Firesphere's musings

Another wee while has passed, and I've been reading more and more books. Especially with my XTEInk reader, it's so easy to squeeze in a few paragraphs here and there!

I'm not happy about it, but putting in a heatpump isn't cheap, so I have to make-do with what I have. In this case, a gas heater. And a gas supply contract with Contact Energy, as they were the only one that supplied gas-only connections. I didn't want to give up Powershop for electricity.

Yes. Again. More AI. Sorry, this stuff just won't go away on its own, so clearly, we need to help it along into its grave a little.

Where one would like to see less "meta posts", another starts a month of reply collecting... Gotta love the vibe there!

Joan writes about how they encounter people that bring an "AI Note taker" to every catch-up and meeting. Recording every word, and transcribing it. (Or is it mutilate? You never know with those things!). And they feel unsafe to say they mind.

As you may know, I read quite a few books. And when I saw Max' post about the Xteink e-reader, I was intrigued. Intrigued enough to want one too.

Rishabh asked some questions about bloggers' AI usage, or not-usage.

Ooooh and Aaah at the new KDE release, KDE 6.7! With PlasmaLogin instead of SDDM...

But, I mean, if you want to buy me a coffee...

I've had my old website since... 2006 or so. And this website now since 2023. And I've been writing articles on both since. I figured, it's time to look back at some articles, especially the ones I still enjoy.

Junited is a little blog-adventure invented by Robert Birming, writers of e-logs (or... blogs), share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way.

The Holy Sea published the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first Encyclical letter. And to my surprise, he speaks of how the world, humanity, should deal with AI, in great detail, and with great care. And clearly not a simple "AI bad, God good" piece. I've picked a few parts here, to share my thoughts. Though I'm not as eloquent as the pope.

As Jan Lukas wrote, and as Patrick wrote, and as Kev Quirk wrote, it really does look like BitWarden, the go-to password manager since LastPass screwed up, is starting to sink. After LastPass, 1Password, and now BitWarden, it really seems that self-hosting a password manager is the only option.

I see a lot of posts on e.g. Bubbles and PowRSS. And that's awesome! Every now and then, there's a certain writer I would like to see more from, but they haven't posted in a while. And then I realise that I haven't either.

You have a light switch for that. Right? Or, if you use Philips Hue/Tradfri/Etc., you might have an app for that. I have Philips Hue. Disconnected from the internet. But I still have to turn on the lights that I can't automate, such as my home office. Or... do I?

Every email address in existence. And every non-existing email address, probably, gets spammed. If it was possible to die from too much digital spam, we would probably have a lot less people on Earth.

We have bought a house recently. Our fist one, yay! But a house isn't really a home, until hit has all the necessities! WiFi, coffee, games.

As I have mentioned before, I do quite some reading. And as I'm about to move house, I have packed up a lot of my books. But I wanted to highlight some that I've been reading, or am planning to read.

Need a website? Your first thought is probably WordPress. For a lot of people in the field however, the name sends shivers down their spine. It is both loved and hated in the webdevelopment industry. It's used on about 40% of the visible web, and it is the most attempted-to-hack blogging platform.

David asked "Who knows that you blog?", and a lot of responses have been written. And well, this is my response.

Of course, as per my previous article, all this OS stuff needs to run on hardware. And what kind of hardware?

In 199something, my parents bought their first computer. A 386 with a Turbo button! The thing was amazing, and I would play any game I could get my hands on.