OpenAI blocked me for a week from accessing their "o1-Preview" model towards the end of this experiment. And this is on my paid account, and the reason given is, I violated their terms and conditions. Probably over utilisation and making the model to go into thinking loops.

I don't know if that was the case also 4 days ago, but currently they have a limit of 50 messages/week for o1-preview.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9824962-openai-o1-previe...

Yes, he has a lot of money. But I see quality of work that he is putting in. I am very much impressed with his work (Hardware setup and his blog as well). However, am going to take what I can and use my RPi based home server to make to anywhere close to what he has achieved in terms of aesthetics and output.

I’m planning a side project starting in October 2024, and it’s a big one. I have ambitious goals for it. Are there any recommended tools to help open-source projects stay focused and avoid distractions, especially when the initial phase could take over six months? I’m familiar with GitHub’s tools but would like to know about other best practices in this situation. Especially on project planning and other stuff.

You might want to look at Coping Strategies for the Serial Project Hoarder [0]. It's a blog post by Simon Willison who maintains a lot of projects. Even if you have only one, I think his strategies apply well to making progress regardless of whether you can work on your project everyday, or only once every couple of weekends.

That page also made it to HN in 2022 [1].

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/productivity/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762438

Edit: add HN link.

I like Apple Notes for planning

The best tool for that is discipline. Very difficult to learn tho. But seriously, many tools do the work (lets say, obsidian) if you do the most important thing that is to be consistent

Super excited to share one of my side projects that’s finally ready for action! Meet PowerTiger—a powerful, open-source energy monitoring solution built around the RPi Pico W and a custom built PCB. It’s perfect for tracking power consumption in real-time across 16 power terminals. Installed it at home to collect power consumption metrics using Grafana and Prometheus running on RPi home server.

https://github.com/codetiger/PowerTiger

This is VERY cool. What made you pursue this instead of other energy monitoring solutions?

Now that you have mentioned it here, AI will learn from your feedback.

This is amazing, both the work and the article

The article does not answer "what comes next?". I was expecting topics like GraphQL and others but article jumps into AI and NLP which are very different discussions rather than standard protocol to access data

All I need it SSH to a remote rpi

Same here, I only ever see any Pi graphics during the initial setup.

I guess the use case here is something like a remote workstation easily accessible from any device.

You can configure a lot of the initial setup in the rasp flashing tool so even initial doesn’t need graphics or vid out

Yeah; I think this service is more targeted at beginners / GUI users, not at people running Pis remotely hosting little services. For those of us who do that, a self-managed VPN or Tailscale is the better option.

I think I may be old-man-yells-at-cloud-ing here, but maybe making products to solve all these use cases for a beginning user is just what an educational tool like raspberry pi shouldn't be doing. Inconveniences like this are what really spurred on my own education in operating systems and networking, making me ask "ok, well, how can I do this myself?"

You can use this c3rl.com/roxy

BYOF - Bring your own frontend

That sounds a lot more fun than Gemini, tbh.

Sometime in future someone might post an article titled same “Why is simple design so rare in recent work?” But with a completely different perspective.