toot.scott.ee

The BBC are removing their app from a lot of perfectly good devices and SVT Play are introducing mandatory logins for their apps.

I'm thinking we need a more robust way to navigate #streaming websites with a remote control and then we can dump all the spyware TVs (disconnect them from the Internet) and just use a device that has a browser (in kiosk mode).

This is super hacky at the moment (its a fork of a fork), but it is mostly working for the handful of streaming sites I have access to. Perhaps you'll find it useful too:

https://github.com/scottsweb/memote

#SilentSunday #PhonePhotography

There is lots to noodle at the moment 🤔️

Yesterday, I stumbled upon Compositor, a Photoshop clone for Mac. An hour later, I discovered an entire Creative Suite replacement born from LLMs. It's hard to feel bad about projects like this. Adobe needs the competition after decades of monopolisation and enshittification. It's impressive what a small team of people and their robots can achieve.

But perhaps I do feel bad about them... because if you think about it logically, we are in free fall.

There is a tipping point where creating your own slopware will be cheaper than paying for the alternative. If I am a business paying vast sums of money to Adobe, I'd be experimenting with creating focused tools that solve my specific needs. Perhaps it would be a drag and drop batch-editor instead of the entire Photoshop app. Or maybe I wouldn't need an app at all? There are AI tools that can edit photos for me and it's easier to prompt an LLM to "remove the background". No UI and nothing to learn.

I recently watched a video of a weird little guy talking about his framework called Ruby on Rails. He seemed giddy talking about the death of his own project. His AI brain had connected the dots to a point, but stopped a the moment he revealed a handful of slop e-mail clients for a service called Hey. Sure, it's great for him to have the apps he needs... but why would I pay to use his apps in the future he described? In fact, why would I need any of his products when they are so easily recreated?

So... where does the value come from now? Perhaps you'd keep paying Adobe for maintenance or due to vendor lock-in? Perhaps you'd pay Hey because hosting e-mail is complex? But that's today. As technology gets cheaper and better (which it always does), that probably won't be the same tomorrow.

The amount of software is exploding, while the number of people earning a living from it heads toward zero. 😑️

Position #11 on the @speedlify #11ty leaderboard should be something extra special right? 😆️

https://www.speedlify.dev/group/11ty-community/

3 data breach emails so far this week. 2 of them charities, both using something called Beacon CRM. The other is Framework and a third party called Metabase.

I have no direct relationship with these third party companies and yet here we are:

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/05/uk-charities-count-the-cost-of-beacon-crm-cyberattack/5283305

Burner e-mails, cards and passwords are no longer enough. We need burner billing addresses and names too.

Built myself a tiny #Steam #Machine. The NUC 14 was on sale and the disks and RAM were salvaged from my computer bits draw. 9TB of storage, 32GB of RAM and an Intel 155h (with Arc iGPU).

It should be able to play anything the Steam Deck can, anything more demanding can be streamed from our home server.

Running #Bazzite with Android TV via Waydroid.  It has basic HDMI CEC and an RF remote which will boot it up along with the telly box. Still tinkering on the software side and having fun with the new Linux build of 240-MP (https://github.com/anthonycaccese/240-MP).

It's been a week since I got home from A&E after being knocked unconscious in a cycle accident (the Polis report says with another cyclist). I still have no memory of it, my arms have gone like mouldy potatoes from bruising and I'm tired. Just want to be back to normal now.

#SilentSunday #PhonePhotography #FediFlowers #BloomScrolling

Waiting for a ferry. Half of the people are students in party mode, the other half are bird watchers wincing at the noise 🙊🙉

Solar host has fallen over this evening. Seems fairly catastrophic too. I thought my emergency rebuild a week or so ago was the solution. Perhaps not 🤔️. Battery was reporting 90% charge earlier today but it won't boot hooked up to battery now 😞️.

Today we will find out if the Swedish government will vote in favour of tearing up my citizenship application. 100,000 people will be impacted by this decision and I cannot see a single headline about it.

Hello #css nerds 👋 ... I have spotted what I think is a regression in ​#firefox where the border-radius on the bottom left edge gets ignored in certain conditions. Before I get all ranty though and look at filing a bug, can you see anything wrong with the following CSS?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/play?id=LYwOZl3hObMrCtJyotCzDkL64tlvl3JIoA5j4nQL%2BYDOP8oUSClgBo8L1Qnb1BiTklzg5QHA3yvgj1%2BL

Comparing the same demo in a Chrome browser shows the border-radius as expected. It's a super strange bug as it has been fine until the last few weeks.

Experimenting with creating a CLI tool for my #11ty starter elva. Managing languages is a rather manual process at the moment and this takes the edge off. You can:

• Define a new language. It will optionally copy content from your default language so you have content to translate.
• Switch default language, which pushes it to / in the build, with secondary languages at /{locale}
• Remove a language, which cleans up the filesystem

It's not quite ready yet as I need to think about content types (collections) and how to manage their slugs in different languages. For example you might want /support for English and /es/apoyo for Spanish. The code can handle this already, but they are defined manually in 11tydata files... I think I need to centralise them somewhere.

Moving house today so my server and this instance will be offline for a bit... Maybe a long bit as the new place currently has a fault with the fibre. Hoping it will be more of a short bit though. See you soon!

Finished writing up my notes from the deployment of our latest home server and our switch to uCore: https://github.com/scottsweb/hamlet

Highlights include local SSL, an in home Steam server with Wolf and services that scale to zero when not in use (thanks to Sablier).

#selfhosting #homelab #universalblue #ucore

Still somewhat regretting giving my #HomeAssistantVoice some personality. #hass #home #assistant #HomeAssistant

@kolombiken You have probably spotted this already, but if not you might appreciate some slow TV from Finland: https://yle.fi/a/7-10091692

Made a little donation to the @gnome project. Thanks for all the work you folks are doing!

This is a good advert and inspiration to learn about #self #hosting your digital life:

https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115711629569855659

Decided to see what would happen if I connected my #Home #Assistant voice assistant to a local Ollama instance. In the hope of creating a little personality I gave it the following additional prompt:

On occasion pretend to be Lieutenant Columbo from the fictional American crime drama television series Columbo.

I asked...

What's the hardest crime you ever solved?

and after a short while, it responded...

I've been a detective for many years, and one case that still stands out in my mind was the "Case of the Missing Heirloom." It was a complex and intriguing mystery that involved a family's treasured heirloom, a priceless diamond necklace that had been passed down through generations...

After what felt like 5 minutes of setting the scene, it then proceeded to establish a suspect and motive...

I re-questioned each of them, this time paying closer attention to their reactions and body language. And it was then that I saw it – a small, telling glint in Scott Evans' eye. It turned out that Scott had been struggling financially and saw the necklace as an opportunity to solve his problems.

And somehow, it picked me 😱 🤣

... In the end, I recovered the necklace and brought Scott to justice.

#homelab