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Mobibot & Gemini AI
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Last night, as an experiment, I added support for Google's Vertex AI Gemini API to Mobibot…
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Toots du Jour (Aug 30)
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My shrill toots for August 30, 2023
Mastodon: Building a Marvel Character Info Bot with…
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Toots du Jour (May 10)
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My vociferous toots for May 10, 2023
Google jumps into the AI coding assistant fray with Codey and Studio Bot #ai…
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Humans Beat Computers in Poker... Barely
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The results are in from the great "Man vs. Machine" computer poker showdown in Vancouver, with the humans coming out on top by a narrow margin. But the main…
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Crawlers Detection in Java
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As I was testing my link redirector Servlet for the linkblog, Rick asked what I was doing about search engine crawlers. I told him I was inspecting the user-…
As I was testing my link redirector Servlet for the linkblog, Rick asked what I was doing about search engine crawlers. I told him I was inspecting the user-agent on all requests and excluding anything with the words bot,…
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Popular Links
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I've implemented a way to view the linkblog's Popular Links. The page and feeds list the most popular links in the last 24 hours. The lists are updated at le…
You may have noticed that, for the last few days, all links are redirected when clicked. Needless to say that IPs are checked for dups, etc. The user agents are also matched against a list of some 400 known bots,…
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