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Latest — 28 Jan 2025

To Hit DeepSeek 0

Update: I was using the following models: deepseek-r1:7b and llama3:latest (7b) DeepSeek-R1 came out generally over the weekend, and a lot was talked about the cost to generate such a complete and capable model. I am happy to see that it is an open model that I could

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Tracking COVID-19 Vaccinations in Ontario

Jason and I have been collecting data from the Ontario Government's COVID-19 vaccination statistics and started to graph them in Grafana. You can find the graph at https://monitor.sdf1.net/dashboard/snapshot/ontvacstat [https://monitor.sdf1.net/dashboard/snapshot/ontvacstats?orgId=1&refresh=1h]s [https:

Combining Sites

For a few years I've had this blog and The Thirsty Meeple blog. The former focused on tech, and our family. The other focused on our hobby of Table Top Gaming (Boardgames, RPGs) But both sites have not had much activity in some time so I've

Gen Con 2016 - GM'ing with ConTessa

I have just done something totally crazy. I have signed up to GM a game at Gen Con [http://www.gencon.com/]. I will be running No Salvation for Witches [http://www.lotfp.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=188]from Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Gen Con with kids? Are we crazy? - Part 2

So where were we? Oh right, we were at the point where we decided to take the kids back to Gen Con this year. The kids were so excited to go that they started the count down as soon as we bought the badges. This year Gen Con Housing changed

Gen Con with Kids? Are we crazy? - Part 1

Two weeks ago I was in Indianapolis with Ray and the kids attending Gen Con. This was our third year making the trek. Actually, Ray and I went alone the first year and then last year we decided to bring the kids. This year the kids insisted on going again…

Gen Con Advice From A First Timer

This year was our first Gen Con, we got housing but only at a hotel by the airport. There is zero traffic so driving in was easy and parking if you got there around 9am was reasonable and available. I heard lots of complaints about the shuttle bus so if

A Modern Programming Operating System [Part 2]

[Please also check out Part 1 [http://slakinski.com/a-modern-programming-operating-system/]] In this new post about a modern programming operating system I'm going to comment on what a flood of people gave me in the comments on the post and on Hacker News [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

A Modern Programming Operating System

I was reminiscing about my childhood and computers in comparison to what my own children have. How booting up the Vic20 and later the C128 and being presented with nothing more than a blue screen and a flashing cursor prompting me to type in some basic code. I could save

Postfix TLS Errors

Ive been seeing this in my local postfix log: Dec 10 08:46:50 totoro.local postfix/smtp[59905]: Untrusted TLS connection established to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.142.109]:587: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits It wasn't harmful, mail still is sent. But annoying,