Cocchi Tech Systems & Consulting

05/25/2024

If you've been finding many of your recent search results being hijacked with AI results, there is a way to remove them now.

Adding the &udm=14 parameter to Google search URLs removes AI-generated results and ads, giving you a more traditional search experience. This can be done by manually appending &udm=14 to the end of your search URL. You can also set this up as the default search engine in Chrome by adding a new search engine with the URL template https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s.

https://boingboing.net/2024/05/23/what-the-heck-is-udm14-a-new-search-engine-strips-ai-junk-from-google-results.html/amp

Much like using "amp" to hack URL's to get behind pay wall articles

05/02/2024

Attempted character assassination of St Benitez [federal judge], that has been very good at striking down unconstitutional laws from Kalifornia-stan

hoplophobes and unconstitutional government beauracrats attempting to tarnish and commit political character assassination in an attempt to undermine the judge's rulings as being political instead of constitutional, in many v cases that he has been restoring the 2nd Amendment and 10th Amendment by removing unconstitutional laws in California

The father was all for the scared straight tactic, until just last year when he was talked too by anti-gun advocates that were trying to influence and tarnish Judge Benitez

U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez was reprimanded for judicial misconduct after he ordered the daughter of a criminal defendant handcuffed in court in what some witnesses described as a 'scared straight' tactic.

04/30/2024

If the new AI “help” bothers you, here’s how you can mute the automated responses.

This does not turn it off. It merely mutes the chat

03/29/2024

Truism

02/03/2024

Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google Search's "cached" links have long been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed, but now the company is killing them off. Google "Search Liaison" Danny Sullivan confirmed the feature removal in an X post, saying the feature "was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."

The feature has been appearing and disappearing for some people since December, and currently, we don't see any cache links in Google Search. For now, you can still build your own cache links even without the button, just by going to "https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:" plus a website URL, or by typing "cache:" plus a URL into Google Search.

08/23/2023

The era of widespread mainframe computers (now only relevant to financial services and telecoms mostly) and directly programming machines with switches is past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia.

Getting that close to the hardware and knowing precisely what's going on is becoming a little bit of a lost art. That's why he took it upon himself to build this homage to the mainframe computer of the 70s…..

https://lnkd.in/etD6gcjj

also as a bonus here's a fun teardown of a System390 processor video: https://lnkd.in/ecnKrsXW

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

08/23/2023

IBM uses the power of generative AI large language models (LLMs) to help bring COBOL applications into the modern era. The watsonx code assistant can be used to analyze, refactor, transform and validate COBOL applications using gen AI.

There are still billions of lines of COBOL code running production applications today. 84% of IBM’s Z mainframe clients are running COBOL applications. As such, there is a real imperative to help organizations modernize the code in a way that can be more easily maintained. With the lack of COBOL skills, IBM took specific aim at training its AI so it could actually understand the COBOL program language.

The new IBM offering can be used to “surgically extract” a logical business service from a large monolithic COBOL application. The watsxonx code assistant can then be used to generate a Java class hierarchy and transform the extracted COBOL code to Java. To validate the transformation, the solution generates automated tests to ensure the new Java code is semantically equivalent to the original COBOL.

The watsonx code assistant is not doing a line-by-line COBOL syntax translation to Java. The IBM approach is to take the intention of the COBOL code and map it into Java code that makes sense. Read much more about it in the article ....

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

08/16/2023

Web fingerprinting is not a new technique to identify visitors on the Internet, but it is a technique that has become frighteningly good in recent time.

Fingerprinting describes a set of methods that sites and advertisers use to track users across the Internet. These methods do not rely on cookies and other common forms of tracking, which mostly rely on storing data on user devices, but use device parameters and other information to compute a fingerprint.

It should not come as a surprise that some browsers, mostly those focused on privacy, have implemented anti-fingerprinting protections in recent years. Brave Browser introduced language and font fingerprinting protections in 2022, and Mozilla's Firefox web browser anti-fingerprinting protections as part of the browser's Tracking Protection feature.

[https://www.ghacks.net/2023/03/21/web-fingerprinting-gets-frighteningly-good-sees-through-vpns-and-incognito-mode/}

08/12/2023

The internet does forget, it's not forever.

[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/the-internet-is-not-forever-after-all-cnet-deletes-old-articles-to-game-google/amp/]

Content pruning for SEO threatens web history, and experts say it is ill-advised.

08/09/2023

Generative AI Learning Path, Google free training/learning

[https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/]

08/09/2023

The sound your keystrokes make is enough for AI to steal them — how to stay safe



[https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-sound-your-keystrokes-make-is-enough-for-ai-to-steal-them-how-to-stay-safe]

06/28/2023

Interesting

[https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-evolution-most-popular-desktop-operating-systems-2003]

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero