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If you are enthusiastic about AI (LLMs), you may be fooling yourself. Do not consider this an insult, but a kind-hearted warning. Remember what Richard Feynman said: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to

Background In 2020 - inspired by Low Tech Magazine - I decided to make this blog solar-powered. At that time, I was already self-hosting this blog on a Raspberry Pi at that time so it felt like a fun little project. It all started with a small 60W solar p

If you zoom out enough, everything is a black box where we don't know about the inner workings, but we can learn about the black box by putting stuff in and observing the output. Let's pretend that a large language model or LLM is such a black box. If we

I built a 10-inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions and I had a lot of fun doing it. I want to share my build in this post. In January of 2025, Jeff Geerling released a video about 10-inch mini racks . I was absolutely oblivious to this new trend, and I

Meanwhile, a study (late 2025) seems to report that although participating developers felt they completed tasks faster using AI, they where around 19 slower.

Disclaimer : I'm just a random person on the internet and this article is my personal opinion. This article was written without AI. The first time I heard from Rutger Bregman was due to his remarks at Davos about taxing the billionaires . His speech went

The Domain Name System exists because it's difficult for people to remember IP addresses (185.15.59.224) and much easier to remember domain names (wikipedia.org). Regarding internet-accessible services, it makes sense to publish websites, API endpoints or

Disclaimer: no AI was used to write this article. If you run a DNS server at home or for an organisation, it is likely that you configured a public DNS server as a forwarder 1 . This is not required! Imagine we want to resolve the address 'wikipedia.org'.

All major AI services like ChatGPT or Claude are heavily subsidised by investors. It's not just the initial investment - it's the running costs of these major AI services that are also astronomical. 1 At some point the money will run out. Assuming that Ed