Author: Jared Heath

Today we spent some time working on upgrading out local AI model. I had been looking at a model, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, but I didn't think I would be able to fit it onto my GPU setup. Then I figured what the Hell let's...

CHINA #1!!!! (Old PUBG reference, if you know you know) Chinese labs are releasing the Qwen series of models this week. This is great news!Right now American companies are closing their model weights (the brains of an...

We are going into the stars!!! We have now added a backup internet link using Starlink, Elon Musks satellite internet. It... Is pretty cool. For about $50.00 per month you can have internet... Anywhere. Pretty wild.We...

Continuing our work on moving towards IaC (Infrastructure as Code) we have created a code-based firewall and DNS implementation. DNS is Domain Name System. It is how the internet converts names, like althatech.com, to...

We are going global! (Just kidding kind of) We are now multi-location aware hosting! https://althatech.com is hosted separately from our primary office location. This is for redundancy and scaling. It's an important...

We have completed an upgrade across the Nixos-Scale fleet and applications (So this affects your websites) which includes packages and kernel updates. We are now running on linux kernel 6.18.36! This is the most recent...

AI access and usage is beginning to be restricted by the government. This is a big deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbafEATbfXQ

We had another brief outage yesterday, this was somewhat intended. It will have affected about ~35% of our sites. What we are working on is migrating our sites over from our old system, which used Docker, Debian, and a...

We are having some networking issues. The likely issue is a bad network switch. We have a new spare on hand so replacing that seems to have sorted out some of the problems. Keeping an eye on it.