Category: Technical
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The Ethics of AI (June 2025)
This short article outlines the ethics of using AI (mainly generative AI, or large language models), as of June 2025. In short, there exists no truly ethical way to engage with AI currently. This article will outline a few of the ways that support this conclusion. Copyright Quite a lot to unpick here, but the
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pfSense install on Ubuntu
I’m looking forward to installing pfSense on my soon-to-arrive pico PC device, a little fanless unit with four gigabit interfaces. It’s been a long time since I had a proper stateless firewall to administer, and I’m hoping that the performance of this miniature monster will keep up in these COVID-19 ridden times. I notice that
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Issues with LibreOffice and SMB/CIFS shares
Are you having issues when opening documents on a shared drive? Both ODF and DocX document types are effectively archived files which need to expand in order to read their contents and this appears to cause issues when opening such documents across CIFS shared drives. The error you’ll most likely see is “General I/O Error”,
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Introducing the Library
It’s been a hell of a long time since I posted on scaine.net. So much for not breaking the chain! Yikes! That was nearly four years ago! However, it’s not all doom and gloom. Part of the reason for my lack of presence here is that I’ve been setting up a new site with more
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Update! Update now!
This made me laugh – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/28/windows_10_live_tv. A live broadcast on American TV channel KCCI interrupted by a nag-ware screen to upgrade to Windows 10. Ouch. But this video is probably the main reason I’ll never go back to Windows. Who the hell can be bothered putting up with this? Why??
