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  • When Chatbots Fail: Lessons from My Frustrating Experience with Automated Customer Service

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    17 min read

    In this post, I share an actual dialog between myself—the user—and a chatbot, and then provide an in-depth analysis of the customer experience and the bot’s performance. I detail the specific problem I encountered, examine key issues and the emotional impact of the interaction, and offer recommendations for improvement. I attempted to book two flights…

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  • ChatGPT Hallucinating: Messing up an Apple Pie Recipe

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    42 min read

    ChatGPT dialog

    I have a recipe for apple pie in German. I asked ChatGPT to translate it into English, convert the measurements to US units, and then create a script to produce a video of the recipe. This seems like a simple and straightforward task. But instead of just translating the recipe and making a video script…

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  • Schnell erstellt: KI-generiertes Predigt-Video

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    1 min read

    Screenshot des Videos

    Von meiner letzten Predigt in Speldorf gibt es leider nur ein Audio. Aus diesem Predigtmitschnitt per Handy habe ich mit der KI-Video-Plattform Pipio schnell dieses Video erstellt. Das ist noch nicht sehr beeindruckend, aber man sieht, was bald möglich sein wird, wenn statt des Standardavatars ein Real Life Avatar von mir verwendet wird. Das geht…

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  • Bookmarks for Ubuntu / Linux

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    1 min read

    Reducing the size of a PDF document via command line: A 17.4 MB file was reduced to 1.7 MB

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  • Installing Bitnami WordPress Multisite on AWS Lightsail

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    1 min read

    This is how I walked through the installation process. Here are the links I followed:

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  • Alexa hört mit (by default) und macht Angst

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    1 min read

    Alexa hört mit und gibt die Daten an Amazon zur weiteren Analyse weiter. Dies ist die Standardeinstellung.

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  • Migration from WordPress.com to a self-hosted Blog on Amazon Lightsail

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    4 min read

    Why Amazon Lightsail? I started my blog ralpe.eu seven years ago on WordPress.com. It was easy to set up, I could use the blog right away and it was only 13 bucks a year to map my blog’s domain ralpe.eu to the domain theonet.de provided by WordPress.com. For a long time I was happy with…

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  • Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate installed

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    1 min read

    – Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at: *** Your key file has been saved at: *** Your cert will expire on 2019-04-22. To obtain a new or tweaked version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot again. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run “certbot renew” – If you…

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  • Liturgischer Kalender als WordPress-Plugin

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    2 min read

    Danke an Thomas Arend für dieses WordPress-Plugin, dass den liturgischen Kalender darstellt. Die Installation hat in meiner WordPress-Instanz problemlos geklappt, ich habe einfach “Kirchenjahr evangelisch” im Plugin-Menü eingegeben. Bei Github findet sich der Kalender auch hier: https://github.com/Byggvir/ev-kirchenjahr Im Post lasst sich der liturgische Kalender einfach per Shortcode aufrufen, über Parameter lässt er sich konfigurieren. [litkalender…

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  • How to Install Bitnami WordPress Multisite on AWS Lightsail

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    1 min read

    https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/get-started-lightsail/ Attach static IP at https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/webapp/home/networking Login at WordPress, the user is “user”, for how to retrieve password see again: https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/get-started-lightsail/ Update plug-ins and WordPress Create snapshot (just to be safe) Get key at https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/webapp/account/keys Configuration of WordPress: https://docs.bitnami.com/general/apps/wordpress-multisite/configuration/configure-wordpress-multisite/ Add SSL encryption: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/linux-lightsail-ssl-bitnami/

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