Zagorath

A lot of that’s still available in AOSP. The devices they actually sell just load a heap of commercial crap on top of that.

Wtf is this crap? Just because I’m taking the approach of siding with reality I must be a bit or corporate stooge?

Google and Amazon do enough real things wrong without needing to make up bullshit conspiracy theories. Like Amazon’s abusive labour practices, and…everything about the Audible & Kindle platforms. And Google’s support of the American military industrial complex and shoving AI down everyone’s throats while making their products actively worse.

Just because something is bad, doesn’t mean every single accusation against it is accurate.

That might be true, I honestly don’t know. But it doesn’t matter to the point I’m making, which is that however the device does it, it’s the device, locally, that determines whether a wake word has been said, before it starts transmitting what comes next.

No, they can’t. Precisely because of all the people who quite rightly don’t trust Google and Amazon, who would notice their devices’ network traffic increasing.

I’m specifically talking about Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices, not anything else your phone or apps are doing. So the only one of those articles even remotely relevant is the third.

And the third talks about “false wakes” being the cause. Which goes along with what I said before that until it hears the wake word (even if it’s mistaken in doing so), it’s not sending back recordings.

Care to clarify your meaning? Or are you just disagreeing because it feels good to go along with the conspiracy theory?

The data isn’t there. At least not in the way some of the biggest fearmongers talk about it. Everything you say to the device, you can assume is there. But it listens for the wake word locally and doesn’t send information to the server until after it receives the wake word.

and MacOS

Oh that’s interesting. I wonder why they do it that way, considering macOS is a Unix OS.

Yeah I’m interested in how that works too.

I’ve recently been looking at the Nextcloud “all in one” Docker image. It works by mounting the docker.sock file into the master container, which allows that container to stand up a whole bunch of other containers on your machine.

How would that work on Windows, if the Docker socket isn’t a file handle?

That might be part of it, but I was thinking it was more how things we don’t think of as files, like sockets, are accessed with a file descriptor.

Absolutely!

Tux’s right eye being occluded by the guy’s black hair, and his left eye being partly shaded into a more angular shape makes it look like he’s giving an evil smirk.

Might be worth opening the link in a browser or something? I’m viewing this on desktop where it works fine.

Has audio

Really interesting! Thanks!

Part of the reason I ask: I bought a Synology (4-bay, 1 TB each in Synology’s RAID 5–like format) a while back with the intention of using it as a hybrid NAS & server. But have been repeatedly struggling to get it to do actually run the applications I wanted to run. And then started trying to get some of the things I wanted to run on my Synology to instead run on a Raspberry Pi…same problem. The weird architecture and distro makes some things not work smoothly. So have been thinking about getting a Mini PC with a standing x86_64 processor running a standard Linux distro to be a proper server, and using the Synology more exclusively for file storage & sharing.

Some of the things you listed there are definitely things that were on my radar to get around to running myself anyway (e.g. Immich, Watchtower). Others I had never heard of, but was already considering looking for an equivalent (Affine, Jotta—though for notesI was hoping Nextcloud would have a suitable app), and others I didn’t even think of (Linkwarden looks very interesting).

Since you’ve got a Synology already, I’m curious what value you see in the Mini PC running a Samba server? I’m also curious why you go with the Synology as your reverse proxy. Just the ease of the included tool? Does it also handle TLS termination, or how does that work in your setup?

I clicked into the comments for one fucking reason. And was left very disappointed.

What do you run on your home server? What sort of hardware is it running on?