Yay! Finally it’s that time of year — DebCamp is underway, and soon it will be time for DebConf! 🎉🥳 As it is by now tradition, it’s my task to coordinate the DebConf26 keysigning party. And, as usual, I have set up the list of DebConf26
systemd. Yes, in full lowercase. If there is ever a technology to cause controversy in the Linux world, this is it. Since its inception in 2010, systemd's goals were set quite high — replacing the vital part in every Linux system that takes…
Today we went to see a theater play in UNAM’s Cultural Center, very near our home. No, not inside any of the theaters — in the square just between Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Foro Sor Juana and Sala Carlos Chávez.. So, yes, not only we had fun, bu…
I am a teacher. Since January 2013, I have been teaching the “Operating Systems” course at the Engineering Faculty of UNAM. And yes, that means May and November are highly stressful months, where I have to review the work done by my student…
Educators throughout the world are tasked with the difficult requirement of evaluating students’ works, making sure the grades meaningfully reflect the students’ understanding of the subject, and that a graded assignment maps to the relevan…
This opinion article tackles two much-discussed issues: the impact of large language models (LLMs) on job displacement, and workplace productivity. The authors begin by making a comparison, likening the effects of LLMs on knowledge-intensiv…
Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel! As I have said in this blog and elsewhere, after putting quite a bit of work into generating the Debian Raspberry Pi images between late 2018 and 2023, I had to recognize I don’t have the time a…
David Patterson needs no introduction. As the brain behind many of the inventions that shaped the computing industry (repeatedly) over the past 40 years, when he put forward an opinion article in Communications of the ACM targeting the curr…
Note: While I often post the reviews I write for Computing Reviews, this is a shorter review requested to me by Manning. They kindly invited me several months ago to be a reviewer for Python Workout, 2nd edition; after giving them my opinio…
As a little disclaimer, I usually review books or articles written in English, and although I will offer this review to Computing Reviews as usual, it is likely it will not be published. The title of this book in Spanish is Inteligencia art…
Much has been written about large language models (LLMs) being a risk to user security and privacy, including the issue that, being trained with datasets whose provenance and licensing are not always clear, they can be tricked into producin…
As people around the world understand how LLMs behave, more and more people wonder as to why these models hallucinate, and what can be done about to reduce it. This provocatively named article by Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries and J…