It doesn’t matter if the ‘help’ is actually a real help - what matters is that you’re seen as the guy/girl ‘boldly making the right thing’ or some shit like that.
We then enter the “there’s no bad ideas here!” territorry. And from this territory of clueless polititon’s interns comes the latest batch from California and Colorado. It’s crucial to them that they wanna be seen as the first defenders of children and they had to rush this out, before the other side comes up with something just as LARPing. SO there was no time to actually think of something that can make sense… No, we’re just gonna force Linux developers to start ‘enforcing age verification’ (read: declaration)… at boot time!!! And if they don’t do it, let them pay 6k $ per install. Yeah… seriously!
Now I know a normie just might bite into this and just might exclaim: “I don’t see anything wrong with that! What are you, against children safety or something? Are you pro Epstein island or something?!?!”
But you see… the problem is not just that this is unenforcable without the immdeate conncetion to some agency that checks an ID - on a fcking open source level, but that actually means that, if passed, you won’t be able to develop stuff the way you want anymore. The governmment will be IN YOUR OS! Not just any operating system… But an open source system - by fcking law!
This is lunatc level debilitating for creation!
This is like saying: fck off! Begone to fcking China for all I care! Here.. we keep kids safe by pretending typing in a number at boot will make them not login”
Do you, normie, understand how incredibly intrusive this attempt is - for 0 reward!
And why exactly? So that an 11 year old can’t enter a Linux OS just when it is starting to become more visible and more accesible to the wider public?
You do understand that this is even more stupid than ‘tax the rich!’ in a state when ‘the rich’ can just move to a state that has zero tax?
What’s worse, this is attempt at the control that opens the door to more control if passed. I do hope you’re not one of those people who still belived that when government takes 10$ from you it will always be just those 10$.
To me, suc acts are beyond creepy. And their only use is for the polititon to appear and only appear as helping. The actual result is destruction. Or a move of the project to another place.
So yeah.. let’s just get rid of FreeBSD organisation which has been in Colorado since the 90’s. They’ll just be forced to pack and go somewhere where there’s not so much insanity. And they’ll take their brains with them, you … nuts! Polition will remain in Colorado though! The effect: a bigger idiots vs genious ratio on the idiot side, perpetrated by a bunch of idiots.
So the honest succincs title should actually be: Linux is under increasing attack by LARPing do-gooders promoting self-destruction as usual. Don’t be a fool, pleeeease! Don’t allow this disgusting garbage sold to you are ‘good’ is passed. You’ve been falling for this exact type of ‘we’re the good’ tricks for the last 30 years ffs! Don’t let the freedom behind the most important tech is destroyed on account of these deisgusting lying and idiotic oportunists. And before you shout: I don’t care about Linux.. I use Mac anyway… I’ll just respond with: how about your TV? Your autoradio. Your whole computer in your car. Every non iOS phone an every little smart device you’0ve ever see or owned. You see, my man, they are all fcking Linux! Linux is all around you and you’ve been using it for decades - ypou just didn’t know about it. And that.. should be the pointer when you should realize that this is actually that important. Without Linux… all those devices… gone.. or 10x-100x more expensive jsut so the company can pay the licence to some ununknown company who’d evelop it on old Linzx code and call it ‘propriatary’ from then on.
Wake the fck up and don’t allow the brain-drain on one hand or far worse open-source self-destruction!
]]>Telling your smart home AI the same thing. Every. Single. Day.
“Hey, 100 ppm on the NOx sensor is normal for my house.”
Next day.
“The NOx is at 98 ppm, that seems elevated…”
NO. I JUST told you that yesterday. AND THE DAY BEFORE THAT.
This drove me actually crazy. So I built something.
They’re all stateless. Every conversation starts from absolute zero. Your request gets piped to ChatGPT or Claude, you get an answer, done. No memory. No learning. No context carried over between sessions. It’s like having a very smart assistant with severe amnesia — useful in the moment, useless over time.
