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The AI rescued my old blog and every Linux Journal piece I ever wrote

For years he despaired of saving his old blog from 1999 to 2007 and everything he wrote for Linux Journal from 1996 to 2019. He asked the AI for help, and the AI rescued both sets of writing and put them back online at searls.com, though some Linux Journal pieces are still missing.

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How it works

  1. Gets a zip of his old blog from a friend
  2. Asks the AI for help
  3. The AI rescues the old blog and every Linux Journal item he submitted
  4. Both go back online at searls.com

Why it’s worth knowing

Writing he had given up on saving, going back to 1996, is back online after one push with AI.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on doc.searls.com. See the original ↗

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