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New comment by antonyt in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

antonyt — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:35:47 +0000

Worth mentioning it's not limited to Android! It also runs on Kobos, Kindles, Pocketbooks, etc.

New comment by antonyt in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

antonyt — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:55:51 +0000

I’m running Crosspoint on the X3, and am quite pleased with both the software and hardware. It even supports reading progress via Koreader sync, which I use on my main eInk devices.

New comment by antonyt in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

antonyt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:41:46 +0000

Is it actually stylistically close to how you'd write it? If I reformulate your comment in slop style I'd do something like:

The language is natural. Normal. Human. Who could question its authenticity?

The original example isn't the worst offender, but even small offenders stick out when you can't escape seeing this kind of thing everywhere.

New comment by antonyt in "Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault"

antonyt — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:02:26 +0000

Pieces of writing don’t really exist in isolation. Your opinion of a given chunk is formed not only by it, but by everything else you have read.

So in one part the negative reaction is to staleness. Everything sounds the same.

If it was all the same but dry, terse, and to the point (like technical writing), it wouldn’t be so bad.

But it’s repetitive with an annoying, breathless, get-ready-to-be-impressed voice that many of us find grating.

New comment by antonyt in "Having Kids (2019)"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:40:03 +0000

Are you capable of empathy only for people related to you?

New comment by antonyt in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:38:50 +0000

> Getting at logs in something like azure functions is a great example of this.

This is the least of the problems I've experienced with Azure Functions. You'd have to try very hard to NOT end up with useful logs in Application Insights if you use any of the standard Functions project templates. I'm wondering how this went wrong for you?

New comment by antonyt in "Juneteenth in Photos"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:38:21 +0000

Presumably "It's just that I'm white and was therefore hadn't been exposed to this tradition."

New comment by antonyt in "Palma 2"

antonyt — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:50:06 +0000

Nope, it's an e-reader in a cell-phone form factor. No modem.

New comment by antonyt in "Getter-Setter Pattern Considered Harmful"

antonyt — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:27:30 +0000

From F#, most likely! C# converges more and more on F# with every release.

New comment by antonyt in "Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong"

antonyt — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:55:42 +0000

These are the extremely obviously different. A company that has to take specific measures to prevent the suicide of their workers should raise a much different level of scrutiny that the fact that a massive bridge available to millions of people is used to commit suicide.

New comment by antonyt in "How I Use Home Assistant in 2025"

antonyt — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:52:33 +0000

It really doesn't have to be. Your standard zigbee smart lightbulb, for example, behaves exactly the same as non-smart lightbulb - you flip a switch to turn it on and off. You have the option of integrating it with automations and services fully under your control and even disconnected from the broader internet, if you like.

Building up a "smart" home where you have control of everything is radically different from off-the-shelf IOT crapware that turns into a paperweight when some company decides to pull the plug.

New comment by antonyt in "The era of open voice assistants"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:34:08 +0000

To do this in Home Assistant, you'd probably want to run Music Assistant and integrate it in. Looks like they manage to support some streaming providers, not entirely sure how: https://music-assistant.io/music-providers/

Getting it to play the right thing from voice commands is a bit of a rabbit hole: https://music-assistant.io/integration/voice/

New comment by antonyt in "The era of open voice assistants"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:07:18 +0000

Yeah, I’m having a hard time imagining how no-wake-word could work in practice.

New comment by antonyt in "The era of open voice assistants"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:03:45 +0000

The nerve center would be your Home Assistant instance, which is not this device. You can run Home Assistant on whatever hardware you like, including options sold by Nabu Casa.

This device provides the microphone, speaker, and WiFi to do wake-word detection, capture your input, send it off to your HA instance, and reply to you with HA’s processed response. Whether your HA instance phones out to the internet to produce the response is up to you and how you’ve configured it.

New comment by antonyt in "The era of open voice assistants"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:57:52 +0000

If you run openWakeWord, “computer” is one of very many pretrained models the community has made: https://github.com/fwartner/home-assistant-wakewords-collect...

New comment by antonyt in "The era of open voice assistants"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:53:57 +0000

You can actually integrate LLMs with Assist pipelines, it’s just orthogonal to this hardware announcement. Check out https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/05/release-20246/...

New comment by antonyt in "The era of open voice assistants"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:40:10 +0000

You can do exactly that - set up an Assist pipeline that glues together services running wherever you want, including a GPU node for faster-whisper. The HA interface even has a screen where you can test your pipeline with your computer’s microphone.

It’s not exactly batteries-included, and doesn’t exercise the on-device wake word detection that satellite hardware would provide, but it’s doable.

But I don’t know that the unit will be an “upgrade” over most headsets. These devices are designed to be cheap, low-power, and have to function in tougher scenarios than speaking directly into a boom mic.

New comment by antonyt in "The era of open voice assistants"

antonyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:30:19 +0000

With existing phones and laptops, there’s either activation friction (pressing the “listen to me” button) or the device has to be always listening, which requires a lot of trust in your hardware vendors.

With an open source and potentially local-only device, you can have your voice assistant and keep your privacy.

New comment by antonyt in "Htmx 2.0.4 Released"

antonyt — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:59:59 +0000

Just in case this isn’t sarcasm, you may be interested to know they’re made by the same person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23330881

New comment by antonyt in "Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications"

antonyt — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:52:29 +0000

I feel stupid. I read “automatically syncing ebooks and audiobooks” and thought StoryTeller was a file synchronization service (like SyncThing) that for some reason only supported certain file types.

Maybe “syncing ebooks with audiobooks” would be clearer? Also entirely possible this is just a me problem, not a general one.

Really cool project!