Blogging without the Internet

Travel Tech

I planned on blogging being one of my relaxing hobbies while sailing around the Atlantic Ocean ⛵, and though we managed to keep a sailing blog up to date I found it extremely hard to write tech-related blogs while crossing oceans without a speedy or any internet connection. The setting (of writing these blog posts)…

By addshore June 27, 2023 0
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Avoid image indexing in robots.txt

NoFeed Tech

People might not want images from their websites to be indexed in online searches for several reasons. I have no problem with images from this blog appearing in search engines but recently wanted to add some protection against usage/indexing for another site. I did some thinking and research here. Search engines have some help pages…

By addshore April 8, 2023 0
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What is Wikibase Cloud (According to Bard)

Posts Tech

This is the third in a series of posts where I ask language models, or modern conversational chat bots the question “what is wikibase cloud” to generally see the way they like to answer, and be able to make some sort of comparison of them. The previous posts were for Chat GPT and Bing, but…

By addshore March 24, 2023 0
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Asking Bing Chat AI to reference Wikidata

Tech

I previously compared Chat GPT and the Bing chat AI when it came to the question of “What is Wikibase Cloud”. This comparison and further discussion highlighted problems with using Chat GPT alone. It seems to like inventing URLs that look right but have never existed, as it primarily wants to have a good conversation.…

By addshore March 14, 2023 1
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What is Wikibase Cloud (according to ChatGPT)

Tech Posts

In this post, I’ll be asking ChatGPT a bunch of questions about Wikibase Cloud. mainly to see how accurate it manages to be, and how helpful the information is. Messages to Chat GPT will be in bold, things that are wrong, in red, and things that are right in green. Firstly, “What is Chat GPT?“…

By addshore March 4, 2023 3
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2022 Year Review

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This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Year Reviews

I’ve been doing year reviews since 2017 under the #year-review tag, and 2022 is no different. Expect I have been living aboard a sailboat traveling the world for the latter half of the year. So this year is probably going to look a little different in retrospect, including far less time coding and writing about…

By addshore February 28, 2023 0
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Digital Yacht WL510 & 4G Connect review

Posts

It’s been around 6 months since I set off on a digital nomad-style experience on a sailboat with the Digital Yacht 4GConnect and WL510, and I’m ready to give them some kind of initial review. If you want to read some high-level details of this adventure, and other technical details of the boat, batteries, antennas…

By addshore December 26, 2022 1
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Sailing: Months 2 & 3

Travel Posts

It’s been a while since my first personal sailing post, life is busy as ever, just now on a boat. Lots of sailing, exploring, relaxing, resting, working and boat jobs. We have written lots of adventure content at sailinghannahpenn.co.uk, but now for my own summarised take on the past few months and general thinking of…

By addshore November 11, 2022 0
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Wikimedia Enterprise: A first look

Tech

Wikimedia Enterprise is a new (now 1-year-old) service and offered by the Wikimedia Foundation, via Wikimedia, LLC. This is a wholly-owned LLC that provides opt-in services for third-party content reuse, delivered via API services. In essence, this means that Wikimedia Enterprise is an optional product that third parties can choose to use that repackages data from within…

By addshore October 24, 2022 0
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