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Using Ollama on Windows 11 as an Alternative to Public LLMs

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In my ongoing war against shadow AI, I’ve been testing out alternatives that most everyone can use, no matter what your technical expertise.  Although somewhat limited depending on your resources available, (laptop CPU/GPU, memory, etc.) If you want to try the newest open models without sending your prompts to the cloud, or you just want […]

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2025-08-16

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Everyone Wants a Piece of the AI Pie

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Swiping through LinkedIn feels like watching a campsite suddenly flooded with s’mores. Every other ad, i.e. post, promises the next miracle AI service, platform, or “AI-powered” widget. It’s a frenzy that says: “If buzzwords paid the bills, we’d all be billionaires already.”  I can’t fault the reasoning, there’s a lot of buzz out there telling […]

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2025-08-09

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Question of the Day

Encoding URLs

I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:

CREATE TABLE Response
( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY
, ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000)
)
GO
If I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use?

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