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  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

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  • I have a friend who set up a Dreame L10s Ultra. I helped them solder the breakout board, and was there when they flashed the new firmware. Relatively straight forward! Just follow the guide on the website and you should be good.

    The robot is now accessible only on the local network, and they got it working in Home Assistant. The only feature that is missing now is direct camera view, which the original robot had. Basically, you could get a live feed of the robot's camers at any time. Looked fun, but it was not necessary.

  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

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  • This article just screams rage-bait. Not that I am against making people aware of this kind of privacy invasion, but the authors did not bother to do any fact checking.

    Firstly, they mention that the vacuum was "transmitting logs and telemetry that [the guy] had never consented to share". If you set up an app with the robot vacuum company, I'm pretty sure you'll get a rather long terms and services document that you just skip past, because who bothers reading that?

    Secondly, the ADB part is rather weird. The person probably tried to install Valetudo on it? Otherwise, I have no clue what they tried to say with "reprinting the devices’ circuit boards". I doubt that this guy was able to reverse engineer an entire circuit board, but was surprised when seeing that ADB is enabled? This is what makes some devices rather straight forward to install custom firmware that block all the cloud shenanigans, so I'm not sure why they're painting this as a horrifying thing. Of course, you're broadcasting your map data to the manufacturer so that you can use their shitty app.

    The part saying that it had full root access and a kill-switch is a bit worse, but still... It doesn't have to be like this. Shout-out to the people working on the Valetudo project. If you're interested in getting a privacy-friendly robot vacuum, have a look at their website. It requires some know-how, but once it's done, you know for sure you don't need to worry about a 3rd party spying on you.

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  • That's pretty cool! Does anyone know if this allows one to play anti-cheat enabled games? Would be interesting to know if we can spoof HWID stuff with this to make it look like we're playing on an actual Windows device.

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    Are there any tools I can use for translating a ~400 pages scanned book?

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  • Be wary that their docs are so and so. Nanonets OCR, Mistral OCR and MinerU will also extract formulas and images.

    One other model I forgot to mention is Docling. This one is quite quick to set up in a docker container, and will have a web interface ready to go where you can upload documents. This sort of follows the PaddleOCR pipeline, but also allows you to use vLMs.

    Good luck!

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    Are there any tools I can use for translating a ~400 pages scanned book?

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  • If you find that OCR doesn't get you very far, maybe try a small vLM to parse PNGs of the pages. For example, Nanonets OCR will do this, although quite slow if you don't have a GPU. It will give you a Markdown version of the page, which you can then translate with another tool.

    PaddleOCR might also be useful, since it focuses on Chinese, but it's more difficult to set up. To add to this, some other options are MinerU and MistralOCR (this is paid, but you can test it for free if you upload it in Mistral's library).

  • What can I use for an offline, selfhosted LLM client, pref with images,charts, python code execution

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  • All the ones I mentioned can be installed with pip or uv if I am not mistaken. It would probably be more finicky than containers that you can put behind a reverse proxy, but it is possible if you wish to go that route. Ollama will also run system-wide, so any project will be able to use its API without you having to create a separate environment and download the same model twice in order to use it.

  • What can I use for an offline, selfhosted LLM client, pref with images,charts, python code execution

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  • Ollama for API, which you can integrate into Open WebUI. You can also integrate image generation with ComfyUI I believe.

    It's less of a hassle to use Docker for Open WebUI, but ollama works as a regular CLI tool.

  • The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism

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  • I heard that Poland is also cheering for some MAGA guy in the next election... Troubling times ahead.

    For Romania, there might still be a chance in the run-off. However, the difference between the two candidates was quite large (20% difference; 1.8 million votes). Similarly, the other candidates seemed to have voters that would rather vote for the nazi. Most likely all hope is lost, but that 1% chance is still there.

  • Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep

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  • For notes, I have moved to Joplin with the option to synchronize my data using a WebDAV server. It works really well, and it has both a mobile and desktop app. If you're interested in developing your project, maybe you can have a look at the options this provides. For example, I really like the ability to separate notes between groups, assign tags, create drawings, and the possibility to use Markdown.

    Good luck with your projects! To mirror @enemenemu's suggestion, I would also look into collaborating with the people trying to push the EU Docs alternative. Not sure if that will work, but it's worth a shot if you're interested :D

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  • Mine's just one I got from a random kid name generator.

    A bit off-topic: not sure why, but I keep seeing posts here on Lemmy lately about Romanian women pulling the short end of the stick in terms of gender equality. I hope I'm not offending in any way with this question, but is Romania sticking to the traditional gender roles?

