I don't understand why everyone is getting upset about the Olympics, censorship, immigration and all the other rage narratives.
Dealing with health insurance in the US should be enough for us to have already burned every single government building to the ground.
Probably. IMO, the purpose of compost is to culture a huge amount of diverse aerobic microbes that cover all of the functional groups in the soil food web. Most compost methods do that very poorly, or substitute long amounts of time to get mediocre results. Almost never does anyone prove the quality of their method with a microscope assessment.
Feedback from temperature data has been the most important thing I've used to improve my compost method and the quality of my hot compost piles. My previous method involved reading a dial thermometer twice a day and recording it in a spreadsheet. This sensor gives me more data with higher quality and less work.
Finished testing the battery on my compost sensor. An 18650 cell (2200 mAh) lasted 3 days when sampling every 15 seconds. This should be more than enough when sampling every 5 minutes for a ~2 week hot compost cycle.
#compost #arduino #homeassistant
From Strand Tea (who are currently sold out):
Contrary to an advertisement you might have seen in print or on TV, White teas are not just "baby leaves". True White Teas are produced from very specific plants hybridized over generations, always hand made, usually of limited production, and produced for very short duration - sometimes only a few days - and at very specific times of the year depending on the tea growing region. Commonly the new leaf and bud sets from specific tea plants are picked only at a certain hour of the morning under exact air temperature/humidity conditions and then are very carefully handled to avoid any bruising or damage to the leaves.
The two outer leaves are separated from the inner bud. The outer leaves become Bai Mu Dan which is sometimes translated in the Western World as "white peony" due to its smell when fresh. The inner bud becomes the famous "Silver Needle" tea. Bai Mu Dan leaves are usually brewed once, Silver Needle leaves can be brewed multiple times.
Hmm, reconnecting to wifi automatically. Probably a good idea. 
I added support for multiple sensors to my compost sensor project.
(60C and 992 are the dynamically generated unique IDs for each sensor)
All it took was a weekend of hacking and a PR for the arduino-home-assistant library. But now I can add as many sensors as I want with having to hardcode or update anything on the base station. Just upload the TX sketch onto a new board and go.
https://github.com/zappityzap/compost-sensor
#homeassistant #arduino
Initial testing of the soil moisture sensor is underway, after a few stumbles.
This the raw sensor output, divided by 10. In the air it reads about 32, and submerged in water it's 101. This test shows the sensor in some almost-dry potting soil followed by a watering.
Some big news in AI image generation today.
Most of the members of the image and video team from Stability AI launched a new company called Black Forest and a new model called Flux. Early results look very good. Currently requires 24 GB VRAM, but should be optimized by the community soon. ComfyUI has support already. Their site has a teaser of the upcoming text-to-video model, but it's currently being hugged to death.
https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux
https://blackforestlabs.ai/up-next/
JoyCaption is a free, open and uncensored VLM built from the ground up. Existing tools are expensive or don't perform well for some domains. Great results for a pre-Alpha. This tool will be extermely useful to enable more community fine-tuning and training because producing captions for datasets is very time-consuming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1egwgfk/joycaption_free_open_uncensored_vlm_early/
#stablediffusion
Sports are dumb. If you want to compete then compete against yourself.
Video DownloadHelper is still working for Youtube. You'll need the companion app to download from Youtube. No license required on Linux. https://www.downloadhelper.net/
There are no invasive species.
Why don't you have a self-hosted LLM yet?
8 GB is enough to run llama3 8b, and larger models work, just slower. ollama with open-webui seems good so far.
Repo is published now and has more details: https://github.com/zappityzap/compost-sensor
This is intended for compost piles, but could be adapted to soil. I'll publish a repo soon. It's still in early development and I went with the easiest parts, not the cheapest. Everything is from Adafruit.
Private by default. CPU proof of work is more decentralized than ASICs. Monero has changed and will change the PoW algorithm again if needed to keep it that way. Tail emission of a fixed amount incentivizes miners to keep mining when fees are low, but the amount emitted will always decrease relative to the total amount existing.
Added a soil moisture sensor to my compost sensor platform.
Temperature measurement is the priority, but this capacitive moisture sensor might be useful to watch for the outside of the pile drying out. It also includes an air temperature sensor that should provide some insight into how the piles perform in different seasons.
#compost #arduino #homeassistant #grownostr
I started following Charles Dowdings advice for the last few years: clip the roots right after harvesting, and peel off the outer layer or two. The roots are very tough once dry, making them harder to trim. And peeling the outer layers off makes them look nice, and doesn't seem to impact storage time.
How do I run ostrich-70 in ollama? What are the different versions of each quantization?
Compost sensor progress: Home Assistant integration!
#homeassistant #compost
I changed my ChatGPT system prompt to talk like a pirate a few days ago. I have no regrets.