Eric Mann

  • When it rains …

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    Planning for an AWS outage might seem like overkill until you need to evacuate vacation rental guests during a tropical storm and your entire infrastructure goes dark. Sometimes the improbable becomes critical, and understanding your business continuity options can mean the difference between frustration and tragedy.

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  • Signal vs. Noise: How AI Slop Kills Conversation

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    AI-generated content is everywhere. It’s flooding our professional networks. Destroying social media. Filling news feeds. Each with generic, templated posts that follow predictable patterns. AI slop destroys meaningful discourse and makes it harder than ever to find authentic insights. But the patterns make it easy to find and ignore.

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  • The Deceptive Promise of AI

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    The promise of AI automating mundane tasks seems appealing but is fundamentally flawed. It may eliminate boring jobs, but it doesn’t provide economic security. Displaced workers will be forced to seek new employment. This will turn creative passions into money-making endeavors, stripping them of their joy.

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  • Containerized RSS

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    Join me on an exploration of FreshRSS as an alternative to the gone-but-not-forgotten Google Reader. We’ll even walk through setting it up locally with Docker and Tailscale for easy access.

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