steps 1-11 could apply to anything. Can we compare number of actual vendor specific steps if that's how its going to be framed? How many clicks does it take on a real computer?

I remember when people were like LLMs write insecure code. Well, so does literally everyone apparently, Maybe that's where it learned it. I feel like that group has gotten a lot quieter lately.

When some of my colleagues started using AI, their output quality increased markedly!

I genuinely don't understand why you would spend time complaining about how someone else uses their free time. What are you getting out of this soulless process?

Can't have us figuring out Big Software's secret sauce.

Interesting, Youtuber William Osman is also working on something similar, but for full size industrial machines. I'm not sure if its public released yet though.

Also don't forget Linus him self wrote one of the embroidery machine drivers for Linux.

Interesting. I have been having fun working on "NewHat" for a while - meant for Toyota/Tajima machines. https://github.com/wjkennedy/NewHat/blob/feature/model-train...

I used to use the Melco and Pantagrams digitizing software and operated kiosks doing custom embroidery.

People always asked "can I get anything on a hat?" The reasons I said no before no longer exist.

Punching out a DST is not the same as clean sewouts and NewHat attempts some machine emulation and classification of generated designs. They're virtually sewn and ranked for some reinforcement learning.

Here's what you do. Skip the detector, Just put the whole laptop in there. when it goes offline, You have water in the sump.

Very much in the spirit of the "weather stone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock

I haven't figured out how to recieve pings from my weather stone, I've always got to get up and look out the window, which, then I can just see the weather.

Anyone made any progress on rooting it?

You don’t need to root your weather stone. You’ll want to root your weather tree. Rooted weather trees give you better long term data (if the tree is flourishing, the weather was nice all season). Unrooted weather trees just let you know if it was raining in the last couple days (still an upgrade over a weather stone, but not by much).

My family tried that when I was a kid, and I'd love to see the data, but I'm told I'd have to kill the tree to get the earliest logs which is bogus.

You could try coring the tree. (I cannot think of a good joke for this though.

I have a weather cat. She will go out in all weather, then want to camp on my chest for cuddles. If the cat's wet, it is likely raining out.

Just shine a laser on it?

To root it you need the special USB version, called USB pet stone.

You can then flash new firmware over USB.

This sounds stupid but as a belt and suspenders approach I put a $65 2560x1440 resolution, H265 capable PoE IP camera on a piece of cheap cat5e utp literally aimed at my sump. Camera is joined to the same frigate server that runs the rest of the house security cameras including doorbell. If the sump alarm goes off while I'm away from the house for vacation or work, I can easily login and check if there's really a flood condition going on.

Frigate supports training states and classifications.

Perhaps you could train it on some of the images and set up notifications for a state you don't want?

For example, I have my doorbell camera trained for gate open/closed and car present/not present.

You select a few of the pre-captured images in the UI of gate open, gate closed, and then our car, no car, someone else's car, and it'll publish an event to MQTT or whatever (don't want to assume you use Home Assistant), then you can send out notifications on it.

Yes, if I wanted to put more work into it I could certainly train it on what it looks like with the sump mostly dry (the default state, 99.999% of the time) and then have it alert me if it diverges from that. Right now I keep an eye on weather alerts for $home and glance at the cameras at least once a day when I'm away, which is good enough to catch a failed sump pump and then dispatch professional repair services.

Anyone can build a working sump flood detector. But it takes a real engineer to build one that can detect two floods.

"...And so that's how I ended up with a $14,000 basement repair. Yup, those damn chromebooks are more waterproof than you'd think! I mean it makes sense, they're designed to be vomited on by children all day at school."

I miss when parking meters would still have time left on them. Those 35c transactions probably don't add up to the amount I've had to pay extra for not getting the last 10-15 minutes of someone else's time.

I wish Insteon had gotten more popular, Back in the day it was easy to get development material to write your own software or build your own devices. I really liked how the stuff all had a decent amount of capability on its own, or you could have a computer attached for more advanced automation. I still use a few Insteon things in my house, Still use a few X10 things for that matter. I really wish they had kept up their local support software.

zip disks.

That ungoldly click of death...

¡much confidence. fly yes!

Just means they don't have to do it, and rely on the community to provide it.