So for as far as I understand it:

Yes, this is a big issue on the developers part as this should not have happened without consent.

No, this is not a direct security breach for every and all home assistant users. You do not need to immediately change all your passwords (due to it being partial hashes)

Did I understand correctly? I’m not that deep into how all this works as I am mostly a enthusiast user without a lot of computer science knowledge

It can have it’s use cases. Family members don’t have to be as precise with correct sentences for example. If you want to use it with music assistant a simple LLM works better in my experience then trying to do this with intent. Can you do all this with the local intent recognition? Absolutely, but you will experience edge cases and it takes a while to get dialled in correctly.

An other big plus, LLMs often automatically support multi language. This is big for a lot of European users in my family we already speak 4 different languages and various dialects and now no matter who visits or stays over, they can use the voice control in native langue.

Personally, I use both. If the intent recognition doesn’t catch it, the LLM will. So for me it is just an extra layer that protects me from angry family members :)

Setup:

• Home assistant voice
• Ollama running on a GTX1660Super with granite4.2:3b
• Whisper small running on same machine.

It runs decently well, especially for tool use tasks.

It works reasonably well. Not any better or worse then Google Assistant did. Setup:

• Raspberry Pi 5 to run home assistant and Piper
• voice assistant preview
• standard “Mycroft” wake word
• Whisper small on proxmox server running 2 cores
• Using English
• LLM running granite4.1:3b on a laptop with gtx1050 mobile (a bit slow, but works) Intent first, LLM as fallback

I use it to control the TV, play music, control vacuum and control lights. I have a script for the TV functions and a script that controls different scenes in my house which are both exposed. This works really well as I have commands setup to trigger automations or I can just ask it to do something via the LLM. This last one takes a bit longer (up to 45 seconds or so) but it is workable as things rarely have to happen immediately. I’m upgrading the laptop to a desktop with gtx1660S soon though which will be a huge improvement.

I also have automations setup that automatically lowers music when the wake word triggers and goes back to volume when it is done listening which helps tremendously as the Voice assistant preview does have trouble understanding in a noisy room. The LLM also partially solved this though

Just walk over it?

We have also not found a way of merging quantum physics with regular physics models so there is still a possibility al be it slim

China is not a Russian ally though. China is an opportunistic state. They make agreements and trade with anyone who they think will further their goals. Thus they trade with Russia because by doing so they gain influence in a diminishing state that controls a lot of resources (Russia’s far east is increasingly becoming Chinese by population and companies for a reason)

China doesn’t make friends, they make deals with anyone and everyone as long as they think it is positive for China.

If so, maybe asml should team up with China to produce these machines. Completely cut out the hypocrites in the US out of the picture.

You’re not wrong, but neither is the other guy…

This is sometimes still a thing. I know of at least one religious news organisation that takes the website offline on Sundays.

Or maybe another form of renewable energy?

To be fair, it is not gonna be very usefull to remap it to any other button as the other button is also already on your controller. It would just be a duplicate function.

Not entirely useless, but also not far off. It might eventually become useful as a homebrew menu button if someone ever figures out how to hack it

No I can’t because for spoken language I don’t need a camera, just a mic and I also wouldn’t want to be constantly bombarded with a translation of every foreign language. If I want to translate something I can’t read I can get my phone to either type it or use the camera function on that thing. These glasses will not replace my phone and that already has a camera with better privacy option than these glasses will ever have. So no. I do not see a need for a camera that videos everything I see all the time except for some very niece scenarios. If you think you need something like this, then great, but don’t expect people taking it kindly that you are filming their every move.

But “perfect white teeth” aka veneers are often a cosmetic procedure and are thus generally not covered by universal healthcare (there are exceptions ofcourse).

I’d argue a rootcanal treatment is very necessary so I don’t think they are comparable situations. That is ofcourse just the opinion of a random internet person.

So isn’t the solution then to just feed the Claude output through a second tiny LLM with the prompt to slightly rewrite the input? I mean you can probably use a 1b model to do that and that can run on practically anything nowadays

Honestly I see only one use for smart glasses with a camera and AI and that is to help blind people know what is in front of them.

I think China would have pursued it regardless, they just might have relied more heavily on European tech then they do now and thus would have delayed their home grown tech. Or if Europe played their cards right would have resulted in a better trade alliance with China and have benefitted both economic areas by exchanging tech advances sidelining the US. This last one might be a bit to much of a utopia though

Also dress up options are often better for female characters in my experience

Probably best to check the rules of your country if you receive benefits because of the disability. Disabled Dutch people for example get money from the government and are allowed to live elsewhere while keeping the monthly benefits although they do have some yearly requirements.

I don’t know if something like this exists in Ireland or if you have those benefits, but if you do it is a good first start to look into

Conspiracy theory: Germany is surrounded by countries doing quite well with their trains. Germany has the strongest car industry in Europe. Thus Deutsche bahn executives must be payed off by the German car industry to keep the trains run bad.

Looks really interesting. I will definitely Check it out