Technology on Ulveon's Thoughts

A eulogy for the most misunderstood Windows version

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0100

Windows Vista was released in 2007. Today, nearly twenty years later, people keep believing it was a “bad” operating system. I have always disagreed with this. Yes, Windows Vista had many flaws and issues, but it was still a well-designed and dependable operating system, and represented a much needed rethink of what a desktop operating system should do.

Why did AI destroy my production database?

Tue, 05 May 2026 14:00:00 +0100

I already posted my thoughts on AI and why I don’t think it’s going away any time soon. Unfortunately, it seems some people who don’t like LLMs are using AI-induced outages and deletions as an opportunity to reaffirm their biases, and, in doing so, may be missing part of the picture.

AI space datacenters are literally impossible

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:00:00 +0100

There’s talk of space datacenters ~~lately~~ again, which is an immensely stupid idea. It is stupid because it is a physics and thermodynamics problem, not an engineering challenge. In this post, I will prove why space datacenters will never happen. Not now, not in ten years, not in a hundred years. While we have gotten far in space exploration technology, further than anyone decades ago thought, and while we have had great success in some aspects, such as the International Space Station, people are not computers (shocking, I know), and computers represent an entirely different set of constraints and problems.

The secure open source fallacy

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Most open source advocates, and many security professionals, often say things like “open source software is secure because you can just read the code”.

This argument assumes that the ability to read source code directly translates into the ability to understand, verify, and trust it, because you can see the files this software opens or the network sockets it listens on. You can see the kind of network data it sends, and the cryptography it uses.

I think I'm starting to understand AI "art"

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0100

I think I am starting to understand the deal with AI “art”. Or at a minimum, I am beginning to understand why AI “art” feels so “AI”, so devoid of soul, lifeless.

Deletion is never guaranteed: How your computer lies to you

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0100

You cannot prove the absence of data; you can only prove the presence of data. You also cannot prove if a particular piece of data was copied, or whether a specific digital object is an original or a copy.

Fighting Twitter's age verification with a special guest

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0100

I am ideologically firmly opposed to age verification systems, especially those that claim to protect children by violating the privacy of adults. I refuse to support such mechanisms because this is a disproportionate response that creates more harm than it prevents.

AI is not a fad: It's here to stay

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:00:00 +0100

Nobody cares about your beautiful, elegant, handcrafted code. Software engineers are engineers first and foremost, and producing code was never the main goal for software engineers. Engineers solve problems with code, such as increasing revenue or decreasing spending. Engineers exist to apply scientific innovations to businesses, in order to increase profit. There’s really nothing else to it.