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Die XZ/OpenSSH Backdoor

Zerbrechliche Strukturen in Open-Source-Projekten

A natural language calculator

In my prior post I’ve written about how to run a chat with a large-language-model on your PC. This time I want to focus on scripting this with Node.js and letting the AI- and the “normal”-world interact with each other.

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Clientseitige Speichertechnologien im Browser

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Running an AI Chatbot on Your Own PC

Llama.cpp, gpt4all and others make it very easy to try out large language models. Here’s a short guide to trying them out under Linux or macOS.

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Babylon as a Feature

The Tower of Babylon is a myth meant to explain why the world’s peoples speak different languages. In modern IT systems, it’s often a requirement to support multiple languages. Such internationalization (i18n for short) is a tough challenge – and this post describes a simple solution to just the tiny part of multilingual documents. Our solution combines the simplicity of the plain-text format AsciiDoc with a simple yet versatile build script to support multiple languages (like EN and DE) and multiple output formats (like PDF and HTML).

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Creating data products with Terraform on AWS

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Round-robin coding

Remote mob programming typically means one person takes on the role of typist at the screen with an open IDE, more or less typing what the others tell them to. To ensure that everyone stays on top of the work, the role of typist is frequently changed up and the current state of the code is handed over to the new typist. Our simple CLI tool called mob enables such a handover in just a few seconds by bundling the necessary Git operations into concise commands.