I have a bunch of directories full of PDF files and want to compress them all to save some space, so I gzip them all. Is there a way to set up Apache to serve as PDF files? Something like a rewrite from .pdf$ to .pdf.gz but ... transparently? Right now I edit the wikip page and change all the links ending in .pdf to .pdf.gz; when I follow the resulting link, the browser downloads the file and calls whatever is used to handle archives and therefore the PDF is no longer shown by the browser. Something like assigning a magic application/pdf+gzip to the .pdf.gz extension maybe?
I have a bunch of directories full of PDF files and want to compress them all to save some space, so I gzip them all. Is there a way to set up Apache to serve as PDF files? Something like a rewrite from .pdf$ to .pdf.gz but ... transparently? Right now I edit the wikip page and change all the links ending in .pdf to .pdf.gz; when I follow the resulting link, the browser downloads the file and calls whatever is used to handle archives and therefore the PDF is no longer shown by the browser. Something...
OK, I think I found a website with the answer I was looking for. The key phrase is in the title of this post: "Serving pre-compressed files using Apache". Sometimes searching for stuff is hard just because you don't know what it's called. 😅
As my opponent's own acreage shows, sometimes farms are small! And that's okay! We need farms of all sizes in our state, and leadership that can help even the smallest farms do well. That's the experience I bring to the table. #TimeForTaber
I really like Avery Trufelman's podcast, Articles of Interest. I recently came back to it and downloaded a few more episodes. So good. https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/
(Thread 1/3) I have just seen the most polite outright rejection of big business and hustle culture that I've ever encountered at a tiny ma and pa Japanese restaurant in rural Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was so satisfying and heartwarming to see.
The restaurant is based in a town an hour away from where I live. It's run by a Japanese couple in their 50s who make a small number of dishes, exceptionally well. Katsu chicken, karaage, and sushi and the best coffee I've had in this country so far. (And that's saying something.)
The walls are covered in steam punk art and artifacts. There are shelves by the doors full of sprouting avocado seeds in jars for sale to fund raise for a local charity. The customers are mostly local and the owners know almost all and their orders off by heart.
In the four times I've visited, the customers come in a steady stream. The place is incredibly gentle. Many soft spoken women wearing noise cancelling headphones. Rambunctious farming blokes seem to chill out when they drop in for their lunch sushi orders.
When we dropped in this time, the place was obviously busy, only two tables were full but customers were coming in steadily. The owner barely had time to share his usual coffee facts with us. His wife was quietly working in the kitchen at full tilt. (1 of 3)
(Thread 1/3) I have just seen the most polite outright rejection of big business and hustle culture that I've ever encountered at a tiny ma and pa Japanese restaurant in rural Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was so satisfying and heartwarming to see.
The restaurant is based in a town an hour away from where I live. It's run by a Japanese couple in their 50s who make a small number of dishes, exceptionally well. Katsu chicken, karaage, and sushi and the best coffee I've had in this country so far. (And...
(Thread, 2/3) Into this came a big business rep for an online delivery app. He strode up to the counter and loudly declared he was from the company and said that he wanted to talk. The owner quietly told him he was busy in that moment. Effectively a very polite "You're in here in rush hour, go away."
The rep didn't seem to get the hint. Instead he just took a step back from the counter while the owner and his wife carried on, making orders, greeting customers and making damn excellent coffee. After about 5 minutes of waiting impatiently the rep stepped forward again.
He said loudly. "Here's my card. I'll be back in a few days to talk." The owner shook his head and said "Please don't bother. I don't want to talk to you about this. I am not interested." The rep looked around at the 2 occupied tables and then at the empty ones.
The rep started to protest but the owner softly talked over him. He explained that he and his wife didn't want any online orders. That wasn't where they felt joy in their lives. He said that he enjoyed meeting his customers every day, knowing their names.
The owner continued saying that he and his wife loved watching people enjoy the food they made and that they were as busy as they cared to be. If they took on online orders from an app that would all be taken away. He then politely bid the rep good day and went back to making coffee. (2/3)
(Thread, 2/3) Into this came a big business rep for an online delivery app. He strode up to the counter and loudly declared he was from the company and said that he wanted to talk. The owner quietly told him he was busy in that moment. Effectively a very polite "You're in here in rush hour, go away."
A UN special rapporteur urged the suspension of Israel’s UN membership citing repeated violations of international law and the occupation of Palestinian territory.
“I do believe that the impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law,” Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said at a news conference.
A UN special rapporteur urged the suspension of Israel’s UN membership citing repeated violations of international law and the occupation of Palestinian territory.
“I do believe that the impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law,” Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said at a news conference.
@babelcarp fact is, the US system is much less democratic and much more broken than acceptable... it does not honor the real votes and is too fragil and has to many path's of manipulation. Single persons or a small group can just overrule ~450 Mio people?
This system is not future proof... if its not fixed or trump wins I guess the next "election" is more like in russia, turkey,... a Potemkin village. More a democracy simulation for the TV viewers.
When it comes to community organizing as well as open source, many want to contribute, but they expect that someone else will be their project manager. Very few people desire being an unpaid project manager. Just show up and do the work.
