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. As he approached, he heard a peculiar croak, unlike any other frog he had encountered.

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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. 🥰

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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.

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Bluetooth Scanner With ESPHome and an ESP32

This is a super-simple one, but took some searching to find it. Add the following config to an ESPHome device and deploy it, and it’ll spam regularly in the logs every BLE device it sees.

You need an ESP32 (because they have bluetooh) and it uses the esp32_ble_tracker module.

esp32_ble_tracker:

text_sensor: 
- platform: ble_scanner 
  name: "BLE Devices Scanner"

Pretty simple, spams shit out of the logs with what’s going on every time it finds something. You really don’t want this on a device you care about, or are logging the output of, because it’s heavy on CPU/memory and noisy but it’s good for tracking things down! There’s config options to slow it down as well, but who’s got time for that? 😁

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