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remuskaos··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
Yeah, thats just how it was when I completely blocked those services on my network.

My hope is that this gentle nuding towards "come on, you've had 15 minutes, now just wait another 45, please?" is enough of a hurdle. I think it's a moderation tool.

remuskaos··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
It seems you're already down voted, but I'd like to respond to this comment anyway. Also, I'll rephrase it slightly:

"Drop the idea that drinking alcohol like shots or beer or whatever is somehow ignoble and worthy of scorn. Recognize it's just a fun way to kill some time (and brain cells).

Internalized that? Cool.

Now find a comfy place to sit or lie down and binge that shit. For hours. Do it for as long as it brings you joy. Had your fill? Cool."

The key is moderation.

I'm not against drinking and I'm not against using Youtube, Reddit, Instagram, Hacker News. But I get sucked into it way more that I want, and this is my way of having a nice old lady ask "haven't you had enough, honey?".

Damn, I've spent days on Youtube, not even on "silly" stuff. There's a limitless supply of educational videos, PBS Space Time, Stumpy Nubs, Phil Salmony, DIY Perks.... But I still have a limited amount of hours in a day. Also I have shared responsibility of several humans and animals in this house, I can't just sit idly behind a screen all day (except for the eight hours I get paid to do it).

remuskaos··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
I really like them too. Not only are they OpenWRT compatible, they run more or less stock OpenWRT with a custom UI. They do also expose the standard LuCi for advanced settings too.
remuskaos··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
I thought I commented on this from my phone, but it seems it didn't go through, so I'll try again.

Most apps I've tried (and browsers too) can be blocked just fine via DNS. The gli.net interface allows "Override DNS Settings of All Clients" and "DNS Rebinding Attack Protection". This way, the router itself is the only resolver actually reachable. Even if I try some manual `dig google.com @1.1.1.1`, I still get the routers result.

The only thing it can't block is DNS over Https. I think that's by design, it seems it's impossible to block that.

remuskaos··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
We prefer the term 'addict', thank you very much.
remuskaos··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
I just had the plug laying around, and since it has a button, it does the job.

But it actually has an advantage: I can plug a small lamp into it. After 14 minutes, the plug switches on and off every 2 seconds, indicating that the time runs out, adding a little drama.

remuskaos··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
Neil Chen just posted this genius idea to disable internet filters for social media addicts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346450

I've used his idea and make a home assistant automation that temporarily disables adguard home to do the same thing.

remuskaos··on Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
This is insanely clever.

I can't use ublock origin for that because I want all devices in my home to take advantage of this, so I've reimplemented this with Home Assistant, Adguard Home and the Adguard Home integration into Home Assistant.

remuskaos··on 4o Image Generation
The periodic table is absolutely hilarious, I didn't know LLMs had finally mastered absurdist humor.
remuskaos··on Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight
I've been off Facebook for close to eight years, but somehow I still have friends who I can talk to.
remuskaos··on Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
At what context sizes? I've just run the same prompt and query on my RTX3080 with openwebui as frontend.

When I set the context size to 2048 (openwebui's default), the inference is almost twice as fast as when I set it to 4096. I can't set the conext size any higher because my GPU only has 12GB of RAM and ollama crashes for larger context sizes.

Still, I find that thoroughly odd. Using the larger conetext size (4096), the GPU usage is only 50% as seen in nvtop. I have no idea why.

remuskaos··on Show HN: Cline – Open-Source VS Code AI Coding Agent with a New MCP Marketplace
Not sure why this hasn't got any comments yet, so I'll add one.

While my first thought was - admittedly - ugh, yet another LLM/AI code assistant, I'm so glad I tried it. It's just... amazing. The "act" mode is a game changer for me. I've heard Cursor does it similarly, but I haven't tested that yet.

I have however used Continue.dev for quite a while, and even though continue is great, Cline is even better. I didn't know what I was missing.

So, I'd encourage everyone to at least try it.

---

Just a question to Nick: what's the deal with the Roo fork?

remuskaos··on Transformer – Spreadsheet
I think it's supposed to quite the opposite, at least it was like that for me. When gpt3 first launched, it seemed almost like magic for me, and I have some limited ml background too. Much later I saw the 3blue1brown Video about transformers, and I was almost disappointed to see the math itself is rather simple.

My main take away was that even simple basics can produce astonishing results, I this case if they're just scaled large enough. That incredibly complex and useful emergent behavior can result from what seems like conways-game-of-life like principles.

remuskaos··on DuPont and "DuPont" connectors, and how to crimp them properly
While Engineer tools are very well made, the PA 09, 20 and 21 are not suited for dupont style connectors. Those required circular crimping.
remuskaos··on D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
I haven't enabled jumbo frames knowingly on my system, but even if I had, why would the issue occur only every few weeks? Also, it seems to be rather independent of the actual network load.
remuskaos··on D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
The TP Link (typo in my other post) and the Netgear are reliable, only the D Link causes issues.
remuskaos··on D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
I was not! Thanks for the hint!

Although I'm 100% sure there are no loops, I haven't changed the actual cable layout in ages.

remuskaos··on D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
I don't know, I've installed openwrt on each device I've owned especially because their original firmware wasn't supported anymore (or crap to begin with).

