Noodles' Emptiness

I’ve been a Debian user since 1999, and a Debian developer since 2000.

I built my current house server back in 2019.

I had intended that the next release of onak, my OpenPGP keyserver, would be 0.7.0, and include OpenPGP v6 support (RFC9580).

Given we’ve entered a new year it’s time for my annual recap of my Free Software activities for the previous calendar year.

I bought a NanoKVM.

21 years ago today I wrote my first blog post.

A bit delayed in terms of an announcement, but last month I tagged a new version of onak, my OpenPGP compatible keyserver.

The last (software) piece of sorting out a local voice assistant is tying the openWakeWord piece to a local microphone + speaker, and thus back to Home Assistant.

People keep asking me when I’ll write the next instalment of my local voice assistant journey.

To build our local voice satellite on a Debian system rather than using the ATOM Echo device we need something that can handle the wake word component; the piece that means we only send audio to the Home Assistant server for processing by whisper.cpp when…