Ojārs Kapteinis

“This war has nothing to do with NATO. It’s not NATO’s war,” Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, told reporters in Berlin on Monday. “NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory,” he added.

Germany to Trump: We won’t help you reopen the Strait of Hormuz https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-trump-this-not-nato-war-strait-hormuz-iran/?utm_source=mastodon

If you work in IT and aren’t experimenting with AI models, you’re making life harder — or even paving your own path to becoming unemployable. When management comes up with buzzword-driven ideas, you should not only push back but also show where AI can add real value. Saying ‘AI is bad’ just gets you labelled as a grumpy person who can’t move with the times :/

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages https://www.wired.com/story/cobol-is-the-asbestos-of-programming-languages/ or https://archive.is/qXiCe

My advice: download open models, self-host them, and use OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models to build your own AI infrastructure and solutions. Be ready for the moment when you can become independent from these companies. Seize the means of production!

AI may never be as cheap as it is today: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/12/ai-models-costs-ipo-pricing

Noma co-founder and chef steps down after abuse allegations https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/12/noma-co-founder-and-chef-steps-down-after-abuse-allegations_6751359_4.html

@normis@g.dodies.lv man te @agnese@kapteinis.lv parādīja šo https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSSleeckQby/ nezinu kāpēc, bet uzreiz iedomājos par tevi.

Konkurences padome veikusi procesuālas darbības «Maxima Latvija» birojā https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/26.02.2026-konkurences-padome-veikusi-procesualas-darbibas-maxima-latvija-biroja.a636586/

Climate Town - How Your Parents Ruined Driving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg

About the Tilde machine translation API — it looks like quite a decent price to me: €17.50 per 1M characters, which is cheaper than DeepL API or Google Translate https://tilde.ai/machine-translation/machine-translation-api/

fyi, it's a model built and hosted in Europe, plus encryption is used and translation data is not stored, analysed, or used for model training. All data is deleted after the user receives the translation. #AI

RE: @ojars@kapteinis.lv

Ir! #MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics

fyi, Krūzbergs ir arī 1500m šorttrekā finālā #MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics

During our lunchtime walk around the city today, the streets looked unusually empty. Now I know why — Latvia 🇱🇻 was playing hockey against Germany 🇩🇪 (and won 4:3!).

Since I'm trying to save my nerves, I avoid live streams and only check results later on Latvian Public Media. I don't even follow the schedule to resist the temptation of watching 😅 #MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/hokejs/14.02.2026-latvijas-hokejisti-neitralize-draizaitlu-un-parspej-vaciju-olimpiskaja-turnira.a634642/