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  • Read: The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.

    I finally read an article that I have in an open Tab since a couple of weeks. I procrastinated, because it was rather long (> 5500 words) and I didn’t just want to rush through it. The article is “An epochal shift The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.”…

  • Read: We are going to kill “unalive”

    I just read Anil Dash’s post about some internet jargon. And, I first thought “yeah well, that’s the algorithm game”. But then, it became — once more — apparent to me, what it actually means. And Anil nails it quite well with this: “One of the things that’s most concerning to me is that an…

  • Read: The Boring Internet

    The internet we know isn’t gone — it is being hidden under platform noise. And it seems like big platforms want to make us forget that this internet still exists. But while platforms rise and fall, the real internet is built on simple, open protocols like email, chat, and feeds — and they remain. Terry…

  • It’s All About Adoption (Or: We Just Don’t Want to Change)

    One thing I’ve seen a lot is how we love to debate whether Tool A is better than Tool B — especially when we already have Tool B in place. Or we ask if Tool A, which might be 5% better, is worth the switch. Yet, the problem we often like to ignore? We forget…

  • GPT-Live … And the Engineering Behind It

    Finally I took the time to read OpenAI’s post about their GPT-Live Realtime system. If you’re interested in how to build such low-latency systems, I definitely recommend to check it out. But what I also had in mind while reading the article was the “no one needs programmers anymore in the age of AI” ……

  • How to configure LogRetention with journald

    Whenever you have a regular process, you definitely want to have some proper logging. But the very next thought after mentioning “logging” should be “LogRetention”. Especially when the process is executed automatically. No matter how often — as soon as the execution isn’t a one off, log rotation & log retention are a topic. LogRotate…

  • My code vanishes from the web

    As a lot of people, I had most of my code published on GitHub. During my #unplugTrump (reduce the amount of US services), I decided that I want to move my code somewhere else. Codeberg came totally handy and was recommended a lot.

  • (why) I do not like Excel / Spreadsheets

    It seems like I’ve earned a reputation at work for hating Excel. We recently had a workshop with different stations and flipboards about how to improve some processes etc. And well – I added a lot of “less spreadsheets” sticky notes. After a while someone approached me and asked what my problem with Excel was…

  • Against Information Hoarding

    I am an information hoarder. I am somehow unhappy if I don’t get new information, new insights, new aspects. That’s not limited to technology but to literally everything. And since I do more and more self-hosting, I have two services on my candidates list: Readeck and Linkwarden. Then, with the rise of AI, the whole…

  • How to fix: VLC long startup time

    Since a while I noticed that when I double clicked an MP4 file, VLC took really long (like several seconds) to open and show the file. Actually really annoingly long. But as I don’t watch a lot of movies, I never really bothered debugging it. BUT recently I came across on itsfoss.com and a tweet…