Category Archives: A. I.

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (2): Interfacing with the UniFi Site Manager Cloud API

By | June 11, 2026
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Goal: Query Ubiquiti’s cloud portal (unifi.ui.com) using custom API keys to track remote WAN status and local IP addresses of UniFi Express (UX) gateways. Before jumping into the script code, it is important to understand why command-line scripts are extremely useful for modern smart homes. Beyond convenience for terminal users, these CLI scripts act as… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (2): Interfacing with the… »

Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (1): Running Home Assistant Core in Docker & Creating a CLI Bridge

By | June 11, 2026
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Goal: Run Home Assistant Core locally via Docker in host network mode (crucial for local smart home mDNS auto-discovery) and create a script to read sensor states from the terminal. Why CLI Scripts? (Agentic AI Observability) Before jumping into the script code, it is important to understand why command-line scripts are extremely useful for modern… Read More: Home Assistant & Smart Infrastructure Setup (1): Running Home Assistant… »

The Silicon Sink: Are We Automating Our Way into Universe 25?The Silicon Sink

By | May 18, 2026
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The obsession with eliminating friction in technology may lead to societal apathy, akin to the behavioral sink observed in Calhoun’s mouse experiment. As AI handles cognitive tasks, human creativity may dwindle, causing a feedback loop that undermines AI’s effectiveness. Instead, a balance of struggle and challenge is essential for both human engagement and AI sustainability.

Bringing to life old images with Gemini: You’ll Never Be This Cool

By | October 5, 2025
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Talk about a serious dose of vintage cool! This incredible photo captures a group of young people from Vint, posing with an undeniable swagger sometime between the World Wars. One of them is family but I have no idea who 🙁 ​Just look at them – the sharp suits, the perfectly styled hair, the confident… Read More: Bringing to life old images with Gemini: You’ll Never Be… »

Bringing to life old images with Gemini: My Grandfather, Ioan Voina, and His Artillery Group at Alba-Iulia

By | October 5, 2025
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This photograph is more than just a historical image for my family; it’s a cherished memory. Here, you see my grandfather, Ioan Voina, during World War II, proudly standing with his artillery group. The backdrop nnone other than the majestic Alba Iulia Coronation Cathedral. My grandfather is the soldier second from the left in the… Read More: Bringing to life old images with Gemini: My Grandfather, Ioan… »

Hot on the web: AI stupid meter

By | September 18, 2025
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This is a free promotion post to a very intelligent initiative: monitoring when AI goes stupid. Tired of AI Models Acting Up? Meet aistupidlevel.info Ever notice how your favorite AI model (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok) performs flawlessly one day, then “breaks” the next, giving you refusal after refusal? You’re not alone. We’ve all seen the inconsistent… Read More: Hot on the web: AI stupid meter »

AI clown world

By | June 6, 2025
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Tired of all the absurd news that makes me feel we are living in a clown world. The best part I can ask gemini to describe it. Gemini generated clown world! AI will replace us, but we discover that most of the companies just fake it. We have AI companies that get busted for using… Read More: AI clown world »

Coffee, Flip-Flops, and AI Overlords: Maybe We Can Relax?

By | May 12, 2025
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I had a bit of an epiphany today. Picture this: me, sipping coffee at some decadent resort in a warm country, contemplating the great existential dread of our time – AI taking all our jobs. It’s the big scare, right? Skynet’s coming for our spreadsheets and our artisanal cheese-making gigs. But you know what? It… Read More: Coffee, Flip-Flops, and AI Overlords: Maybe We Can Relax? »

Be your own media company, do not let others sell your work

By | May 18, 2026
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Lately I have seen several good Twitter thread that resonated very well to my own conviction. Traditional media is dead. The printed press, the TV news, the traditional news agencies are all now just chasing the clicks, the sensational, the tabloid news. The quality of reporting is abysmal, the angle of the news is always… Read More: Be your own media company, do not let others sell… »

How to force locally run Ollama AI models to use all your CPU or GPU cores

By | May 12, 2025
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Experimenting with different Ollama sourced AI models I discovered that sometimes in a very strange way my CPU or GPU resources are not used efficiently. By looking at the way Ollama models are packed we see that they are basically very similar to docker images where a full environment is specified. For example we can… Read More: How to force locally run Ollama AI models to use… »