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Especially with modern vacuums that also have a camera and a mic on them. Probably the most intrusive device you can buy for your house.

Show HN: I emulated Roborock's cloud so my vacuum works without internet

https://github.com/Python-roborock/local_roborock_server

Hi! I maintain the python-roborock library and the Roborock integration in Home Assistant.Roborock vacuums use a local protocol for direct commands, but they still route all map data strictly through the cloud (even though the map is stored locally). Even worse, if you try to block the vacuum from accessing the internet on your router, it will constantly reboot its Wi-Fi connection trying to...

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Interesting - why do you think that is?

can-ai-code seems to have Gemma 2-27b as pretty capable - beating out some of the other models that perform really well on aider: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mike-ravkine/can-ai-code-resul...

I know the device uses BLE - I'd start with seeing if there is any data included in the BLE broadcast