Installing and Running Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent from Nous Research. It runs in the terminal and can do more than a regular chatbot: it can inspect files, execute commands, use external tools, and remember previous sessions. In this post, I will cover the shortest path from a fresh machine to a working Hermes Agent session. Hermes can execute commands and modify files using the permissions of your user account. Install and run it as a normal user, keep command approvals enabled, and start in a directory that does not contain sensitive files....

July 27, 2026 · 6 min

Voice Cloning for Communication Aids Using XTTS v2

The idea for this project appeared to me based on my personal experience communicating with non-verbal individuals. Generally communication aids (AAC devices and apps) for these persons typically rely on generic, robotic voices that sound nothing like the person using them. If that person has existing voice recordings, even short ones from a phone or messaging app, in an age of AI/ML, it is now possible to clone their voice and use it as a personalised text-to-speech system....

April 18, 2026 · 7 min

Running Deepseek Locally

Deepseek AI has been a trending topic during the recent days. If you are not familiar with it yet, it is an Artificial Intellegence (AI) model that has shot up in the mobile applications stores and shrinked the value of some tech stocks. Deepseek suggested that their model has costed only $6 million to train, while advanced models with reasoning capabilities from OpenAI and Athropic add up to hunderds of millions....

January 31, 2025 · 3 min

Linux Poem written by ChatGPT

I was playing with ChatGPT recently and asked it to write a poem about Linux. Check it out :) Linux poem In the land of tech, there reigns a king so bold, A system so powerful, it never grows old. It’s sleek, it’s smart, it’s Linux you see, An open-source wonder, that’s always free. With its command line skills, it can do so much more, Than other systems that you’d normally adore....

June 15, 2023 · 1 min