Rants and Opinions

This is just whatever happens to be on my mind at a given moment.

My First AI Coding Impressions
First Ai Coding Impression
Causes and Creators I Support
2024 was the year that I shifted my support toward individual creators and causes. So I've been trying to spend my money on causes, systems, services, and people who support the future that I want. I do not support AI and I don't support anyone whose primary contribution is using or promoting AI. I'm trying to make the world a better place by supporting people who help people.
Migrating iRedMail from MySQL to LDAP
These are my notes from migrating my [iRedMail](https://www.iredmail.org) server from a MySQL-based installation to an LDAP-based installation. This blog has a bunch of scripts that turn SQL queries into LDIF files that will create the LDAP structures you need.
Bias and Limitations in AIs and LLMs
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have really obvious limitations. I don’t see how we build a brighter, better future using models that are unable to escape the frequency distribution of our past.
My Disappointing Frames Direct Shopping Experience
I bought prescription sunglasses from Frames Direct. They promote themselves as a high quality, designer glasses retailer and great customer service. My experience was anything but e-commerce. It was very human and very slow, in ways that basic online shopping solved ages ago. This is a point-by-point dissection of my shopping experience and where they let me down.