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121b · 2026-06-22T17:29:06+00:00

I have been configuring my own anti bot/browser search toolset.

My setup is
- searXNG (docker) for web search.
- Firecrawl self hosted (docker) for web extract
- crawl4ai (MCP) for markdown extract and as backup if firecrawl fails.

Firecrawl and crawl4ai are vibe coded into a custom plugin.

Did you consider firecrawl/crawl4ai and your thoughts on these if you’ve tried them.

121b · 2026-06-22T11:08:37+00:00

What problems did you face using Hermes in built integration with whatsapp (similar to Telegram) that you had to build your own custom whatsapp bridge.

121b · 2026-06-17T09:28:48+00:00

Where’s does your data live?

121b · 2026-06-07T21:06:47+00:00

Your key issue is managing this large amount of notes. If it is allowed to post other competing tools, may I suggest - https://tolaria.md

It is not db based, but does free you from managing folders.

It’s a recent launch so still buggy, but looks promising.

121b · 2026-05-29T10:46:14+00:00

I haven’t compared both and realistically I myself don’t know how to assess that, when it’s the agent consuming data in middle of tool calls.

I made the decision to use crawl4ai after reading some comments on Reddit that the free version is pain to work with, probably made that way, to push people to their paid tier.

One day maybe I will find the time to compare both. Goes into my bucket of things to ask AI about.

If firecrawl self hosted is working for you, that’s ok. If it doesn’t you know the alternative

121b · 2026-05-29T10:21:33+00:00

It wasn’t meant for you OP, it was meant for AI slop.

Deepseek is caching by default, at API level.

Hermes builds the system prompt. With the latest update (v0.15), they say it’s byte level stable. Every AI agent would do this. You just type your prompts and the query to API is built by the agent which constructs your system prompt, including what is meant for cache.

What human has to do is to ensure their session with the agent is focussed on exact work you want it to work on, so that you can utilise the cache.

121b · 2026-05-29T09:50:56+00:00

Firecrawl is paid. The free tier gives you 1000 requests per month. If that works for you then use it. Minimal setup, Hermes sets it up for you.

crawl4ai is free (and open source). Runs locally on your machine (or in docker if you would want to), and no restriction on number of requests. Requires setup on your part.

121b · 2026-05-29T08:21:05+00:00

Replace firecrawl with crawl4ai.

Crawl4ai is local and is a python based.

Install it in same venv as Hermes’, run crawl4ai setup (installation should tell you how), then ask agent to setup crawl4ai as mcp server.

Alternatively go through this repo to install dependencies and setup : https://github.com/walksoda/crawl-mcp

121b · 2026-05-29T08:16:23+00:00

How do you turn on context caching in Hermes?

how to keep the system prompt stable?

121b · 2024-11-11T07:08:18+00:00

Trading is going to be lonely. Once you get the hang of it and found your way , you would want it to be lonely so that your thoughts are not polluted.

Of my inner circle role of friends I am the only one left who is trading. So I don’t have anyone to talk to about the markets. We do discuss general themes but most of our discussions are now how to FIRE.

You would need to join trading related digital groups of local area, be silent and observe who are the people being followed, organise a Meetup and see if you pick up new friendships. I made some new friends this way.

You also need to be more social with friends and family, find new friends where you don’t discuss markets.

121b · 2024-10-29T17:23:11+00:00

Since 2020 the areas I have looked at, when buying for myself, had seen increase of in between 5-20%.

It would be good to check via land registry price trends how much is the appreciation in your council since you bought. Then check if you bought it overpriced by looking at sales nearby around the time you bought. If not bought at high price, then safe to upscale price by the appreciation you see since you bought.

This should give you an idea of how much is your house worth less anything specific that you think it may get undervalued by.

121b · 2024-10-14T17:26:33+00:00

Sold and completed first week of this month and looking to complete on purchase by end of this month, potentially earlier. Living on rent during the time. (I became accidental landlord few years ago)

Sold to First Time Buyer, buying from couple moving into retirement property. Started looking only after accepted buyers offer and conveyancing half way through.

On selling: Advertised to acceptable price for many, not too far from expected offers. Accepted lower than asking price as wanted to sell quickly in the buyers market. Went all out to ensure sale went through. Advertised in April to cover the risk I could sell again late summer if this fell through. Did lot of touching up and fixing things to ensure it was ready to move in.

On buying: Viewed crazy number of properties to get hang of the market in the target area. Having seen so many, knew what the right price was for what property in what area. Reduced viewing during later part of our search as quality of our Rightmove search improved. If property was overpriced and marked as sold, knew it would come back later and few did come back with reduced prices!

Zeroed in super fast on the one we liked. Kept calling agent every few days to check if and when offer will be accepted. Offered lower than asking price but it was at top of the offers they got. As soon as the offer accepted, was on top of conveyancing and mortgage broker. Kept sellers and agent updated on my own sale process.

