Windows-classic-samples VS mycroft-core

https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/tree/main/Samples Somewhere here I saw such a crutch.

Actually, the program was developed by Microsoft as a "sample" for their DirectShow API. The source code can be found on Microsoft's GitHub account.

MS advises against .NET shell extensions, but I think it's possible. There's a C++ example in the SDK here.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/vss/writers https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/tree/main/Samples/VolumeShadowCopyServiceWriter

It depends on your OS. If you're using Windows, you ask Windows to make you a window (using the Win32 API), then tell it which pixels to draw inside of it. Here's some example code.

On the second half of the page under the heading "Advanced Winsock Samples", there's a GitHub link containing different Winsock samples including IOCP (I/O Completion Ports), async sockets, and polling. Five of these samples are also listed on the MSDN page, in order from most to least performant when handling multiple sockets.

Windows Hi-DPI API actually sends the DPI to the application. So application can draw itself as sharp as it can: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/blob/master/Samples/DPIAwarenessPerWindow/client/DpiAwarenessContext.cpp#L332 .

Here's an example of a Windows program that works in this fashion and just prints some text to the screen: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/blob/master/Samples/Win7Samples/begin/LearnWin32/HelloWorld/cpp/main.cpp

I found some example code to clear up my confusion at: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/blob/master/Samples/WinhttpWebsocket/cpp/WinhttpWebsocket.cpp

It's indeed suspicious. You're sending your voice samples, your various services accounts, your location and more private data to some proprietary black box in some public cloud. Sorry, but this is a privacy nightmare. It should be open source and self-hosted like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai) or Leon (https://getleon.ai) to be trustworthy.

Shouldn't this be Mycroft on this sub?

I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ).

But I would recommend writing some proper glue logic in Python and use the socket function for communication. But if you really want to get rid of Alexa, it's probably worth it to set up mycroft.ai or another open source assistant.

https://mycroft.ai/ is a sophisticated open source replacement for Siri/Alexa … you can buy their premade hardware version for $399

To add home automation, consider something like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/)

This project reminds me of MyCroft https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core.

Tldr either way it depends, but if it's free, your data is prob the real product. If you don't want to get data mined, check out https://mycroft.ai