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- It swears like a pirate, has an anatomy to complain about (antennas are ears, ports are fingers, the flash is its gut), and costs a couple of dollars a month. So far it has told me about a Dropbox LAN-sync port, somebody's DNS-over-TLS, and my own laptop waking up. None of it is useful. MIT, install script included.
600 lines of Lua on the router itself. lua + cjson + curl, one cron tick a minute, no cloud collector, no agent framework. It reads /proc and iwinfo, keeps a rolling 45-minute history of every reading in tmpfs, and only calls a model when something falls outside its own normal range. Then it decides whether that's worth saying, and usually it isn't.
A Gibson joke that got out of hand. In Mona Lisa Overdrive the Finn ends up as a construct in an armoured box bolted into an alley, and people come by to hear the oracle grumble. I had a GL-MT3000 on the office wall, so.
by YuriiKovalov - A joke, perhaps, but I also think you stumbled into some of that unevenly distributed future.
- Nice! I will need to get this on my mikrotik router.by vardalab
- The Finn is offended by the idea that he would speak Russian.by yencabulator
- I used to refer to agents as "the Dixie Flatline" to my coworkers, especially to remind them that, for good or ill, when you start a session afresh the agent loses all previous context and forgets any conversation you may have had up to that point.by bitwize
- Nice to see somebody else has made the comparison too.by EvanAnderson
- Unless you plug it into your deck, of course.by themadturk
- > Everything runs on the router itself. If the rest of your infrastructure is on fire, this still works, which was most of the point.
And then a moment later:
> You need about ten minutes, a router you own, and a card on file with an LLM provider.
So it depends on a working internet connection and an external model server. No hate on you for making this - it’s a fun idea, but the first bit is pretty misleading
by kennywinker - Maybe the whole article is vibed as well, explaining the lack of consistency?by m4rtink