I recently made a few improvements to my deployment of LocalAI that make the service much more usable on my home network. I also learned of the sister projects, LocalAGI and LocalRecall. I am feeling inspired to use these APIs in some projects, but I have not settled on anything specific just yet. For now I am just continuing to improve my deployments in the background.
A longstanding issue on the network has been the inability to use LDAP for logins on Matrix. Solving this issue would enable the creation of bot accounts which, in addition to the AI APIs mentioned above, would open the door to a large number of projects that have been in the back of my mind for a while.
WikiDeck is available for beta testing. Instructions for how to do so are available in the WikiDeck Agenda thread. A few problems have been discovered and reported on Gitea already, and testing will continue throughout the rest of the quarter. I will be focusing more on other projects moving forward, so I will rely on others to try the application and report on issues.
With WikiDeck in beta testing, I will be shifting my attention to Mobipi in the coming weeks. Live streams have been scheduled to review the project agenda and unbox the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 for later this week. Check the Owncast calendar for the schedule.
Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange
On the side, I have started a small live streaming series for day trading on the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange. This may become a more substantial project in the future (indeed it was one previously), but for now I am just exploring the platform and experimenting with a few small trades.
The Appalachian Mountains trip has been postponed. I was delayed in leaving for the initial trip as I was waiting for a few additions to my Hardware kit to be delivered. I don’t have a solid date in mind for this trip just yet, and unfortunately many of the campgrounds are closed due to the government shutdown. I am planning to do a trip of one kind or another in the next few weeks, but I haven’t worked out the details just yet.
Vintage Story has taken up most of my gaming bandwidth over the past few weeks. I will continue playing this on Saturday mornings for the upcoming weeks.
Ultimately, I think Luanti is more popular on this platform, so I am also thinking I should eventually turn my focus back to it instead. I am beginning to think about a Season III of Luanti, and am hoping to start a discussion about that with the other players in the near future.