  • Dog dentist

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  • Accurate user name

  • This is why the USA supports Ukraine, typical USA imperialism

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  • I don't know... I feel like this is all premeditated. Project 2025 basically describes this exact thing: get EU to stop relying on the US. It's all a bit more insidious than just Old Donnie being stupid and vain. I truly wonder whether this is a US conservative's gamble to get stronger allies, or just a much bigger plan to extract more wealth for the rich in the US.

    I, for one, would love to see Europe get rid of American dependence, but I have a feeling that everything will go back to the usual after getting peace in Ukraine. The US has enough buffer between them, China and Russia to not care, and plan for much farther ahead. They will keep lining up the pockets of policy makers to get them to lean towards their interests, and 2-3 generations down the line we nudge even closer to far right capitalism. Especially since Europe now might start shifting it's industry to produce weapons, which will take our focus away from other important areas, like local chip manufacturing.

    I'm curious to hear other opinions though. What is your take on all of this?

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    Are these specs good? I want to buy my son a gaming PC

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  • Might be even cheaper if you wait a bit and build it yourself. Next gen GPUs are coming out, which will lead to some price cuts on the current gen.

    However, like others here have mentioned, you're paying extra for them building it for you and warranty.

    I don't know if ro.pcpartpicker.com works well for Romania, but you can also give that a try and see what the individual components would net you on the local market.

    Building the computer yourself along with your kid could also be a nice opportunity to teach him (and maybe yourself, if you're not that knowledgeable) about the underlying components.

  • Self-hosted music streaming (and me giving up on it)

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  • Piracy. I'd buy albums if I had money, though. I'll slowly phase into getting them once I get some more cash.

    I can find most stuff I listen to, and I rarely grow my music library. I mostly listen to 20-30 albums, with some more mainstream music peppered in.

    My music library currently sits at 90 gigabytes (mostly flacs), so quite small compared to others I've seen around here. Still, I have plenty of variation to keep me entertained :D

    If you have Tidal, aren't there some apps to rip the lossless audio from there? You could get most of the stuff that you need, and then cancel the subscription. If you feel bad, maybe order some merch from the band, haha.

  • Redox OS 0.9.0 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

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  • If I remember correctly, even though Fuchsia is used in production, it is mainly targetting mobile or IoT devices. Nevertheless, the underlying micro-kernel, Zircon, is written in C/C++, which differs from Redox. Now, I'm not saying that Redox solves everything by writing the kernel in Rust. It will require plenty unsafe blocks to achieve what it needs, but it makes you aware beforehand that you should be careful about how you implement that bit of code. Having this clear marking could also make the kernel code review process more likely to catch issues.

    Disregarding this, if I am not mistaken, Redox aims to be a drop-in replacement for Linux one day, both for desktop and server, while Fuchsia only wishes to be integrated in/replace Android. Linux is perfectly fine for most use cases, I am not suggesting otherwise! However, given how many issues resulted from overflow/memory corruption issues that could have been potentially easier to identify if Rust (or any other memory safe language) was used, you'd think that there is incentive to rely on it for kernel development. Linus himself made this decision as well when allowing Rust to be used in the Linux kernel development (albeit perhaps a bit too early).

    The Linux kernel is not flawed, and Redox is probably years away from being even near it. However, having memory-safety from the get-go as a requirement for developing the kernel could lead to fewer exploits, compared to what we have today with Linux. Just as you've said, most users are not aware of it/they don't care, but the big players will care about keeping information safe on their servers. Just to conclude, Redox OS is not just Linux rewritten in Rust, and could potentially have many other benefits that are particularly juicy for data centers. Too bad it's not production ready yet :D

  • Redox OS 0.9.0 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

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  • That's unfortunate :( I think you can still run it in QEMU, if you're interested.

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  • I see your point. However, integrating Rust properly in the Linux kernel is an uphill battle. Redox OS is not at all close to being stable, but it showcases that you can build a Rust kernel from scratch, and integrate it into an OS that meets some of the requirements of a modern one. Of course, considering it a toy project and glancing over its potential doesn't help with adoption. They even mention in their description that currently they can only support a community manager and a student developer with the current donations. When you compare that to the amount of money and developers involved in the Linux kernel, it's insignificant.

    I was not suggesting that the Rust For Linux devs jump ship, but it could be beneficial for the investors behind the project to look at alternatives. Heck, the Linux kernel started as a toy project itself. I believe that a team focused solely on such a Rust-only kernel could spearhead needed changes to reach something stable, as opposed to investing time and money into fighting established C developers to integrate a memory-safe language in the kernel fully.

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    Redox OS 0.9.0 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

    www.redox-os.org /news/release-0.9.0/