Notices by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)

Computer History Museum was pretty awesome. Thanks for all the recommendations!

Apple doesn't realize how many hours I spend every iOS release trying to explain to family members with iOS devices how to use the same app (Photos) which is completely redesigned every year.

RIP. Something deceivingly simple like overlapping windows on a display was not so simple back when Bill Atkinson programmed it on the Macintosh.

Wish we had that feature on the iPad!
https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/114643717241762697

Sipeed's NanoCluster holds up to 7 Compute Modules in 6cm—how are the power limits? Does it throttle? Can you run distributed LLMs?

All those questions—and many more—answered in today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEtpaiODNs0

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

Oh we're gonna do this again YouTube?

Self-hosting your own media content on a Raspberry Pi is not "dangerous or harmful".

I'm appealing of course; they're saying installing LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi circumvents copyright?!

Tomorrow... AI speech to text on an old Power Mac G4

Et tu, YouTube?

The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:

Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.

Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'.

The problem is AI slop; there are thousands of websites (even some old venerable sites that were sold off) that just have "that exact query as a web page", but the results are AI generated, and have no helpful information inside.

It's hard to have a good time on a Mac.

Which is why I spent far too many hours tinkering with GPS, Chrony, and NTP to see if I could improve the timing situation...

See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtmQGMwF_M8

I did not die installing a GPS antenna at the studio with my Dad... and I got to learn some of the tricks of the trade with coax and antennas for permanent outdoor installs from him! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U73uTKDs

Pet peeve: People complaining about the way I maintain my open source projects under MIT license (particularly my decision to use stale bot, since I don't like seeing literal thousands of open issues across my repos).

Just fork it! No skin off my back. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/just-say-no

@darix fine by me!

I often post a PR to a project with zero expectations whatsoever.

The only reason I post it is so (a) I can incorporate that into my own documentation or fork, and (b) so others who use the project can benefit.

If anyone on the project ever decides to merge my code, that's just icing on the cake.

@AdmSnackbar @darix my stale bot configuration has a pass for bug and "planned" labels.

But I apply those labels sparingly. I don't close bugs, but I often close feature requests. The projects are first and foremost for me, if others benefit from my code that's great.

macOS setup is not even close to as bad as Windows, if you want to create a local account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE-hFyANr0Y

I'm still annoyed by how many dumb questions they ask in the first-time setup wizard. And Apple Intelligence is still dumb.

A thousand times slower than my Apple Watch—and finicky to use.

But at least this Apple II can run 50+ more years with no cloud service required! https://youtu.be/AVec5Db_SRo #AprilApples

De-censoring a video's never been easier.

Check out how quickly people were able to undo the pixelization in one of my YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKYYwcxpGk

Blog post if you don't enjoy video: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/its-easier-ever-de-censor-videos

@paul try Geekbench 5 instead. Multicore absolutely falls apart on Geekbench 6 beyond about 8-12 cores. It's baaaad for multicore.

Found this cool active GNSS/GPS antenna that is literally powered over fiber (like 300-ish mW), using a laser. Don't look into that optic!

From the HUBER+SUHNER booth at #NABShow

Thanks so much to the SBE for inviting my Dad and I to talk about Media over IP and Broadcast mini labs at the Ennes workshops at #NABShow this morning!

And of course I had to bring up a Raspberry Pi for SDR... :D