I follow a similar strategy. I back up my important stuff. And I’m gonna have to re-rip my DVD collection and redownload the Linux ISOs in the unlikely case the RAID falls apart. That massively cuts down on the amount of storage needed.

That’s correct. I went with OP’s original question, what happens after it happened… Not sure what OP meant, they’re nowhere in the comments… Maybe they’re a bot as well, and we’re subject to the very same thing we’re talking about, right now…

But sure. All the fabricated pull requests, issue reports etc are massively problematic. We got quite some bot activity. Then we also need to protect our servers and platforms from their crawlers who just DDOS everyone… Documentation went down the drain, StackOverflow, Reddit… The industry is trying to get rid of entry level programmer positions, so you’ll have a bad time entering the job market as any programmer… We’re just drowned in all that stuff. Supply chains also get affected by AI, people need to choose between using existing libraries, licensing, money… Or replacing it with something the AI generated, and we get structural challenges in all kinds of projects…

Hmmh, thanks. Yeah, I read the Readme. And they claim it performs better than other methods. I guess I’ll find out soon.

Nothing? I mean an if/else works the same way, no matter if it’s written by a human or an AI or a cat or whatever…

The Linux kernel developers are opinionated, though. Everything gets quite an amount of scrutiny. There will be several people having their eyes on submissions. They’re looking for security vulnerabilities. They’re adamant on maintainability. Have a standard on how to phrase things, indent lines… Send in the patches… They generally have high standards. I mean if someone submits some AI slop, there’s a high chance it just gets declined and they’re getting scolded for doing it.

There’s of course always the chance someone tries to sneak something in. Or it creeps in on its own. But it’s the same for bugs or security attacks. And maybe some of the devs work for companies who push AI and they’ll do silly things. But the Linux community is pretty strong. They’ll find a way to handle it. And maybe in the far future, AI will get as good as human programmers and there won’t be an issue accepting AI code, because it has the same quality as human code. But that’s science fiction as of now.

Thanks! I’ll wait a few days, maybe one of these pops up on Huggingface. Are “abliterated” versions alright these days? Last time I downloaded something with that word in the name, it wasn’t very good.

Nice one. Is there a modern way of “jailbraking” these models? I’ve put in a request to write a story, and it generates like 2500 tokens of “thinking” text, philosophising about how the system prompt and its internal safety guidelines relate. And it gets lost in some internal dialogue. Ultimately deciding to find ways to weasel out of my prompt. And provide a “safe” version. Same thing with doubling as a coding assistant and security-related stuff. I can edit its “thoughts” and that seems to help a bit for a few paragraphs, but it’s pretty adamant on its weird rules, no matter what I do. I mean ultimately it at least provided the requested test case for the SQL injection. After reasoning to no end how it shouldn’t do it. But it’s a bit hard to squeeze things like that out of it.

Ah, thx. Makes sense, now I get it.

Hehe. Sure. I mean it’s both a blessing and problematic at the same time… I think most people appreciate a TV set is a few hundred bucks these days. Or the availability of smartphones and home computers. That’s only possible because of modern pick and place machines. I think our world would look a bit more like the victorian age if we didn’t have those modern perks. Each computer would be hand-soldered by a workforce of hundreds of people. Fill several rooms and be slow and unaffordable for anyone except the government. It wouldn’t have a screen… We couldn’t sustain billions of humans on the planet without all the machines and science in agriculture…

But automation is problematic as well. I mean we’re arguing about it since the Industrial Revolution. I think they painted a dark picture of the future in the early 20th century. Like the movie Metropolis. I think these days, we’ve solved some of the issues that come with industrialization. But we’re doing stupid things as well. And it’s an everlasting struggle not to end up in some machine dystopia. Not sure if machines are the root cause of everything, though. I mean scientists use them, they’re on every assembly line and in logistics centers. And not even the handyman with a more down-to-earth job renounces their modern battery-powered power tools… I mean sure we could use a handsaw and the hand drill from my grandpa… But I don’t think that’s the point?

But I value the human aspect as well. I mean I don’t need soylent green out of a dispenser. I’d rather have a cook and waiter.

Weird article. Is this some domain specific breakthrough? Because I’m fairly sure laboratories and researchers use some ultra precise experimental setups and sampling machines for like half a century now? For example an elaborate machine that loads 200 blood samples at a time and it’ll return the lab results to the hospital within a few hours. For what used to be a time consuming, labor intensive job with a higher error rate before… But we have these machines for quite some time now… They didn’t include any AI in the advertising, though. Same with material sciences, I believe. Either they’re doing something very specific and it’s a lot of manual labor. Or they have to test a lot of samples, or handle things very precisely, and someone is going to build a jig with robots or actuators. But that’s kind of what people always did? I mean they did palletizing robots in the 60s, and the KUKA robot arm was patented in 1973. And this article reads a bit (to me) like the job description of such a KUKA robotic arm… But what’s newsworthy about this in 2026?

