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• hass-closest-intent: Fuzzy intent matcher for HomeAssistant. Garbled STT output in, actual intent out.

  cross-posted from: awful.systems/post/8238756 Basically, STT quality has kept me from switching to HomeAssistant’s voice assistant features. The default matcher (Hassil) is waaaaaaay to strict, and LLMs are slow, constly, and/or a privacy nightmare, plus I don’t like them. I really thought there would be something available that just matches your STT output to the configured intents, but apparently not, so I’ve built in myself. Finally convinced my GF to throw Alexa in the bin :) Here’...

• Forecast says no more frost this year, so I took a gamble and already planted and sowed everything out last weekend. [more pictures + drip irrigation details in the post]

  cross-posted from: awful.systems/post/8068330 This is a 50sqm balcony/terrace on the 2nd (3rd American) floor of a rental apartment building. I immediately knew we had to take the apartment, because having a balcony garden was my number 1 wish. In that sense, we definitely got super lucky. This is year 4 of the garden, and it feels like we’ve reached “routine” with it. In the first year, we lugged about 2.5 cubic meters of soil up there to fill all the pots. From June-October, this space i...

• Post #975293

  If you use nixos, you basically have to know/learn/use day-to-day the nix language. nixpkgs are written using nix the language, using concepts mostly familiar from just using nixos. Basically everyone using nixos is capable of contributing packages.

• Post #912912

  So let me get this straight: When I was 13, I managed to figure out the router password, disabled child protection for myself, then watched porn on my Android 2.3 phone that I had managed to put a custom ROM on because I liked the way it looked and had no idea what a “launcher” was yet. This is not a hypothetical btw. My parents were smart enough to enable appropriate blocking and secured access to those settings. I’m not sure something on-device was available at the time, but I included t...