Technology on Janik von Rotz

Why I am disappointed in AI

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:56:56 +0200

I would describe myself as an AI critic. AI as a sales hype has not met any of my expectations. The current state of AI is very disappointing. If you feel the same way and cannot really point out why, this post might be of help.

Tech won't save us

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:36:00 +0100

I love this quote. It has its origin most likely in the podcast by Parix Marx.

In the comment section on Republik for an article about Zuckerberg revealing his true intentions, I argued that its time to stop using the American tech.

The broligarchs and American tech imperialism get on my nerves.

To show better options, I provided a list with links. Here is the same list:

Digital Sustainability and LLMs

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:36:17 +0100

This week I experienced:

Dinacon 2024 - a yearly conference about digital sustainability
Playing the game Factorio Space Age
Not having access to Codeium and therefore writing code “offline”
Not being able to buy an H100 GPU

And even though these events seem unrelated, I think they have a lot in common. This is all about over consumption and resource availability. Let me elaborate …

Twitter Stories: Environmental cost of Bitcoin

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:16:05 +0100

On Twitter people share stories that go beyond 280 characters. By replying the to their own tweet, they create ongoing threads. Instead of sharing another link, I concatenate these threads and present them here.

Todays thread is about the environmental cost of Bitcoin by Stephen Diehl.

Let’s discuss the environmental cost of bitcoin. Because despite all the push for sustainable and green investment in the tech sector, there’s a giant smoldering Chernobyl sitting at the heart of Silicon Valley which a lot of investors would prefer you remain quiet about. (1)

Components of a URI

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:49:25 +0100

The terms URL, URI and URN can be confusing. I wanna make sense for once and for all.

FDA for Algorithms and Technology

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:53:07 +0100

I form my opinions and judgments not based on newspapers and talks with people, but mostly from listening to podcasts and reading hacker news. An idea that showed up in my feed a lot recently, is establishing an Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for algorithms¹ and technologies².

Algorithms and technologies haven changed the very fabric of human interaction and communication. The economic landscape has shifted, the service sector took over the largest part of the pi and tech companies lead the top. Online platforms run by powerful algorithms and technologies have become the interchange for consumers and suppliers. Social networks turned into basic building block for socializing.