Privacy is big thing these days when it feels like every other service is just trying to harvest your data instead of just serving you. Their product is just a tool to get you hand over that data and the real product is you.

This has led to some people being extremely conscious of their privacy, even with the services that don't necessary collect their data. Or at least intend to sell it. Of course there is also the "traditional" privacy of being concerned who can access your data in the first place. Especially for the more personal and sensitive things.

While deploying our internal A.I. service I have been looking for GPU options to speed up the local models I want to enable as an option along the premium services. There are definitely no shortage of options, but they all come with quite hefty price tag.

As foretold the new Dune prequel series' first episode was just released. Even though the episodes will be released one at the time a week apart I couldn't resist watching the first episode right away.

It's too early to judge the series based on just one episode. The first one in a series is always a bit slow start. Setting the background, introducing the characters and setting the foundations of the main plot(s) takes time.

Since I have been cooking mostly for myself I tend to plan my weekly menu at once. That way I don't have to do groceries so often. Cooking for one means there is usually food for several days at once, so it's not really that many dishes I need to come up.

The problem is sometimes a food lasts for two days, other times three. That combined with the short expiry dates of some products can lead to situations where I still have food left, but need to already prepare the next one so the ingredients don't expire.

Couple of days ago there was an ad hoc inquiry whether anyone would be interested playing some boardgames today in our playgroups chat. There were few interested (as usual) and a couple of games suggested as well. I also suggested a game I just recently got, given that I have enough time to get familiar with the rules.

After not being able to finish building the ornithopter yesterday I could barely wait until I was able to get back to it after work today. It didn't took that long to go through the remaining bags and I was able ro put it together just in time before I had ro leave to play some badminton with my wife and her friends.

I finally got started building the LEGO Royal Atreides Ornithopter model from the Dune movie. I've had it waiting on my shelf since it's release back in the spring (around the time the part 2 movie was released). I wanted to build it much earlier, but for some reason LEGO decided to use some colourful brick and connectors in some parts of the model.

Today I visited one of our smaller offices. It's not actually even pur own office, just a co-working space where our employees can book desks and meeting rooms. The team is also not that local - put of the 6 people working at that "office" over half are not actually even living at the town, but around that area. They also mostly work remotely so it's rather uncommon for them to be at the office at the same time (we still missed one though today).

Sometimes you encounter a problem that you don't seem to have a solution. Searching for an answer doesn't bring any help either. You just need to figure it out somehow.

It often helps to step back and take some distance to the problem. Keeping hitting your head against the wall doesn't help. It's hard to come up with new possible solutions when your mind is fixed trying to solve the issue in certain way. Giving it some time. This can give some new perspective and getting back to the problem with new angle can help solve it. Try again the next day.

Over the weekend my wife's cats were staying with me as she was away. My own cat usually doesn't interfere with my LEGO building, she just comes there to hang out on the table. But my wife's vats are different. Especially the other one was constantly trying to play with the pieces I had laid on the table so I had to keep an eye on her not to lose any bricks.

Since I started collecting all those LEGO sets my plan has been to make a display of epic battlefield between the two classic castle factions the Lion Knights and the Black Falcons. The rest of the themes were just going to sit there on the side without too much thought on the scenery.

Building those older LEGO sets reminds me how bad things were back in the eighties. The instructions were quite challenging to follow. Not because they weren't detailed enough, but was sometimes hard to figure put those details.

Today I finished building the Stellar recon voyager, the biggest spaceship in the nineties LEGO M:Tron fleet. I always wanted that one, but back then could only afford the smaller Particle ionizer model.

I really like the M:Tron design of red, black and neon green. It really stands out from other LEGO space themes with their boring blues, grays and black. Another nice feature of the M:Tron line is the magnetic connectors that added a new dimension to the building.

Over the past few weeks I have been building a new service for our internal use within company to utilize different A.I. models for various tasks. It's amazing to see how far the A.I. tools have evolved in such a short time. Not just the models themselves, but the tools and frameworks utilizing them and building services on top of them.

We have been using various tools for different tasks, but there are several problems with that approach. First is the cost. Those services are usually priced per user so it's a lot of money to get even one for use for all employees.

Results are in and it seems we are going to see some interesting times ahead. It's hard to comprehend how we ended up in this situation. From outside it looks like this should never have been even possible. But somehow here we are.

I don't care much about politics, and even less so when it's not something closer to my daily life. But in this case this might affect way more people than anything from the past almost hundred years.

I usually take good care of my phone, and any other delicate stuff for that matter. But over the past few days I have managed to drop my phone not on e, but twice! I'm pretty sure this has been the first (and the second) time I've ever dropped my current phone. I don't even remember when I would have dropped any of my previous one either.

Organizing my LEGO collection has given me a good chance to reflect how our memory and vision (among other things) work. Trying to find a certain piece among the lot is a good exercise to observe these functions. By better understand them helps to improve the overall efficiency of the process.

In some sense we have already reached the singularity (or more precisely the A.I. has reached it). By some definitions the technological singularity happens when an artificial intelligence starts autonomously improve itself.

In a way thr already happens when the developers use A.I. coding tools to create better models. Of course that's not strictly autonomous (unless if the machine is playing us and using us to improve itself this way).

Ever wondered why when they show previews of upcoming movies before that actual movie begins they are called trailers?

When these previews were originally introduced in 1913 they were actually shown after the film ended. After a while they however realized they weren't that effective promoting new upcoming movies as people tend to leave the theatre and not stick around to see the credits or the trailers. So they were moved to be shown before the actual movie begun. But the name stuck and that's why they are still called trailers in these days.

The winter arrived this year woth a bang. In the morning I was wondering how long did I sleep because it was not so dark outside. Opening the blinds (and checking the clock) revealed the truth: everything outside was covered with a few centimeters of snow.

It's a big difference. Last night I was driving in the rain and it was really dark even where there was street lights. The wet asphalt and ground really suck all that light. Now it's all white and the ground is almost like a mirror reflecting even the faintest light.