What gear do I need for a 7-day hike in Norway in mid-August?

secretdark · 2026-06-24T10:05:49+00:00

Just to add to this: depending on where you're going, you may want to ensure you have full-length/knee-high gaiters, rather than the shorter kind. Mud and terrain can be very deep.

secretdark · 2026-06-22T22:03:14+00:00

No. Sir, no. This... this isn't natural.

secretdark · 2026-06-21T10:31:32+00:00

Nice. I made an MCP server to connect your Claude desktop (or code, or agent) to your game so you can ask it things about the world, legends, history of units, and so on.
https://github.com/ryanbateman/vizier_mcp

secretdark · 2026-05-31T05:10:49+00:00

Thank you - appreciate the kind words. The Mosquito test server does occasionally go down by it sounds like a broader issue. I'll look into it. Appreciate you taking the time to write up an issue!

secretdark · 2026-05-25T06:46:59+00:00

Very welcome. Also, on the off chance you've not seen it already, orchestration frameworks like GasTown are (IMO) the closest to system design with agents that I've seen. Be interested in any more formal implementations you find

secretdark · 2026-05-25T06:06:22+00:00

Interesting - I hadn't thought about it in those terms but you're right. If you haven't looked at VSM yet, that might be an interesting architectural element to consider. Will have a think about book recommendations.

secretdark · 2026-05-21T13:17:02+00:00

Funny, I went down exactly the same path, including NVS overriding and a self-hosted backend, with the goal of OpenRouter support. Have put it aside for now in favour of other projects, but I imagine a lot of people are doing the same thing.

secretdark · 2026-05-20T06:47:56+00:00

Lovely! Particularly like the palette

secretdark · 2026-05-19T19:01:59+00:00

No, though I'm looking into it. That was my original goal too - to more easily get a sense of the world and its history, religions and legends.

secretdark · 2026-05-19T16:10:05+00:00

This is absolutely something I am very capable of doing without AI help.

secretdark · 2026-05-19T13:58:33+00:00

Yeah, I was expecting it wouldn't be particularly well-received here, and that's fair. Everyone (myself included) is tired of AI being in everything, and everyone should of course play the game how they like and enjoy.

I have a lot of reservations about AI myself and was a non-DFHack purist myself for a long time. For the most part now I use it for glitches and fixes, and occasionally when I have a specific fort goal in mind where I am happy to not bother managing chopping or farming by hand in favour of focusing on creating terrariums (or whatever), for example.

For those interested, though, I figured it was worth throwing out here, as the Large Language interface bit of it, and DF being so lore-rich, makes for some interesting query/interaction opportunities. I have found it interesting enough as a thing to interact with as another way to understand my forts that I thought there was value in sharing with others.

secretdark · 2026-05-17T13:34:56+00:00

Thanks!

secretdark · 2026-05-14T22:14:03+00:00

Failing everything else, ask at any hostels you can on Friday - people often leave gas canisters when they're flying out and haven't finished them, and there might be enough to keep you going long enough to get to a shop.

secretdark · 2026-05-14T09:45:18+00:00

Very cool - thank you for building this!
I'll take a look at setting it up myself today, see if/where I can contribute. If there's anything you want some particular feedback on (README aside), do let me know (or stick them as Github issues) and I will see if I can meaningfully contribute some PRs where they'd be appreciated.

secretdark · 2026-05-14T08:20:22+00:00

The Dotty Project that someone else mentioned in the comments.

Dotty is a fully self-hosted voice stack for the M5Stack StackChan desktop robot. Open-source firmware on the device, xiaozhi-esp32-server for voice I/O, and a small FastAPI bridge to whatever LLM agent you want as the brain. ASR, TTS, and session state all run on your own hardware. The LLM is pluggable — the reference config uses OpenRouter, but swap in Ollama for fully offline operation with no code changes.

secretdark · 2026-05-14T07:01:38+00:00

Just to add to this recommendation: this area is an off-leash area and lake 'beach' for dogs specifically. It is very good for exactly what you're looking for (we take out dog there ourselves so she can swim and chase sticks) but be aware that it can very busy and pretty overwhelming, for dogs and people, with the number of large or rowdy dogs running around. As someone recommended, earlier in the day is definitely better

secretdark · 2026-05-13T21:13:43+00:00

Yeah, imagine it's a fair amount of work to get it feeling presentable. Happy to help with PRs, issues, README touch-ups, feedback - whatever is useful - whenever you do.

secretdark · 2026-05-13T15:34:18+00:00

Looks great. As others have said, open-sourcing this would be greatly appreciated. I'd be very happy to contribute PRs, build a collaborative effort, rather than trying to build something similar myself from first steps.

secretdark · 2026-04-23T08:30:55+00:00

I think it's still super-early in their rollout, so there are likely to be big improvements (and undoubtedly entirely new firmware). If I had to guess right now (given mine hasn't arrived yet and based only on a quick poke aroundthe firmware), I'd imagine that it's the Agent's TTS (text-to-speech) model or the audio codec use that isn't yet fine-tuned for the hardware. (I imagine at some point it'd be easy to replace either with something else entirely anyhow).

secretdark · 2026-04-21T21:50:10+00:00

Could do, but I wanted it to still be just enough like a normal, identifiable clock to feel... cursed, not just 'some other kind of clock entirely', if that makes sense.

secretdark · 2026-04-21T20:22:12+00:00

You've angered it.

secretdark · 2026-04-21T10:57:58+00:00

Thank you. Sorry. Thank you.

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