That IT show

We’ll keep it short this time - in this shorter episode (35 degrees while recording), Jasmin rambles about electronics and his small gadgets... a bit.

For decades, robots.txt quietly told search engines where they were welcome and where they weren’t. Then AI showed up, read everything anyway, and called it “training.” Enter ai.txt — the hypothetical line in the sand where a website politely, clearly, and possibly angrily says: no scraping, no learning, no digital photocopying of my soul. In this episode, we explore whether consent still matters on the modern web, how AI crawlers differ from classic search bots, and whether ai.txt would be a genuine technical safeguard, a legal signal, or just a beautifully naive sign taped to the internet’s fridge saying “do not touch.” Spoiler: the file is tiny. The implications are not.

Once upon a time, privacy meant closing a door, lowering your voice, or simply being left alone. Today, it means scrolling through settings, declining cookies for the fifth time, and hoping nobody is listening — while fully assuming someone is. We still talk about privacy as if it’s alive and well, protected by checkboxes, policies, and reassuring icons, even as our phones, homes, cars, and workplaces quietly log everything we do. This episode isn’t about panic or paranoia — it’s about honesty. Privacy didn’t suddenly die; it slowly dissolved into convenience, comfort, and “just one more app.” The real question isn’t whether privacy is gone, but why we keep pretending it isn’t — and who benefits from that fiction.

Working from home was supposed to give us freedom—flexibility, focus, maybe even lunch that doesn’t come from a vending machine. Instead, many of us unlocked a new achievement: being in three places at once and still disappointing everyone. One meeting overlaps another, a “quick call” eats an hour, and suddenly you’re nodding thoughtfully on mute while answering emails, Slack messages, and existential questions about time itself. Online availability made us reachable, but scheduling turned us into calendar acrobats juggling overlapping priorities, time zones, and notifications that never sleep. This episode is a short, therapeutic rant about how remote work didn’t remove chaos—it just moved it into your calendar.

Over the last three years, technology didn’t just move fast—it aged. AI went from a clever party trick to a fully employed adult with deadlines, responsibilities, and an alarming appetite for GPUs. Datacenters followed suit, transforming into glowing furnaces where power meters spin like slot machines and cooling became a first-class workload. Meanwhile, quantum computing is still “very promising,” just not emotionally available yet. In this episode, we look back at the short but chaotic era where intelligence scaled faster than infrastructure, power became the real bottleneck, and every roadmap quietly added more electricity and fewer guarantees. It’s a candid, slightly sarcastic recap of progress, hype, heat, and unanswered calls from the quantum future.

Education has spent the last three decades trying to upgrade itself, but somewhere along the way the installer froze and nobody noticed. In Rebooting Education… Error 404: Vision Not Found, we dig into how a system once built on curiosity slowly became a patchwork of outdated curricula, mismatched expectations, and copy-paste reforms. From tech that arrived too early to ideas that arrived too late, we explore why the classroom feels stuck in perpetual safe mode—and what it would take to finally hit “Restart.”