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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…

Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday. Shazeer, who left Google in 2021 to cofound a chatbot startup, Character.AI, rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion ...

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Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/18/vulnerabilities-show-why-starttls-should-be-avoided-if-possible/
saved 2021-11-18

Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.

On Website Technicals (2021-10) - Tech updates: crazy inexplicable GSC page experience. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-53.html

On Website Technicals (2021-10)
Tech updates: crazy inexplicable GSC page experience.

Interview mit Sigrid Schulze aus dem #mittemuseum in #Berlin #Gesundbrunnen:

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Foreign Data Wrappers for migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
https://www.migops.com/blog/2021/02/15/role-of-foreign-data-wrappers-in-migrations-to-postgresql/
saved 2021-04-06

MigOps.com is for sale | HugeDomains
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Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

since 2021, Tomohiro Okazaki has been doing stop-motion animation of matchsticks, posting as oo_kk_aa on instagram. occasionally he posts collections to youtube. this is group 18, from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjls49EsCSE

Based on my endeavours yesterday I think I'll set up shop (for free) as a beta iso tester.
None of the iso's installed without a hitch y'day (if at all), on a Thinkpad X13 1st gen, with a Ryzen 4650U and 8Gb. I believe this is a 2021 model or so and we ain't talking rocketscience. Sorry, but Linux has come this far that i've immediately parked them. Let's see if I get back to them. i doubt it.

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Using a SmartCard HSM for DNSSEC with BIND, Knot DNS, and LDNS/NSD.
https://jpmens.net/2021/06/04/using-a-smartcard-hsm-for-dnssec-with-bind/
saved 2021-06-07

Off-grid Battery Bank Replacement (2021) - 10 year old battery bank was at about 10% of original capacity. I went for a simpler and smaller and cheaper replacement. - https://www.earth.org.uk/battery-bank-replacement.html

Off-grid Battery Bank Replacement (2021)
10 year old battery bank was at about 10% of original capacity. I went for a simpler and smaller and cheaper replacement.

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Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.
https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/
saved 2021-03-19 https:/…

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Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-of-root-dns-traffic/
saved 2021-01-07

Chromium’s Reduction of Root DNS Traffic - Verisign Blog
As we begin a new year, it is important to look back and reflect on our accomplishments and how we can continue to improve. A significant positive the DNS

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Monkey Island PC speaker music player.
https://www.thanassis.space/monkeyisland.html
saved 2021-07-29 https://d…

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Fontemon: the world’s first video game in a font!
https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html
saved 2021-03-19 https://dotat.at/:/E…

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PostgreSQL is a great pub/sub and job server.
https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/
saved 2021-12-18 https://

Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.