Home Mind is an AI assistant for Home Assistant that learns and remembers across conversations.
Here’s what that actually looks like in practice:
Day 1:
You: What's the NOx sensor reading?
AI: 100 ppm. That's typically elevated for indoors...
You: Actually, 100 is normal for my home. Remember that.
AI: Got it. I'll remember 100 ppm is within normal range for your NOx sensor.
Day 2, fresh conversation:
You: How's the air quality?
AI: NOx is at 98 ppm, which is within normal parameters for your home.
No reminder needed. It just knows.
The same works for device nicknames, user preferences, corrections, sensor baselines — anything you tell it gets stored and used in future conversations.
The memory layer is Shodh Memory, a cognitive memory backend that does some genuinely interesting stuff:
On top of that sits the Home Mind server, which orchestrates between the LLM, Shodh, and the Home Assistant API. The whole thing runs locally on your network.
This was a big addition in recent versions. You’re not locked into one provider:
That last one is important if you care about privacy. Your home context, your sensor data, your preferences — all processed locally on your own hardware. I run it with llama3.1 and it works well for everyday queries.
HA Assist (Voice + Text)
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HA Custom Component
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Home Mind Server
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Shodh Memory + LLM API + HA REST API
Works with voice through the Wyoming protocol, or text through the Assist interface. Whatever STT setup you already have — local Whisper, cloud — it doesn’t matter.
You can give Home Mind a custom persona without touching the core system. Set a name, a tone, a communication style. The built-in smart home capabilities (tool usage, memory, device control) get appended after your custom prompt — so you’re shaping who it is, not replacing how it actually works.
Example:
You are Ada, a concise and slightly sarcastic smart home assistant
who doesn't waste words.
Can be set per-request, via the HA integration config, or as a server-level default.
Version v0.12.0, 7 releases in. What works today:
What’s still coming: multi-user support (OIDC) and an HA Add-on package so you don’t need Docker.
You need Docker, a Home Assistant instance with a long-lived access token, and an LLM API key (or Ollama running locally).
git clone https://github.com/hoornet/home-mind.git
cd home-mind
cp .env.example .env
# edit .env with your HA URL, token, and LLM key
./scripts/deploy.sh
Then install the HACS component from https://github.com/hoornet/home-mind-hacs, point it at your server, set it as your conversation agent, done.
Full docs on the GitHub wiki.
If it saves you from repeating yourself one more time, buy me a coffee. ☕
Questions or feature ideas? Open a GitHub issue.
]]>You bought Dogecoin for the memes. Maybe you made money. Maybe you didn’t. Either way, you’ve decided it’s time to consolidate into Bitcoin - the OG, the king, the one crypto that might actually matter in 10 years.
Smart move.
But here’s the problem: most exchanges want your ID, proof of address, a selfie holding your ID, your mother’s maiden name, and possibly a blood sample before they’ll let you swap anything.
There’s a better way.
No-KYC exchanges let you swap coins without registration. No email. No identity verification. No waiting days for “account approval.”
You send DOGE. You get BTC. Done.
Step 1: Get Your Bitcoin Address Ready
Open your Bitcoin wallet (hardware wallet, mobile wallet, whatever you use) and copy your receiving address.
Double-check it. Seriously. Copy-paste errors = lost coins forever.
Step 2: Find the Best Rate
Not all no-KYC exchanges offer the same rates. Some charge 0.5%, others 2-3%. Over a $1,000 swap, that’s the difference between $5 and $30 in fees.
Use an aggregator like Swapper.si that compares rates from multiple providers in real-time. You’ll see:
Step 3: Initiate the Swap
Step 4: Send Your Dogecoin
The platform will generate a one-time deposit address. Send your DOGE there.
Important:
Step 5: Wait for Confirmations
Blockchain transactions need confirmations before the swap executes:
Most platforms have a tracking page where you can watch progress.
Step 6: Receive Your Bitcoin
Once processed, Bitcoin arrives at the address you provided. That’s it. You’re done.
