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.

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.

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.

Right, but then rich people can no longer exploit other regions if everyone is considered equal! Think about the shareholders for a bit :/ (I’m sarcastic, in case it is not clear :D)

The main problem here is that people flocking to positions of power are often the ones that do it for the wrong reasons. Until that part is sorted out, we will keep having leaders that will enforce things that are best for them and their closest ones. Some form of anarcho-communism would probably help this, but the current globalisation effort will make it very hard to implement. The best thing we can do as individuals is to just improve our social circle, and try to rely on as many local things as possible.

Even the comic-book bullies are better than this… The sad part is that the West will continue to lick the boot, hoping everyone will just forget. I really hope that that is not the case. What Greta did here is very impressive, and I hope that her spirit will inspire other young people to vote out these dumbfucks in government that try to do damage control in this situation.

Get a dog. I’m now forced to get up early to take it out, otherwise it will pee on my bed.

(Do not actually get a pet if you cannot take care of them.)

Is the feather from a free-range seagull? I do not make deals when animals’ welfare is at risk.

The propaganda machine goes brr on both sides. However, the side you’re advocating for decided that the only way to resolve a diplomatic issue is to invade a country and murder its citizens. No matter how you spin it, it is still the case that the powerful are throwing away human lives for their own benefit. Isn’t .ml supposed to side with the people usually, and not the rich people controlling the world currently?

Tesla’s bang for buck is horrible. You get a shitty car made from the worst plastic possible, and on top of that they don’t even have good quality control. The only thing that differentiated Tesla from the competition previously was the battery technology, but they no longer have that edge nowadays.

The Norwegians are probably getting them because they got used to it, and probably don’t want to rely on Chinese cars. Beats me why they would select a Tesla nowadays over the European brands.

At the same time, we will give better access for American products in our market.

Yeah, that’s a no from me. I will continue to boycott anything that is American, except for things that really have no alternative. Hopefully more people feel the same and cut off the money flow to Amerikkka.

This is true only if the decisions were made independently. If you allow people to make a decision after they’ve seen the metrics, this no longer holds.

Here’s an example of the first. You go at a farmer’s market with a cow and you ask everyone to write on a piece of paper what they think the weight is. If you get the replies and average them, you will find that the mean of all answers will be quite close to the real answer. A mix of non-experts and experts will iron out a good answer somehow.

Now take the average experience of going to a restaurant. One might have just opened recently, has great food and great staff, but only 5 reviews, at an average of 3.8 or something. Another restaurant nearby has been open for 3-4 years, and has 1000 reviews, at maybe 3.9. People will usually follow the one with more reviews because they think it’s the safer option due to the information available. However, if you were to hide this and ask them to choose by just looking at the venue and the menu, they would probably choose the first one.

Group dynamics are quite interesting, and the psychology behind this is quite funky sometimes :D

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!

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).

Sure, if all politicians make all their data available to the public. Their phone chat messages, photos taken, everything.

No…? Then don’t bring it up ever again. Initiatives like these will only make it look like you’re a villain if you want privacy.

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.

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.

Look into Cosmic DE. It has a similar vibe if you set up tiling, but without all the headache of configuring all the components so that it is usable.

Didn’t this guy just go on French national TV and say that Macron is a dictator?

I think if this guy gets voted in, Romania might say bye bye to its EU funds.

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.

No one is stopping them from buying meat though? There are still big sections full of it in stores that you see whenever you go grocery shopping.

Heck, I would ban the ads on all food products if it were me. Same with pharmaceuticals.