The summers in my region are quite dry, hot & rather unbearable. So, to get some refuge from all of this, I wanted to try out a few different measures, which would effectively reduce the temperature of my house. I thought a good starting point for this would be to establish a baseline and find out the standard deviation. To do this, I realized I’d need to observe the temperature & humidity of my house for a certain duration. At the same time I’ve been trying to reduce the amount of content recommended to me by algorithms on social media, especially YouTube, Instagram & Reddit. Hacker News, with its rather transparent algorithm and RSS feeds of the authors I like seemed like a good start to take control of the content I consume, which is why I had set up miniflux, and it’s been going well. It’s just that I tend to miss some of the cutting edge stuff which appears regularly on HN. Especially with the AI/LLM stuff.…