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Ultracode and Ultrathink for OpenCode. Fusion beats Fable

Ultracode and Ultrathink for OpenCode. Fusion beats Fable

Anthropic's self-inflicted sanctions triggered the US authorities to act based on the Wassenaar accords. Their Fable model was declared a national security threat (probably based on interesting procedures). This gives even more market to open-weight models and empowers international companies to use alternative models, including Chinese open-weight models.
Rapid Dashboarding with Self-Hosted AI Systems

Rapid Dashboarding with Self-Hosted AI Systems

The fine folks from McKinsey have open-sourced an AI-enabled dashboarding workflow. In my opinion, it's useful for businesses and strategically valuable to generate insights. It's called Vizro. Rapid dashboarding alternatives like Claude in Excel require 1. more work and prompting (attention to detail) 2. you need
Borgmatic / Bash CI / git-crypt and key management

Borgmatic / Bash CI / git-crypt and key management

Borgmatic Backups for security“Backups are important for information security. Underestimated, often forgotten, but key to resilience and compliance alike.” - every sane tech expert Data is more valuable than ever. And hard disks are just consumables. In the old days (early 2010s), I had setups with Bacula Backup. It