@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2025-12-15 12:45:02
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@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2025-12-16 07:29:39
For a couple of days now, #Zigbee2mqtt in my #HomeAssistant has been randomly crashing, and the „watchdog“ function of HA is not automatically restarting it. I didn’t change anything about the hardware, I just updated the software (but not sure if it is connected to that). It’s been gett…
@qbi@freie-re.de2025-11-15 20:30:13
Meh, wegen der #MV des #Hackspace' nicht zur @… gefahren. Dann kommen nicht genügend Leute zur MV und die ist nicht beschlussfähig. 🙄
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza2025-10-17 01:40:00
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@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2026-01-13 15:06:38
Yesterday I tried out Mistral OCR and… wow. I didn’t know that OCR of PDFs with complex layouts, tables, images and everything is basically a solved problem now? Will likely have it run OCR on a 250 page PDF to extract the full text and tables soon, at a cost of roughly 25 cents, if I read the pricing grid correctly. The initial test on a few representative pages was very promising. Next step is to give it a few pages of my terrible handwriting and see what happens 😅.
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2026-01-13 12:22:01
After the latest update, my #Tolino has started crashing when turning a page in a book. But I guess such unimportant niche features don’t need to be tested well 😅.
Snark aside: it only happens on one specific book, so, no idea what is going on there. Since I was almost done with the book anyway, I started reading it using the phone app instead, and I hope that the next book will be less b…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2026-01-10 16:52:20
A fairly handy new app just released: #Aivi. It allows you to create iOS live activities that can be controlled via REST, for example via #HomeAssistant. Downsides: proprietary and another subscription, but at least it’s from some guy in Sweden, not a big company or shady startup. Will probably…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2025-12-10 09:09:39
Also in Asterisk: an interesting article about the history of the DSM-5, and its critics.
> The psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams captures this concern with unusual clarity in her 2021 essay “Diagnosis and Its Discontents.” She reflects on a shift that began with the release of DSM-III, when psychiatry embraced a more descriptive, symptom-based diagnostic model. The change, she notes, quietly restructured how people speak about themselves in therapy. Once, a client might enter the roo…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2025-12-10 09:06:09
Lovely article about the magic of physical #books in Asterisk Magazine:
> Kalman is exquisitely attuned to the magic of physical books. In fact, she includes the instructions and ingredients for another type of spell in The Principles of Uncertainty.
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> Attached on a perforated edge is a folded map of the world, drawn by her mother. “Either put it on the wall,” suggests…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange2025-11-10 07:03:47
