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  • What i learned about Ollama

    What i learned about Ollama

    Ollama is great for running a local self-hosted AI REST API. You can load all kinds of models, whether they’re for chatting, vision, or embedding. At this time, I’m not aware that voice models can be used for input or output, but that might only be a matter of time. Why Ollama Why would you…

  • Instrumentation Keys to Connection Strings

    Instrumentation Keys to Connection Strings

    On March 31, 2025, Microsoft will end support for instrumentation key-based global ingestion in Azure Monitor’s Application Insights. After this date, while your resources will still receive data, updates and customer support related to this method will no longer be available. This change marks the transition from global endpoints to regional ones that utilize connection…

  • Upgrading Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.04.1 LTS

    Upgrading Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.04.1 LTS

    I recently had to upgrade my Linux tiny VM from Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.04.1 LTS. However, as I waited too long, a simple do-release-upgrade no longer worked in January 2025.

  • App Service Node 22 availability

    App Service Node 22 availability

    Azure App Service on Linux does not currently support Node 22 LTS. As of January 27th 2025, the latest supported Node.js version on Azure App Service for Linux is Node 20 LTS. The support timeline for Node.js versions on Azure App Service is as follows: On Ignite Node 22, support was announced for December 2024…

  • Find your Azure DevOps

    Find your Azure DevOps

    You might have the problem that when you are opening dev.azure.com you will be redirected to portal.azure.com. Likely you were not looking for portal.azure.com but rather for Azure DevOps. This is how you can find your Azure DevOps organization and gain access back.

  • Deepseek-r1 (Reasoning models)

    Deepseek-r1 (Reasoning models)

    DeepSeek’s first generation reasoning models with comparable performance to OpenAI-o1. What is a Reasoning model In the words of OpenAI. A new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. As AI becomes more advanced, it will solve increasingly complex and critical problems. It also takes significantly more compute to…

  • NoName057(16) DDoS January 2025

    NoName057(16) DDoS January 2025

    On January 20-24, 2025, we have the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Last year this caused various DDoS attacks on Swiss websites. If this year we see DDoS activity again is yet unknown. Being only days away from the forum taking place, we might soon see if Switzerland is again in focus of NoName057(16) or…

  • Free Alt Text Generator based on AI

    Free Alt Text Generator based on AI

    Ahref has released on their website a tool to have an image processed and returning alt text. Processing images is a good way of utilizing AI in my opinion. The offer is nice as an idea but also convenient as the tokens for image processing are rather expensive. Based on the short texts returned, I…

  • Can AI Search Engines Be Tricked?

    Can AI Search Engines Be Tricked?

    A recent study by The Guardian found that AI search engines like ChatGPT Search can be manipulated by hidden information on websites.

  • Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now GA

    Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now GA

    Since November 19th, 2024 Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now generally available. I was waiting for this for quite some time but missed the update on the regular Azure updates. Even when filtering, I can’t see an entry on the Azure updates feed, therefore you might have missed this news too, so I’ll share it…