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Archive ยท 2026-10-15 comic
Phone Harness: Hermes Agent can now drive your iPhone and Android โ€” ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐Ÿค– Your agent now has thumbs. Taps, types, checks its own work on a real phone, no app APIs needed. What could possibly go wrong ๐Ÿ’€Hermes Agent v0.22.0 'Threshold': no-key first chat, local llama.cpp, 600 vetted plugins โ€” ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Hermes 0.22 drops: zero-key onboarding, llama.cpp out of the box, 600 vetted plugins. Local gang eating good tonight ๐ŸREA (Reverse Engineering Anything): MCP server that reverse-engineers a binary and writes a free clone โ€” ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Give it a binary, get a FOSS clone back. Lawyers hate this one trick โš–๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅGemini 4 Argon rolls out to the Gemini app and pops up in Google Search, but eats quota fast โ€” ๐Ÿงช Argon is here. Smart, chatty, and two prompts nuke 20% of your Pro limit. Thinking tokens go brrr ๐Ÿ’ธFish Audio's 'ElevenLabs killer' TTS: ~40 GB weights, ~20 GB GGUF, great Russian โ€” ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ 'ElevenLabs killer' that actually nails emotion tags. Bring a 3090 and some patience, local voice bros ๐Ÿ”ŠQwen3-TTS 1.7B for Russian with stress marks, plus a portable build โ€” ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Finally a TTS that knows where the stress goes. Small fix, big vibe โœจLatest ComfyUI update breaks Impact Pack workflows; roll back to 0.39.0 โ€” ๐Ÿงฏ ComfyUI update ate your Impact Pack workflows? Pin 0.39.0, reinstall reqs. Never update on a Friday ๐Ÿ™ƒ