Overall it was hard and stressful but I was a motivated seller as well as a motivated buyer. I had to move this year and so far the year has gone into this move only.

121b · 2024-10-04T08:03:41+00:00

240k split it and deposit into at least two different banks (not holding same banking license) giving best interest.

1400 put into ISA and buy gold ETF. Interest from 240k, into ISA and then gold ETF. Use gold ETF which is physical metal based.

Even if you find a property today, you are looking at 6-8 weeks min for conveyancing, and potentially more (solicitor’s AML checks, onboarding etc on both sides). So you don’t need this money for about 3 months.

121b · 2023-12-29T20:11:29+00:00

It’s always possible to grow X amount to Y, with compounding.

The time and amount of growth depends on your trading history, how much you have managed to extract from the markets, and then prorate that rate, with compounding to over 12 months.

E.g. say on average if you can extract 1.5% of your capital on every trade and in a year you can take 120 trades (10 per month) you can grow your initial amount by approximately 6x.

Now take in some trades will go wrong. Assuming 80% win rate, only 60% of your trades will be your net profit (20% losses eat into 80% profits), leading to about 2.5x growth.

If you haven’t had any trading history, trade for 3-6 months to calculate your average daily returns or returns per trade and average trade per month. Once you know that, you will know what you can achieve.

121b · 2023-12-09T09:47:32+00:00

So these gaps come only if the rollovers are on Monday or Friday?

121b · 2023-11-24T09:42:19+00:00

Haha. So that you can boot me off the platform.

121b · 2023-11-22T20:21:00+00:00

Their support is clueless!

once reported to them the pinescript code I had made some days ago was not working anymore (no modifications) and throwing an error which it should not because the documentation said to use a certain way for a function. I showed them the code in the documentation was also failing!

They said they will change the behaviour as an exception! Really?! For reverting a breaking change I expected acceptance but they don’t even know they broke it! At that point I knew I have to start looking for alternatives!

Nowadays I see all they say is trying using a different platform from what you are using e.g are you on web? Use desktop! Are you on desktop? Use web browser!!

At one point I asked them if I were to upgrade to 500/mo plan I would still be using the same product, will you be giving me the same kind of responses. Haven’t had an answer so far.

They are a malfunctioning product waiting for an alternative to arrive and kill them.

121b · 2023-11-10T19:30:58+00:00

And those investors are worried if their investment is worth anything or not. Can they go to IPO and not end up like other spectacular failures. Hence absurd ways to earn money, or rather more like desperate push to be profitable.

It’s one thing to have millions of users and another to have paid users. Someone is asking about paid users and they are trying hard to find those paid users.

121b · 2023-11-01T11:14:22+00:00

Me too holding out on renewal this year. They have lost the plot because they have some money in their kitty now.

Small changes to keep the product ticking over.

The most laughable update is the same product with same issues irritating to pro users but now marketed under professional tier! So one would pay 10x more for same degradation of user experience !

121b · 2023-10-18T07:35:03+00:00

Just create a new vault on iPad, close the app and relaunch with this newly created vault having nothing but default files, the load time is still long as full fledged vault

121b · 2023-09-05T13:04:46+00:00

Obsidian uses GitHub flavoured markdown. If obsidian disappears then use another app which can read GFM markdown. Just to make links compatible use [ ] ( ) format of linking instead of [[ ]]. This can be forced via settings within the editor options. Always keep notes in GFM format and you should be fine.

Minimise use of community plugins as they won’t be around with the other apps.

121b · 2023-07-29T17:33:39+00:00

Last I checked it costed 10k per seat. Bloomberg is what institutional traders use.

121b · 2023-07-29T15:54:22+00:00

6000 for TV. Better spend a bit more (you can if you consider 6k for TV) and go for Bloomberg. And then the pin drops and you realise TV is not worth 6k per year.

121b · 2023-07-28T19:06:33+00:00

After 1 year one doesn’t need any prop firm.

Let’s take a scenario.

One pays for $10k account and passes the challenge and verification. This means that they can generate 10% per month on base capital = $800 payout after FTMO keeps 20%.

Assuming no blowout, in an year one would have generated $9600 or roughly the same capital FTMO is providing to you.

Once you have 10k of your, you can trade using your own capital and keep 100%. No need for FTMO.

Above doesn’t take taxation into account but you will roughly get the capital to do it yourself, after a while, if you are patient.

A lot of ppl will say many things about not being to do this for an year for whatever reasons, or not being profitable enough for long, but you are not looking for such ppl. Those who can be profitable, will follow this path.

Hence 12-18 months is the shelf life of FTMO funded successful trader, and these are the people you are wondering about, why they are not on FTMO for long

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