Let’s say you have 1,000 DOGE (≈ $500 at current prices):
Without rate comparison:
With rate aggregation (Swapper.si):
Over larger amounts, the savings compound fast.
Yes. No-KYC swaps are legal in most jurisdictions. You’re simply trading one cryptocurrency for another - no different than trading baseball cards.
Some countries require reporting for tax purposes, but that’s separate from KYC.
Use established aggregators that partner with reputable exchanges. Check:
Never send crypto to a provider you haven’t researched.
Reputable no-KYC exchanges have support channels (usually email or Telegram). Response times vary, but most issues (wrong amount sent, missing memo) can be resolved.
Pro tip: Always do a small test swap first if you’re moving large amounts.
Yes! The same process works for:
Bitcoin is usually the target because it’s the most liquid and widely accepted.
I got tired of comparing rates across multiple no-KYC exchanges manually. So I built a tool that does it automatically.
Swapper.si aggregates rates from 10+ providers and shows you the best deal in real-time. You still swap directly with the provider (we don’t hold your funds), but you save time and usually get a better rate.
We earn 0.4% on swaps - enough to keep the service running, cheap enough to beat manual comparison shopping.
Swapping Dogecoin to Bitcoin without KYC isn’t complicated:
No registration. No ID. No hassle.
If you’re consolidating your crypto portfolio or just want to exit the memecoin casino, this is the fastest way to do it.
Ready to swap? Try Swapper.si - compare rates from multiple no-KYC exchanges in seconds.
Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. Cryptocurrency is risky. Only swap what you can afford to lose. Be aware of tax obligations in your jurisdiction.
]]>Reportedly Windows 11 is so bloated with the completely unnecessary or actually in-the-way AI bullshittery that people are leaving it behind in droves!
This has happened before.
Windows 8 was a failure of similar MS-stupidity when they first came up with the geniusatic bloat idea, but these current numbers… I doubt they were ever seen before.
Now…. some users are, yes, moving to Apple… buuuuuut…. many users… are moving to Linux for the first time EVER!
Reportedly… in December 2025ev, Linux Desktop hit 11% of global market share! These numbers represent nothing but an AAAAAASTRONOMICAL rise!!!
Now… let me remind you how it all went down
In the server world, Linux has already won 2 decades ago. There’s nothing even remotely close to its market share. Linux server is simply a full blown benevolent dictator.. I mean… king. Linux is king. 😉 We’re not talking about that world.
We’re also not talking about headless Linux, that is, without graphical user interface, because the world is full of that as well. There’s a bunch of devices, like many phones, or TVs or media players or around IOT and even routers that run headless linux. We’re not talking about that.
We’re talking the last missing piece - the desktop! We’re talking…
Linux Desktop was always present, but always in the shadows of the mainstream, always in its ‘insignificant’ corner. To put it bluntly, nobody but the actual geeks cared it existed.
It was pretty much exclusively a high-geek/hacker/programmer kind of thing.
Just 2 years ago, the market share of Linux desktop was riding somewhere between 1 and 2 %, depending on how much that year Apple or Microsoft fcked something up… again. In the until-recently past, it would get a passing, very loud ex-Apple/ex-Microsoft ex-user who is ‘totally serious this time’ because he has ‘had it! Like totally ..and stuff’, but who would a month later very quietly realize Linux is just too much work and even more quietly switch back into a warm embrace of the mega corporation that has usually been taking good care of them. That last fckup was just … not such a big deal when you think about it. One thing seems to be a pattern here: The leaving is always very loud (and if possible, on video!), the return is always done quietly (and definitely solo). 🙂
Then. about 2 years ago. something definitive happened. Valve, the biggest game distributer (and therefore also the biggest on Windows) came up with a handheld gaming device. While that would be remarkable on its own, this gaming device was special. For it wasn’t build with the previously best gaming system in mind (aka Windows).. It was efing running LINUX!
