Dave.

There’s slack time in people’s daily work hours. You work an 8 hour day, possibly you’re only actually productive for 4 to 6 hours.

Take that into account and suddenly that thing that claims it can cut an hour or two here and there gets a lot more interesting.

Ha, If you’re alluding to my post being similar to generated output, you obviously haven’t experienced the pure blandness of LLMs trying to write engaging content.

It’s statistical blandness writ large.

The stack of single-sentence paragraphs after the introduction paragraph trying so hard to have an impact.

The tendency to put “not X, not Y, just Z” everywhere.

The perfect conclusion written at the end of each piece , summarising three bland paragraphs with yet another bland paragraph.

Statistically regurgitated bullshit, all of it

It has a smart controller with a wifi module from SpaNet. The app is quite “open” in that it allows you to set your own auxiliary MQTT server and send home assistant compatible data to it while still being able to use the existing app.

Added edit:

So everything is controllable by HA - blower pumps, temperature, the sanitiser routine, the lights, whether to put it into sleep/low power mode, etc

Lots of things can be hooked up through it. One of the biggest things I find I like about it is the way you can merge ecosystems with it.

At home with HA I have an LG TV, Philips Hue lights, a Tapo vacuum cleaner, my EV charger, my own home made solar hot water system controller, a presence sensor that also does CO2 and temperature, a hot tub, and a few other bits and pieces. All of which can be viewed and controlled in the one interface, not the 6 or 7 apps that every individual device wants me to install.

But automations and notifications are the big thing. The presence sensor in the living room turns off the tv if nobody is in front of it for more than an hour. The EV charger tells me when the car is charged. An hour before sunset the light in my living room slowly dims on, and dims off after 9pm when the presence sensor says there’s nobody around. When my solar hot water system is a bit slow to heat up on a cloudy day, I get an email telling me to turn the electric booster on (and off when the water’s hot). Every Tuesday and Thursday evening the vacuum cleaner is set to clean the living areas, but it doesn’t if someone is watching tv, as detected by the presence sensor and the television.

I also don’t have to get off the couch to turn on a light, but the idea is that you set up automations that do all the button-pressing for you.

Maxbotix make robust ultrasonic sensors that range out to 6m, they have a 3/4" pipe fitting on the back for mounting them.

So with that you can get a few lengths of 3/4" pipe and an elbow and have an easy way of mounting it a little ways into your well.

A little on the expensive side but simple to use and easy to weatherproof.

Having a need for a “valid travel document” to cover for your perceived ethnicity stinks of “papers, please” and I am alarmed that you cannot see that connection.

It is a valid travel document for land and sea travel within North America and the Caribbean.

The way you’ve phrased it sounds quite dystopian.

There was a point, about 10-12 years ago now, where The Algorithm™ took over social media entirely.

If you were around before that, you would have noticed the shift. Your friend’s comments and posts started to get intermixed with “other stuff” , and eventually you could scroll endlessly and not see anything from your direct friends, or friends of friends. Forever.

What decided what you could see? Why, The Algorithm™ , of course. So, at that point right there, that’s when a direct and consistently biased feed of someone else’s opinion about what you wanted to see got pumped into people’s brains. And you can bet it’s going to be designed to be handing out the most engaging things that it can find for you, to keep you scrolling away on their platform. But it doesn’t matter a fuck if what its handing out i’s mentally harmful to you personally, as long as you’re engaged.

And just like schoolkids in the USA reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, reinforcement of whatever The Algorithm™ wants (simply: more engagement) becomes pretty trivial when it’s crammed into your head consistently from a young age. Lacking any other reference points, children are the ones with the least amount of defenses against all of that shite.

These kinds of laws worldwide are trying to stop that kind of thing from happening, because they can’t stop the source directly. Social media companies hold too much sway over the population and the economy now, it would be political suicide to try and go toe to toe with them.

In my opinion, The Algorithm™ as it stands now is a cancer that needs to be cut out of social media by any means possible. Whether there’s anything left remaining after that is debatable.

I wonder how it goes with AI-generated receipts.

the pursuit of fancy graphics just doesn’t make sense anymore

Their assertion is that fancy graphics doesn’t necessarily equal good gameplay, and the major industry players are focused on ever-increasing frame rates instead of game quality.

