Entries Tagged - "technology"

Oct 23 2024An AI Horror Story

So I’m reading the teachers subreddit for my daily dose of misery and sense of doom about the future when I come across an unusually worded comment.

As an educator, I’ve got to agree - while crystals and essential oils can be lovely, they won’t replace a solid IEP or therapy. Let’s save the throwing for the baseball field, not the classroom!

~ /u/mohsinali- (343 Karma pre Suspension)

This comment reeked of ChatGPT. This is exactly the way an un-tuned AI writes, so I follow the rabbit hole downward to see what this is all about.

Feb 12 2024Skiff - Or: Why Venture Capital is Bad for You

😵‍💫 Warning: This Diatribe was written in anger, but contains grains of truth

Around a year ago, I decided to shutdown my self-hosted email service after running it for about ten years. My choice in doing such was simply cost related - for the scale of email I was processing, it was not viable to run my own servers to do as such, accounting for time in maintenance and ensuring deliverability. At the time, Skiff mail had been around for around two years, and offered an extremely price competive option for far less than I would be able to setup myself, with more features then I was able to offer, so I made the (incredibly infrastructurly challenging) choice of migrating my mail services over to Skiff.

Mar 14 2021The Bedroom Speaker Conundrum

I would like to have speakers in my bedroom. Currently, my receiver has two bookshelf speakers that are loud enough for the whole common area of our apartment, but it would be nice to listen to quieter music while I’m reading in bed.

This post is to outline the two main solutions I’ve come up with.

Number 1 - Speaker Wire & Passives



It seems fairly simplistic to run speaker wire from the receiver into our bedroom, but since we’re renting the flat, it would actually be fairly complicated to run the wire in a non-intrusive, visually appealing way.