chaospatterns

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[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Surveillance pricing usually makes people think per-person pricing, but the law goes further than just that.

I worked on an electronic shelf label project at a (now defunct) retail project. I'm less worried about them trying to target prices per user while in a store because there are some difficult hardware and software challenges trying to show a price to one person (like what if two people are looking at it.) Showing a per-user price per app is trivial. There's also laws in most states that require you to pay the price shown on the price tag and trying to target per person risks failing that, though that depends on state enforcement. The system I worked at linked the prices to the point of sale system to ensure you paid the lowest price shown on any price tag in the last few hours (though that was company policy to make complying with the law easier.)

What I am worried about is prices dynamically changing based micro trends like water getting more expensive on warm days. Some people might say that increase prices means increased supply to meet that demand, the real risk is retailers being able to micro optimize prices to better capture consumer surplus as profits. A consumer is un-prepared for that and the consumer will not benefit.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

15.0 adds support for OIDC tokens being handed to Actions workflows compatible with GitHub Actions. I was excited to upgrade because I wanted to continue doing cosign Docker image signing, but then I found out that the Cosign transparency log doesn't support Forgejo. Looks like I need an alternative.

My next biggest problem is the Actions workflow itself. I setup Docker in Docker, but turns out there's a bit of work in preparing the runners to be on par with what I used on GitHub.

Otherwise, I've found Forgejo to be quite good and almost all my private repos are moved over.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Home Assistant and local, cloud-free protocols and devices are great

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

I just ran down this stretch the other day. The area down by the sculpture park looks like it got a big make-over with new landscaping and I think it'll look great.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wish I had some water meters that I could monitor to take advantage of the Energy dashboard, but sadly I don't have a submeter I can access.

Home Assistant just keeps methodically getting better!

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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.

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