‘Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️✊

I’ve been setting up a lot of self-hosted infrastructure and apps this year in an effort to take back control of my own computing, but it’s becoming nigh-impossible to find options that aren’t heavily tainted with LLM-generated code. The promise of open source and permissive licensing was that we can inspect it and even fork it if the original developers move toward a direction that doesn’t work for us… but what good is that when the code is rapidly devolving into unmaintainable, incomprehensible spaghetti? People are racking up technical debt at an ASTONISHING pace and the metaphorical bill WILL come due. (Likely around the same time that the financial bill comes due.) A lot of incompetent “developers” will simply abandon their projects when that happens. I don’t want to be stuck with the consequences of their short-sighted decisions, but is there any reasonable alternative that doesn’t involve directly giving all my data to the Big Tech companies who are creating this catastrophe in the first place?

Anyhow, if there’s a secret cabal of anti-corporate anti-LLM developers out there which needs help with technical documentation, hit me up, let’s be friends. 💖

Oh my deus ex machina, I seriously just saw a project on GitHub where the “author” claims that using the Claude LLM for “the bulk of the drafting” was important because — and this part is in bold text — “it kept the project genuinely clean-room”. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ “AI” truly is one hell of a drug.

Sweet, it works!! Thanks to the folks who built the ESPHome software 💖 it was *so* easy to throw together a custom light sensor and connect it to Home Assistant so I can automagically turn on extra lights as needed on overcast days. Now I just need to fashion together a little tiny box for it and convince the cats it’s not a new toy for them. 🐈🐈

Hold Individual Humans at AI/LLM Companies Legally Responsible for the Real-Actual-Crimes Their Bots Do 2026.

(including but **very much not limited to** mere hacking-crimes.)

Genocide is bad no matter who’s doing it to who.
I can’t believe so many people still want to “yes, but…” that, but here we are apparently.

No. No buts. Genocide is bad no matter who’s doing it to who. Full. Fucking. Stop.

If you tell me that I signed up for your email list, I’m going to unsubscribe from it no matter how much I like you unless I remember _actually_ and _specifically_ doing so. DO NOT LIE TO ME. I damn well know I didn’t affirmatively opt-in for your emails when I previously interacted with you in some other manner.

I spent a while this morning working on some automations in Home Assistant, mainly concerning air quality. Thanks to having a WAN-less VLAN for IoT devices, I can pull various sensor data into HA without sending it to the Big Tech bros — and now if the CO2 or PM2.5 levels start climbing too much, my air purifiers and washroom ventilation fans will* bring it back down before it has a chance to get unhealthy. And almost as importantly, they’ll go back to low or off when they’re done so I don’t have a constant roar of background noise. Sweet! 🎉

• if possible. Sometimes one still just has to manually open the doors and windows, and sometimes the “fresh” air outside is made of wildfire smoke.

There’s more HA stuff I want to set up but instead of giving you my to-do list, I’ll try to actually do the things at some point soon so I can include them here in Project Also Toot Sometimes About Things That Don’t Suck. 🙂

Took a long, slow bike ride today for my mental health. Didn’t stop to take my own picture of it, but I passed by The Tree That Has Just Completely Given Up. … I feel you, tree. I so feel you.

(It’s something of a local landmark but I’d forgotten all about it. I don’t know if other people call it by that specific name, but plenty of folks here would know what I’m talking about.)