The IT Blog (locked.de)
The IT Blog (locked.de)
Franz Graf
I'm blogging about IT and Technology in general. Also I publish all kinds of "how to-solutions" that took me a while to figure out - and I hope that it might help other's as well
Latest Posts
AI chat tools are a remarkable invention. Their rapid adoption speaks for itself: instant access to information, tailored feedback, and the ability to explore ideas or discuss one own thoughts or questions without friction – never before...
I just attended an event where Casey West also demoed some stuff. Just now I found his blog at https://caseywest.com as well. And scrolling through, I saw his post A Call for More Tech Leadership from 2015 where he writes: Don’t promote...
We often see and hear a lot of hype and – unfortunately – enshittification when it comes to GenAI. Despite knowing that there are indeed some valuable use cases for the application of AI to solve some issues, I rarely read about a...
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,...
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. Solution: Check if you have...
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. Kickstart Configs When I started more and more #Selfhosting, I used GitHub Copilot and Mistral to write my...
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...
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...
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....
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! I admit that I...
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. Because it’s not about...
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...
Just recently I saw the article (that probably most of us already noticed with a gentle smile), that AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19% (on InfoWorld). And just now I came to another article on Futurism, that “AI...
Eleven and a half years ago, I built my first RaspberryPi weather station using sensors from Tinkerforge. Today, I shut it down for good. Not because it failed — but because its job is done. It’s been replaced by a Netatmo setup, and...
DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering — those three terms that often and quickly get mixed up. But they describe different roles. And I think it’s good to know the difference — at least if you’re somehwere working in modern software...