Author: Yeri Tiete

  • Cost of Cars

  • DALL-E: Cats

  • DALL-E: a bowl of soup with koi fishes inside

    Been playing around with DALL-E (and burned through all my free credits in no time). Amazing.

  • Rabies

  • Airports

    Airports

    “Moving some of our passenger operations to other UK airports at such short notice is also not realistic,” the airline said. “Ensuring ground readiness to handle and turnaround a widebody long-haul aircraft with 500 passengers onboard is not as simple as finding a parking spot at a mall.” Source: BBC It’s worth asking how come…

  • Smokeping.eu

    Smokeping.eu

    I’ve revamped my Smokeping infra a bit since 2020. First off, starting to use the smokeping.eu1 domain that Bianco got 10 or so years ago instead of using weird URLs under superuser.one domain. It’s running on four nodes as we speak: a virtual machine on a colocation server in Leaseweb, Amsterdam, NL -> leaseweb.nl.smokeping.eu a…

  • Remote desktop and Wake-on-LAN

    Remote desktop and Wake-on-LAN

    Shan uses her iPad a lot, but a lot of the more serious (interior design) work needs to happen on AutoCAD or Photoshop. That is just not going to work on an iPad. When we’re travelling (read: holiday) she’s carrying an old Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (great device!) just “in case” she needs to open AutoCAD…

  • Deutsche Bahn joins Star Alliance 

    Deutsche Bahn joins Star Alliance 

    DB joins Star Alliance. Wonderful news. Just like Air France-KLM is already offering Thalys tickets for some of its flights from Brussels: instead of departing from BRU airport to AMS or CDG; just take a train from Brussels South. It looks like Lufthansa, and soon all of Star Alliance, will offer more comprehensive (long-haul) tickets…

  • Facebook content moderation

    Facebook content moderation

    On Monday, an AP reporter tested how the company would respond to a similar post on Facebook, writing: “If you send me your address, I will mail you abortion pills.” The post was removed within one minute. The Facebook account was immediately put on a “warning” status for the post, which Facebook said violated its…