Adam Conway
Lead Technical Editor XDA-Developers, readtldr. Prev: Editor RushBMedia. CS/Valorant admin for icl_hub, NativzCollege. UCD alum. Incipiens.
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View full threadThat's not the point of the initiative. It's Mozilla building tooling to use these open models, and the token costs are much lower for the same experience. It's them basically saying "we'll improve the experience, you benefit from lower costs, and we'll work with you to build what you want"
- They're not building datacenters at all. The datacenters are already there. These models are already usable and accessible through OpenRouter, T3, Kilo, or even directly from the company like Moonshot and K2.5. It's the harnesses that hold them back at this point rather than performance.
- The models I mentioned aren't just local models, and in fact, their models that are comparative to big players require beefy hardware to do so. Have a look at OpenRouter to see what I mean, as all of these are cloud-based openrouter.ai/models
- From reading Mozilla's state of 2025/26 report and seeing their other report into the state of AI, I think that's actually exactly what they're going for. mozilla.vc/wp-content/u...
- It's likely an initiative to ensure usage of alternative open models like Kimi K2.5, DeepSeek, etc. Many of them are good enough for what these startups want, and can often be cheaper, too. K2.5 is a great Opus alternative for example and just dropped yesterday.
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- Thank you, glad you enjoyed! Will need to take a look at that too 😁
- tested gemini cli, it's going great i think
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- I'm either just that good, or my code is just that bad 😎
- my home lab adventures have culminated in me discovering that my speakers have an undocumented infra-red command that turns off one of the two speakers. and I can't turn it back on... honestly, I'm not even mad, that's absolutely hilarious
- wanted to share something I had a lot of fun working on for @xdasocial.bsky.social over the last few days! TL;DR: I reverse-engineered some Govee H615B lights so I didn't have to deal with the app or the official API #reverseengineering #hacking 🧵
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View full threadI was able to identify where the hex colour for the command to change the colour of the lights was, calculated the checksum, and I now had full control of the colour of the lights. The same process worked for brightness, ranging from 00 to FF. 6/7
- Since then, I've deployed my controller on a Milk-V Duo S, and in Home Assistant, I can use the rest_command integration to send requests locally, including integrating them into my automations! Check out the XDA article for all of the details, including source code :D
- I had data in here for changing colour, brightness, and toggling the power, and I was able to reply these back using a tool I wrote with Python and Bleak from my MacBook. 4/7
- Working out the rest was a bit of a chore, as the checksum at the end had me confused how it was calculated. Thankfully, other Govee reverse engineering projects had worked that out: it was just a simple XOR across the entire byte array! 5/7
- Link to the article: xda-developers.com/reverse-engi... Short-hand explanation: These lights can be controlled with an internet-based API in Home Assistant, but the API rate limits very quickly. The app lets you control them via Bluetooth LE 2/7
- I connected to them with a Google Pixel 8 Pro with Bluetooth HCI logging, and I was able to see back and forth traffic between my phone and the lights as I controlled them 3/7
- yeah this is really bad
- christmas
- manchester
- Hello again, maybe I dust off the Bluesky account 👀
- BlueSky looking more and more appealing by the day
- Hello 👀
