Tag Archives: AI

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

By | June 11, 2026

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… »

Hot on the web: AI stupid meter

By | September 18, 2025

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

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

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

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

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… »

AI take on: Top 10 reasons why IT sucks in Europe

By | May 12, 2025

In my previous post https://blog.voina.org/gold-reddit-comments-top-10-reasons-why-it-sucks-in-europe/ I already presented the best Reddit post about the hot topic of EU lagging behind in innovation and technology due to red tape and over-regulation. Just for fun I asked the new AI model from Nvidia, the open sourced “nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF”, what is its opinion about the topic. The result top… Read More: AI take on: Top 10 reasons why IT sucks in… »

A.I. : State-of-the-art of Computer Vision

By | May 12, 2025

In another life (almost 14 years ago) for some years I had the privilege to be a member of one of the top European computer vision groups VISICS/PSI VISICS/PSI. My focus then was object categorization using neural networks, not a very popular topic at that time due to limitations in data availability and computation power.… Read More: A.I. : State-of-the-art of Computer Vision »