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- Comment on Reloop: a self-hosted CRM that builds itself from your mailbox (AGPL, Docker) 1 day ago:
Please update the title with [AIP]
- Comment on HomeAssist Kiosks 2 days ago:
With my particular unit? Its not going to get any updates ever, the only way to install is over ADB, and changing the running app requires script changes and a reboot (or changing things to allow the on-screen navigation buttons, but that comes with other annoyances).
So sdk version isn’t changing, which is a potential compatibility issue going forward.
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- Comment on Is anyone self-hosting their own AI? 4 days ago:
As a service? No, not really.
I use llms for specific tasks, usually small models, for things like identification and tagging (immich, paperless), translation or transcription (whisper), etc. I have a bunch of larger models on a Mac mini and my work laptop for various testing purposes, and have used them to make summaries and other such things.
They aren’t great for search IMO, and search summaries can be quite bad.
I do find them useful to interrogate an unknown rs232 protocol or similar, though, which is where larger models come in handy.
Corporate LLMs are generally garbage to me not only because they are just data farming, but also because they really aren’t good at everything. They might claim it, but the reality is a tailored model is often the better approach.
Using openwebui as a front end for llama.cpp is a decent strategy, combined with sub-agent routing (so generic model hands off to tailored models then returns the right info). This can be useful for some scenarios.
A caveat on coding - IMO, they are mostly bad at it. If you are using it to generate a small part of something that needs to be repeated they are handy, but at scale they aren’t great, meaning for the entire project (or even an entire plugin or module, depending on complexity). Maintainability becomes a serious issue. While they have improved somewhat, there are limits to what they can do.
Macs with M series chips are good options for a hardware base since the memory is shared, and IMO is one of the most cost effective options over a dgpu with a ton of memory. A dgpu with a decent bit of memory (say 8-12GB) is a solid choice for a model thats larger (27b with 3 or 4b active as a mixture-of-experts model) especially if you have an iGPU for regular graphics tasks. Since its all shared on the M series macs, just get something that fits entirely in memory there.
- Comment on PSA to Home Assistant users 4 days ago:
No to both.
Its a long-standing and documented feature. Included in that documentation is how to turn it off, which was added a few years back iirc.
Its brought up every once in a while by people.who don’t understand cryptographic hashes or the hibp tools. Usually with a bunch of posts about how passwords are being leaked (they aren’t).
- Comment on HomeAssist Kiosks 4 days ago:
Generally speaking, I use the app.
I do, however, have miscellaneous tablets that are in rooms to show information and have a designated account just for that room’s controls. I also have a wall-mounted touch panel that was from a pro control system that I picked up cheap that I rooted and set HA to open at boot, but I don’t recommend this route unless you happen to get/see one cheap and know exactly what can/can’t be done with it.
- Comment on PSA to Home Assistant users 4 days ago:
any credentials in your config have been hoovered up
Anyone reading this would interpret it exactly as @frongt@lemmy.zip did. Its well passed “inflammatory” and hovering around “misinformation”.
- Comment on Framework expands funding support for CachyOS Linux 6 days ago:
@mntmn@mastodon.social for Lucie of MNTRe, regularly posts what’s being worked on too
- Comment on Framework expands funding support for CachyOS Linux 6 days ago:
They have no intention of stopping their support, so I have no intention of supporting them.
For anyone looking for an open design, MNT Research seems the best to me, and they are on the fediverse. If anyone has other options that are on the same level, I’d love to hear about those too.
- Comment on Framework expands funding support for CachyOS Linux 6 days ago:
Have they stopped supporting omarchy and hyprland though?
As of their last update in March… Nope, still supporting them.
- Comment on A thumbnail generator for your backend. 1 week ago:
Much appreciated!
- Comment on A thumbnail generator for your backend. 1 week ago:
Just add an [AIP] tag to the title of the post and you’re all set! :)
Considering its the only part that is, its covered by the “miscellaneous” approach which is what you’ve got in the disclosure, so just a tag to go.
- Comment on A thumbnail generator for your backend. 1 week ago:
Please take a look at rules 7&8; tag and disclose as required
- Comment on Lidarr not finding release / group that exists in MusicBrains? 1 week ago:
Unfortunate, but also happens sometimes
Sorry I don’t have a better answer!
- Comment on Lidarr not finding release / group that exists in MusicBrains? 1 week ago:
So thats the caching portion not being 100% - using the ID for the search, try it twice, that has worked where the first fails but the second query shows up, specifically for the id you want
- Comment on Lidarr not finding release / group that exists in MusicBrains? 1 week ago:
https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issues/5498
AFAIK still not a closed out issue.
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 1 week ago:
Well I used to use VGA for my monitors, now its mostly displayport.
Seriously though, prom+Loki+alloy+a few other things to Grafana, with alerting in grafana.
- Comment on Angry PlayStation Fans Propose PS5 Blackout in Protest of Sony's Disc Decision 2 months ago:
… The PS3 is the Last Sony console ive owned, and it was a gift from my wife. So I think I’m good.
- Comment on Windows 11 Copilot now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itself 3 months ago:
Its generally pretty easy for me to know what’s slowing down my work laptop.
Microsoft Teams is the hogzilla of resource hogs.
- Comment on Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself 3 months ago:
Family is ruined.
Her mom was devastated about her husband killing himself.
She had to deal with the thousands of images generated based off a picture of her at age 11.
There is a lot of harm here.
- Comment on Popular emulator Cemu was recently compromised with malware in Linux downloads 5 months ago:
That would track, for sure
Is it conjecture or are there supporting details for that?
- Comment on Popular emulator Cemu was recently compromised with malware in Linux downloads 5 months ago:
Special note for Israeli users: If the malware determines that your location is Israel (it does this via locale and timezone checks) then it has a 1:6 chance that it will play a loud siren sound and run rm -rf /
OK thats kind of funny though
- Comment on Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source 6 months ago:
I’m not putting words in their mouth.
I’m taking their previous words and current list at face value. Dont accuse me of doing something I’m not.
- Comment on Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source 6 months ago:
Thats your interpretation. Considering nrp’s big tent comments, I am not going to be so generous in my interpretation.
Current year, current list, I currently expect it to continue for this years rails world.
Its linked to 2025 because 2026, as of now, doesnt exist.
Until there is an explicit statement to the contrary, I will assume they are continuing as they were. I don’t know how to make this any more clear to you, so I’ll leave it at that.
- Comment on Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source 6 months ago:
And until they clarify, I will continue to assume its a current list. The ball isnt in my court to make it clear they have stopped supporting racist shitheads.
- Comment on Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source 6 months ago:
Its in the list in the 2026 blog post. Since there are no dates in the columns, to me that shows as “this year’s list of assigned donations”.
Because:
You can see our full set of our sponsorships in the table below. As always, let us know of any other organizations you believe we should sponsor!
- Comment on Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source 6 months ago:
Railsworld sponsorship, which is still massively outsizing most other support. What I don’t see is any more of the constant posts about Omarchy, which is a net improvemen but still not at the spot I personally want to see.
- Comment on Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source 6 months ago:
There’s a whole list of things with DHH with FW, there are plenty of details so I’m not going through the whole thing.
For open hardware? MNT.
- Comment on Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source 6 months ago:
Agreed, but if they are still giving money to alt-right idiots I’m going to keep them off my “buy” list. I’ll have to see if they are.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 10 months ago:
Anything important enough to be secured you probably dont want to involve a magnet for.