Tony is a Geek

I predicted a while back, maybe a year ago that the whole chatGPT LLM ( Large Language Model ) "thing" will hit it's peak around Aug '23/Sept '23 and then decline towards Dec '23/Jan '24 where people will start looking at non-pay / non-monetised usage of LLMs. I've also been a keen advocate of moving the usage / runtimes OFF of "other people's servers", ie. what you call " Cloud ", because they are incentivised to implement vendor lock-in in subtle ways such as getting you to use a service that only they offer, or store your core data in a datastore that you cannot export / lift&shift elsewhere without it costing more than it is worth, therefore stealth lock-in. I cannot really complain, businesses are in the business of business, therefore, they are driven by financial transactions and you, as the customer ( still makes me chuckle that the "IT people" call customers "end users", just like drug dealers r...

Well, the sun is out, the frost is melting, it actually snowed yesterday, it didn't snow anywhere else in the UK ( that I'm aware of ), but it did snow a LOT in California ( and still is )  Here's a photo of my garden from yesterday morning, I was very surprised as it meant I couldn't really continue with the landscape waterfall remodelling that I'd started the previous day: With such loveliness that Spring is coming and Winter is just making an attempt to show it is still a force to be reckoned with, I was pondering on how I spend my last couple of days of "freedom", ie. the as-before-mentioned-time-off.  I'll document below the tech. toys that I decided to setup & get working ready for next months "time off" where I can pull a lot of this technology together to actually start to "make something". Oh and then I noticed this headline in my fav. IT news website:  IBM announces European layoffs and for some uncontrollable reason,...