smiletolerantly

joined 2 years ago

Yeah, vibe of the time is a good description

Because it's not! Glad to help you clear that up.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Disagree - it rarely matters to me if it's 13:24:56 or 13:25:05, but I do find the instant and intuitive gauging of time deltas super useful (as in, how long it's going to be to the full hour / to quarter past / ... ). Not saying you can't get that info from a digital clock as well, of course you can; but the physicality of analog clocks lends a good bit of intuition to this, I feel.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 61 points 1 month ago (39 children)

I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...

Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?

Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.

Actually.. Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.

But hey, at least the acknowledge that there's the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.

Holy shit YES!

That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10/22/voice-chapter-11/#improved-sentence-matching

Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thank you for your sacrifice :D

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

While I don't like it, it's not hidden either:

https://bentopdf.com/privacy.html

There should definitely be an option to disable this for self-hosting, but if it's just a counter for how often each tool is used by all users combined... Eh...

(Stirling also has something similar)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Prisoner Of War:

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Why not open a PR to make it configurable? The maintainer is super active and friendly.

Thanks for the recommendation! That looks interesting indeed.

This entire topic is probably a sinkhole of complexity. It's great to have somewhere to look for inspiration!

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