This software and the hacking scene around it are amazing!
I’ve got a Dreame L10s Ultra based on the compatibly guide. Joined my local Telegram group, grabbed a USB board, and the same day was interfacing with the vacuum’s Android OS. Once I started SSHing in to upload custom sounds, I couldn’t stop. Way easier than I expected.
Haha yeah that's exactly what I did with my roborock as soon as I rooted it. The voice sentence "Going back to the dock" had such a weird accent that I immediately replaced it. So awesome to be able to do that with a device you own.
The paper makes no mention of Anna’s Archive. I wouldn’t be surprised if DeepSeek took advantage of Anna’s offer granting OCR researchers access to their 7.5 million (350 TB) Chinese non-fiction collection ... which is bigger than Library Genesis.
Previous paper from DeepSeek has mentioned Anna’s Archive.
> We cleaned 860K English and 180K Chinese e-books from Anna’s Archive (Anna’s Archive, 2024) alongside millions of K-12 education exam questions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05525
DeepSeek-VL paper
Not to rationalize it, but it appears that they're gatekeeping the dataset to get access to the OCR-scans from the people they choose to share it with. This is to improve their existing service by making the content of books (and not just their title/tags) searchable.
As per the blog post:
>What does Anna’s Archive get out of it? Full-text search of the books for its users.
Fair enough, it just seems like they're painting an even bigger target on their backs by restricting access to copyrighted material they don't own the rights to
> The books from Duxiu have long been pirated on the Chinese internet. Usually they are being sold for less than a dollar by resellers. They are typically distributed using the Chinese equivalent of Google Drive, which has often been hacked to allow for more storage space
Oh great so now Anna's archive will get taken down as well by another trash LLM provider abusing repositories that students and researchers use, META torrenting 70TB from library genesis wasn't enough
Yeah, for now, Meta torrented 70TB and right after that they cut the rope for everyone else, mysteriously their hitman (US govenrment) hit both Libgen and Z-Lib shortly after.
Anyone using a half-Gmail / half-personal IMAP server to handle the reality that keeping 20+ years or email in Gmail will bump into the storage quota? I'm around 99.5% usage and just slowly deleting ancient emails with large attachments to make it another month.
Dovecot in my homelab seem doable to have an IMAP server to transfer the Gmail based emails to and maintain them indefinitely but would this be a maintenance headache? I've never operated it before and am curious.
I’ve got Dovecot running in a Docker container on my Raspberry Pi. Moved everything over using Thunderbird. If you use mbox format, once done, you can turn the files read-only and Dovecot will still work. And you can throw a Solr server into the mix to get fast mail searches.
I also ran into the Google storage quota after 20+ years of gmail + drive + photos. I ended up paying for Google One at $4/mo just to make it long enough to move all of data somewhere else.
While reviewing the prompt's capabilities, I had an idea: implementing a Greasemonkey/Userscript-style system, where users could inject custom JavaScript or prompts based on URLs, could be a powerful way to enhance website interactions.
For instance, consider a banking website with a cumbersome data export process that requires extra steps to make the data usable. Imagine being able to add a custom button to their UI (or define a custom MCP function) specifically for that URL, which could automatically pull and format the data into a more convenient format for plain text accounting.
Unfortunately blocking all unknown calls is the only way to sanity. Otherwise we're talking 6-9 calls coming in ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.
The calls are coming from new numbers, across multiple area codes. A few months ago I would have advised using Begone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/begone-spam-call-blocker/id159...) to block but that only worked since these calls were isolated to blocks of area codes that were pretty safe to block like 888-XXX-XXXX, but now ZERO of these calls are using a fixed area code that would be relative safe to block.
The ejection capsule design for the XB-70 is some next level engineering. Your seat would move backward into a capsule before ejection to survive the cruising altitudes of 70k feet / Mach 3.
I'm fascinated by the "family memory TV" idea. Losing cherished memories—photos, videos, or writings—is a recurring fear of mine and a big reason I’ve embraced digital hoarding. Having a place to share this with yourself and others is really powerful.
Could you share more details about your setup? Do videos play continuously in your living room, or are they triggered by presence? Is sound muted or do you just have it at a lower level?
Subaru's in-vehicle entertainment technology has long been criticized, even before features like CarPlay became standard. Take my 2012 WRX, for example—its Bluetooth reception was the worst I've ever experienced in a Bluetooth-equipped vehicle. Audio feeds would randomly pop and drop out during podcasts, even when the phone was within a two-foot radius of the deck.
Over the years, I tried multiple iOS and Android phones, but nothing improved the situation. Ultimately, the only solution was a complete deck replacement. Now, I’m using a "Joying" Android head unit with a rip-off version of CarPlay, which has finally resolved these issues.
I’ve got a Dreame L10s Ultra based on the compatibly guide. Joined my local Telegram group, grabbed a USB board, and the same day was interfacing with the vacuum’s Android OS. Once I started SSHing in to upload custom sounds, I couldn’t stop. Way easier than I expected.