Author Archives: kenn-blog

Spammy TLDs

Hi! This is going to be a quick one: As you probably realized, I am one of these Oldtimers that self-host pretty much everything. Including e-mail. And recently, I found a few spammers that made it through my spamfilters by … Continue reading

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Building GPTs and their data sources

A while ago, I started using ChatGPT and played around with building the usual prompt-based GPTs, so I have built bots with various personalities. My first attempt in building a data-driven GPT is the WeatherMaster which is just using the … Continue reading

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On large language models, GPT, ChatGPT and their public perception…

Disclaimer: If you have checked my homepage, you know that I work for Microsoft. And part of what I work on are the Azure AI services that include the Azure OpenAI service. So here we are, April 12th, 2023, a … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi for sailboats

A friend of mine recently bought a sailboat. Now, before you think that this is going to be a bragging post with loads of pictures of people sipping champagne, sorry to disappoint you. The boat is already about 10 years … Continue reading

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Upgrading my Medion akoya E1232T with an SSD.

For a while now, I’ve been using this little clamshell as my private traveling machine, I was dragging it along as far as Japan and in general, it never let me down. Granted, the battery lifetime isn’t great, the shrunk … Continue reading

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My MSDN Blog posts are now here as well

Since I’m waiting for my work machine to install the newest insider build of Windows 10, I decided to polish the old blog a bit. So I decided to add a plugin to my blog that will pull the posts … Continue reading

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Goodbye Facebook

So finally, after being on Facebook for, well as long as Facebook existed, I decided to deactivate my account today. I still remember the time when you actually needed an .edu or otherwise academic e-mail address to register, that must … Continue reading

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Setting up VPN with Surface and Home Server 2011

Happy new year 2013! It seems I am posting in ever-increasing intervals, so the next blog post should be coming in January 2017 if the pattern continues. Anyway, I received my Surface just before Christmas, and it’s an amazing device. … Continue reading

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Microsoft fixing your PC…

Now I’m working for this company for about three years and I still discover new things I wish I would have found a long time ago. If you’re the typical PC end user that is frustrated by your PCs behavior … Continue reading

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HeadSLAM buzz

We received a bit of publicity around our HeadSLAM presentation at Pervasive and ISWC. There’s a good short article on the new scientist website here. Collin Barras, the author of that article had a few extra questions on our work … Continue reading

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