• suokoOP
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    24 months ago

    Some years ago I was able to configure Mycroft and its plasma widget and was working very well. But then all was lost unfortunately. It should have become the Kvoice control but it didn’t

    • Daniel Quinn
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      54 months ago

      Don’t get me started with Mycroft. I bought the 1st gen device and invested a year of my life writing the first incarnation of Majel built on top of it. When it was ready to share I announced it in their internal developers group and was attacked repeatedly for using the AGPL instead of a licence that’d let them steal and privatise it. Here I was offering a year’s worth of free labour (and publicity, the project exploded on Reddit), and all they could say was: “use the MIT license so we don’t have to contribute anything”.

      I’m still bitter.

      • setVeryLoud(true);
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        4 months ago

        Hue, Mycrotch

        I know it’s a character from Sherlock Holmes, but it’s still such a terrible name.

      • suokoOP
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        14 months ago

        Is there still a team working on mycroft or it’s vanished ?

        • Daniel Quinn
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          24 months ago

          I’m not sure. https://mycroft.ai/ appears to be gone, redirected to https://community.openconversational.ai/. Since the Mycroft devices depended on a central server for configuration (you pushed your config to their website which in turn relayed environment variables to your code), my guess is that the project is dead, but like all good Free software, still out there.