Hi everyone, I am organising LOCO 2024, 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing
It's hybrid and will be held 3 Dec 2024, in Glasgow (Scotland) and on line.
On line attendance is free; in person is £30
Deadline 1 Oct (full talk)/ 8 Oct (lightning talk)
Please consider submitting, whether you're academic or not, and please spread the word.
Hi everyone, I am organising LOCO 2024, 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing
It's hybrid and will be held 3 Dec 2024, in Glasgow (Scotland) and on line.
On line attendance is free; in person is £30
Deadline 1 Oct (full talk)/ 8 Oct (lightning talk)
Please consider submitting, whether you're academic or not, and please spread the word.
@wim_v12e
I will be submitting a talk to low carbon computing. Register Machines are much less energy efficient than stack machines. if you have 32 registers, every two operand ALU instruciton requires 5 bits for both operands and 5 bits for the destnation register. 15 bits. In 16 bits I can do a whole 16 bit stack instruction. One stack instruction per clock cycle. And pipelines waste some 30% of computations when they reset.
Back on my theme of trying to understand why LLMs have taken off:
Puzzle piece 1: LLMs are, in Frankfurt's sense of the term, bullshit machines. To him, a core component of bullshit is "indifference to how things really are".
Puzzle piece 2: Managerialism, a dominant business philosophy, holds that managers are universal. They can manage anything without regard to the topic. Without truly learning "how things really are".
Puzzle piece 3: On average, the larger the company the higher the density of bullshit. CEO statements, managerial presentations up and down, customer comms, etc. Related is the density of office politics, careerism, etc.
So putting this together, it seems like our corporate hierarchies have a hard time understanding the weak point of LLMs because standard corporate culture has the same weak point: valuing many other things over the truth.
Back on my theme of trying to understand why LLMs have taken off:
Puzzle piece 1: LLMs are, in Frankfurt's sense of the term, bullshit machines. To him, a core component of bullshit is "indifference to how things really are".
Puzzle piece 2: Managerialism, a dominant business philosophy, holds that managers are universal. They can manage anything without regard to the topic. Without truly learning "how things really are".
as a friend pointed out in a followers-only post, @bob 's Epicyon activitypub server is a non-toy implementation that does not use a database but renders posts as flat files on disk!
The newly hired professor in the area of “Post Internet Praxis” will shape the English-language Master's Major in "Art:ificial Studies" (to be launched in 2025). The new major curriculum at the MA level is designed for students who are interested in the intersections of art, artificial intelligence technologies, and society.
You know what promotes innovation? No, "intellectual" "property" laws, and the promise of passive income. Not the pressure of the shareholders to deliver growth forever. Not even the investment of capital.
It's quality free time. It's when people have the time to experiment and try things. It's when they have access to tools and resources not being fully used. It's when they are not stressed and can freely explore on their own. And when they can do things that don't bring immediate profit.
My grandmother was a secretary in a Nazi concentration camp, filling out death certificates (“heart attack”); they issued these for people they didn’t immediately murder on arrival.
This was 80 years ago & I’m two generations removed.
Some actions are legal and still reprehensible. You won't get punished by the state or the police but that doesn't protect you from scorn, disdain, harsh comments and insults. Actions have consequences.
I guess some people need it spelled out. I think when I was young I also needed somebody to tell me because when I grew I, I thought that the state is great, the law is great, and we're all good people. But morality, justice and the law are not the same. The law only concerns the things were the state will come and impose fines and punishment. Justice is the thing we aspire to (but which the state often cannot deliver). And the moral good goes further than that.
To be morally good or bad is different from being just or unjust and that is different from something being legal or illegal.
So please, when people say that something is reprehensible they usually don't care whether it was legal or not because they aren't going to call the cops. It's an occasion to be happy for just got being called names, for only getting demeaned and ridiculed, for just getting inundated with mails and complaints. Because when the cops show up and take your stuff, when you get those invitations to show up in court, when the bills start coming, then it's worse. Much worse.
Some actions are legal and still reprehensible. You won't get punished by the state or the police but that doesn't protect you from scorn, disdain, harsh comments and insults. Actions have consequences.
I guess some people need it spelled out. I think when I was young I also needed somebody to tell me because when I grew I, I thought that the state is great, the law is great, and we're all good people. But morality, justice and the law are not the same. The law only concerns the things were the state...
I think I need a virtual nipple or something to add to all my web pages to prevent all AI farms from gobbling stuff up and turning it into slop. Maybe I'll add a subdomain to my site: porn.alexschroeder.ch and every other page then has a link to it. Something like
I think I need a virtual nipple or something to add to all my web pages to prevent all AI farms from gobbling stuff up and turning it into slop. Maybe I'll add a subdomain to my site: porn.alexschroeder.ch and every other page then has a link to it. Something like
Gregory's Server
OK, I think I found a website with the answer I was looking for. The key phrase is in the title of this post: "Serving pre-compressed files using Apache". Sometimes searching for stuff is hard just because you don't know what it's called. 😅
https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/serving-pre-compressed-files-using/