Notes for January 27-February 2

Apple’s new Invites app looks like another whimsical step in their relentless pursuit to be meaningful in what I suppose would be teenager’s daily lives, but reminds me too much of Clips (which I used exactly one time) and makes me wonder if they have their priorities straight. Instead of improving Shortcuts, making the iPad more useful or...

In retrospect, I find it vaguely amusing that “doomscrolling” only really took off during the pandemic, because, well, for me it started a little earlier. But it’s no surprise that the term is making a very strong comeback: It's never been more popular Back then, I was already feeling the weight of constant news and policy updates from...

Some six months ago, in the middle of a somewhat troubled summer, I decided to stock up on IP KVMs and ordered a pair of Sipeed NanoKVMs–a full kit and a barebones one. The price was simply irresistible, and I wanted something that could eventually replace my homegrown PiKVMs. They arrived in October, and by that time I had too much on my mind to...

The Remote Desktop Protocol, which has a long and colorful history. I much prefer it over VNC due to its vastly superior performance and extra features. H.264/AVC Acceleration up to 60 fps (The Short Version)On Windows 10/Server 2016 and above, you can enable nearly 60fps connections between clients using H.264, which considerably improves the...

I’ve been tinkering with deepseek-r1 for a couple of weeks now, but with its newfound popularity and cries of impending doom for developers, I thought I’d do a little bit of more systematic testing with a trivial use case and post the results. What follows is my notes from a somewhat frustrating three hours of my life where I cajoled it to do a...