timwis

Haven’t heard of Fathers Ted, and I assumed by the title that this was an article about passphrases

Isn’t conformance to a standard API arguably less necessary now that LLMs can read API docs and adapt? For me, the win is the expectation that sites _have_ an API, whether it conforms to the MCP spec or not.

I actually searched HN for “llm budget” because I wanted an LLM to help me sort one out, and not have to deal with correcting categorisations and such. And your app sounds like exactly what I searched for. But when I got there, I found myself hesitant to sign up because of data privacy concerns, piping all my financial data to it.

Rather than just close the tab and walk away, I thought I’d share the feedback with you, as you’ve clearly put a lot of time into it. I think if there were clearer messaging about how my privacy would be protected, I would have considered signing up.

Either way, best of luck with the project!

Yep! https://magicnotes.ai It’s pretty neat once you get over the initial weirdness. Unlocks a lot of potential. But because it’s new, there are fewer conventions, so you have to come up with them and be consistent.

I degoogled my life out of principle—that one was about privacy. I feel strongly about this one too (in fact I just migrated from kindle to kobo for similar reasons), but where else is there to go? Some rooted android phone with Google play services disabled, where lots of apps aren't available and it's a struggle to get everything to work? (Genuine question!)

For what it's worth, I was worried about that as well, but I found it to be _fun_, and I actually look forward to playing with it, even before bed. Weird, I know, but I'm enjoying it and didn't think I would.

Ah, yeah, it was confusing to me when I was trying to get started as well! fortunately, the folks in the hardware channel of their Discord are super helpful.

Here's what I learnt: Green is the new plug and play server. Easiest to setup and will cover the vast majority of what you'll want to do. Yellow is basically green with a couple extra things built in (namely zigbee and thread), plus expansion bays, if you anticipate building on to it, but it requires you to flash it so less user friendly setup but easy if you're a dev.

But most people start out by using an old laptop or PC sitting around. That's what I did, the got a yellow.

I can’t see any reason why you couldn’t do that. I’ve only been using Home Assistant for a few months, but off the top of my head I reckon I could do that with an automation. The catch is that you may have to set that automation up yourself (either in the UI Or with YAML), and it's less user friendly than an alexa is out of the box. But if you're happy to tinker, as most folks on here are, then the world is your oyster..

This blog post is a great illustration of what I mean: https://blog.jlpouffier.fr/chatgpt-powered-music-search-engi...

You can get an atom echo for $13, if that helps: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voi...

What do you mean color version?

As an aside, I get what you mean in the context of my earlier comment, but just to clarify for anyone reading, you can use alexa and Google home devices with home assistant (eg to send commands and as media players, I believe), but you can't "deamazon"/"degoogle" them and just use the hardware with home assistant, which would be great if we could!

I switched to Home Assistant a couple months ago (because I didn't like the idea of my voice being sent to amazon constantly) and haven't looked back! Soo much more you can do (including immediately using an LLM, if you like, whether in the cloud or local), and so much more control.

Related: Why is it a good idea to store 2FA tokens in 1Password?

https://1password.community/discussion/comment/496555

I think that’s en-dash (–, used for ranges). Em-dash (—, used mid-sentence for asides etc) is the same combo but with shift as well.

Does anyone know if vector tiles could carry adequate data to facilitate reverse geocoding (address lookup)? E.g. the polygon of a building containing its street address in its metadata. I’m surprised I haven’t seen that before, as reverse geocoding services can get expensive, though I wonder if it’s because I’ve misunderstood how vector tiles actually work.

Then you’ll love this guy https://27bslash6.com/missy.html

Took them over an hour to mention it on their status page…

Hah, thought this looked familiar… I had a similar idea back in 2017 and published a little 5-line library to get this type of syntax ([err, result] for async): https://github.com/timwis/eres

But doesn’t that still write the secrets to disk? I thought the point of 1pass CLI was so you could avoid having unencrypted secrets on disk?

Recent versions of rails takes this approach. But I’ve wondered: is it possible to avoid copying the key onto disk, and leave it in 1Password, eg via their cli?

One of the best ideas I’ve heard for having Slack without the pressure to keep up with it is to configure it to delete messages after a short time period. This lets you keep the live chat going with those who are around, but people know to put important notices they want others to read into some other outlet.

Feels like I may have brought a spoon to a gun fight, but I would have considered psychohistory to be the ultimate extrapolation of determinism, and the fact that the prime radiant is able to predict _which_ version of events will happen is because it (somehow) knows the state of the system.

Of course, to argue against myself, it would surely be based on layers of probabilities, and they say several times in the series that it can't predict low-level specific things, just high-level things. And perhaps the whole underlying question posed by the series is whether the universe really is deterministic. But anyway I don't think it's all off-base.

Gosh, I know it's a bit late, but I wish they'd called the product _The Prime Radiant_

Fans of Asimov's _Foundation_ series will appreciate the analogue to how this system aims to predict every eventuality based on every possible combination of events, a la psychohistory.

P.S. amazing intro post. Can't wait to try the product.

Actual Budget is fantastic and now open source. The bank integrations are only for European banks though I think.

Thank you for sharing! I’m surprised to hear that, given how impressive your product is, but I’m an even bigger fan now.

Thanks, that's a really helpful explanation.

That sounds like a pretty reasonable solution, just doing it for the ‘crown jewels’.

The OTP in the password manager one is another thing I’ve struggled to wrap my head around. There’s an interesting conversation about it with folks at 1Password for those interested: https://1password.community/discussion/101714/why-is-it-a-go...

Perhaps if you could register your hardware key using its public key, which could be saved on your device? So you don’t need the hardware keys to be physically present when registering; just when signing in later.

As much as I want a hardware key, I still struggle with the practicality of having a backup key. I create new accounts on websites quite often, and the idea of having to go fetch my backup key out of a safe to register it (and hope the site allows multiple keys) just feels impractical (“I’ll do it tomorrow”). Not to mention—what if I’m at work, or out and about setting it up on my phone? Am I really going to remember to add my backup key when I get home every time?

Wish there were a way around this :/

Include a version prefix perhaps?

I have found the book _Programming Phoenix LiveView_ to be a great explainer as to what’s going on in liveview. It’s written for people new to Phoenix as well. I’m only halfway through and already building quite a lot with it, and, critically, I reckon I could explain pretty well what’s going on under the hood.

https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liv...