Timo Zimmermann / is on Nostr

I build backends, apps and sometimes break them, practice martial arts and enjoy video games. I believe I have seen the whole Internet once, maybe twice.

Tools of choice #python #django and #golang
Sometimes musing about #gaming and #gym life

Blog: https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/

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2024-08-05 13:43:47

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/4/24213268/openai-chatgpt-text-watermark-cheat-detection-tool
At this point the whole “AI” industry is just satire, isn’t it?

2024-07-25 16:41:17

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LangChain sounded good in the beginning but like many others I dropped it from all projects.
The effort to keep up with their code base wasn’t worth it :/

2024-06-11 19:59:44

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Apple is IMHO killing 1Password the same way Apple killed Zoom.

2024-06-08 15:52:13

More work than I wanted to do today. But the new UPS is live and I finally mounted the patch panel and switch in an improvised 3u rack.
The new Besta TV doors are pretty neat, enough ventilation and also enough visual cover.(way better than the photo suggests)
Still need new cable channels for the cables coming in on the right and I’m waiting for a 19” mount for two PIs.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialscreamingatmyscreencom/media_attachments/files/112/581/327/080/240/507/original/594b4fa880384a97.jpeg
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2024-06-04 16:27:16

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even if it’s only a small one the fact that they properly decouple your outlet and their power supplies might be worth it during the next storm :) (I’ve seen overcurrent protection fail in many ways, not on a UPS yet :)

2024-06-04 15:20:08

Kudos APC for reminding people to not just connect their computer but also the router.
Especially with a gaming oriented brand that makes a lot of sense!
https://cdn.masto.host/socialscreamingatmyscreencom/media_attachments/files/112/558/552/099/112/755/original/dd5f967bac78c8b5.jpeg

2024-06-02 08:33:59

I just ordered a UPS with RGB… this is just… sigh.

2024-05-31 20:08:19

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if you ever decide to not go the OpenWRT route all I can say is I’m extremely pleased with WiFi after replacing 4 Unifi APs with 2 670EAPs. Also the Omada software doesn’t rbi k you are an idiot and lets you configure things :)
But I like the OpenWRT plan a lot more tbh :)

2024-05-25 17:13:07

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as I learned this week sometimes it is a network cable :) had one connecting our living room AccessPoint randomly die leading to 10-15s connection drops every few hours.
Cable tester shows it as working till you shake it a bit :/

2024-05-25 17:04:42

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I guess I’ll take this question as @npub1ama…cwvh doesn’t touch the infrastructure :) (how did she even get into this reply? :)
A simple Docker container on one of the x86 service hosts in the basement.
I haven’t had a chance to play with their hardware, but it looks a grade above SD card munching SBCs :)

2024-05-25 16:31:27

Migrated all zigbee devices from Phoscon to Home Assistant ZHA.
I had to restart HA twice for the conbee2 to actually work and edit device entries manually as they somehow have been set to disabled.
Other than that it was fine. Now to setup proper automations.
It also looks like customization options I didn’t even know about exist now :)

2024-05-21 15:32:47

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I’m with you on opt-in and owning the key. I’d have loved to see support for running LLMs locally, especially with developer centric tooling.
But the existence of a feature like this might (and has been in one instance) already be a problem in highly regulated environments (fin-tech, healthcare,…).
Personally I’m not anti-AI or no-AI, but I’m 100% anti-OpenAI (and corporations behaving like OpenAI).

2024-05-21 13:25:23

„Using OpenAI's ChatGPT API, iTerm2 can now write
commands for you,…“
To the trashcan it goes. Kitty or Alacritty? I wish macOS Temrinal would properly support true colour…
https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_0.changelog

2024-05-21 07:27:24

I really hope the #SteamDeck gets an option to download and update games while in sleep mode if the battery is full and it’s plugged in.
It takes a bit of fun out of the “let me just play Hades 2 for 20 minutes” if the first 5 is watching it update.

2024-04-08 18:37:17

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for me in no particular order:
- no drama and which instances get blocked is my choice (I don’t mind Threads for example, easy way to follow a few people I cannot follow right now)
- secured funding
- control over my identity and account
- home timeline is literally friends and family, my experience couldn’t be more curated and the most I’d accept to see as home timeline