This is an effort to fight back against AI slop, force-fed algorithms and monetized technology. When I first was introduced to the internet, it was a place to escape to, not escape from.1 During the last 20 years this feeling has vanished, and a urge to disconnect has emerged. While this project first was envisioned as a portfolio/CV free from LinkedIn, it has evolved into something different. While I have plans for this website/blog/thing, I am not sure on just what the final embodiment will be. During this I discovered the phenomena of webrings.2 While fascinating for sure, I can't say I've found one that fits my current vision. I will keep exploring.3
Content
I will write about stuff I care about, and stuff I am interested in. I've previously employed Feymans method to great success, albeit it being a rather demanding and time-consuming technique, there will be attempts at doing so in this space too. The value of a text is equal to the time-spent crafting it. Whether it is in your own mind or countless edits. You will therefore find no LLM-generated content here. While LLMs or AI-implementations might be addressed in the future, the content they produce is of no value. I've also reached a point where I find it rude to answer someone with a LLM response, or force a LLM generated text upon another human being. In general I will probably write about stuff in the categories of: philosophy, electronics, nature, photography, making, birds and environmental challenges. I eventually plan on doing an entire written series around collapse, but there are no possibilities of justifying spending time on that right now. Oh, there will be some sort of recommendations-page, featuring both litterature and visual stuff. There probably will be some automotive rants as well.
Going self-hosted
This plattform is self-hosted, using Zola and the apollo theme. There are no analytics running in the background, nor are there suspicious java scripts trying to mine bitcoin using your device. I would like to go into architecture and technical layout, but security concerns stop this for now. I am soon reaching the point where this URL has been DNS-listed for about a year. The amount of automated scans and attacks is staggering. The page passed a million identified attempts some while ago. A million attacks, from not even being listed anywhere else, than in the DNS registry. Since I am freewheeling this setup, there are bound to be some security concerns somewhere and I've tried to address this through keeping the website simple. The only thing missing right now is some sort of RSS-feed.
As Maya Posch quoted in this article on hackaday.com
Back before search engines were optimized to the levels they are now, one would include/exchange links to other websites, thereby creating a ring of websites. Ironically search engines are now ruined by search-engine-optimization and advertising. In this landscape LLMs as search tools are unfortunately superior(as of writing this).