If you missed it, I was on a webinar yesterday with some of my CIQ colleagues and even a guest from the Azure team talking about AI and showing off some workflows I put together:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VRJ...
still mostly not talking a whole ton about this yet, but I've slowly in my spare time been working on discalt.com - the name should give you an idea lol. If any of the folks who follow me on here see this and are interested in helping test the mobile apps pleas give me a yell.
Man, one of those people looks really familiar...
There's an old old folk song that weirdly feels super relevant lately....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcG...
I worked on this!
I'm re-watching The Blues Brothers before work, as one does, and boy it still has a lot of really relevant lessons for us today.
If you run local LLMs and struggle with tool calls working you might want to check out this project I've been working on...
github.com/filthyrake/f...
Recently I found myself with refurbished SSDs that just wouldnt work. Eventually I figured out they were 520 formatted instead of 512 (EMC drives). Only way to fix the drives per the internet was to flash to IT mode, which I didnt want to do as this is a live system.
github.com/filthyrake/m...
Holy cow. I know reddit is... a fairly toxic place, but if you're a fellow self-hosting nerd I suggest you stay *far* away from r/selfhosted. The community (AND mods) are pretty supportive of doxxing folks and spamming/harassing them.
A thing I like about myself is it takes a lot to get me angry. A thing I don't like so much about myself is when I DO get angry, I go full scorched-earth-petty angry.
Supposedly the average American breaks 1-3 laws per day without knowing it. Many felony-level. Maybe something folks should keep in mind when they support force used in enforcement.
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Had a visitor
I promised I'd open source it and I'm a man of my word! Here's the code behind vlog.damenknight.com :
github.com/filthyrake/v...
(apologies for the lack of videos that may be live on the site when you view - everything is re-transcoding)
yes, I plan to open source all the software behind it once I'm sufficiently happy with it.
ok actual post:
Since all of the major tech companies have bent the knee, I've been moving more and more to self hosting. My new endeavor? fuck youtube. I am migrating ALL my old youtube videos (especially my car stuff) to my own self-hosted platform. vlog.damenknight.com ad free, always.
Very few people follow me on here, so its a good place to drop my hot takes compared to elsewhere.... anyhow
I need a change. Not sure what, yet, but need a big one. Maybe I'll move to europe next year?
Just a periodic reminder:
Fuck Musk
(But not literally)
That is all
"Deploy fast or deploy secure. Pick one."
Hardened OS without secure automation = meaningless security. Secure automation without a hardened foundation = vulnerable to kernel exploits.
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On a happier note: I’ve been running Rocky 10 as my desktop all week instead of Windows and have barely noticed the difference 😂so many things are Linux compatible these days it’s great. We’ve come a long way!
Welp, despite it being one of my very favorite and most used services I just cancelled my YT premium after… 8 years! And my Google workspaces paid account. The withdrawal is real lol but worth it.
Give us a Sam Raimi directed Alien movie already!
Now I have more options and tools available to me to solve problems. I’ve built entire new software products. I’ve developed home automation tools. I’ve built my own AI models and mcp servers and done custom training. I’ve *learned* such a tremendous amount just because it removed barriers.
Now if I have a notion, I can use copilot or cursor or Claude or whatever to help me prototype something and validate and idea and then make a real choice to pursue it further or not! It helps me answer the “could I make it work” questions.
Don’t get me wrong I’ve written and shipped plenty of production code but it’s not my thing. So I tend to avoid using it to solve problems and build things unless I have no choice, and a lot of the time that means I just don’t tackle projects or ideas. That just isn’t a thing anymore!
AI as a tool for development is honestly pretty game changing, and I definitely see the arguments for and against… but let me talk about how it has been useful to me. I’m not the best software engineer. Never have been. I’m a really good systems engineer, and I can cobble code together.
I’ve been more actively building things again, both in my off time and at work, and I’m having a blast. Systems, software, all kinds of stuff. Rediscovering a passion a bit! Been particularly fun playing with AI stuff locally for code and other tasks… need to put some thought into how to discuss
A 100% real notification on my phone that is… not as misleading as you probably think 😅
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