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by silversmith 7mo ago
GDPR says you are not allowed to store my data just because. If you have a good enough reason, everything is allowed.
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by silversmith 7mo ago
I'd counter that n8n (or most other workflow tools) can handle as much ambiguity as OpenClaw - it has a LLM call node. Stuff the ambiguous parts in there, but don't burn a rainforests worth of compute figuring out how to call the
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by silversmith 7mo ago
I guess we are just boring and/or unimaginative. I don't get that many communications per day to require an abstraction level between me and the messages. The daily automations I need are more efficiently carried out by home assis
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by silversmith 7mo ago
No jailbreak necessary - the tablet runs https://www.fully-kiosk.com/ , and displays a web dashboard. The dashboard itself is a react app talking to my Home Assitant instance over a websocket. The heavy lifting of bringing v
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by silversmith 7mo ago
The tablet itself runs https://www.fully-kiosk.com/ to display a web dashboard. Fully Kiosk has good Home Assistant integration, including screen on / off controls. I also have a bunch of Sonoff battry operated zigbee
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by silversmith 8mo ago
My solution was to buy a used Samsung tablet with OLED screen, and control the display on with motion sensors. It sits in the hallway, above the keys drawer. The screen is on only when someone's walking nearby, and around eye level whe
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by silversmith 8mo ago
Light some incense, and you too can be a dystopian space tech support, today! Praise Omnissiah!
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by silversmith 9mo ago
> All those people that lived under Soviet Russia occupation, they were better off dead in nuclear fire than living under said occupation? As someone from a country that used to be under russia n boot - the fireball is preferable.
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by silversmith 9mo ago
Are we really living in a world where you need to have the official app - any app! - to ride a train?
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by silversmith 10mo ago
If I do a prank call, it's easy to see the intent to disrupt. If I post AI generated images to twitter, and those get amplified by my followers (that might or might not be real people) enough to surface on some rail engineers feed, wel
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by silversmith 10mo ago
Less power, less heat. Less heat, less cooling required. At some point that allows you to go fanless, and that's very beneficial if you have to share a room with the device.
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by silversmith 11mo ago
Groundwork most often is the work. Just yesterday I was helping a family member install roofing. The roof was done up to slats, the roofing was big metal sheets, should be done in an hour. Except we spent good five hours on various little d
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by silversmith 11mo ago
Wait, it really does say that in the article. Wow.
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by silversmith 11mo ago
Off the top of my head, I can't think of an EU country that does not have some form of advance voting. Here in Latvia the "election day" is usually (always?) on weekend, but the polling stations are open for some (and differe
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by silversmith 1y ago
That's the case if said employees have nothing better to do and are currently twiddling their thumbs. Usually the server maintenance hours come out of project development hours. It's precisely why we moved from a self-hosted demo
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by silversmith 1y ago
Glad to hear grandmas approach of "just give them a bit of everything" has now been proven correct :)
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by silversmith 1y ago
The issue is that the field is still moving too fast - in 20 months, you might break even on costs, but the LLMs you are able to run might be 20 months behind "state of the art". As long as providers keep selling cheap inference,
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by silversmith 1y ago
Here's an article - even Tour de France riders regularly use those: https://7seizh.info/tour-de-france-tales-quand-une-affiche-v...
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by silversmith 1y ago
There are times I do envy people living in stick houses with hollow walls.
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by silversmith 1y ago
Isn't that magic called "mouse cursor emulation"?
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by silversmith 1y ago
I think the most apt comment I saw on the announcement was "Looks like they brought it from 2000 all the way to 2003".
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by silversmith 1y ago
All the while foxes, deer and birds can still develop their dwellings there. Blatant disregard of the law, I say.
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by silversmith 1y ago
Worldwide, maybe. But in the "western world"? Couple weeks ago my mother asked me to compare the main LLM providers. And then for tips how to best use it. She is over 80.
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by silversmith 1y ago
Came here to comment this. Most of the flakey tests are badly written, some warn you about bugs you don't yet understand. Couple years ago I helped to bring a project back on track. They had a notoriously flakey part of test suite, tur
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by silversmith 1y ago
Hah, I know, been around forests since childhood, seen (and done) plenty of sketchy stuff. For me it averages out to couple days of forest work a year. It's backbreaking labour, and then you deal with the weather. But man, if tech goes
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by silversmith 1y ago
Every now and then I consider stepping away from the computer job, and becoming a lumberjack. This is one of those moments.
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by silversmith 1y ago
Where contributors are the audience, yes. For things like libraries, I care about those things only if I run into a bug, and have enough resources to attempt a fix.
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by silversmith 1y ago
It would. And some projects will manage to stay within the bounds of what AI tools can do, and require precisely no programmers. Who knows, maybe couple years down the line the bounds expand, and "some" transforms into "many&
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by silversmith 1y ago
I had an epiphany about this couple days ago. You know how the average dev will roll their eyes at taking over a maintenance of a "legacy" project. Where "legacy" means anything not written by themselves. Well, there wil
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by silversmith 1y ago
Lymphatic system is actuated by your movement. Sure, it will work with just the little movements that your body does to keep in one piece, but for full performance so to speak you need to move around.

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