Nobody cares if your game is fully immersive and rendered down to the atomic scale if it is boring or the game mechanics are shite. Sure you can wander around and look at stuff and gasp at the physics, but unless the game is titled “Look around and enjoy it” , that’s not the point.

…so a modest but significant improvement has been achieved, but nowhere near the temps required for melting ore.

Just stack six of these in series, problem solved. /s

Try harder. A simple request to filter out the nonsense in Gemini gives:

After filtering out the “nonsense”—the pop-culture references (Lord of the Rings, IT, Purple People Eater) and the random metaphors (poison, sandwiches)—the core message appears to be a critique of modern data processing or AI training compared to traditional publishing.

The “correct” message hidden in the text is:

The Core Message

It is inefficient and costly to pay humans to fix low-quality or “noisy” data. Instead of spending money to clean up automated nonsense, it would be more effective to invest in high-quality, verified sources (like books) and pay human creators fairly, as the system was originally designed to function.

Breakdown of the “Noise” Removed

“Poison and noise are the way”: Likely a sarcastic opening about the current state of data. “Making a sandwich for those you love”: Irrelevant personal imagery. “Off to take the ring to Mordor”: Lord of the Rings reference. “Clowns in the sewers… red balloon”: Stephen King’s IT reference. “Purple people eater… walking downtown”: Reference to the 1958 novelty song.

The Logic Retained

The Problem: It is “not fruitful” to pay humans to undo/fix “noise” to make it “useful.” The Result: This process ends up forcing people to “ingest fact” (raw data) without proper context. The Solution: “Buy the books and pay people correctly” according to the original “system.”

Would you like me to help you rewrite this message into a formal argument or a professional email?

the killswitch is in about:config

Ah yes, the easiest place to put a kill switch for the average user, as opposed to the complexity of a toggle in settings.

If you read the phrasing carefully it’s quite clear that it will be doing things to the codebase, just “with oversight”.

How much oversight? Not sure, just some assurances that there will be oversight.

Vibe coding is essentially just a different phrase for that.

So, after sifting through all the other breathless articles from their website it seems that they’re going to :

• Use a LLM to attempt to sort out their documentation.
• Have a chatbot trained on the docs so you can ask it questions and possibly get coherent answers.
• Some sort of vague thing where the LLM provides guidance and suggestions on improvements to the codebase.

Lots of reassurance that they’re not going to let it do vibe coding but to be honest, they doth protest a little too much methinks.

It’s a 1/4 wave antenna with a groundplane. Physics dictates the size.

Compared to the PCB antenna in your average USB dongle, this would have at least two to three times the range, and likely more than that, because you can put it somewhere more optimal than just poking out the back of your device.

entirely separate and much more sophisticated technology

Or some math nerd will come up with an algorithm for general AI that is embarrassingly simple, and before you know it the “but can it run Doom?” crowd are implementing AI in toasters and watching them have existential crises for the lulz.

It’s all fun and games until your (insert vehicle here) crashes , or has a fire, or suffers a mishap, or reaches its destination and explodes as designed, and apart from all the normal problems you have with that, you also now have to contend with a few kilos of fizzed up nuclear fuel and some hot reaction by-products spread all over the place. You also have to contend with the neutron activation of the air passing through your nuclear ramjet, which makes it briefly radioactive, which is fine for a cruise missile that you intend to blow up in a few hours anyway, not so fine for regular transport routes.

Nuclear powered vehicles have some inherent risks with pain-in-the-ass consequences, and if we scale those small per-vehicle risks up across a worldwide fleet we’d see accidents involving them as often as we are aircraft crashes, and that’s not great.

This is entirely the wrong community for this answer, but I’ve used the pro version of Textra for 10 years now. One time payment (10 years ago), updates every few months, lots of features, but they don’t get in your way if you don’t need them.

The main feature I use is “delay send for 5 seconds” to allow me to catch all my spelling and grammatical errors after I hit send , but the rest of the UI is pretty well thought out.

One of the very few commercial Android apps that I’d recommend to someone.