Yeah, they often get quite warm. Some day I’ll be in the same situation as OP. And I can’t wait to throw out that supid modem. No clue, though what kind of SFP the fiber provider requires. I mean there’s quite a selection available…

Maybe correct? Though my cable modem gobbles down some 15W… Without even doing the Wifi… So, I bet this isn’t a universal truth, as a Mini-PC will comsume less and provide all kinds of extra services, networking, NAS…

You should have all kinds of options on Lemmy… You can edit a post and change it to whatever you like. Or delete it and optionally post a new one…

Just delete the post if it’s a mess-up.

Livekit can be used to build voice assistants. But it’s more a framework to build an agent yourself, not a ready-made solution.

And there’s another custom component, integrating all servers with an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint: https://github.com/jekalmin/extended_openai_conversation

Good blog post.

I couldn’t think of a clever response to that. I still can’t.

I think it’s central to the issue they’re talking about. There’s demand for quick, cheap stuff. There’s also demand for quality stuff. But they’re not the same.

I mean, I’m sometimes sad nothing lasts anymore. Or means anything. We buy clothes, appliances, software, phones… just to throw it out a year later. Same with AI. We could do intricate art. Commission someone to draw our company logo or come up with a good advertisement video. But why? Everyone has a attention span of 30s these days and pretty much anything will do for Instagram. So rubbish it is. And we’re done in 5 minutes.

I think it’s more that society doesn’t value quality and sophisticated things any more. We rather have plenty cheap and superficial things. And for a lot of applications, it’ll do. Same with art, same with some software and webdesign. Also works the same way without AI. The consumer will do the beta test. And any random messenger uses 150 dependencies and Electron, and two Gigabyte of memory. That’s hardly artistry either.

Crashes my browser tab once the download reaches 93%.

It wasn’t really clear to me where you want to go with this. I mean judging by conversations with my friends, there’s a 3h conversation to be had about every nuance of health. The diet, how to work out, how much to eat and drink. There’s rules of thumb. But in reality it’s a very individual thing. And also changes with the situation, for example if you go to the gym or running and want to progress, it’d be an entirely different story a few months later. Also some people have office jobs, some do 18,000 steps each day… And don’t get me started on mental health.

Diagnosing medical conditions is hard for AI. We got some news on that a few days ago. It’s good at exam questions. But doesn’t perform in reality. So I wouldn’t call it health agent considering those kinds of questions. More a shaman. Or alternative practitioner / healer. (Or it’d need to stick to specific things. Or we need a few more years of progress in AI.)

I mean, I think the available tools aren’t even half bad? There’s smart watches with all kinds of features, apps, dashboards… Training modes and advise. They can help you define goals, track your period if you have that… Water intake, activity levels. It’s not AI, but there will be summaries, achievements, reminders…
Just the privacy part is a bit tricky, as most of these ecosystems come as cloud services.

I feel you can’t just dump in the CSV values from your Xiaomi Scale and Garmin watch… And hope AI will figure out the correct math on your body… And then also come up with good recommendations.

As far as I know, there are a few local, selfhosted health trackers available. It’s a bit tricky to own the correct gadgets that connect to it… But I don’t think there’s anything with AI.

I mean to give proper recommendations, you’d need a very elaborate setup. It needs all the sensor values. Then correlate it with what you’re doing all day long… What you eat and how much you drink… The AI (or traditional algorithms) can’t see. So maybe it can calculate your BMI in a thinking step. But it’s a whole lot of math to then figure out if your too fat, or have muscle mass… And then find out what that means for your diet. AI won’t figure that out along the way. So you’re probably looking at a few thousands of lines of code, after reading a few textbooks on biology.

I mean you can try to vibe-code some agent. But I think your best bet is to look for some open-source software cloning Google Health, or something like that. (And then maybe you can write some MCP server for that. And an agent to interpret the aggregated results.)

HA isn’t the only option. I think there’s two other open source smarthome solutions out there(?) And you could probably do with just an MQTT broker and a Python script, or something like that…

But HA isn’t a bad choice. They’re doing a phenomenal job. And related projects like ESPHome make it really easy to integrate microcontrollers. And if you want to do more smarthome stuff, it has a plethora of features, integrations, an app…

Extra hardware isn’t absolutely necessary. I have one server at home which does NAS, and I use 4GB of it’s RAM to run a virtual machine with Home Assistant. That’s enough for it, including a bunch of Addons.