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Jag drack en klunk av drinken, blundade, och i tre sekunder kände jag mig som någon annan, någon annanstans, i en annan tid. Det var belöningen efter en lång, händelserik och ansträngande dag, att få en drink som gjorde att man kände sig som någon annan, om så bara i tre sekunder.
– Klas Östergren, Gangsters
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and tagged it with Books Four Past Midnight Stephen King The Langoliers I started listening to Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight yesterday. I’m three hours into Willem Dafoe’s reading of ”The Langoliers” and I love it so far. Late yesterday, when the rest of the family was sleeping I was doing some tidying on the deck while listening to this. As the wind and the rain blew around me I got genuinely scared by this story. Can’t really remember when a book scared me like that the last time.
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With the rest of the family asleep, as I look out the windows at night I can’t help but notice that the light has changed, signaling the end of this part of summer. Fall is still far away, but much less far than it was just a few days ago.
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It’s been an emotional week for rock n roll. First we lost Ozzy. Rest in peace, prince of darkness.
Now, Spinal Tap is returning! 🤘🏻
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and tagged it with DIY Narrating my work Smart Home With inspiration from the excellent The Stock Pot, and in particular the full tutorial for how to Make Your Own Universal Remote (ESPHome + Home Assistant), I’m slowly starting to wrap my head around Home Assistant and ESP8266/ESP32. I’ve managed to wire up a button to my ESP8266 and I can register single, double, or long presses on said button in Home Assistant.
There is a lot more work to be done in Home Assistant itself before I can get anything proper out of this, but I’m making progress and having fun.
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and tagged it with Andor Star Wars TV shows Here’s a thought on season two of Andor. SPOILERS AHEAD
The empire’s plan for Ghorman is to provoke the people to the point where they counteract in such a way as to ”forcing” the empire to invade fully. That’s a really neat mirror to how Luthen works as a whole, and to the arc he takes Mon Mothma on.
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and tagged it with Andor Star Wars The Last of Us TV shows I just finished Andor season two the other day and Linn and I are making our way through season two of The Last of Us. Both shows are amazing and I have a strong feeling that this is peak tv for a while and things will only get worse.
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and tagged it with DIY Narrating my work Smart Home I’ve recently gotten myself a Home Assistant Green. Up until now I haven’t used it for anything in particular. My smart home consists almost exclusively of IKEA stuff at the moment and as long as I keep it that way the Ikea’s own app works fine. I would like to be able to add stuff from other manufacturers though, so that is why I got the Home Assistant and will slowly migrate over to using it instead.
Right now I’m reading up on some ESP32/ESP8266. I would like to make my own simple home automation hardware and this seems like the way to go. I bought a cheap ESP8266 board the other day and I think I’ve managed to install ESPHome on it. It shows up in my network logs so it seems to be connecting to wifi. I’m considering this a successful first test and I’ll keep playing with this more in the future.
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and tagged it with AI I’m skeptical about OpenAI in general, because while I think AI is so powerful that aspects of it will legitimately change the world, I also think it has been overhyped more than just about anything I’ve seen in my three decades of writing about technology. Sam Altman strikes me as being a drinker of his own Kool-Aid, but it’s also his job to make everyone in the world think that AI is inevitable and amazing and that his company is the unassailable leader while it’s bleeding cash.
This paragraph from Jason Snell perfectly encapsulates my feeling about OpenAI, and so many other ”AI Companies”.
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and tagged it with AI It’s getting increasingly hard to use Office365 without being forced to interact with Copilot. If Microsoft love AI, good for them I guess, but I just want to read an e-mail or create a form or something similar. Don’t put your prompt in the way of me getting my job done.
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adamprocter
25 maj, 2025 13:31@MrHenko 100%