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- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 3 days ago:
Yeah, all of the above, but also: blacklisting Pinterest from all my searches is almost worth the ten bucks a month on its own, lmao.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 3 days ago:
Planning to host a Nix caching server, and have CI build all package and NixOS outputs on every push to git, then in turn pushing the output artifacts to the cache. Would save me a good chunk of time when tinkering with VMs that haven’t seen manual updates in a while.
Only thing is, I’m not sure how to approach building and caching NixOS configs that receive agenix secrets in their input. Obviously those should not be cached…
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 week ago:
You do not need your fingerprint or any other biometric to use a passkey.
You do not lose access to passkeys when you lose your device.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 week ago:
Yes, and I do werether the recipient also knows how to use it.
So, for like, 1% of my mails.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 week ago:
More like: paying someone to maintain the hardware.
Anyways.
Just FYI, your mails with a provider like Proton are not E2E encrypted unless you exclusively wrote with other Proton customers (in which case I assume they are. No idea). Otherwise it’s just encrypted at rest.
I dint really see the benefit over doing it completely yourself, not even offering metadata to a provider, and also having encryption at rest, while maintaining full compatibility with mail clients 🤔
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 week ago:
I can access my password manager via the browser from any device.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 week ago:
Not a VPS.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 week ago:
You can store Passkeys in open source password managers.
I don’t know most of my passwords, so the step to passkeys doesn’t feel like a big one. I also really like the flow of pressing Login; Bitwarden pops up a prompt without me initiating it; I press confirm. Done, logged in, and arguably more secure due to the surrounding phishing and shared secrets benefits.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 week ago:
We host most stuff at home, and then additionally some services at Hetzner on an (auctioned) root server. Bloody nice to get really good hardware for cheap, plus unlimited data with either 1 or 10Gbit synchronous network speed, a dedicated IPv4,…
Stuff like my mail server lives there because it HAS to be available, and doing it at home, and doing it well, is next to impossible.
I’m planning a nix hydra + cache server, which will probably also live on the Hetzner server, simply because it’ll have pretty intense jobs to run a lot of the time and I’m not a fan of having the noise of spun-up fans at home.
Both solutions have their place, is what I’m saying / agreeing.
- Comment on Backups of Backups 1 week ago:
- every VM with state backs up its state to the NAS once a day
- client devices rsync most of their home folder to the NAS once an hour
- at 3:15 in the morning, a Borg backup job starts pushing the days changes to a Hetzner storage box
Through borg, I have the Option to go back to any point in time with the backups. I will probably never need this, hence why it happens in this step, not on the rsync job to the NAS.
Things like movies and tv shows are not backed up, they are replaceable. All in all, about 2tb of documents, pictures, and VM state is backed up to Hetzner, out of the 16tb on the NAS.
Pick and choose your battles.
- Comment on AI-powered consulting startups to watch into 2026 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I just put the media location on my nas, and that is being mirrored to hetzner.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
FWIW, I went to school in mid-2000. My sibling even later. They still taught it back then, and at least here, I am pretty sure they still do. (And why would they not, after all…)
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
Literally noone I know in real life has any problem whatsoever reading analog clocks, no matter the “brain capacity”, neuro-typicality, state of drunkenness,… It is an extremely simple “skill”.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, vibe of the time is a good description
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s not! Glad to help you clear that up.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
Disagree - it rarely matters to me if it’s 13:24:56 or 13:25:05, but I do find the instant and intuitive gauging of time deltas super useful (as in, how long it’s going to be on to the full hour / two quarter past / … ). Not saying you can’t get that info from a digital clock as well, of course you can; but the physically of analog clocks lends a good bit of intuition, I feel.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
I feel like I’m going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,…
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like… A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Actually… Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.
But hey, at least the acknowledge that there’s the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit YES!
That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: www.home-assistant.io/blog/…/voice-chapter-11/#im…
Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 4 weeks ago:
well… at least he realizes that was bullshit…?
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 4 weeks ago:
Depends - was the assault comment directed at assailants or victims?
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the recommendation! That looks interesting indeed.
This entire topic is probably a sinkhole of complexity. It’s great to have somewhere to look for inspiration!
- Comment on Try BentoPDF if you haven't / are unhappy with StirlingPDF 4 weeks ago:
Ah, thanks for mentioning. Yep, they have a docker image; as mentioned, a nixpkg will be available soonTM; and frankly, you can just build / download the release artifacts and put them on any static host.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Please read the title of the post again. I do not want to use an LLM. Selfhosted is bad enough, but feeding my data to OpenAI is worse.
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Yep, that’s the idea! This post basically boils down to “does this exist for HASS already, or do I need to implement it?” and the answer, unfortunately, seems to be the latter.
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, had not heard of this before! From skimming the link, it seems that the integration with HASS mostly focuses on providing wyoming endpoints (STT, TTS, wakeword), right? (Un)fortunately, that’s the part that’s already working really well 😄
However, the idea of just writing a stand-alone application with Ollama-compatible endpoints, but not actually putting an LLM behind it is, genius, I had not thought about that. That could really simplify stuff if I decide to write a custom intent handler. SO, yeah, thanks for the link!!
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for your input! The problem with the LLM approach for me is mostly that I have so many entities, HASS exposing them all (or even the subset of those I really, really want) is already big enough to slow everything to a crawl, and to get bad results from all models I’ve tried. I’ll give the model you mentioned another shot though.
However, I really don’t want to use an LLM for this. It seems brittle and like overkill at the same time. As you said, intent classification is a wee bit older than LLMs.
Unfortunately, the sentence template matching approach alone isn’t sufficient, because quite frequently, the STT is imperfect. With HomeAssistant, currently the intent “turn off all lights” is, for example, not understood if STT produces “turn off all light”. And sure, you can extend the template for that. But what about
- turn of all lights
- turn off wall lights
- turnip off all lights
- off all lights
- off all fights
- …
A human would go “huh? oh, sure, I’ll turn off all lights”. An LLM might as well. But a fuzzy matching / closest Levensthein distance approach should be more than sufficient for this, too.
Basically, I generally like the sentence template approach used by HASS, but it just needs that little bit of additional robustness against imperfections.
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing your experience! I have actually mostly been testing with a good desk mic, and expect recognition to get worse with room mics… The hardware I bought are seeed ReSpeaker mic arrays, I am somewhat hopeful about them.
Adding a lot of alternative sentences does indeed help, at least to a certain degree. However, my issue is less with “it should recognize various different commands for the same action”, and more “if I mumble, misspeak, or add a swear word on my third attempt, it should still just pick the most likely intent”, and that’s what’s currently missing from the ecosystem, as far as I can tell.
Though I must conceit, copying your strategy might be a viable stop-gap solution to get rid of Alexa. I’ll have to pay around with it a bit more.
That all said, if you find a better intent matcher or another solution, please do report back as I am very interested in an easier solution that does not require me to think of all possible sentence ahead of time.
Roger.