Progress

Did more garden work. My back hurts now.

A friend visited and we drank too much.

I've also changed my weatherwatch thing to use the DWD API. This is much better than the previous, also open-meteo-based API, since it's way more accurate and much more fine-grained. I'm very happy with it, for now.

Articles

• Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale – Doug Seven
• Trojanized Free Download Manager found to contain a Linux backdoor -- Securelist
• How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers?
• Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware - The Old New Thing: no, actually it's just that silly API design leads to programmers working around it.
• A CD spectrometer
• DIY Near-IR Spectrometer
• Hidden in Plain Sight - by Jeremiah Lowin - FactsMachine: Embedding text in AI images with ControlNet and Modal
• EXCLUSIVE: I used AI to create the girl I always dreamed of being - and my virtual alter ego is raking in $20,000 a month -- Daily Mail Online
• Engraving -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Fennel – Why Fennel?: Fennel is a Lua with better syntax. You can either compile ahead of time, or when starting the interpreter. Very nice!
• When MFA isn't actually MFA
• Don’t mess with a genius -- The Lumber Room: How Isaac Newton got a criminal hanged.
• How I Got Paid to Live in Antarctica: FAQ About Working on the Ice • Wander Eat Write
• FindMyCat - The Open-Source Pet Tracker
• Mario Zechner: "Today was ... interesting. If …" - Gamedev Mastodon: The guy scraped all the supermarket prices from their websites and now uses that data to analyse all kinds of shady supermarket behaviour, especially in Austria.
• APOD: 2023 September 16 - Fireball over Iceland

Libraries, programming, etc

• google-research/madlad_400 at master · google-research/google-research · GitHub
• GitHub - turboderp/exllamav2: A fast inference library for running LLMs locally on modern consumer-class GPUs: if this works out, it would be superfast. So, I'll have to try it!
• https://github.com/jlowin/aimages
• Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends

Games

• Sea of Thieves with the crew
• Walkabout Mini Golf with a friend, in VR: fantastically relaxing.

Backlog

• It Takes Two (from waitlist)

Recipes

• Blaubeereis: not as good as I had hoped
• Megaschokolade 2x
• Buttermilch-Zitrone
• Mango-Eis

Other media

• Taskmaster, Series 9
• The Spool Paradox - YouTube
• This "perpetual motion" device is really clever - YouTube