HTTPS issues with blogger :(

As I wrote in my last post, I'm moving this blog to a new domain. I also decided to put it behind cloudflare to enforce HTTPS and other cool stuff (IPv6, HTTP/2, ChaCha20/Poly1305, etc.) Apparently, google doesn't like that. Now, instead of a nice 301 redirect I get this

Which will totally wreck my search results. I guess I'll have to turn off cloudflare until search engines reindex everything and only then turn it back on.

「この番組は、ご覧のスポンサーの提供でお送りします」Inference Labs

It's official, I have corporate sponsors now (which will hopefully be closer to strategic partnership soon, at least I'd like that). Thanks for the steaks and wine and equipment and all other resources for my distributed hacker team (I'm hoping for a cool demo for ETHOnline hackathon), and local Web3 meatup group I facilitate in Tbilisi (steaks and gas money for everyone participating in the ecosystem), and my Web3 community support army in training. A large bag of kudos for our general sponsor: Inference Labs! If anybody needs help onboarding into the decentralised world, reach me privately and we'll help you navigating the options, we have the expenses covered and good people for this (better points of contact are being established, things are being worked on, stay tuned). I should probably tell a few words about what we actually do at Inference Labs but things change so often I hope we're still bringing decentralized AI to the Web3 world when you read this (maybe...

New horizons

I originally started this blog with ideas of reviewing devices and services and hoping that eventually if it gets popular enough somebody starts sending me stuff to review. A lot has changed since, I stopped obsessing that much about new gadgets and got into vintage electronics, many of things that were new and interesting a few years ago are a commodity now. I thought about reviewing the phone I finally got to refreshing last year (S23 Ultra is ok upgrade for Note 8, I'm glad that new ultras will finally have flat screen again, I might upgrade next year or so just for that) but I don't really feel like it or think it would mean much for the readers. Most of my vintage electronics is at home where I haven't been for a couple years and it's not something I can currently do something about, I touched a soldering iron like once or twice this year. I might post something work-related once I get the hang of what I'm actually doing there and have some rough ideas wen dece...

Using virtualenv for more than Python projects

Sorry, it's not a complete instruction, just a thought. It occurred to me (some time ago) that Python's virtualenv is, essentially, a simplified version of system "prefix", it has bin, lib, include, and can have more stuff when needed. If you're willing to experiment (you'll probably have to set a few additional environment variables and/or build flags but that's no big deal), you can install various other tools there up until you have a complete system with its own compiler and complete set of libraries although it's much simpler to keep using system compiler and libraries only complimenting them when needed. Granted, prefixes are nothing new, people were using /opt (and their home directory) this way since the beginning of time. But with little help of virtualenv-wrapper or pyenv you can easily switch between them and isolate environments better. Binaries and stuff installed in virtualenv would override system defaults but only when venv is activat...

Semi-technical thoughts

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