Today's useful #homeassistant#automation of the day is a notification when any of our battery-level related sensors are low.
I even managed to find a way where I don't have to add all the sensors to the automation by hand: instead I'm observing the state_changed event, with a filter for only states that have the device_class attribute set to battery.
Together with the Battery Notes custom integration this should make our home much more muggle friendly, so that things don't randomly break only because a battery is low, and instead the smart home's going to proactively notify its users about upcoming issues.
The #AppleScript dictionary in #NeoFinder has been expanded to give you read and write access to the #Finder#Tags (aka Finder keywords) and the color labels of NeoFinder.
Success! Record voice memo on phone, sync to virtual machine (using syncthing). Python job notices filesystem change, asks OpenAI whisper to transcribe, produces a new markdown note, moves to my Obsidan (PKM-tool) inbox, and sends a notification message to a Matrix room when processing has been completed.
@ai6yr
Evidently, the engineer was working on a station that handles the cast-aluminum chassis. So I doubt that the line was actually in production. Most likely the reason they had an engineer in the cell was for some kind of setup. #robot#robots#Automation
#AI#Automation#LLMs#Algorithms "What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence"—a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind, such as in its complex neural networks. Matteo Pasquinelli argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations. Here he is interviewed by Richard Hames, audio producer at Novara Media." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0wECTKNmlY
Priority todo for today: Get the new Browser Actions TestFlight ready and out of the door. Since it became clear that I won't be able to sell that app through the App Store, I realized I might as well rebuild it to be able to do more™ later.
My ability to accept (App Store) rejections is straight-up Shakespearean
#AI#ContentModeration#AdTech#Recommendation#Automation#News#Media#Journalism: "Automated systems and processes are a common feature of the news and media environment. This report introduces four key examples: search, recommendation, automated content moderation and curation, and advertising technology (AdTech). We provide a basic explanation of how these systems work at the technical level and show how they operate in context, drawing on examples and case studies across news and media. We then map emerging challenges associated with the use of each technology across the news and media environment, drawing on peer-reviewed research from multiple disciplines. The findings and outcomes of current research in this area from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society are featured throughout. We end by identifying several critical areas where future work is needed to help ensure the safe and responsible deployment of automated systems across news and media."
#AI#GenerativeAI#Automation#Unemployment#LabourMovement: "The labour movement’s pushback against the proliferation of harmful ai systems is not limited to tech workers: many industries that are affected by the potential uses of ai systems have joined the fight. ai was a key topic of contention in the historic strikes by writers and actors in Hollywood in 2023. Concept artists hired lobbyists and filed class-action lawsuits against companies that generated “ai art” using their work as training data, without consent or compensation. Creatives refused to accept studio terms stipulating that their material could be used to train generative-ai systems that could then put them out of work or devalue their labour.
Given widening inequalities around the world, the climate catastrophe pushing more people into the margins, and the growing number of refugees, which is projected to rocket while tech billionaires amass more money than ever, the labour movement is only going to grow in importance during 2024. It has a vital role to play as it becomes one of the key ways in which the development of harmful ai systems can be curbed."
#AI#Labor#Automation#GeneralIntellect: "This book [The Eye of the Master] began with a simple question: What relation exists between labor, rules, and automation, i.e., the invention of new technologies? To answer this question, it has illuminated practices, machines, and algorithms from different perspectives—from the “concrete” dimension of production and the “abstract” dimension of disciplines such as mathematics and computer science. The concern, however, has not been to repeat the separation of the concrete and abstract domains but to see their coevolution throughout history: eventually to investigate labor, rules, and automation, dialectically, as material abstractions. The initial chapter emphasized this aspect by highlighting how ancient rituals, counting tools, and “social algorithms” all contributed to the making of mathematical ideas. To affirm, as did the introduction, that labor is a logical activity is not a way of abdicating to the mentality of industrial machines and corporate algorithms, but rather of recognizing that human praxis expresses its own logic (an anti-logic, some might say)—a power of speculation and invention, before techno-science captures and alienates it."
I do worry that if OpenAI tries to help Larry Summers get his way, things are going to get messy, fast. That working conditions will be degraded, and yes, that lots of people are going to lose their jobs or responsibilities before we realize that no, generative AI can’t do a lot of what’s promised, and industries either rush to course correct, hire part-time or less experienced workers to replace them, or offload more work onto the remaining workforce. I worry that the mere threat of generative AI being used to replace labor will be used to depress wages or as leverage against workers.
AI isn’t going to start doing your job next year. But in 2024, do expect OpenAI and the other AI companies to double down on their promises to change the world, to become more powerful than humans and start doing their work. Expect a lot of people to lap it up — Silicon Valley is counting on it."
Do you have a project on GitHub? Does it use GitHub Pages for documentation or other purposes? Would you like to archive a copy of those GitHub pages in the Internet Archive automatically whenever you release a new version?
I wrote Waystation, a simple and free GitHub Action, exactly for this purpose:
#homeassistant#automation folks, can anyone recommend a 10a DIN rail fitting wifi switch with metering that works with HA and has an override button on the front like the attached picture?
This week we're testing a new tool called the Mastodon Scheduler to automate our posts. It's self-hosted, doesn't expose itself to the internet, and runs as a background service so you never have to worry about keeping an app open.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Mindustry is a top-down automation strategy game mashed up with an RTS.
I've always had a thing for automation games, which I suspect is a largely #autistic thing. Most games of this type are about systemisation, finding efficiencies, then building (and rebuilding) automation pipelines to produce a particular outcome.
These are games that I avoid because they suck me in to the point that I've lost entire days inside them, with Shapez & Production Line being just two examples. I've seen at least one person whose entire Steam 2023 review was one game played, no new games. All Factorio, all the time.
A game in this space has to bring something different to the table; for Mindustry that's planetary domination, leaning into the RTS side.
Build factories, research technology, build tanks, and defenses, seek and destroy.
Unfortunately, this is where Mindustry leaves me a bit cold. It's not that I don't like RTS games: I cut my teeth on Dune II. I went on to Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, then finally StarCraft.
Unfortunately, Mindustry feels it doesn't quite pull off either type of game that well. The gameplay elements are not explained clearly, and the UI is really clunky, making it difficult to find critical information, and not always making it clear what the next step is.
Unfortunately, the RTS side of things feels like (at least in the early stage of the game) like the only real strategy is Zerg rushing.
I finally quit out of the game, entirely unsure whether I'd completed that stage of the game, or needed to do something else.
There are a bunch of nice ideas in the game, and I think it's the work of a single dev, as far as I can tell. I just feel like it needs a lot of polish.