Rant 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.

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.