Chapter (https://jordanful.github.io/chapter/) - a self-hosted ebook reader (server/client) that uses a local TTS AI model for narration. Progress is stored server side, so you can switch from reading to listening anytime.

Cool idea, man. Never heard of the Kokoro model, how's its English performance?

thank you! it's actually unbelievably good. check out the demo audio files here: https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts?tab=readme-ov-file#d...

That sample sounds great, and you run it locally? As in on-device or on a server?

I keep hearing this, and asking for examples, and there aren't really any.

I've broken my internet many times by asking ChatGPt for help setting up PiHole as a DHCP server. I'll post conversation excerpts later if I remember.

It was just giving commands to run that were plain wrong and extremely destructive, and unless you already knew what they were doing you were screwed.

Here: https://chatgpt.com/share/696539b6-65f0-8010-9324-5e35da42ee...

I have 4-5 more conversations like this. It's honestly almost a piece of art, the LLM keeps spouting out shit like "Ah got it, your issue is clear now", and digging deeper into the wrong direction.

I'm a sysadmin / infra engineer by trade. DNS is something I stopped hosting myself because it's always DNS and when it goes down everything else does to.

Email/DNS I outsource, everything else I homelab.

Well my PiHole uses the DNS servers from CloudFlare so I don't actually self-host DNS, but having PiHole as DHCP server was the only way for me to have all my devices going through the PiHole.

In the end I literally had to give up, it's just too problematic.

who cares if I'm the CEO of an AI company? I didn't mention anything related to my company once in the post.

Wrote about learning and fun here: https://fulghum.io/fun2

It's (at least) common courtesy to declare potential conflicts of interest.

I would have if there were potential conflicts.

I personally find this information quite relevant to get the full picture and I'm glad someone else provided it.

The full picture of what exactly? How that fact is even relevant to this post? Do you expect anyone affiliated with AI to mention that every time they talk about AI? That's just ridiculous.

I expect someone writing a blog about AI agents help you run your home server to disclose that they are "helping companies automate operations with AI" as their job, which they get money for.

Why wouldn't you bring it up, or even lead with it?

Doesn't it make sense to want to know this? It's not far fetched at all that there is a conflict of interest. How can they be unbiased in the validity of the approach if this is exactly the same stuff they sell for money?

thanks. I fleshed that out a bit more. appreciate the feedback.

No

yeah. I wrote a little about that here: https://fulghum.io/fun2

hi, OP here. people have different reasons/motivations for doing stuff, right? i wrote about it here: https://fulghum.io/fun2

sharing what password?

yeah basically.