I've been playing around with home assistant and it's just fascinating! I'm working on getting rid of alexa and google from our home (although i reckon google nest is gonna stay) but what is fascinating and frightening is the level of data that is exposed. The granularity is kind of nuts. Like I could react to someone playing a song or movie and do something. The level of surveillance I can do in my own home is crazy.
#surveillance #homeassistant
@hlrx I don't have a personal PeerTube account, I do have a @MakerTube account for Buddies of Budgie, but I'll see about requesting an account tomorrow and throwing a few more euros at them, that way it can be on PeerTube too and I won't feel bad about consuming disk space.
Starting to make some slow progress with Google approving Micro.blog → YouTube uploads. They’ve approved the auth scopes, but they didn’t like my privacy policy. A couple edits today, hopefully will go through. 🤞
🚨 BREAKING: A new report titled 'They Walk Among Us' from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance documents 59 current and former ICE and CBP personnel charged with or convicted of serious crimes.
Key findings from the July 2026 report:
- 50 of the 59 documented agents (84.7%) were charged or convicted of sexual assault
- 37 cases involved child victims, with 35 specifically involving sexual assault against children
- CBP accounted for the majority of cases, while ICE cases had a higher proportion of minor victims
The report highlights systemic oversight failures, including rapid hiring pushes that bypassed full vetting and a December 2025 DOJ directive instructing PREA auditors to pause compliance enforcement across key safety standards.
Read the report: https://ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/7/22/they-walk-among-us
Personally I think MCP sucks and should not exist.
It's not a big deal to have bunch of plugin APIs despite redundancy, and for a plugin developer this is actually a better deal anyhow. With an API designed for the coding agent, plugins can be adapted, optimized and tweaked into its behavioral model, which is essential when managing any non-deterministic information source.
There are of course legit use for protocol standards such as firmware, hardware, programming language, graphics library, audio/video encoding and network protocol standards but MCP does not really fall into any of these categories.
MCP does not just reduce redundancy; it also adds it, as often when dealing with bugs, both MCP and coding agent are forces contributing forces to the root cause.
👏 This is what it looks like when a FLOSS institution takes a moral stand against so-called "AI" LLMs. Software freedom and the commons of public goods it enables needs protection ... now more than ever.
It's a shame that there haven't been others (yet) to step up with this type of unequivocal stance. But there's still time for those who consider themselves leaders in software freedom to get on the right side of history.
