I. Am. So. Ready.

Even the font got skinnier!

Does that include like building the hoover dam or what?

Newton’s work in optics → refraction and better lenses → the microscope →germ theory →vaccines.

Well, he couldn’t have known that, but fascinating that he was inadvertently helping to solve disease. Just a few centuries ahead of being useful.

Back then it was “raid: shadow news”

My exact setup after trying a lot of different configurations.

Absolutely a great community! There are a lot of scripts, etc. that people offer (like this post). That’s one of the best things about HA. For someone who’s not very techy, none of that is easy, unfortunately. For me, I know that if I spend the time to learn how to do something, I know I will get plenty of support from the community - I just have to decide whether the improvement is worth the time it will take to learn and implement it. Also, whether it is worth messing up my current setup, since I will almost certainly make some mistakes along the way.

This is great!

One of my big disappointments with HA is the lack of well-developed user controls for this type of thing. I’m not a coder, so just a simple trigger like “turn on the driveway lights when I get home” was an achievement.

I would have to spend months learning and deploying any kind of smart features, even though HA has the hardware and controls to do all of it. I basically use it as a remote to control the thermostat, which is pretty lame. It does come in handy when we go on a trip.

There was a study on boredom that found people who did NOT want to be shocked. They put them in a room with nothing to do for 15 minutes, and if I recall, about half or the people voluntarily shocked themselves for something to do.

Wait, that’s not Björn.

Big +1 for LRCGET. It is extremely powerful and dead simple to use. I’m generally able to point it at a directory and press go. It will return lyrics about as accurately and reliably as any manual search, and it has the (experimental) ability to embed the lyrics as well.

I prefer embedded lyrics, since I know that they will be available and inseparable from the files regardless of what my library looks like in the future.

Not for long

It’s tough keeping your feet dry when you’re… strolling through a dewy meadow.

It seems like if you can recreate the training, the model could be considered open.

Lots of open source software performs operations on proprietary data, or accesses proprietary data/endpoints. That doesn’t make the software itself compromised.

LLMs are perhaps a little bit different in that the output (weights) is the part of the software that is useful.

It seems pretty obvious that an open weight model is a prime vector for social engineering/disinformation. If you can’t see the training data or mechanism, you are putting an awful lot of trust in the source. Better make sure that source has your best interests in mind.

Never tried it. It looks like maybe the mobile app is not available from open source repos.

FYI, I came across an app called FindFamily on F-Droid, but it looks like a vibe-coded vaporware, and who knows what server it’s connecting to in the background.

On device, I’d trust OwnTracks, Colota, or GPSLogger, then use Dawarich or Reitti on the server. That is, if you are interested in device history, which could be useful in tracking a lost device, or just having your personal memoies saved.

These do not provide defensive measures like photo or remote wiping. FMD can do that over SMS if the phone is disconnected from the server.

I had this and switched to reitti with owntracks specifically to work with multiple family accounts. Owntracks is not as nice as Colota in most ways, but shows the live location of my family. I had some stability issues with dawarich using multiple devices (most likely user error) but liked it. I do think that reitti has a nicer interface and features, but probably a matter of taste.