That single device… took Linux desktop use to 5% within a fcking year! And 2024 … started to look much more promising to finally be the Year of Linux Desktop, which some people’s year prediction looks like since about 2005. (They’ve been doing this like clockwork for all this time and it never turns out to be true 😃 ).
Then.. the year 2025 came around.
And a bunch of things played a part in the same year, all of them contributing to the result mentioned above.
1) There was Valve’s release of their version of Arch Linux - for gamers.
2) There were a bunch of very interesting, very different and (for some at least) extremely useful and practical and fcking fast Linux distros born. Yes, including Omarchy - the one that took my own MiniPC to be a newly dedicated fulltime Linux Desktop computer for me.
3) This was the year when you could find tons of videos about ppl, gamers, hackers, DIY peeps and geeks in general playing with various Linux virtual machines… and finding out that they can actually run Linux as a Desktop machine and then on top of it run Windows with a virtual machine! You know… for jobs and stuff. Games on Linux desktop got to be so fine tuned last year that some of them managed tu run faster on Linux even though they were clearly all developed on and for Windows operating system!
4) Valve hit another one with the announcement of new devices that will also be running SteamOS - which is just Valve’s version of Arch Linux tuned for games again! and then….
5) Microsft decided to put a flower on top of this convergence of forces and decided it’s time for an auto-goal: October 30th 2025 was the last day when Microsoft still offered support for updates for Windows 10. Go to Windows 11, they said.
But it turns out… many ppl couldn’t even if they wanted to, because Windows 11 simply doesn’t run on older hardware anymore - by design!!! Now.. you can hack around that, but … it’s a fcking hack! So now a guy had two choices: either stay on Windows 10 and be increasingly exposed to security vulnerabilities because there will be no more updates, or somehow buy a new machine and go on Windows 11.
And this is where Microsoft hit a double whammy: in these conditions… they should have just played it safe and at least hold a visual ‘mask’ of Windows 10 on the new Win11. But noooo! Instead… they didn’t just do the Win8 thing by bloating it, they added MS’s pretty much useless AI … right into the operating system itself!
Oh.. and they fcked up with the classic: Paint. They fcked up Paint! How could they do that, you may ask???
Well.. they fcking changed EVERYTHING in user interface that stayed the same for 20 years and then … they put an AI in! 😃 😃 😃 It’ s unrecognizable and completely useless now 😃
Took a true master to do that bad of a job 😃
Fascinating really when you start thinking about how this plan came about and how this must have been developed 😃 😃 😃
So yeah.. I bet that 6% increase for Linux will pretty much show in the market as 6% decrease for Windows. Apple probably just stays about the same. They have their fans.. their little corner which looks massive on American level but not so large on global scale. But they didn’t fck up so badly. Not lately. 😃
Now.. just like before some of the users will return to the warm hug of the mega-corp. But many wont. Because once you start getting it… once you switch the old mentality to linux way of things …you’re in. And you’ll probably start caring about stuff like privacy more.. care about security more… And yes.. you just might start caring about Free Libre Open Source world out there… And it’s fcking large out there (so don’t fck it up by wokefying more of it! Because those projects fcking die in short time afterwards! I speak from experience watching them self-destruct, some in months, others in a year or two! Never allow the original creators of the project to be shamed out of the project! NEVER! They fcking created the thing! And you wouldn’t be able to use it without their invention! So be fcking grateful for their work and stop snitching. End of rant!) ! And no. 😃 I’m not gonna predict the 2026 to be The year of the Linux 😃 😃 😃 Buuuuut….I’m gonna be bold today: I predict… I think …. I think ….we’re entering the 5-years-of-Linux-Desktop. 😉 I think that at the end of next 5 years the market share will be about the quarter. Microsoft first and later Apple also, will start to lose it in this space. Apple will continue to be a giant in ARM microprocessor architecture and that will be significant.. but dammit.. yo can now run Asahi Linux on Apple’s laptop as well - ‘Linux on Apple Silicon’ 😃 And I think this is the picture you’ll start seeing not just in Europe but in America as well.
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