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My heartfelt apologies to Oulunkylä
ChatGPT4 has emotion now, and I asked it to write a song about everything being just OK in Oulunkylä (A neighborhood of Helsinki). I have visited there and one of the dentist's office signs declared itself to be an "OK Dentist," which prompted this massively incorrect song about the neighborhood.
(Verse 1) Oh, the streets of Oulunkylä are so…
New Glasses
For most of my life I had to visit the optometrist yearly as my vision changed frequently, but as I got older, my eyes stopped degrading. For the last 5 years, I was on the same prescription, which is worth celebrating. However, I noticed a slight blur at a distance, and for the last 3 months, I just sort of lived with that new reality. At first, I…
New Year Reading Plan
Next year I want to encourage my children to read the Bible through at least once. However, I found that most yearly Bible reading plans repeat reading the books of Psalms or Proverbs. Sure, that feature may make normal daily reading more enjoyable for adults, but extra reading is too much for children who have never read the Bible before. I wanted…
From nginx to traefik (and solving X-Forwarded-For)
I recently switched my home setup from nginx to traefik. I had to get used to the new configuration styles and weird doc style of traefik, but suffice to say, I am happy at the end results.
Traefik ships with SNI, allowing me to snoop the connection and prevent unauthorized access to my file server. (One m…
How do you repent from sin?
How do you repent from sin? How does one get all of their sins forgiven? These questions often fill the minds of those who have sin. Perform a search query on a popular web indexing service and you will find many interpretations of these questions.
I was surprised at the results from the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS, Mormonism) and popular wr…
TIL: Zoom has captions
The Zoom application has built in AI captions for various languages. It is great for those hard of hearing to read the words that are spoken.
In other news, you can select the spoken language to be in Finnish, speak in English, and get wonderfully funny sentences in Finnish.
A few pictures on my phone
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Who is the author in AI-generated content?
As AI tools are becoming more frequent, many have found interesting use cases. Some are using AI tools to publish children's books or other creative works primarily done by humans. However, when one publishes a work that was generated by AI, who is the author of the work? Should a notice be included or a sub author be added to the work that was der…
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Personal Tech Debt
This past week I have been able to traverse down the rabbit hole of personal tech debt. After a week's work, I think I was able to get to the bottom and give everything an updated timestamp! All kidding aside, here were some of the projects I was able to revisit:
Kubernetes Cluster
My k8s cluster hosts websit…
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Speaker Windows
I have been working on a personal project to organize my preaching illustrations. Whereas one could use a tool such as Notion, Evernote, or Obsidian, I have had a desire to keep my data in an easy to use interface. I should not have to spend 10 minutes to find that illustration I need. Plus, those services might charge me more than $3/month to acce…
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