A few months ago, I blocked YouTube on my laptop. It has been effective in moderating the random watching. It also makes it clear just how often people embed and link to YouTube. This week, I changed the YouTube blocking strategy. Instead of the blunt instrument that is the hosts file, I am now using a filter in the Ublock origin browser plugin. This filter allows embedded videos, and lets me go to the site with just one extra click—if I really want to. Let’s see if I fall back into old habits.

We had a very rough Jamulus session this week. Despite the many, many dropouts, the worst I’ve ever experienced, we soldiered through. Let’s chalk it up as an excellent timing exercise. I’m not sure what to attribute the issues to. Could it have been a bad night at the data center, or was my new docker image to blame? Thinking it might be the latter, I tried it again on Saturday, and it was just fine. Fingers crossed, it was just an anomaly. If it happens again in our next session, I switch back to the old image to rule that out.

Links

• OpenAI Says Models Programmed To Make Stuff Up Instead of Admitting Ignorance
  Reminds me of some people I know.
• A Ruggedized Raspberry Pi for Sailors
• Forgotten Internet: The Story of Email
• Microsoft is Filling Teams With AI Agents
  This sounds like it will make MS Teams even worse than it already is. See also The Never-ending Shit Show.
• There Isn’t an AI Bubble – There Are Three
• Chartle via FlowingData
  Like Wordle, but with charts! You’ll learn some fun facts too!
• Hegseth puts us all at risk