Software

Another blog update

Published on 15 February 2026 at 13:18

So recently I discovered that the maintainer of my previous blogging software (Hugo) had added agent prompts to his project's repo.

This was a massive red flag to me, as I strictly oppose the use of generative AI trained on stolen labour, both within corporate spaces and in the open-source community which is being stolen from by companies like Anthropic. However, asking the maintainer for clarification on whether he uses AI led to him banning me from his forum, removing my question, refusin...

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A Quick Blog Update

Published on 28 January 2026 at 08:30

As I continue to build this blog into a real "digital home" for myself, I have now added all photos from my old Flickr account to the blog.

All of them are present in the gallery! Please note that I have automatically migrated some image metadata like titles and description from Flickr, but many of the older photos only have descriptions or titles in German, and some do not have any text associated with them.

I might go over all of them and polish their metadata in the future, bu...

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How to tell your Customer Service sucks

Published on 21 July 2014 at 13:34
neinhoo

Today, I got a phishing e-mail.

I hope you have never been subject to such a shocking event for yourself, and apologize if the horror of my tale gave you a heart attack.

Well, this one looked a bit more legit than most of them, and it was certainly audacious: A mail claiming to be from Yahoo and sent by a Yahoo user. It somehow passed my spam filter, so I decided I might as well tell Yahoo about it, so they might unleash their mighty rage upon the morally bankrupt offender. For sure, there wo...

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