First Ai Coding Impression
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.
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.
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.
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.