Tony is a Geek

I have been asked by more than a few people about my views on A.I. ( which does NOT exist btw - there is no Artificial Intelligence, it does not exist yet, get over it ) and what I've been doing with it in relation to my work/work.  Well, I cannot tell you that, obviously. I have though in the past, populated articles on this site that reflect things that I have been doing / investigating for work/work and have made a record of them so that if/when I wish to repeat them I can return here and follow my instructions OR I have posted 'items of interest', things that I think might be interesting to follow up on at a near date/time in the future. I steer away from all the ChatGPT or Generative AI ( again, pi$$ poor name ) hype-b*ll*x that has been spewing out from very ignorant and naive people over the past 6-months.  Most of them should know better, as to the rest, well, they are the clueless one's, no change there, and they are just focused on the money $$$$ side of thin...

After watching a great video from Noel's Retro Labs - and watching until the end to find out the "proper" pin to connect to! I decided to solder up a connection for me to plug my, now not used, "old" mobile phone, that is perfectly okay, but no need for a SIM.  It's an Android phone that connects to the wifi perfectly fine - so I downloaded the 'PlayZX' app, yes, I appreciate that it is for the Spectrum, but it works just fine for the Amstrad too, just so long as you change the file extension from .cdt to .tzx - the actual files themselves are in the same format internally.  So, after writing a couple of python scripts (yes, it sometimes does have its uses) to extract a zip file that created 1000s of folders that internally had .cdt files - the files were all moved into a single folder and then renamed to .tzx.  Then I copied them all to the phone SD card - they used up a massive 300MB or something.  I did order a TZXDuino from eBay, which is taking...

Just that name conjures up sci-fi thoughts from back in the 1970s/1980s! "Zilog" and "Z80" - very futuristic.  Well, as usual, I'm late to the game, but what with all this "new" technology that pretty much sucks, is over-complicated and is mostly bloat-ware... I've returned back to simpler times that are actually very much more capable and flexible enough to do a lot of what is needed. I'll just leave this here : I wonder what is on my "plans for 2023 whiteboard"?.. . .