Telegram Premium allows you to convert voice messages to text. But Telegram Premium isn’t officially available in Germany. So why not develop your own solution? That’s exactly what I did this morning: I created a Telegram bot that takes the voice message and transcribes it using OpenAI’s Whisper API. The bot runs as a serverless container on Scaleway. The source code is published on my Gitea instance.

Nice weather, good mood. 😌 Spring is definitely my favorite season! 🌷

Due to OpenAI’s move to prepaid billing, I (finally) had to pay for using the OpenAI API. But this also allows me to finally use the gpt-4-turbo-preview model as I have reached tier 1. Now the AI-generated summaries on this blog will be created using this new model. 😄

Four years ago on this day, the government decided to close all schools and universities because of Covid-19. It was hard to get toilet paper or pasta because people started hoarding. Crazy what happened in those four years.

I received my blood results last week and have since been taking high dose vitamin D pills (also B12 and folic acid once a week) to improve my extremely low levels (~9 ng/ml).

I feel as if it’s already having an effect: I have more energy throughout the day and feel much better mentally. But it could also be a placebo effect. 🤔

Today I learned that there is furniture made of cardboard! What a crazy idea…

Sure, some IKEA furniture these days is also made of cardboard, but they try to hide it. ROOM IN A BOX or KarTent, on the other hand, don’t try to hide it and use it to market themselves as sustainable.

Since we needed a guest bed, I ordered a cardboard folding bed from KarTent and am very interested to see how good it will be.

I will keep you updated…