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  • I need to be honest about something: I wrote this post with an AI.

    Not just edited by AI. Written with it. I fed it my GDPR data, asked it to analyze the files, and said “help me write a post about this.” The same tool I’m criticizing is the tool I used to criticize it.

    And tomorrow, this conversation — me processing my discomfort about data collection — will probably end up in another memories.json somewhere. Another entry in another psychological profile. Another data point about how I think, what I fear, what I’m willing to expose.

    I could have written this myself. It would have taken longer. It might have been worse. But I didn’t, because the AI is faster, and I’ve gotten used to outsourcing my thinking.

    That’s the trap. It’s not that AI is evil. It’s that it’s genuinely useful. So useful that you keep feeding it, even when you know exactly what it costs.

    Even admitting it just seems embarrassing to me, but w/e. Brain-dead gonna brain-dead.








  • 100% agree with you re: Proxmox. I’ve recently migrated my gaming PC to a Proxmox setup with a Win10 gaming / VR VM, and a Debian 12 VM solely dedicated to serving, quantizing, and optimizing LLM (with full 3090FE vfio passthrough 😁). The other one I have is a super old mini-ITX tiny box with an i3-4130 in it, and I use it for a Plex LXC b/c my NAS has a CPU that doesn’t support hardware transcoding (even though I’ve literally showed all my clients how to disable transcoding completely so they all get direct streams / direct plays at original quality to their devices), just in case some transcoding needs to be done.

    So I decided to set up the Cluster/Node bit a few days ago, and it is SO awesome to have instant access to both servers at one URL and interface to manage all my VMs/LXCs. I’ve only had one problem with Proxmox since I started using it a couple years ago, and I’ve loved everything else about it!

    In the spirit of “why not right?”, here’s one of my favorite random services I run: https://github.com/jordan-dalby/ByteStash I love being able to save little snippets that I know in the moment I will hit myself later if I have to look it up again.