This week a colleage of mine shared an interesting video describing AI (mainly Suno) as problematic to the musical industry in the sense that musicians will become less and less skilled in making truly original music. It coins the term “de-skilling”, which perfectly captures something I also see in the software development area, even though it is beautifully hidden by the “impressive results”.
European alternatives to AWS/Azure/GoogleCloud
This article lists a rough feature comparison between currently available European cloud providers and their American counterparts. European cloud is available and abundant. Stackit, OVHcloud, Scaleway, IONOS, Exoscale, Upcloud are all parties you should have on your radar when building critical infrastructure for European clients. The US is proving to be less and less reliable as an IT partner. You’ve got to move.
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GT7 Safety Ratings Broken
I regularly play Gran Turismo 7 on my playstation 5. Fanatec Direct Drive steering wheel, seat, pedals, the works. I even have a pit crew telling me when my tyres are warm or cold, and which laps I need to pit in by using EzioDash Pro. I put great effort in keeping my SR (Safety Rating) as high as possible, hoping that I get placed in lobbies where people behave. I very regularly get the “Clean Race” bonus, and my SR is maxed out. Yet still I get into lobbies with dimwits like NicoTabe or JabCrash. Last week I noticed that these dirty drivers actually get increased safety ratings. This video clearly shows the problem:
Add iptables to your node-exporter metrics
This time quick and simple trick to make your node_exporter report on the number of blocked and allowed packets by iptables. It involves a tiny script, and a small configuration change to the node_exporter. Here we go:
Finding HomeAssistant Entities in Prometheus
When you install the prometheus addon in HomeAssistant, it can be strange to see that the metrics do not show up in your Grafana dashboard. That is because the entity names are part of the labels, not of the metric name.
Querying Classicpress database for page hits
Now that I am running classicpress, I miss the statistics that I received at wordpress.org. I don’t want to install third party cookies or other adware stuff, so I was looking to see how to solve that completely locally. Here’s how I got it working, withouts ads, all local, for free.
Gardena Sileno verbindingsprobleem opgelost
In de zomer groeit gras als een malle. Eigenlijk zou je 2 a 3x per week moeten maaien als je het mooi wil houden, en met een kooimaaier wordt dat al snel klusje dat je uitstelt of overslaat. Dus kochten we een prachtige robotgrasmaaier van Gardena: De Sileno City met LONA technologie (daarmee maakt hij een mooie kaart van je tuin die je ziet in de app op je telefoon).
Bij het installeren meldde hij dat het lussignaal en de geleidingsdraad niet waren gevonden, ook al stond hij in de lader en was alles correct aangesloten (groen lampje in de lader). In deze post leg ik uit waar dat door (kan) komen en welke oplossing NIET in hoofdstuk 6 “Probleemoplossingen” in het boekje staat.
Warmtestore review
Toen we een huis kochten met een open haard, was ik super enthausiast. Een vuurtje stoken was al snel gedaan en het oogt en ruikt fantastisch. Het enige nadeel van een open haard is dat er niet veel warmte vanaf komt: het rendement van een open haard is zo’n 15%. Al snel keken we naar een haard (niet open dus), omdat dat makkelijker stookt, veiliger is, minder rook en stank produceert, en niet onbelangrijk: het rendement van een gesloten haard is zo’n 75% tot 85%.
Remove DataTool Alarm
If you have a Triumph Motorcycle and the Datatool evo, S3 or S4 alarm gives you headaches, there are two things to know:
- The alarm is virtually irrepairable because it is filled with silicone
- There is an easy trick to remove/disable it without permanent damage to the bike or the alarm.
Apple Watch 8 Uninstalled
After wearing a simple Pulsar analog watch for years, and then not wearing a watch at all, I convinced myself a month ago that an Apple Watch 8 would be an improvement. Part of that decision was based on my hipster IT colleagues being surprised I was not wearing a smartwatch. I also noticed my girlfriend practically can’t live without hers, and then I saw this endless stream of youtube videos with raving reviews of (lets be honest) pretty biased people.