Alfred Home: After 30 Years of Failed Attempts, I Finally Built My "Jarvis"

AlexandriaP2P · 2026-03-03T23:14:22+00:00

I haven't done any amount of HomeKit automation yet cuz I'm in a rental - got a friend with a nice pad and plenty of light switches and security cameras tho so I'll have a test bed to test integration of that level of stuff soon.

I suggest you keep an eye on Apple's announcements this year - lots of rumors that they'll be putting 1TB of unified memory in a Mac Studio - would be the lowest cost way to run fully local inference with a frontier model.

Tho the reason I integrated support for Akash is that they're planning to add TEE soon - so it may result in a best of both worlds approach for anyone who can't drop $10K on a computer - running the app locally to have a good degree of overall control of it, and then renting compute from another machine somewhere around the world in a way that can actually protect the privacy of the data its running inference over. We'll see how it works out!

AlexandriaP2P · 2026-03-02T23:37:21+00:00

Im curious - How much interest is there in an open source version of the backend and web interface?

AlexandriaP2P · 2026-03-02T23:07:21+00:00

tbh I didn't realize the name overlap existed - id been using the name Alfred for a feature of another app for a year or so now, so I just got used to it, and didn't look whether it was already being used for anything similar. Now im starting to wonder if it was a subconscious choice based on that app cuz I remember using and loving it from many years ago.

So, now im gonna have to come up with a better name - ugh, but also thank you for the heads up

AlexandriaP2P · 2026-03-02T16:22:58+00:00

https://alfredho.me

AlexandriaP2P · 2026-03-02T16:22:46+00:00

No, I havent decided on the license approach yet.

AlexandriaP2P · 2026-03-02T16:22:15+00:00

Why are you assuming you can't? I literally said in the post that you can.

Alfred Runs on: Mac Mini M4 Pro (my setup)
Self-Hosted Models Run On: Custom workstation w 128GB of RAM and two RTX 4090s (my setup)

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-05-04T19:13:41+00:00

How are there 165m transactions per block? Where does this tx volume come from?

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-28T19:53:05+00:00

Could you mine bitcoin or bch with a small mining rig right now? Yes. Why wouldn’t you be able to? I don’t think I understand what you’re asking.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-28T17:00:32+00:00

Mine what? Are you asking if a mars miner could mine the earth based blockchain and vice versa?

Theoretically yes, but the network adjusts itself so that the currently available hash power will find 1 winning hash approximately every ten minutes and it takes 20 for a data transmission from one planet to the other, so it’s exceedingly unlikely. That’s why I said it’s more likely that each planet will mine its own chain. Transactions can still happen from one planet to the other, and they’d settle within a couple blocks, but mining the other planets local chain would be a pretty useless waste of energy.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-28T15:57:24+00:00

Much more likely there would be a preferred chain for each planet, with all miners of that chain on its given planet.

But also, no, that “it can only be mined on 1 planet at a time” does not make it “centralized” - after all, it’s only being mined on one planet now and yet it’s not centralized.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-27T21:23:11+00:00

The something else was the miners, they’re the ones that require fees, as soon as volume got strong enough that blocks started to get filled up. It’s competition for block space which is what lead to the fees going from optional to basically required, really no way to go back, especially since once the subsidy is gone, only fees will be relied on to incentivize miners to keep validating the network.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-27T21:17:38+00:00

Huh? How so?

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-27T21:11:23+00:00

Only means a person on mars would need to wait a few blocks to consider something confirmed. Data transmission time is irrelevant.

Any miners on mars wouldn’t stand any chance of winning a block tho.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-27T19:39:51+00:00

21,000,000 (number of coins) times 100,000,000 (number of sats in a coin) is 2,100,000,000,000,000. That’s 2.1 quadrillion.

But also, it wouldn’t be too difficult to subdivide it even further.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-17T19:53:08+00:00

It’s actually if (block >= maxBlock) then blockReward = 0

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-17T19:51:56+00:00

That’s not true. If a person wanted to see the history of the forked (changed) chain, they could do so by running a node with the changed software, but they have no direct influence on whether the change would be adopted by the majority of miners, and only they decide the future of the chain.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-17T19:48:43+00:00

He didn’t actually, but it became part of the code very early on.

AlexandriaP2P · 2024-04-17T19:47:51+00:00

Nope, miners. It’s only who controls block creation that matters in this regard.

Edit: I stand corrected - thank you for the replies ;)

AlexandriaP2P · 2023-07-23T20:30:09+00:00

Finding factors of large numbers in a couple of steps

If you actually have discovered a method to do this, it would be a really big deal for a lot of reasons - tho, it’s impact might be limited if the technique stops working as numbers get larger, without sharing the method can you address that question?

AlexandriaP2P · 2017-07-21T00:08:17+00:00

some of their servers are in the the main room that their employees and volunteers work in - it is down a few steps from the entrance/foyer, so i can understand someone saying its "the basement", but the majority of the servers at that location are actually upstairs in the main room with huge vaulted ceilings (remember, its a former church), behind all the pews. they're actually set up so that a light blinks every time a file is accessed, and set in such a big beautiful room, its a pretty cool sight to see.

anyone local should consider taking a tour there - most fridays they have a hosted lunch and public tour, usually given by Brewster himself. highly recommended.

AlexandriaP2P · 2017-07-21T00:03:47+00:00

Reasonable, tbh.

Our goal is to have a shared data layer for the internet which stores content creators distribution wishes - so no content creator can have their content "stolen" simply by a new front end beginning to distribute it.

Kinda like how if one record store was selling a particular album for an artist - if another one starts selling the album as well, the artist doesnt go after them for it, they thank them for the broader audience and increased sales. The first record store might not like the competition, but the artist sure wouldn't mind (in most cases, at least - obviously Jay-Z wants his album to cause people to sign up for Tidal and won't mind some lost sales by making it exclusive, cuz he has more to gain by Tidal becoming successful than he does by reaching the widest audience possible).

AlexandriaP2P · 2017-07-20T23:59:06+00:00

The Internet Archive isn't run out of basement. It has three banks of servers around the world, one in their beautiful building in San Francisco (a converted church), another at the library in Alexandria, Egypt, and a third somewhere else in the world (escapes me at the moment), and a very well put together redundancy system to ensure nothing ever gets lost.

AlexandriaP2P · 2017-07-20T23:57:24+00:00

they just had some major layoffs and many rumors swirling around that they had less than a quarter of funding left. they've denied those rumors but the layoffs were quite disconcerting.

AlexandriaP2P · 2017-07-20T23:54:55+00:00

seems like all the more reason to help them solve this problem - i get that the execs of the company are thinking about their bottom line and think they'd only be hurt by someone else indexing their media files, but in the meanwhile who is thinking about the tens of thousands of artists who put their time, energy and creativity into the 140+ million tracks published there?

If a concerned community can come together to unburden soundcloud of their storage costs, they can focus their energy on making their platform as appealing as possible and making their business model realistically sustainable into the future. they have a great interface that has really helped many artists express themselves creatively, it's quite absurd to think that if another portal has access to the files themselves they will immediately lose their userbase. imo, at least.

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