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I was one of the early adopters of smart watch ecosystem with OG LG G Watch, but lately I have stopped wearing watches altogether as they're sweaty and that I've become weary of having devices with large batteries closer to my body especially those with connectivity. But the LG G Watch has found a new use as a smart clock attached to my desk thanks to FOSS smart watch Operating System - AsteroidOS.
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How I run LLMs locally

A HN user asked me0 how I run LLMs locally with some specific questions, I’m documenting it here for everyone. Before I begin I would like to credit the thousands or millions of unknown artists, coders and writers upon whose work the Large Language Models(LLMs) are trained, often without due credit or compensation. Get Started r/LocalLLaMA subreddit1 & Ollama blog2 are great places to get started with running LLMs locally.

a month ago 2 votes
Projects

Hi I'm Abishek Muthian, an indie, I write code to solve problems in health and build tools for indies to create sustainable income. Bone Health Tracker Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Memory Hammer What if you can remember everything you see, forever? Open Payment Host Sell what you want without paying double commissions. Gait Analyzer Analyze your gait for health disorders at the comfort of your home in your own personal computer.

2 months ago 2 votes
Apple Watch with Android

A friend passed away recently during sleep due to unknown natural causes when they were all alone in a hotel in a foreign country. I couldn't dismiss the thought that may be if they had worn a smart watch they could have had better chances of reaching out for help and perhaps even got alerted of some discrepancies in their vitals. There's no dearth of smart watches in the market offering health monitoring solutions but Apple Watch has been leading the pack in terms of accuracy of heart-rate, sleep and exercise tracking for years; In fact a 4 year old Apple Watch is more accurate than most recent commercial competitors.

2 months ago 2 votes
Restart modem automatically when Internet is down

If I have to restart my modem often like a caveman, I'll at least automate it. Years ago I would have pitied the soul which had to restart their Internet modem often, Now I'm in the situation where the ISP seems to have not heard about network reliability and so my modem hangs at least once per day. My modem is completely managed by the ISP and so there are no useful options for me to fix the issue.

2 months ago 2 votes
Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT

When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a good low-key intrusion detection along with my earlier OpenWRT login alerts. Heavy lifting was already done by Brandon McFarlin, I had to just modify the code to send messages to Gotify instead of MQTT. #!/bin/sh cat << "EOF" > /etc/hotplug.d/dhcp/90-newdev [ "$ACTION" == "add" ] || exit 0 # [ "$ACTION" == "add" -o "$ACTION" == "update" ] || exit 0 known_macs="/etc/known_macs" if !

2 months ago 2 votes

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Algorithms are breaking how we think

Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Watson argues that this is bad, and I agree. A little while ago I watched a video by Hank Green called “$4.5M to Spray Alcoholic Rats with Bobcat Urine”. Green has been banging this drum for a while. He hits some of the same notes as Watson, but from a different angle. This last month has been a lot, and I’ve withdrawn from news and social media quite a bit because of it. Part of this is because I’ve been very busy with work, but it’s also because I’ve felt overwhelmed. There are now a lot of bad-faith actors in positions of power. Part of their game plan is to spray a mass of obviously false, intellectually shallow, enraging nonsense into the world as quickly as possible. At a certain point the bullshit seeps in if you’re soaking in it. The ability to control over what you see next is powerful. I think it would be great if more people started being a bit more choosy about who they give that control to.

12 hours ago 4 votes
But good sir, what is electricity?

A quick look at the physics of conductors, insulators, and electric charges.

8 hours ago 2 votes
A Quick Note and Some Comics

An apology and some entertainment

an hour ago 2 votes
Reading list 02/22/25

Waymo’s factory, a map of US land values, ships in the Arctic Circle, battery industry trends, and more.

yesterday 7 votes
How Core Git Developers Configure Git

What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.

yesterday 5 votes