GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND APPLE SPENT A DECADE CONVINCING YOU YOUR SMART HOME NEEDS THEIR CLOUD.
One guy in Norway just shipped 253 commits proving they were lying.
His name is Lasse Lian. The project is called Prism Desktop. It's a native Windows and Linux client for Home Assistant that runs entirely on your local network.
No Google account. No Amazon login. No Apple ID. No cloud relay. No subscription tier hiding behind a "Pro" badge.
Closed smart home vs Prism Desktop:
- Account required: Yes โ No
- Voice data stored: On their servers โ Never leaves your house
- Works without internet: No โ Yes
- Costs: $99 hub + $5/month video storage โ $0
- Source: Closed โ MIT licensed, 253 commits public
- Vendor lock-in: Total โ None
The whole app talks to Home Assistant over its WebSocket API. Your lights, your thermostats, your cameras, your locks. None of it touches a corporate server.
โ Drag and drop dashboard you actually own
โ Global keyboard shortcuts to any entity
โ PC notifications from your local automations
โ Real-time state sync without polling
โ Border effects, custom colors, the petty stuff matters
Here's the wildest part:
He shipped the first release on February 1, 2026. He's now on version 1.5.3, four months later. Solo developer. 14 releases. 160 stars and climbing.
The trillion-dollar smart home industry needed a decade and never built this.
One honest note: you need a Home Assistant instance on your network. This is the client. Setting up HA itself is the part that scares people, and it shouldn't.
100% Open Source. MIT License.
Link in the first comment.
And now we have a high-performance Artificial Intelligence model that can be asked to detect anything. I wrote a few lines to detect unidentified phenomena in the sky. In this case, just a Starlink train, but it opens up many possibilities for UAP research.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band.
The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September).
Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.
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Will Sasso and Dan Soder are Macho Man Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, and Robert Deniro reading Andy Rooney quotes. ๐๐๐๐
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A Canadian soldier falls asleep beside an M777 howitzer during field trainingโฆ while the rest of his crew decides to give him the worst alarm clock imaginable.
The entire crew absolutely lost it ๐