Odin And Frong

Once upon a time, in the mystical realms of Asgard, there existed a strange and unexpected friendship between Odin, the All-Father, and Frong, a slightly weird frog with a penchant for riddles and mischief. Odin, known for his wisdom and relentless quest for knowledge, often wandered through the realms in search of hidden truths and forgotten lore. On one such journey, he stumbled upon a peculiar pond nestled in a grove of ancient trees. [Read More]

mDNS On Mikrotik RB5009

Getting mDNS working cross-VLAN with a Mikrotik router requires running a container to do the handling. You’ll need a flash drive or some other kind of storage set up on the device to make it work.

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Easy SRI Hashes For Unpkg

Calculating Subresource Integrity Hashes is annoying with some things, and it took me a little searching to find how to do an integrity hash for unpkg, so here’s some info!

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Welp, I Paid For That

Home loan balance: 3 cents. Not bad for just-over-40 years old. Thanks to everyone in my life that’s helped, most especially borysSNORC. 🥰 [Read More]

Model Collapse and the increasing value of "pre-AI" data

There’s a curious callout at the end of this article talking about “model collapse” where an increase in non-human created data being used as sources creates problems on the outputs… Although there is no agreed-upon way to track LLM-generated content at scale, one proposed option is community-wide coordination among organizations involved in LLM creation to share information and determine the origins of data. In the meantime, to avoid being affected by model collapse, companies should try to preserve access to pre-2023 bulk stores of data. [Read More]