Author: bharatkalluri
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Thought experiment: on how we assess skill and how it closely maps to how we look at GPTs
At the risk of anthropomorphizing llms, but was a fun chain of thought. So thought it would be nice to go through the thought experiment. The Value of Dealing with Vagueness Both LLMs and people are considered to be great if they can deal with vagueness and generate outcomes. A person or an LLM to…
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On why companies should self host
Consider the following use cases, and a hypothetical scenario of what would happen normally in an organization which does not solve these explicitly There are many other use cases where employees default to their own preferred method without really thinking about data security Instead if the company opts to run a small server under a…
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Torrenting on Tipi
Let’s say you want to download Sintel, the creative common licensed movie made in Blender from torrents. There are a couple of options for downloading torrents on your Tipi. We’ll use Transmission for now. Understanding the folder structure Tipi mounts folder /media/torrents for transmission to write into. Usually people prefer incomplete downloads to be placed…
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On Going from Idea to Deploy
How much time does it take for you to go from imagining a decent idea to having a functional bare bones proof of concept web app? Right now, for me it’s around two days of intermittent work. Here’s why My current stack is And the list goes on. I waste the most amount of time…
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Review – Self hosted photo management apps
There are only two options, in my opinion, that absolutely stand out right now. One is called PhotoPrism, and the other is called Immich. As I mentioned before, I run a modest Chrome Box as a home server. I’ve always wanted to move away from iCloud because it becomes expensive rather quickly, but I couldn’t…
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Rabbit holes
I have a (unhealthy) habit of jumping into rabbit holes and spending days or sometimes months obsessing over a topic which is entirely unrelated to my day to day & probably is useless. But, its pretty damn good fun. So, here are the rabbit holes I jumped into
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Review – CasaOS for self hosting
CasaOS is yet another project to assist people into self hosting. But this one gets a whole lot of things right. What it gets right What it does not get right Verdict – Recommended If you are starting out on your self hosting journey, definitely recommend checking out CasaOS. Among Umbrel, Tipi & CasaOS, CasaOS…
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Experiment: Running a home server on a chrome box
Status: Running I’m new to the self hosting server game. And in retrospect, this is kind of embarrassing to not foresee that this would not work TBH. Let’s start with the story. My friend has a old Mini PC lying around which was unused. Since I was currently running Tipi on my Thinkpad & kind…
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On the power of communities
A bit of a story, I recently wanted to buy a mini pc for my home server. That’s a 20+k investment, even if I buy it in second hand. While taking to a friend, I realized that one more common friend had a pc lying around which was unused. After asking him about it, he…
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Review – Tipi for self hosting
What it gets right? What it does not get right? Observations Once I get used to the tool, I lose the advantage of having a fresh eye. Hence documenting observations here if I find anything weird.