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Re:Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:12AM (#49181728)
We’ve been building atop the .agents standard and have written some tools around this under the ai-outfitter org few interesting repos.

- outfitter compose different agent profile w, eg skills, mcp, context and wrap pi,Claude,codex - agent-operator run these agents into kubernetes - actions run pi during investigations on failed ci or weekly updates - channels give pi agents an inbox for slack/email/websocket access, calendar wake ups - deepwork build long running workflows with verification gates

The best example of different profiles is having a prod/nonprod bot that has grafana mcp for incident investigation

Re:Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:49AM (#48861575)
One of my favorite joys is going to the library in the Museum of fine arts and reading (usually with the help of Google Translate) really really old books. One of which was “La science des medailles” written between 1600-1700. It talks about the science of medals (which are much like coins!)

Seeing how people wrote back then and what they where thinking about (without the internet) always impresses me!

https://www.doaks.org/resources/online-exhibits/ces-pieces-i...

Here are some photos from it

https://share.icloud.com/photos/07banOauKpgh0wnSkLGK7dScg

Re:The bottleneck might be the air in the room on Saturday July 04, 2026 @08:26AM (#48784921)
At a career fair in an auditorium I was showing a sensor suite with OLED displaying current readings, one of which was the SCD41 CO2 sensor (they cost more than the esp32!)

I watched the sensor rise from 800 to 1700 PPM by the time the last group left the

It’s quite easy to build one and deploy with esphome and breadboard with stuff you can order on Amazon and have an LLM walk your through hardware and setup.

It is interesting where the rate of speech quickens as the co2 rises and the body starts to notice the co2, or maybe that was just the coffee.

Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:40PM (#48057471)
deepwork.md is made for this.
Turso/libsql has been great for poc project so far
How does this compare to anchorcad?
Re:A Year with the Framework 13 on Thursday March 26, 2026 @02:09PM (#47533786)
I thought mine was ok, not a Mac but then I played around with non 3:2 format laptop screen and ran back to the Framework
Re:Vit: Git for Video Editing on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:37PM (#47525728)
This is really cool stuff!
I have been building a similar concept into my custom NixOS distribution, Keystone, where agents operate within their own user accounts with dedicated emails and SSH access. > It utilizes the Claude, Gemini, and Ollama CLIs. Because it is built directly into the OS, it seamlessly integrates with native notes and records calls. Furthermore, an AI agent can access Immich to deduce my context by analyzing image metadata and tagged faces. It features dedicated calendars for task scheduling and native PDF extraction capabilities. The entire system is declarative via NixOS, allowing it to provision itself almost entirely automatically.

https://github.com/ncrmro/keystone

Re:RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:26PM (#47326256)
I kinda suspected this was an early way to catch AI generated content. It ironically broke stalwart/himilaya somewhere along the lines when I had an ai generate a status report to email to me
Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @09:24PM (#47146515)
H-Town hold it down!
A framework for managing agentic AI workflows through multi-dimensional budgets: tokens, time, money, human attention, and risk.
I’ve been looking at getting this going but stalwart mail, I have it setup but haven’t done much. I actually for now was thinking vpn only between me any my agents
Re:Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:37PM (#46769674)
I’ve managed to get NixOS running on an 8gb MacBook air which tools a bit of tweaks but asahi installer sets everything up where you can boot and install from NixOS
Re:Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:05PM (#46727870)
I’ve been using it locally and with their hosted offering for awhile now and it’s rock solid other than if I make super deeply nested joins which overflow something. But other that that it’s super fast and cheap I haven’t had to need more than the free tier with a bunch of stuff I host on cloudflare workers
That gives me hope :,)
Re:Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:24AM (#46464479)
The real game changer after I went full nix OS on all my machines and using it on a a few Mac’s is indeed devshells which seemed so annoying to learn but really really are a game changer
Re:Kitchen Optimizations on Thursday January 01, 2026 @12:23AM (#46451536)
I’ve been working an a meal planning application that so far can order all your groceries after planning a meal. There is a basic task graph now to estimate time to finish and takes into account different euqipment like a food processor or pressure cooker.

It’s at https://mezi.fyi would love any feedback there is a demo on the landing page

UHK ultimate hacker keyboard
Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:38PM (#46138965)
As a note ceph (rook on kubernetes) which is distributed blockstorage has a built in s3 endpoint support
Re:New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:02AM (#44824581)
We’ve been having really good results with Copilot Agent. Sometimes we have to close a PR and refine the issue or pull down and work locally on cursor but it also jumpstarts a lot of stuff.
Re:You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:08AM (#44496992)
Seems like something that might be useful to store on Arweave a block chain for storage. Fees go to an endowment that’s has been calculated to far exceed the cost of growing storage
Re:Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel on Saturday July 05, 2025 @10:53AM (#44473177)
Suspend works find on ZFS from what I’ve read but not hibernate where ram is written to disk for full power off
Re:Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel on Saturday July 05, 2025 @01:48AM (#44470354)
Lots of people mentioning ZFS, which can’t do hibernation correctly as sometimes ZFS will still do some writes after that ram has suspended. Which I feel like would complete the story of here’s my mobile device that is snapshoted and backed up regularly.

I wonder where bcachfs in regards to mobile snapshots and hibernation.

Re:Pi-hole v6 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:50PM (#43094186)
Nice.

I wish pihole or adguard would add support for change DNS records based on the query subnet. I believe this is called DNS views.

That way my local devices and wireguard devices can get the correct IP for internal services.

Re:Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:22PM (#43044819)
I feel that, I went back to truenas for the simplicity.

This 5 disk pool started from the freebsd truenas, to Debian, to nixos, back to linux truenas.

And the disks where bumped from 2TB to 12Tb

Re:Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:20AM (#43036734)
They are now backed by docker after the Electric Eel update.
Re:We're Leaving Kubernetes on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:08PM (#42048249)
We started having a few developers have constant VSCode timeouts. We switched to GitHub devcontainers which have been great.
Re:It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:31AM (#40829976)
The hardest think now is forgetting all the patterns we used on client side only say.

On successful form submet change the ui based on this error state.

Now because of server actions you would just redirect to a success page..

It’s actually way simpler. It harks back to full SSR like Django/Rails/Wordpress

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