Mistral AI has published Mistral 3, the latest version of their open-weight language model. The models are available under the Apache 2.0 license and, according to their benchmarks, outperform DeepSeek’s recent models in several key areas … well, let’s see.
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IT, Data, Work
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Reclaiming my Music Decisions
Readers of this blog know that I’ve been hosting my music albums in #Navidrome since this year. And I admit: I really enjoy it. I just read “Musikstreaming – Mein Weg weg von Abos und Algorithmen” and I resonate with a lot that’s been written there.
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NextCloud on Hetzner is the OneDrive upgrade I didn’t know I wanted
For years, I relied on Microsoft’s OneDrive — not for the Office 365 suite, but for its 1TB of cloud storage. It served me well for offsite backups and seamless syncing between my computers and phone. I even used the Personal Vault feature, though more out of curiosity than necessity. Later, I joined a friend’s family plan, making it even more cost-effective.
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Recommended Read: About the Fediverse
Chris Zielecki from Sturmsucht.de has written a good blog post about the Fediverse. Luckily not focused on technology but on users and needs.
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I underestimated my dependency to OneDrive
If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive.
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Recommended Read: Self-Hosting for Everyone
If you’ve ever wondered how to take control of your digital life without immediately diving into the deep end of server racks and command-line chaos, I want to recommend Laura Hargreaves’ latest post, “Self-Hosting for Everyone”.
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Feeling Trapped by Big Tech? Just Take the First Step
Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use?
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Recommended read: Frictionless – About Eliminating Development Friction
I just read Martin Fowler’s blogpost and foreword to Frictionless by Andrew Harmel-Law. The book’s core idea is simple but powerful: How do we make developers truly efficient? Not by adding more processes, tools, or meetings, but by removing the friction that slows teams down and using smart metrics.
I put it on my reading list and I’m curious about it!
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I break things … Google Veo
Recently I had the opportunity to test the new Google AI-Video generator powered by Veo 3(.1). The demo was truley impressive and scary at the same time! And then we were able to test it ourselves …
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A sentence about Data Quality that I missed for over a decade
In Data Analytics, there’s one phrase I hear over and over—so often it’s become a reflex: “We need clean data before we can do anything.”
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