The IT Blog (locked.de)

Franz Graf

Technology

I'm blogging about IT and Technology in general. Also I publish all kinds of "how to-solutions" that took me a while to figure out - and I hope that it might help other's as well

https://www.locked.de/

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• BuzzFeed’s AI Gamble Backfired – The pivot to AI isn’t going so great 2026-03-14 12:53pm
• Are we now coding / writing for other agents? 2026-03-06 09:00am
• Stop Reinventing the Wheel – go to Community Events! 2026-03-05 09:49am
• One of the most potentially dangerous failure modes of LLM-based coding assistants … 2026-03-04 02:27pm
• How to: Utiq Tracking sperren (Tracking via IP & Telefonnummer) 2026-03-04 09:57am
• Agent finops 2026-03-02 08:31am
• AI amplifies DevOps 2026-02-28 11:57pm
• The Illusion of Smart Home Security – or – the remote controlled WebCam in your Home 2026-02-27 11:08am
• Rules don’t always work on AI agents 2026-02-24 10:30am
• The Misleading Platform Term 2026-02-21 09:11am
• How an Identy Check is distributing your Biometric Data 2026-02-20 01:25pm
• Nolto.Social is gone, but is has shown the Demand! 2026-02-16 12:58pm
• AI Won’t Turn Everyone Into Developers- Because Most People Don’t Want to Be Developers 2026-02-14 12:20am
• Find me on Nolto! 2026-02-04 10:01am
• StaffEng is back! 2026-01-23 11:15am
• Firefox vs Vivaldi – A Matter of Engines, Not Just Geography 2026-01-21 12:35pm
• How to migrate Gmail to another Provider without Breaking the Mail History 2026-01-15 12:07pm
• How a User Helped Fixing 4 Bugs with AI (and No Expertise) 2026-01-13 11:27am
• Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career 2026-01-12 01:11pm
• AI Won’t Fix Bad Software Teams 2026-01-11 01:46am
• The Fear of DevOPs 2026-01-10 03:08am
• Spec-first Agentic Development is not Vibe Coding 2026-01-09 12:04pm
• How Deepfakes and KI-Slop Undermine Democracy 2026-01-02 03:12am
• Happy New Year! 2025-12-31 11:11pm
• The Malicious Agent … 2025-12-31 08:40am
• The 39C3 has ended and lot’s of Talks are waiting 2025-12-30 12:26pm
• You Don’t Need to be the Boss to Influence 2025-12-29 06:37am
• Blogs Have Become to Me What LinkedIn Should Be 2025-12-27 09:12am
• Reproducible Vibe Coding | It’s all About Context 2025-12-25 11:55pm
• Recommended read: What Actually Makes You Senior 2025-12-24 11:23pm
• I Changed the Fediverse Handler to @fgraf 2025-12-24 04:47am
• Why I Do Not Like ‘All-or-Nothing’ Software Projects 2025-12-24 12:17am
• How to write great agents.md(s) – A recommendation from GitHub 2025-12-23 12:42am
• Recommended Read about a Microservices Reality Check 2025-12-22 01:01am
• Your Backup Plan Is Incomplete Without Restore Tests 2025-12-20 05:10am
• Never Trust a Single Company 2025-12-13 01:37pm
• The Cost of Going All-In on AI 2025-12-07 07:49am
• LLM Update in Production: When Prompts Fail — and What It Means for Your Applications 2025-12-06 10:30am
• The Free Software Foundation deleted its account on X and recommends the Fediverse 2025-12-04 10:07pm
• The Software Engineering Challenge Behind Effective RAG 2025-12-04 05:26am
• Mistral 3 Released 2025-12-03 05:18am
• Reclaiming my Music Decisions 2025-12-01 04:56am
• NextCloud on Hetzner is the OneDrive upgrade I didn’t know I wanted 2025-11-29 02:46am
• Recommended Read: About the Fediverse 2025-11-28 12:47pm
• I underestimated my dependency to OneDrive 2025-11-27 12:54pm
• Recommended Read: Self-Hosting for Everyone 2025-11-26 12:10pm
• GenAI: The Real Checklist (Beyond Prompts and POCs) 2025-11-24 08:33am
• Feeling Trapped by Big Tech? Just Take the First Step 2025-11-23 07:02am
• Recommended read: Frictionless – About Eliminating Development Friction 2025-11-22 09:51am
• I break things … Google Veo 2025-11-21 09:03am
• A sentence about Data Quality that I missed for over a decade 2025-11-20 09:18am
• o365 “control plane” for AI Agents coming 2025-11-20 08:56am
• AWS, Azure, Cloudflare – who’s next? 2025-11-18 09:27am
• What I am Missing in Most GenAI Conversations 2025-11-15 07:59am
• The Architect I Never Knew I Was 2025-11-06 12:35pm
• Why Your Favorite AI Tool Might Be Isolating You 2025-11-02 12:58am
• Don’t promote your most talented technologists into people management 2025-10-31 09:34am
• How to guide your teams to use GenAI effectively while avoiding the pitfalls 2025-10-30 10:29am
• A Vacuum Robot should not Require a permanent Internet Connection 2025-10-29 11:41am
• How to fix: Windows automatically goes to Dark Mode (after Oct 16th 2025) 2025-10-26 07:59am
• Github Copilot is the Coach I always Wanted 2025-10-26 03:37am
• How to get RSS feeds for Releases / Tags on GitHub 2025-10-25 12:24pm
• Open Source Resilience: Forks and Kindness 2025-10-07 11:39pm
• Should We Welcome Bots for Fact Checking? 2025-10-05 09:19am
• Mistral – the European ChatGPT 2025-09-25 12:32pm
• Those Who Forget the Dotcom Crash Are Doomed to Repeat It — with GenAI 2025-09-16 12:22pm
• “Six hard truths for software development bosses” also applies for Project Management! 2025-09-15 10:05am
• Handling 3,500 drones to recreate Michelangelo’s masterpieces in a huge Lightshow 2025-09-14 02:06am
• Is the GenAI Revolution over already? 2025-09-13 10:17am
• Atlassian DataCenter EOL 2025-09-12 03:57am
• Farewell to my 11.5-Year-Old RaspberryPi Weather Station 2025-09-03 12:55pm
• The Difference Between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering 2025-08-29 11:20pm