Today morning I read a really nice article / blog post “The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me“. The whole story is about a guy who disallowed his smart vacuum cleaner to access the internet. After a while it failed, got repaired, failed again, got repaired and after all stopped working.
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How to fix: Windows automatically goes to Dark Mode (after Oct 16th 2025)
Problem: Windows automatically goes to dark or light mode, no matter what is set in the system settings. Even worse: when you change the mode in the system settings, windows switches back after a few seconds.
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Github Copilot is the Coach I always Wanted
We hear a lot about the bad side of AI Code Generation etc. But there are also quite some good sides that should not be ignored.
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How to get RSS feeds for Releases / Tags on GitHub
With growing amount of running selfhosted services, it becomes a bit tedious to keep track of new software releases.
Luckily, GitHub offers RSS Streams for Releases and Tags (and some more). By adding those streams to the RSS reader, I see it in my RSS feeds when I have to take action.
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Open Source Resilience: Forks and Kindness
For a while now, I’ve been considering running my own RSS aggregator … for a couple of reasons (that don’t matter here). In my shortlist were two popular candidates: Tiny Tiny RSS (ttrss) and FreshRSS. Due to lack of time and other priorites, I had not made a decision, which one to follow ..
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Should We Welcome Bots for Fact Checking?
In today’s digital age, we’ve all noticed how rapidly fake news can be generated, especially with the help of generative Generative AI. Just today, I found myself having to do a fact-check for something I posted — and I decided to leverage #GenAI to test it. And I have to admit, I was genuinely surprised at just how easy and efficient it was.
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Mistral – the European ChatGPT
OK, I admit that I’m sometimes too focused on technology to realise that not everyone is aware of all the different AI services out there. — This week, I mentioned Mistral.ai to a colleague and was surprised that he hadn’t heard of it. But, as I said, you can’t know everything.
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Those Who Forget the Dotcom Crash Are Doomed to Repeat It — with GenAI
A friend recently recommended Craig McCaskill’s article “The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble” with a disclaimer “it’s quite a read”. After forgetting it and coming back to it later I can say: it’s so worth reading it!
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“Six hard truths for software development bosses” also applies for Project Management!
I just came across “Six hard truths for software development bosses” on InfoWorld. Ah well – a quite catchy title. But it’s worth a read for everyone who manages / leads people in the area of Software Development.
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Handling 3,500 drones to recreate Michelangelo’s masterpieces in a huge Lightshow
Thanks to the Fediverse integration of Flipboard I just saw the post from National Geographic where they link “Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican“.
At first I thought it was mainly about how impressive the show itself was. But there’s also another topic: the technology and the team behind the scenes:
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