Rogue AI – the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
Although this month we planned for a talk from Phill Fox, at short notice he was taken ill, so we switched to the talk planned for next month about Rogue[…]
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Author: peter
Although now retired, I worked in Software Engineering most of my career in areas such as Telecoms, Finance, Cloud Computing and AI.
Tracking aircraft above your house with ADS-B
This month we looked at tracking aircraft above your house using ADS-B. We looked at what ADS-B is, hardware and software required to receive it plus integration into home assistant[…]
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Virtual machines, containers and related technologies (repeat) – followup
This month we looked at virtual machines, containers and related technologies. We will discuss how different technologies can be used to make better use of server hardware resources. Included are[…]
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Remote access – followup
This month we looked at remote access … aside from web browsing, sometimes you need to login or access an application on a remote server. This could be for the[…]
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Ask the group anything – followup
Here are the references I took down from todays meeting. Containers Office ISP’s Firmware Backups Social media for under 16 year olds I proposed to my MP – One concrete[…]
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Agentic AI – followup
This month we looked at agentic artificial intelligence … large language models are now no-longer contrained to just “chat”, they can now interface to the outside world to perform tasks. […]
Read moreApril computing meeting cancelled
Due to unforseen circumstances, I’m afraid our planned meeting on the u3communities computing group on 21st April has been cancelled. Sorry about that. This means our next meeting will be[…]
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Email delivery – followup
This month we looked at email delivery … what used to be pretty simple, in the age of SPAM its gotten to be more complex. The background to the talk[…]
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Open source software – followup
This month we looked at the world of Open Source Software. Included will be what is the source code, major projects, pros & cons and licenses. We’ll also touch on[…]
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