I don’t use Memories, but yes, uploading photos with FolderSync to Nextcloud (via WebDAV) does add them to the Nextcloud database. They show up as new photos in the recent activities list.

Yeah, English sucks. Worst part here is that both spellings can be used as either noun or verb, though the alternate forms are rare.

Most common forms:

1. Affect - verb - to alter or change. “The rise of LLMs has affected how people use the Internet”
2. Effect - noun - result of change: “The effect of LLMs has been to make people dumber”.

Rare forms:

3. Effect - verb - to implement or make happen: “The new legislation will effect a change in policy to …”
4. Affect - noun - emotional state or expression: “His affect changed and you could see him cringe when the boss endorsed AI”

The first two are what you want pretty much all of the time.

1, 2, and 3 are all pronounced the same, with emphasis on the second syllable: “uh FECT”. Number 4 is pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable: “AFF ect”

So that’s more than anyone wanted to know today :)

This is interesting to me:

Simpler stack: While still based on the LibreOffice core technology, Collabora Office has no Java dependency, which means a cleaner install, smaller footprint and a single, self-contained download.

Might be advantageous on lower-power machines perhaps?

buttons were discovered by the Conbee and worked perfectly fine, but the home assistant refuses to recognize their functionality.

That’s not the hardware stick; that’s the controller software stack. Sounds like you switched from deConz to ZHA to go with the hardware change. In which case, this is all fixed by using Zigbee2MQTT instead of HA’s built-in ZHA. Z2M supports more hardware and features than ZHA.

Ed Zitron is a good one to follow for that type of info

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Also known as “the iron triangle”.

Dahua is still a top manufacturer, but does not focus on selling to individual consumers.

In the US, you will find Dahua cameras being sold most often by Amcrest and Lorex.

No, they can’t think and reason. However, they can replicate and integrate the thinking and reasoning of many people who have written about similar problems. And yes, they can do it must faster than we could read a hundred search result pages. And yes, their output looks slightly better than many of us in many cases, because they are often dispensing best practices by duplicating the writings of experts. (In the best cases, that is.)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/

Often known as the “Gartner Hype Cycle”

GlusterFS is (was) really cool, but I would not set up a new instance. It used to have significant support and development from RedHat, but they decided to halt their work on it, and focus on Ceph.

GlusterFS is getting a few slow updates from some alternate developers, but I would only count on that being fixes for current installations.

Yes, many bad ideas are possible to implement. At least temporarily. Until the next cleanup process figures out how to remove cadvisor dir regardless of file contents. Or the next OS release turns /tmp into a ram disk. Or… or… or…

Yes, it’s a fun academic exercise to think through possible mitigations. And in the end, it will still be dumb to keep this in /tmp

Why wouldn’t changing to permissions keep the file from being deleted by the internal process?

That’s like keeping your lunch laying outside on the sidewalk, getting stepped on by people and destroyed, and then wondering if your lunch would be safer if you put it in a stronger bag (but still left it on the sidewalk).

Don’t leave your lunch outside laying on the sidewalk, regardless of what you might do to “protect” it. Don’t keep important files in /tmp