Note: This post is an experiment where I'm using AI to help craft the text. I'm working in VS Code with an AI agent (Claude Sonnet 4) that has access to my codebase and terminal output from the Zola server. As part of this exercise, everything is being changed through my voice – I haven't touched the text directly at all. I'm dictating via voice-to-text, so this isn't a transcript but my thoughts turned into readable text with AI assistance.
FUTO the company that supports (funds the development of) the Open Source image management solution Immich held a conference where its creator and a few developers discussed Immich. It was a good talk, and you can see it here:
I got a TRMNL! A really cool little device. It's battery-powered e-ink device that you can hang on a wall like a frame/info display, or use the built-in desk stand to have it at your desk. By default the company offers a cloud service to manage, host and build dashboards. But I prefer to keep my stuff local, inside my network, and TRMNL allows me to use my own local server for a fully local device.
Last night I realized that my phone had started to backup 58 GB photos from my phone to Googles servers. I had not requested this. I'm fine to upload some data to Google. I do for example have Gmail, files in Drive and a few shared albums in Google Photos. But that's completely different from blankly uploading all my photos! I do have privacy concerns, and of course 58 GB will not fit on my 17 GB quota.
Yeah, I agree that there is an AI hype going on. I agree that there is a lot of overlap with the cryptocoin hype. I also wish that people stopped to shoehorn in AI to everything. I wished we never called it AI because it's not intelligent. But here we are.
I love distributed and federated systems. E-mail must be the biggest one out there, and it's also one that almost everybody uses. Everybody has an email, right?
I recently installed the newly released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on my laptop. Canonical has introduced a revamped installation interface, which is visually appealing. However, I found that the options for manual disk configuration are limited. For instance, I couldn't manually set up LUKS encrypted partitions or utilize LVM. While the GUI lacks functionality in this aspect, you can on the other hand define any desired configuration in autoinstall.yaml.
I'm moving a few servers around and I just realized that systemd-networkd supports WireGuard! This saves me from installing the wireguard tools packages, or any packages for that matter because systemd is already included.
Almost exactly a year ago I restructured my storage setup. I have always been careful with my files and that's why I moved over to ZFS on my storage server. No rotting bits here! One of the new things with my new setup is native ZFS encryption.
I had some time to thinker with the blog over the last days. There has been a lot of interesting things invented since I last looked deeper at CSS, like flex and grid layouts, animations. Yeah, I have been out of the loop since forever.
Note: This post is an experiment where I'm using AI to help craft the text. I'm working in VS Code with an AI agent (Claude Sonnet 4) that has access to my codebase and terminal output from the Zola server. As part of this exercise, everything is being changed through my voice – I haven't touched the text directly at all. I'm dictating via voice-to-text, so this isn't a transcript but my thoughts turned into readable text with AI assistance. 
FUTO the company that supports (funds the development of) the Open Source image management solution Immich held a conference where its creator and a few developers discussed Immich. It was a good talk, and you can see it here: 
I got a TRMNL! A really cool little device. It's battery-powered e-ink device that you can hang on a wall like a frame/info display, or use the built-in desk stand to have it at your desk. By default the company offers a cloud service to manage, host and build dashboards. But I prefer to keep my stuff local, inside my network, and TRMNL allows me to use my own local server for a fully local device. 
Last night I realized that my phone had started to backup 58 GB photos from my phone to Googles servers. I had not requested this. I'm fine to upload some data to Google. I do for example have Gmail, files in Drive and a few shared albums in Google Photos. But that's completely different from blankly uploading all my photos! I do have privacy concerns, and of course 58 GB will not fit on my 17 GB quota. 
Almost exactly a year ago I restructured my storage setup. I have always been careful with my files and that's why I moved over to ZFS on my storage server. No rotting bits here! One of the new things with my new setup is native ZFS encryption. 
I had some time to thinker with the blog over the last days. There has been a lot of interesting things invented since I last looked deeper at CSS, like flex and grid layouts, animations. Yeah, I have been out of the loop since forever.