chaospatterns

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[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What about throughput, latency, schema modeling, query load balancing/routing, confidentiality, regulatory compliance, operational tooling? How easily can I write a CRUD or line of business service using it?

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use the HA Voice Preview in two different rooms and got rid of my Alexa Dots. I've been trying both speech-to-phrase and whisper with medium.en running on the GPU for STT, tried llama3.2 and granite4 for the LLM with local command handling

I've been trying to get it working better, but it's been a struggle. The wake word responds to me, but not my girlfriend's voice. I try setting timers, and it says done, but never triggers the timer.

I'd love to improve operating performance of my assistant, but want to know what options work well for others. I've been experimenting with an intermediary STT proxy to send it to both whisper and speech-to-phrase to see which one has more confidence.

 

If you're using the Home Assistant voice assistant mechanism (not Alexa/Google/etc.) how's it working for you?

Given there's a number of knobs that you can use, what do you use and what works well?

  • Wake word model. There's the default models and custom
  • Conservation agent and model
  • Speech to text models (e.g. speech-to-phrase or whisper)
  • Text to speech models
[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd love for my HA Voice Preview to be sufficient to replace my Alexa/Google devices. I even unplugged my Alexa devices. However, it's been rough going for me. It never responds to my girlfriend speaking the wake word and doesn't set timers. There's a number of knobs that define how well it works including the physical hardware (there's obviously the Voice Preview, but also some community made versions with better mics,) wake word model, conservation LLM model and the speech to text model (whisper vs speech to phrase). If it works well for you, can you share your configuration you're using?

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's the option to publish it. I was curious about the aggregated results.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Is there a place to view the device database yet or is that coming soon?

EDIT: Found it here

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you trying to make an offline website? If so, you could look into using a Service Worker which would give you full control over when the content gets refreshed.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Windows has something called the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate API which enables apps with long running operations to prevent a shutdown to avoid corruption or losing work.

Is there an equivalent for Linux? When used appropriately, it makes shut downs even more graceful.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought this was using SDKs embedded in apps and advertising platforms. This is a different threat model. You need to block ads and prefer using websites instead of apps which have more access to device info like the advertising ID.

If you've got an Android, go to Settings, search for ads, and find the advertising ID and delete the ID. It's a stable identifier that can be used to identify your phone.

Switch to more private browsers like Firefox for Mobile and install uBlock Origin.

EDIT: I'm not saying this will protect you against IMSI catchers or tower based drag nets. In addition to not bringing your phone, when you do go home you need an entirely different set of tools to protect yourself.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are those networks marked as hidden SSID networks? Hidden networks require the client STA to broadcast them to find them.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're describing what agile should be, but Agile™ is the variant you get in toxic companies where they say they are agile, but it's just a mechanism to micromanage developers with bad managers asking why you're not burning down enough points or why you haven't met the estimated date you thought before you realized there was more technical debt than a bankrupt business.

Maybe you've avoided it but I've seen it first hand.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Pretty cool. I played around with Dafny at work for some security-related software and I was pondering if Dafny could be effective for other problems like complex web-app state management or even more standard services.

 

I switched to Kubuntu 25.10 on my desktop from Windows 10 and every since, I've noticed that Linux on my primary monitor has felt very choppy with a low FPS. Animations are choppy and slow. As soon as I drag it to my second monitor, everything is faster and has higher FPS. This doesn't happen on Windows. testufo.com shows ~20fps on the problematic monitor I also haven't noticed this behavior with any other programs. There are spikes to 50fps and smoother animations when I open the Firefox menu, but then it goes back to 20fps. Chromium on the same monitor is faster and shows 50+fps. Games on this monitor also are higher fps

The primary monitor is configured to 60Hz, the second monitor is 143.97Hz. I've got an Nvidia GeForce 2070 with the NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage from nvidia-driver-580-open installed, 32GB of RAM, plenty of CPU, and no other programs or tabs open even.

What could cause this issue and how can I fix it?

 

The Better Bus Lanes coalition calls for faster buses throughout the city, because fast buses need great transit streets. The campaign will focus on three of the busiest and most critical streets for transit in Seattle:

  • Denny Way
  • Aurora Avenue
  • Rainier Avenue

The Better Bus Lanes Campaign prioritizes three near-term safety and reliability improvements on these streets for riders:

  • Two-way bus lanes on Denny Way from Queen Anne Avenue to Stewart St.
  • Make the temporary 24/7 bus lanes on Aurora Avenue permanent, expand safe crossings, and move Seattle towards achieving Vision Zero.
  • Expand bus reliability progress on Rainier Avenue in anticipation for RapidRide R around Mount Baker Station while promoting safety for all.
 

I find this useful for finding Docker image tags for images that don't list the versions and instead suggest people to use :latest.

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