Often because the cheap devices were either all I could afford or because I've even gotten them for free or basically free, like on flea markets.

remuskaos··on D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
I think they actually did manage to fuck up even the small unmanaged switches. I have three unmanaged switches at home, one on the ground floor and two in the first floor. Ground floor is an 8 port netgear, first floor are one to link and one d link.

Every couple of weeks, the entire wired network goes down. Not even pinging adresses works. The d links ports leds are all flashing (perfectly in sync!) until I power cycle it. Then everything goes back to normal.

I have no idea what happens, and I should probably replace the d link soon.

remuskaos··on A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
A year is pi 10^7, or pi 1e7.

On the other hand, 10 e9 = 10 * 10^9.

remuskaos··on Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
Recipes are not copyrightable for that exact reason.
remuskaos··on Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
That is also supported by Aegis.
remuskaos··on Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
Authy has this 7 digit TOTP, which seems kind of proprietary. But Aegis supports that too, and is open source.
remuskaos··on The enduring mystery of how water freezes
Well, no, for more than one reason. First, for the water, time doesn't stop. Chances are it wouldn't even know it surpassed the event horizon (you know, if it could actually experience anything). For an external observer, it would crawl to a halt just outside the event horizon until it simply fades from vision.

Then gravitational tidal forces aren't strictly a uniform compression, on the contrary. Since gravity increases by 1/r^2, the part of the water drop that's closest to the black hole would experience largest force. That tears everything apart, so the water would be more dispersed instead of compressed. While I haven't done the math (and don't know if I even still could), I'd assume that gravity would quickly overcome Van Der Waals forces that holds the water molecules together, so it'd probably closer to water vapour than liquid.

And lastly, once it finally reaches the singularity, all bets are off. As far as I'm aware we have no idea what happens to matter in a singularity apart from contributing to its mass.

remuskaos··on The enduring mystery of how water freezes
And vice versa! The more you try to compress water, the closer you "push" it towards 3.98 centigrade. That's why water stays liquid below a certain depth, for example in the sea. Without that fact, water would freeze at higher pressures and no life would have developed in the ocean depths.
remuskaos··on Show HN: I built an open source AI video search engine to learn more about AI
Thank you for answering and indexing the video so quickly.

I'm blown away how good this works! I searched for the query just like you said and it really found exactly the relevant section of the video. Very impressive!

You're right, the query seems to be very sensitive to the exact phrasing. Searching for "heat sink thermal calculation" results in nine videos, (the wanted one on fifth place at least), while your query seems more targeted. "calculate heat sink power dissipation" works reasonably well too.

So again - wow. This is really great and exactly what I've been trying to build for myself too.

One really useful feature for me would be inclusion/exclusion of channels in the search results. For this example, when I'm specifically looking for calculations, I can probably skip channels like LTT from the search results.

Thanks for this amazing tool!

remuskaos··on Show HN: I built an open source AI video search engine to learn more about AI
This is great, I've been looking for exactly that! Often times there are "hidden gems" of knowledge in longer videos, for example how some calculations for a specific problem are done when the rest of the video has a different topic. I found it very hard to look for these hidden gems.

My test example for such a soltion would be: "does it find the chapter about thermal calculations in a video about electronics": https://youtu.be/8xX2SVcItOA?feature=shared&t=758

How do I add a video? I'd love to test your solution with this video.

Thanks for making the source available too! I've been trying to build something similar with jupyter notebooks, but I keep getting stuck at this "hidden gem" problem.

remuskaos··on Show HN: VideoGist – Useful YouTube video summaries
Could you name them? Because I'm looking for something just like that, ideally self-hosted / running locally.
remuskaos··on Show HN: VideoGist – Useful YouTube video summaries
This is absolutely fantastic, I love it!

I think I've found a (minor) bug, there seems to be an inaccuracy with the time stamps. I assume you're taking the chapter start and end times from the video themselves, but they don't align with the summary in this video:

https://www.videogist.co/videos/eevblog-102-diy-constant-cur...

For example, chapter 5, Heat Sink and Power Dissipation starts at 5:18 in your summary, but in the actual video it starts at 12:15.

EDIT: I'm just now seeing that your summary only has 7 chapters, but the YouTube video is segmented into 13 chapters, so it appears you're not using them from the video after all. Are you doing the segmenting with the LLM as well? How do you get timestamps from that? EDIT END

Anyway, thanks for this fantastic product, I was about to build something similar, but with a different focus:

Assume I've already seen a video and I want to look up a detail from that video, say how to do thermal calculations like in the example video, but I remember neither the video name nor the time stamp. I'm trying to build an app that generates embeddings for chunks / chapters of videos which I can then search semantically.

Do you have something similar planned? Because that's something I'd pay good money for.

Also, would you mind sharing a little bit about the tech stack? I'm assuming you're using yt-dlp to download videos with chapters and running whisper for a transcript, then something like gpt-3.5-turbo for summaries? Because that's how I'm doing it right now :D

remuskaos··on Claude 2
I've had the same happen. I've registered and logged in via VPN with a UK exit node. Worked perfectly.

Even stranger, now that my account is created, the VPN seems to be no longer necessary. I can just login with e-mail and the token they send me each time.

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