, just as Trump and the Republican Party and the Supreme Court majority are destroying democracy in the United States, so Trump is destroying the White House you have known and seen all your life. Simultaneously, he is telling his administration to give him $230 million in tax dollars of your money and mine, because th ā¦ ā Read more
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is actually a good positive change I think!
Personally, Iāll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. š
I might even do AoC this year with the elevated stress/pressure! ā The last few times Iāve tried, Iāve always felt far too much pressure and felt like a failure š (mostly ya know because of my vision impairment, I couldnāt keep up!)
Vacation in the Rhƶn
Yesterday, we came back from some much-needed vacation. We spent 9 nights in Fulda, went hiking a few times, visited some museums, and sometimes also just relaxed. On the way to Fulda, we also made a short break in Kassel and revived some memories. ā Read more
Geochemical research could help identify microbial activity in Earthās rock record and perhaps in Martian sediments
Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earthās atmosphere, scientists closely study how they form. Sulfates are stable over billions of years, so their oxygen isotopes are seen as a time capsule, reflecting atmospheric conditions while they were evolving on early Earthāand possibly on its planetary neighbor Mars. ā Read more
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That was a very non-fun day at work.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, we like to be paranoid. Weāve been right so many times. Unfortunately.
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That was a very non-fun day at work.
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@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds horrible. š I wouldnāt want to own such a car. (My plan is not to buy a new car after my current one finally broke down entirely.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First time I heard about eCall. I donāt think I like this. š«¤ Feels like another attempt at going for complete surveillance. Yes, yes, itās about āsecurityā/āsafetyā ā¦ it always is.
Advent of Code will be different this year:
There will only be 12 puzzles, i.e. only December 1 to December 12. This might make it more interesting for some people, because itās (probably) less work and a lower chance of people getting burned out. š¤
Personally, Iāll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. š
Maybe this makes it more interesting for some people around here as well?
What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?
Raymond Chen has another great post about some of the classic icons from Windows 95, this time focusing on pifmgr.dll. In this file, there are a variety of random-seeming icons, and it turns out theyāre random for a reason: they were just a bunch a fun, generic icons intended for people to use when creating PIF files. The icons inĀ pifmgr.dll were created just for fun. They were not created with any particular programs in mind, with one obvious exception. They w ā¦ ā Read more
Simple, minimal SQL database migrations written in Go with generics. Std lib database/sql and SQLX supported OOTB
I built GoSMig for personal projects and open-sourced it. Itās a tiny library for writing migrations in Go (compile-time checks via generics). Supports both transactional and non-transactional steps, rollback, status/version commands, and a built-in CLI handler so you can ship your own tool.
- Zero dependencies (std lib; golang.org/x/term used for pager support)
- database/sql and sqlx supported out of the box, others w ā¦ ā Read more
Exploring how dark matter alters electron-capture supernovae and the birth of neutron stars
Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8ā10 times that of the sun. These stars develop oxygen-neon-magnesium cores, which become unstable when electrons are captured by neon and magnesium nuclei. ā Read more
This is the last time my toddler and 15yo cat will sleep together, in a couple of hours he wonāt be sick ever again, but it hurts me so much. ā Read more
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country ā Read more
The ā3.5% ruleā: How a small minority can change the world
David Robson, Ā ReporterĀ - Ā BBC (U.K.)
_Stephan:Ā I have been telling you since Trump became President for the second time, and began his fascist coup, assisted by the loyal incompetents he appointed to his administration, and the Republican Party at the state and Congressional level, that the only thing that will change this is millions of Americans nonviolently demonstrating. I hope you were one of the people o ā¦ ā Read more
Meet the young Americans who want a monarchy ā but not āKing Trumpā
George Grylls, Ā Washington ReporterĀ - Ā The Times (U.K.)
Stephan:Ā You hear nothing about this in American media, but there is a growing number of Gen Z Whites who actually have become so disaffected by what has happened to American democracy that they would choose monarchy over democracy. It is a glaring demonstration of how poorly educated about the history of civics these young people are.
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Why one companyās glitch just broke half the internet
When Amazon sneezes, the world catches a cold. Itās time we stopped accepting that as normal. ā Read more
Why is Halloween starting so much earlier each year? A business professor explains
Halloween is a fun, scary time for children and adults alikeābut why does the holiday seem to start so much earlier every year? Decades ago, when I was young, Halloween was a much smaller affair, and people didnāt start preparing until mid-October. Today, in my neighborhood near where I grew up in Massachusetts, Halloween decorations start appearing in the middle of summer. ā Read more
A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these complex systems work ā Read more
China imports no US soybeans in September for first time in seven years ā Read more
US falls out of worldās 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 years
Marina Dunbar, Ā Guardian U.S. FellowĀ - Ā The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan:Ā This report in the British Guardian, something you are unlikely to hear, see, or read in the American media, is important because it is another sign demonstrating how Trump and the Republican Party has caused Americaās position and presence in the international community to decline.
 one primary write instance for their PostgreSQL cluster with dozens of read replicas. This powers the core ChatGPT service which has hundreds of millions of users and, needless to say, is a critical backbone to it.
The talk implies they shard now, but the whole video emphasises all the optimizations they did in order to support their workload through a single primary. It isnāt mentioned at what time they switched to sharding, but itās heavily implied that ā¦ ā Read more
Windows 11, now with even more āAIā where you donāt want it
Microsoft has posted a blog post about detailing its latest round of additions to Windows 11, and as will surely not surprise you, itās āAIā, all the time, whether you like it or not. Iām not even going to detail most of these āfeaturesā, as Iām sure most of them will just become yet another series of checkboxes on whatever debloating tool you prefer. Still, thereās one recurring theme running throughout Microsoftās ā¦ ā Read more
A deep dive into the Silicon Graphics IndigoĀ² IMPACT 10000
This beautiful purple slab is the Silicon Graphics IndigoĀ² (though, unlike its earlier namesake, not actually indigoĀ coloured) with the upper-tier MIPS R10000 CPU and IMPACT graphics. My recollection was that it worked at the time, but I couldnāt remember if it booted, and of course that was no guarantee that it could still power on. If this machine is to stay working and in the collection, weāre gonna need a ā¦ ā Read more
Her very first time being out on a porch ā Read more
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Everything in the realm of āsmartphonesā is such an incomprehensible clusterfuck. I want to throw this thing out the window.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Speaking of āclusterfucksā. Every fucking time I try to type something on my fucking goddamn iPhoneās little tiny ass on-screen keyboard it ends up typing out āI love you!ā š¤ For fucks sake š¤¦āāļø ā Given the size of the fucking goddamn on-screen keyboards on these things and folks with limited/poor vision, canāt we figure out what I meant to type instead of spitting out total garbage nonsense that I had no intention of typing that makes me just look silly and stupid?! š¤¬ Ask @bender@twtxt.net how many times this has happened on IRC whenever Iāve been on my phone š±
Thereās a simple way we could drastically cut AI energy use
If users chose the most efficient model each time they performed a task with AI, researchers calculate it would slash energy consumption by more than a quarter ā Read more