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  • How's your HA voice assistant going?

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  • 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.

  • Kitchen remodel incoming, looking for advice

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  • 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?

  • Home Assistant will create a device database

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

  • Home Assistant will create a device database

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

    EDIT: Found it here

  • Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs | APNIC Blog

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  • 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.

  • Closing programs

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  • 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.

  • Closing programs

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  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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  • 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.

  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Worst of Breed software

    worstofbreed.net

  • Software craftsmanship is dead

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  • 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.

  • Building a React App with Formally Verified State

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  • 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.

  • America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth

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  • Wealth in economics refers to the amount of assets (home, stocks, cash, bonds, art, etc.) That one owns. Wealth is a lot easier to grow than income is.

    Family wealth likely refers to a single family unit, ie parents and kids.

  • Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves

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  • I use it to play music from Jellyfin to my Sonos speakers. It won't fix a Jellyfin library that has bad data, but it can pull in music from multiple different sources and push to different players.

    It works well enough. Some issues where songs get interrupted, but I think that's issue with the Music Assistant/Sonos integration.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Logging Sucks - A review of challenges with logging

    loggingsucks.com

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • I developed my own scraping system using browser automation frameworks. I also developed a secure storage mechanism to keep my data protected.

    Yeah there is some security, but ultimately if they expose it to me via a username and password, I can use that same information to scrape it. Its helpful that I know my own credentials and have access to all 2FA mechanisms and am not brute forcing lots of logins so it looks normal.

    Some providers protect it their websites with bot detection systems which are hard to bypass, but I've closed accounts with places that made it too difficult to do the analysis I need to do.

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • I scrape my own bank and financial aggregator to have a self hosted financial tool. I scrape my health insurance to pull in data to track for my HSA. I scrape Strava to build my own health reports.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Can't be a passive adapter or else that would mean DisplayPort and HDMI have to protocol compatible. If they were then we wouldn't have this issue. Apparently I was wrong.

  • Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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  • Just an update. Firefox 146 just dropped with:

    • Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux (Wayland), making rendering more effective.

    After upgrading to 146 and natively using Wayland, it feels faster. Some fade animations are still choppier, but on average it's at least tolerable.

    Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

  • Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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  • Interesting. I played around with X11 vs Wayland settings just to see what different configurations give me

    • MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Exhibits low FPS issue
    • MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Actually feels fast like it should be. Most animations feel faster, some are still choppy though. It's hard to tell.

    It seems like running with X11 sort of the problem? Which seems unexpected and concerns me since I know distros are starting to default to Wayland.

  • Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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  • Yep, both are plugged into the graphics card. Other programs and games are a lot faster.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Your data model is your destiny

    notes.mtb.xyz /p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Nabu Casa - Ending production of Home Assistant Yellow

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/10/15/yellow-end-of-life/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Docker/OCI Image Registry Explorer - Explore OCI images using a web page

    oci.dag.dev
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    You Don't Need Animations - Purposeful Animations

    emilkowal.ski /ui/you-dont-need-animations
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    What's your most pointless or silliest automation?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Companion app for Android: It’s been a while

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/07/23/companion-app-for-android/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Zooz joins Works with Home Assistant

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/07/15/zooz-joins-works-with-home-assistant/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Comparison of video game performance of Windows 11 vs SteamOS/Linux on the Lenovo Legion Go S

    boilingsteam.com /lenovo-legion-go-s-windows-vs-steam-os-performance/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Deep Dive on Google's TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)

    henryhmko.github.io /posts/tpu/tpu.html
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Release 2025.6: Getting picky about Bluetooth

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/06/11/release-20256/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    How GitLab decreased repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes with a fix to Git

    about.gitlab.com /blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Home Assistant - Deprecating Core and Supervised installation methods, and 32-bit systems

    www.home-assistant.io /blog/2025/05/22/deprecating-core-and-supervised-installation-methods-and-32-bit-systems/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access

    github.blog /changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Parsing CSV at 21 GB/s Using SIMD on AMD 9950X in .net

    nietras.com /2025/05/09/sep-0-10-0/
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety

    www.reuters.com /graphics/VIDEO-GAMES/MENTAL-HEALTH/akpeewkqgpr/